YouTube's view counter wasn't ready for 'Gangnam Style'


In 2012, South Korean singer PSY took the world by storm with his 'Gangnam Style' music video, which eventually turned into a super, mega hit and an overall internet sensation. Along the way, the video also became the first one ever to get to 1 billion views on YouTube, a number that hasn't stopped growing since being reached. Speaking of which, the Google-owned service revealed that 'Gangnam Style' pushed the original view counter to its limits, so much so that it stopped counting at one point. '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 stated in a blog post.


Additionally, because of how many times PSY's video has been watched, YouTube says it had to upgrade its view counter to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808) -- so it looks like it'll be a while before another video is popular enough to 'break' things. In the meantime, and for the sake of fun, hovering your desktop clicker over the ' Gangnam Style' counter on YouTube's site will make it show a bunch of random digits.


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