"Gangnam Style" Kinda, Sorta Broke YouTube

The world has collectively watched this guy 2.1 billion times

Today's earworm attack news: Psy's "Gangnam Style" almost broke YouTube.

Or at least their system of counting how many times a video has been viewed.

Inexplicably, the "Gangnam" video was viewed more than 2 billion times, and YouTube had to make some quick readjustments to accommodate all those views, says the BBC. 

YouTube used a 32-bit integer, a unit to represent data in computer architecture, and under that system, the most views a YouTube video could get was 2,147,483,647.

One would think a video featuring a pudgy Korean pop star would not be watched more that 2.1 billion times, but one would be wrong.

Now that YouTube has fixed its view counter so that even the most obsessed people on the planet can watch the same video over and over again for the next 60 years,  the most any video could be watched is 9,223,372,036,814,775,808 times.

How's that for precision?

I really hope we don't all watch "Gangnam Style" 9.2 quintillion times.

The BBC has also noted that the world has collectively wasted more than 16,000 years watching "Gangnam Style" instead of doing something more productive, like curing cancer, ending terrorism or stopping the discussion of Kim Kardashian's butt on the Internet.

Anyway, Psy fans, watch "Gangnam Style" until you drop. You probably won't break YouTube's view counter again. We can all breathe a sigh of relief on that one.

Novel Pope Resignations Theory: It Was Gangnam Style, Psy Antichrist Conspiracy

As everybody knows by now, Pope Benedict XVI is resigning effective February 28, making him the first Pope to resign, rather than just die in office, in nearly 600 years.

Is this guy part of an evil plot to rid the world of
Pope Benedict, install the Antichrist and bring on the End Times?
One person, at least, believe so, we think.

The pope says he's quitting because he's too infirm to fulfill his duties. Which makes sense. The guy's 85 years old. Being Pope is as lot of work, I imagine and not every octogenerarian is physically up to the task.

Of course, that's not going to stop other theories from cropping up.

Already, I've found what might be the most novel one possible. It's hard to follow, but apparently, the current Pope has to leave by February 28 in order for a false pope to approve the anti-Christ, and this is all somehow being accomplished Gangnam Style, and Psy, the guy who made the uber viral Gangnam style video is somehow involved. I think.

Does this mean the Pope is going to do a Gangnam Style video to celebrate his retirement?

The guy who made the video on the Gangnam Style theory on the Pope has a whole slew of YouTube videos with his unique take on the inevitable End Times. It's certainly worth  perusing his other videos just for fun.

But here, just watch, and try to make sense out of his Gangnam Style Pope resignation.