South Korean singer Psy performs during the opening ceremony of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon September 19, 2014.
South Korean singer Psy performs during the opening ceremony of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon September 19, 2014. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: SPORT ENTERTAINMENT)
South Korean singer Psy performs during the opening ceremony of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon September 19, 2014. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: SPORT ENTERTAINMENT)

Almost two years ago, Korean singer made Internet record with his Gangnam Style music video hitting 1 billion hits. He repeated the feat this December 2014 when the same video, seen below, went past the 2 billionth mark.

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More than just be the first YouTube video to go past 2 billion, the megamonster hit also broke YouTube's view counter since it is the first video "to break the reaches of a 32-bit integer," reports Techcrunch.

YouTube, owned by search engine giant Google, admitted it never thought that a video would be viewed greater than the 32-bit integer that it had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer.

According to Techcrunch, a 32-bit integer could be used to store numbers from -2,147,483,648 to 2,148,483,647. For a 64-bit integer, the range is wider from -9,223,372,036,854,775,803 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,803.

That means with the upgrade, YouTube's view counter could now go up to 9 quintillion views.

It could be recalled that when Gangnam Style hit the 1 billionth mark on Dec 21, 2012, it was even viewed by some Doomsday prophets as a sign of the end of the world. That was almost two years ago.

Fortunately, no one is linking its going past the 2 billionth mark as another Apocalyptic omen as people have shifted the burden of the end times to how Russia and its nuclear programme would behave.