The South Korean sensation's 2012 video prompts YouTube to make an upgrade after it garnered more than 2.1 billion views.
- Dec 4, 2014
AceShowbiz - 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.
"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!"
