(CNN) -- The Internet is a vast and seemingly limitless space, but it's no match for PSY.
"Gangnam Style," the South Korean pop star's enduring video phenomenon from 2012, has surpassed 2,147,483,647 views on YouTube, maxing out the site's original view counter.
"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," wrote Google, which owns YouTube, in a blog post this week. " 'Gangnam Style' has been viewed so many times we have to upgrade!"
it's an impressive feat for PSY's trademark horse-riding dance video, which is almost 2½ years old. Uploaded in July 2012, "Gangnam Style" was the first clip to hit a billion views and is the most-watched video of all time. It was even the No. 5 most-played video on YouTube this past summer, McLernon said.
"People still play this video an absurd number of times," he said.
I don't understand! But ya it must be annoying for spy cuz now the views won't be counted anymore cuz they have yet to update youtubed gigs or bites or w/e lol
It's a set up gimmick, YT has always supported large number of views, in fact when there wasn't a process to verify the validity of the views, a bot replayed a video over 79 billion times, the video was then removed for spam and a security system was introduced. http://mashable.com/2010/01/06/youtu...eo-79-billion/
It's a set up gimmick, YT has always supported large number of views, in fact when there wasn't a process to verify the validity of the views, a bot replayed a video over 79 billion times, the video was then removed for spam and a security system was introduced. http://mashable.com/2010/01/06/youtu...eo-79-billion/
I'm saying the counter supports big numbers, the "glitch" was made up
No it's not 2,147,483,647 is the maximum positive number a 32-bit integer (in programming) can support. They probably just have to switch to a different data type.
No it's not 2,147,483,647 is the maximum number a 32-bit integer (in programming) can support. They probably just have to switch to a different data type.
That would be 4,294,967,295, I doubt they would use a signed integer to count views; they probably thought it would've been fun to make up a glitch, in the past the number had been largely surpassed.
2,147,483,647 is the maximum positive number a 32-bit integer (in programming) can support. They probably just have to switch to a different data type.
Dying of the thought of that happening (because it really would have).