THE VIDEO THAT NEARLY BROKE YOUTUBE: A magnifying glass showing the number of times that viewers have watched South Korean rapper Psy's video Gangnam style on YouTube on Dec 21, 2012. Two years later the same video has had more than 2.15 billion views, officially overwhelming YouTube's viewing counter.
NEW YORK: Just how big a hit was Gangnam Style? So mammoth that the Internet literally wasn’t ready to handle it.
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.
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