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It seems like the definition of "imploded" in the context of JonTron and Pewdiepie is "lost an insignificant and negligible amount of subscribers".

In the context of Pewdiepie it was "Lost the Disney and YouTube preferred deals."

Value per subscriber goes way down when you're no longer on the critical path for ad monetization.

I was mistaken, and you're 100% right. I hadn't realized Pewdiepie lost so much from this slip-up.