PSY's 'Gangnam Style' Video Breaks YouTube's View Counter

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The South Korean sensation's 2012 video prompts YouTube to make an upgrade after it garnered more than 2.1 billion views.

December 4, 2014

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People can never get enough of PSY's "Gangnam Style" music video. Just a few months after becoming the first clip to get 2 billion plays on YouTube, the video prompts the site to make an upgrade after it reached the maximum possible view count.

"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 said in a Google+ post. " 'Gangnam Style' has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!"

The "Gangnam Style" video was released in 2012. In December that year, it became the first video in YouTube's history to surpass 1 billion views. It also earned Guinness World Record for most "liked" video. It passed 2 billion mark in May this year.

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"Two billion views; they are very honorable and very burdensome numbers," PSY wrote in a Twitter post, reacting to his new milestone. "With the appreciation, I will come back soon with more joyful contents!"

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