The whole Gangnam Style craze may have already died down locally, but the official music video of the song continues to garner hit on YouTube. So much so that it maxed out Google-owned video streaming website’ view counter and forces them to upgrade to a 64-bit integer.
In a short blog post, Google stated that the official Gangnam Style video was the first in the world to surpass the allowable views in a 32-bit integer (2,147,483,647). It adds that the smash hit was “viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer” which should be sufficient (for now at least) enough to handle the additional views of Psy’s catchy song (and other viral videos in the future).
When asked if Gangnam Style really caused YouTube to upgrade their view counter, Google’s spokesperson Matt McLeron said that “nothing actually broke” and software engineers have already saw this coming. “There was never anything that actually went wrong. It’s just people having fun with the language,” he added.
The migration to 64-bit view counter takes up more memory but, in return, would allow YouTube to store numbers of up 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. Top that, Psy!
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