Psy's "Gangnam Style" video broke YouTube's hit counter

[cliffordcooley]

Maybe because they didn't care at the time. And from the looks of it they still don't care. Because with the 64-bit integer, they now have a far greater number than a 32-bit unsigned integer.

 

[TheBigFatClown]

Why on earth would they use a SIGNED 32-bit integer when a video cannot ever have less than zero views?

YouTube was started how many years ago? Because they probably never foresaw how incredibly huge YouTube would eventually become. It was a sound decision at the time in my opinion. And it took this long for the counter to be broken so...

 

[TheBigFatClown]

Exactly, they are "cool" by not being "cool". Chill.

That's not it exactly. I haven't watched the video and I didn't watch it when it was popular 2+ years ago. If I did, I can't remember. But doing something "only" because everybody else is doing it seems kinda sheepish to me. I mean, if it was the type of video I even had a small interest in, I might but...it's not. But this happens alot. I guess it's kind of a snowball effect. The danger here is that anything can become overrated because of trends like this.
iPhone mania seems to be another good example. These are all just my personal ramblings. I could be wrong.

I guess in one sense, fear is what keeps driving the hit counter on this video up. Fear of missing out on something good maybe?

 

[TheDreams]

The person who broke the counter probably had no idea they even did. What an achievement..

 

[Kibaruk]

That's not it exactly. I haven't watched the video and I didn't watch it when it was popular 2+ years ago. If I did, I can't remember. But doing something "only" because everybody else is doing it seems kinda sheepish to me. I mean, if it was the type of video I even had a small interest in, I might but...it's not. But this happens alot. I guess it's kind of a snowball effect. The danger here is that anything can become overrated because of trends like this.
iPhone mania seems to be another good example. These are all just my personal ramblings. I could be wrong.

I guess in one sense, fear is what keeps driving the hit counter on this video up. Fear of missing out on something good maybe?

My thought is more simple "why is everyone else so amazed by the video? Let's find out" "nope, it's crap".

 

[cliffordcooley]

"nope, it's crap".

Which is why everyone had to watch it. They had to see just how bad it was. They didn't believe their friends telling them how bad it was.

Me? I'm not sure how I came across watching it the first time. I think I was watching random videos one night and this was one of them. I think after this topic though, I will remember not to watch it again.

 

[locote37]

Look at all the old people trying to sound like hipsters.

"I've never listened to that because I'm better than the peasants."