Billboards and fliers appeared in India, Bangladesh and Times Square. For months, tributes to PewDiePie had been popping up all over the world. The printer hack wasnвЂ™t an isolated incident.

A hacker was claiming responsibility for finding a set of 50,000 printers all over the world with unsecured network connections, taking them over and using them to print these fliers. But it was only when Japczyk got back to his computer that he realized the scale of the operation. Japczyk, now 33, spends more time on YouTube than many of his colleagues and was able to explain the broad strokes: PewDiePie (rhymes with вЂњcutie pieвЂќ real name: Felix Kjellberg) was a YouTube megacelebrity with a group of hard-core fans, known as the Bro Army, who often went to extreme lengths to show their support. In order to prevent this from happening, the author recommended five steps:ДЈ. вЂњPewDiePie is in trouble and he needs your help to defeat T-Series!вЂќ It went on to explain that PewDiePie, a 29-year-old Swedish YouTube personality, was in danger of being overtaken as the platformвЂ™s most popular channel by T-Series, an Indian music label and Bollywood production studio. A handful of his co-workers were huddled around the office printer, where a one-page document had just printed itself out, unprompted. One day last November, Mitch Japczyk, an administrator at an Illinois staffing agency, was called upon to help solve an office mystery.

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