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

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 a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!

Hover over the counter in PSY's video to see a little math magic and stay tuned for bigger and bigger numbers on YouTube."

The new updated storage can support 9 quintillion views, even though that never will never be hit.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 3 Dec 2014 23:14

ChappyTTV

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.

4.12.2014 02:05 #1

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

4.12.2014 15:55 #2

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.

4.12.2014 19:19 #3

ChappyTTV

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?

5.12.2014 18:25 #4

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