The other day I had a thought cross my mind: I wonder what's happened to the most viral thing in history?

If you don't remember, 4 years ago Gangnam Style, by the K-pop artist Psy, became a worldwide viral sensation. But what's life been like for the cowboy-chic-dancing electro-house tune since then?

As of right now, the video has an absolutely staggering...

2,826,985,118 views

Yes, that's a billion, with a B. In fact, Gangnam Style is quickly approaching 3 billion views

Just to put that into perspective:

The population of China, India, and the United States combined is 3.0034 billion, which means Gangnam Style could quite possibly pass that number within the year.

Gangnam Style has 1,766,821 DIS-likes.

This means that more people dislike this video than the total amount of people who have ever downloaded my game, Blobfish Evolution, which sits somewhere around 1.5 million.

This video has 4,576,609 comments, most of which appear to be people stating what day it is and that they just came to see how many views the video has.

The top comment is this one, which is clearly asking the most interesting question on this topic:

The "likes" on just this comment are higher than the average views I get from my YouTube channel.

Speaking of YouTube channels, the verified channel for this video, officialpsy, has 9,867,834 followers.

And far from being a one-trick-pony, Psy released another video on his channel later that year, GENTLEMAN M/V, which to date has accumulated 1,062,972,570 views

Overall, the channel has drawn 5,887,497,875 views to its videos.

Here are the Channelytics according to TubeBuddy:

The channel appears to gain about 2 subscribers every second and has an estimated monetization potential of $1.47 - 23.5 million per year.

That is all.

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