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'Gangnam Style' Has Been Viewed So Many Times It Has Actually Broken YouTube

Dec 3, 2014, 17:23 IST

Flickr/Eva RinaldiPSY broke the internet.

Gangnam Style has, really and truly, broken YouTube. Seriously.

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PSY's music video has now had so many views on YouTube that the video sharing platform has had to "upgrade" so people can still watch it.

On its Google+ page, YouTube says it didn't ever think something like this would ever happen, "until we met PSY".

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The South Korean pop sensation has now amassed well over 2 billion views on his original Gangnam Style music video, alongside nearly 9 million 'likes' and just over 1 million 'dislikes'. That turns out to be more numbers than YouTube is coded to display, based on a 32-integer system

YouTube explains the situation here:

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And here's everything going crazy:

Gangnam Style was released in 2012 it was an instant hit. Singer PSY now has 7.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. The channel has been visited more than 4 billion times since 2010.

As if you need reminding of it...

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