Two years after Psy s Gangnam Style music video broke the mark for 1 billion views on YouTube, it has broken something else, sort of: YouTube s view counter. That s because the counter couldn t handle the more than 2.15 billion views the video now has — the counter was a slacker, only set to count to 2,147,483,647. But Google told the Verge that it saw the problem coming and fixed it by upgrading to a 64-bit integer: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, to be exact. Yes, that s 9 quintillion-plus. Your move, Psy.
Image of Gangnam Style artist Psy and friends from YouTube
