{"id":411,"date":"2014-12-05T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2014-12-05T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T15:21:00","slug":"heres-how-psys-gangnam-style-broke-youtubes-view-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How PSY\u2019s \u2018Gangnam Style\u2019 Broke YouTube\u2019s View Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PSY - GANGNAM STYLE(\uac15\ub0a8\uc2a4\ud0c0\uc77c) M\/V\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bZkp7q19f0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Psy\u2019s \u201cGangnam Style\u201d, the viral sensation released back in 2012, has been viewed so many times it broke YouTube\u2019s view counter. The quirky K-Pop song broke several Youtube records over the years, but nobody could have expected this. Who (and why) are people still watching the video? Who knows, but the number continues to climb.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We never thought a video would be watch in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. \u201cGangnam Style\u201d has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you hover over the view count, you\u2019ll actually get to see a little YouTube trickery. The dialer <em>was<\/em> broken, but it\u2019s fixed thanks to YouTube\u2019s update. As of this writing, \u201cGangnam Style\u201d has been viewed more than 2 billion times (2,152,551,836 to be exact). I haven\u2019t watch Gangnam Style since it hit a few years back. Now that it\u2019s back in the news, we\u2019re all being forced to relive what is one of the most oddly fascinating pieces of pop culture ever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+youtube\/posts\/BUXfdWqu86Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOOGLE+<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psy\u2019s \u201cGangnam Style\u201d, the viral sensation released back in 2012, has been viewed so many times it broke YouTube\u2019s view counter. The quirky K-Pop song broke several Youtube records over the years, but nobody could have expected this. Who (and why) are people still watching the video? Who knows, but the number continues to climb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}