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Gangnam Style has surpassed the previous maximum limit

of YouTube's view counter. Did Psy's music video actually
break YouTube?
(Photo : Psy / Gangnam Style)

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The music video, which has maintained its overwhelming popularity since it was released by the pop star from
South Korea back in 2012, has surpassed 2,147,483,647 YouTube views, which was the previous maximum number
for the website's view counter.

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"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," YouTube wrote in a post on Google+, adding that the massive number of views
forced the company to upgrade the website's view counter to utilize a 64-bit integer.

9 DECEMBER '14

The new maximum number for the YouTube view counter is now 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 views, which is a
number that even Gangnam Style may not be able to reach.

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When the initial developers of YouTube were creating the website, they may have never thought that one of the
videos on it would be able to reach a billion views, let alone two billion. In its early years, videos on YouTube that
reached a million views were already considered massive hits.

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"Nothing actually broke," explained Google spokesman Matt McLernon. "There was never anything that actually
went wrong. It's just people having fun with the language," referring to the reports that Gangnam Style actually
broke YouTube.
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"People still play this video an absurd number of times," McLernon said.
8 DECEMBER '14

To commemorate the feat of Gangnam Style, YouTube included a new feature for the video. Users that view
Gangnam Style should hover their mouse cursors over the music video's view counter for a unique visual effect of
the numbers spinning forward and backward.
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