Gangnam Style Hits 1 Billion Views, World Doesn’t End

Well folks, it’s finally happened! After 160 days on YouTube, Gangnam Style has become the first video to hit 1 billion YouTube views. And despite rumors that Psy’s viral hit crossing the billion view threshold would fulfill Nostradamus’ end of the world prophecy and trigger a cataclysmic event leading to the ultimate demise of the human race, it looks like we’re all still standing.

Well folks, it’s finally happened!  After 160 days on YouTube, Gangnam Style has become the first video to hit 1 billion YouTube views.  And despite rumors that Psy’s viral hit crossing the billion view threshold would fulfill Nostradamus’ end of the world prophecy and trigger a cataclysmic event leading to the ultimate demise of the human race, it looks like we’re all still standing.

And the fact that we’re all still standing is a good thing indeed, because Psy’s 1 billion calls for celebration…and you have to stand to do the invisible horse dance!  So before you read any further, I suggest you hit play on the video below and have a little invisible horse dancing celebration of your own—Oppa Billion Style!

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I think it’s important to mention why Gangnam Style being the first video to reach 1 billion views is so huge. ...

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