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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!.

    1. Re:Rick-Roll by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, if you combine all different versions it beats even the 64bit integer.
      Techsmartly made a fancy pivot chart of it a while back:
      http://techsmartly.net/freePS3...

  2. Signed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the hell was it signed?

    1. 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.

  3. numbering by gbjbaanb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    who cares really?

    The numbering should go 1.. 2.. 3.. etc.. thousands.. tens of thousands.. hundreds of thousands.. millions.. too many to give a fuck about.

    1. 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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      XDInd
  4. Re:unsigned int anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because they were following the Google C++ Style Guide?

    "You should not use the unsigned integer types such as uint32_t, unless there is a valid reason such as representing a bit pattern rather than a number, or you need defined overflow modulo 2^N. In particular, do not use unsigned types to say a number will never be negative. Instead, use assertions for this."

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

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