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Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter

Posted by samzenpus on from the winning-the-internet dept.

First time accepted submitter neoritter writes "The Korean pop star PSY's viral music video "Gangnam Style" has reached the limit of YouTube's view counter. According to YouTube's Google+ account, "We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. 'Gangnam Style' has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!"

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  1. Rick-Roll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have figured Rick Astley would have hit that count first!.

  2. First Unsigned Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Get it?

  3. Re:numbering by xaoslaad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ya, I was fond of saying, "2 Billion served. Not one digested."

  4. Re:Signed by magarity · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's for the never implemented feature to allow extremely sucky videos to have a negative view count.

  5. Psy2K? by GrahamCox · · Score: 5, Funny

    I assume they're gonna be calling this the Psy2K bug.

  6. Vrumm vrum shnurbit turbit by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is no hope for humanity. Hey Vlad, you Easter-Island-statue-faced midget, hit the big red button. Let somebeing else have a go.

    I hope it's the meerkats.

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  7. "Oughta be enough for everybody" 4.0 by Alien1024 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Signed 32-bit oughta be.

  8. Re:numbering by xaotikdesigns · · Score: 5, Funny
    But it's only one song. Psy has three videos on the list, beating everybody except Katy Perry in the number of hit videos, but still beating her in the total number of views. Katy Perry also has a total view count that is higher than Justin Beiber's one video.

    From this I can assume that Beiber only has one good song, and his "beliebers" just sit in dark rooms kissing their pillows while this video plays on repeat, while other people actually like Psy, and seek out more of his music to watch and listen to. I would also assume that people are watching the Katy Perry videos on mute because she has boobs. Most youtube comments on the videos support this as well.

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