More than two years after the Korean dance hit's video debuted, it reached the maximum possible view count on YouTube. Keep your eyes on the view counter. Just how big a hit was "Gangnam Style"?This means that the service could not accurately display the number of views the video was getting, and was also unable to display commas. So you were seeing numbers like 2154611892 instead of a much more readable 2,154,611,892. YouTube said that the 2012 song by South Korea's Psy — accompanied by a horse-riding-like dance that became a global sensation — this week reached the maximum number of views that its counter had imagined to be conceivable.YouTube engineers anticipated the problem and upgraded to a 64-bit integer. That means that "Gangnam Style" or future mega-hit videos can now go beyond nine sextillion views — a feat that, at least according to conventional wisdom, would be impossible to break.
