'Gangnam Style' Is So Popular It Broke YouTube's View Counter

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The “Gangnam Style” music video has been viewed so many times, not even YouTube can keep up.

Yes, people still watch “Gangnam Style,” and they have pushed the view count on Psy’s viral music video to more than 2.15 billion since it was first posted in 2012.

Yes, billion.

YouTube never expected one of its videos to garner such a large number of views. In a post on Monday, the company said the YouTube system wasn’t prepared. “We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views),” the post reads.

As a result, the YouTube view counter stopped counting views after 2,147,483,647. The company said it plans to upgrade the number.

Now, when you hover your mouse over the number of views on the site, the counter goes crazy to signify that the record has been broken. Here’s what it looks like:

Kim Kardashian may have tried to break the Internet, but it turns out Psy actually did it.

I think its funny how to youtube counter is when you go over it :laughing:

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hilarious… especially given the type of song and video it was that caused it… sigh things like this just further prove to me there is no hope for the human race. this is both funny as hell and truly sad at the same time.

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I can get that many views overnight with a 1 second video just by winking with a smile

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True story, i’ve seen him do it live. He broke my eyes.

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Holy crap, i thought that video had died. >.<

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Ha, that’s an accomplishment he could flaunt!
People love my music/video so much I broke YouTube!

…where’s Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga now?

*removed “be”…unsure why it was in there. Lol

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Youtube Hall Of Fame

PSY - Because he broke our views counter.