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In 2014, Psy's "Gangnam Style" overflowed YouTube's view counter. YouTube stored views as a 32-bit integer, capped at 2,147,483,647. When the video passed it, YouTube switched to a 64-bit counter. Contrary to the myth of a panicked rewrite, Google had foreseen it.
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