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'Gangnam Style' forced YouTube to remake its view counter code

article published on 3 December, 2014

According to Google, PSY's 'Gangnam Style' reached a view count so high that it actually broke YouTube's view counter, forcing the company to upgrade its code. Says the company: "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 ... [ read the full article ]

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4. December 2014 @ 02:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
While it is a catchy tune, I would suspect that 3/4's of the views for this is from hormone raging teens (and older farts too) ogling those super hot Korean babes and making donations to the "whack-off basket", thus also keeping Kleenex's bottom line healthy.
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4. December 2014 @ 15:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have to say although I heard the song, artist and dumba$$ old dance, I watched the video for the first time today after reading this article

... I didn't miss much. LOL
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4. December 2014 @ 19:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by g_slide:
I have to say although I heard the song, artist and dumba$$ old dance, I watched the video for the first time today after reading this article

... I didn't miss much. LOL
But you gave it another view + on YT.
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5. December 2014 @ 18:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by DXR88:
Originally posted by g_slide:
I have to say although I heard the song, artist and dumba$$ old dance, I watched the video for the first time today after reading this article

... I didn't miss much. LOL
But you gave it another view + on YT.
And so the ball keeps rolling along...

I wonder just how much $$$ this guy has made off of this one tune/video alone?
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