<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Flickr/Eva Rinaldi" title_caption="PSY broke the internet. " class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/547ef9cddd089544138b45da-960/psy.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/547ef9cddd089544138b45da-1000-750/psy.jpg" border="0" alt="PSY" /></a><p class="source"><span>Flickr/Eva Rinaldi</span></p><p class="caption">PSY broke the internet. </p></div><p></p></div></div>Gangnam Style has, really and truly, broken YouTube. Seriously. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/+youtube/posts/BUXfdWqu86Q">On its Google+ page</a>, YouTube says it didn't ever think something like this would ever happen, "until we met PSY".</p>
<p>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</p>
<h3>YouTube explains the situation here:</h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="YouTube" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/547ef9cddd089544138b45d9-960/screen shot 2014-12-03 at 11.13.55.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/547ef9cddd089544138b45d9-518-497/screen shot 2014-12-03 at 11.13.55.png" border="0" alt="gangnam style" /></a><p class="source"><span>YouTube</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<h3>And here's everything going crazy: </h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/547efabcdd089510088b464d/psy.gif" border="0" alt="PSY"><p class="source"><span>YouTube</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>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. </p>
<h3>As if you need reminding of it...</h3>
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'Gangnam Style' Has Been Viewed So Many Times It Has Actually Broken YouTube

Flickr/Eva RinaldiPSY broke the internet. Gangnam Style has, really and truly, broken YouTube. Seriously. 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". 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: YouTube And here's everything going crazy: YouTube 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...

Flickr/Eva RinaldiPSY broke the internet. Gangnam Style has, really and truly, broken YouTube.

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

Joshua Barrie

YouTube explains the situation here:

And here's everything going crazy:

As if you need reminding of it...

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