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What Happened to Gangnam Style



Sep 27

  • GOOD NEWS! Around 4:00pm EST, Gangnam Style Music Video is back to #1 position on Youtube’s Most Liked of All Time Chart! (강남스타일 뮤비가 다시 유투브 차트로 복귀 했습니다. 그동안 청원 서명에 참여해주신 여러분 감사드립니다!)

Sep 26

Sep 25

Sep 24

  • Reported by “m4n8tpr8″: Actually, Gangnam Style was removed from all the all-time charts (most comments and favourites too) at the same time, and never appeared on the all-time most viewed chart. As I wrote somewhere else, only the weekly music chart still shows gangnam Style, but that chart fails to show other PSY MVs (RIGHT NOW and KOREA) which got more views in the past week than what some songs on the chart got altogether.
  • This is reported by “Tao” posted on the comments list: The video is also removed from Youtube’s Most Viewed Videos Chart, when Gangnam Style MV had around 269 million views around this time.

Sep 23

  • We have added the Petition Signature Form below, so we can send it to Youtube! (유투브 항의 청원서 서명진행중)

What Happened

On September 13, Gangnam Style MV became the most LIKED video in YouTube history worldwide with 2,234,180 likes, but 7 days later, on Sep 20, it was removed from Youtube’s Most Liked All Time Chart as you can see on the snapshots below.

(보이지 않는 알력으로 9월 13일 1등으로 올라온 강남스타일이 9월 20일 유투브 최다추천 차트에서 사라졌습니다.)

Here is a video reporting about “Gangnam Style Getting Robbed” by Youtuber AgentOfDoubt

Let’s sign the petition and spread the word!
(청원에 서명해주세요)

Update: Petition is Closed
(청원 서명이 인제 끝났습니다)

Latest Signatures
818Hyon LeeBuena Park, CAU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
817Kenny ShinFullerton, CaliforniaU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
816Lisa FransiscaSurabaya, Jawa TimurIndonesiaSep 27, 2012
815Jean JadhonChatsworth, CAU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
814Grigory MoshkevichSaint-PetersburgRussian FederationSep 27, 2012
813Seunghyun ParkGoyang, KyeonggiKorea SouthSep 27, 2012
812Alex MoonLa Palma, CAU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
811KATE KANGCERRITOS, CAU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
810Mike ParkLong Beach, caU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
809sue cholos angeles, californiaU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
808seonggeun leeLA, CAU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
807Andrew clintonLos angeles, caU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
806Mario PiantadosiVerona, VeronaItalySep 27, 2012
805Kwon KangLa Habra, CAU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
804Jenny KimLa Habra, CAU.S.A.Sep 27, 2012
803Go Eun ShimKorea SouthSep 27, 2012
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The petition signature list will be sent to Youtube when it reaches a certain number (not decided yet, might want to discuss this?).

Let’s discuss how to bring it back into Youtube Charts again!

To see the newest comments first, you can change the comment viewing order by clicking Discussion > Newest from the comments menu
(최근 댓글을 읽으시려면 아래 메뉴에서 Discussion > Newest 를 클릭 해 주세요)

Gangnam Style Music Video

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  • Arvin

    :(

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Hey, the site is now online!

  • Va

    흠흠….뭐지? 삭제한 이유 정도는 알려야 하는 거 아닌가? What the hll is happening now? Is someone cheating on the whole world?

  • Rob

    we demand explanation from youtube!

  • Glass

    We demand an explanation!!!

  • Glass

    i try posting comments here so many times why the hell they keep disappearing?

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Sorry for the issue. Maybe these is an issue with the DISQUS comment system that is used for this. Will see what I can do. Thank you for coming by.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002939894390 Rzv Avn

    trhrtsgregreagregrehgre

  • etching

    At least the counter is moving again…241 million now…

  • Soaring Soul

    This is fantastic initiative, thanks! I was so frustrated when Gangnam Style disappeared and the counter view stopped and there was very little awareness. Gangnam Style is even in Guinness world records and Youtube doesn’t even show on the charts page! What is with that, it’s the viewers choices that determine the ranking, and youtube just removes it! first let’s focus on increasing awareness of the fact that youtube has removed gangnam style from its charts. if we have large awareness, then maybe we can target some newsreporters or something

  • Soaring Soul

    I have a suggestion – I think we should have the screenshot of Gangnam style actually being in the charts when it was #1 (with the date &newslink if possible) on the front page alongside with the picture that shows Gangnam Style is removed. Just so it saves people having to go through all the links and stop them from saying it takes time to be listed on the charts. It was already there!

    • RxS

      I hope they’ll put it back up :/

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      I will see if I can find the snapshot when it was #1, I remembering seeing in some Korean news sites.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002939894390 Rzv Avn

        just go to google images, and write these 4 words (with quotes included):
        “gangnam style” “most liked”

        • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

          The snapshot is now posted, thanks.

          • Soaring Soul

            can I suggest this link for the #1 screenshot instead? It has a bigger/clearer screenshot – we can actually see the actual numbers. And the date is actually earlier – 13th Sep.
            http://www.allkpop.com/2012/09/psys-gangnam-style-mv-becomes-most-liked-video-in-youtube-history

          • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

            Will change the front layout with tabs, so a that larger snapshot can be visible, thank you for the suggestion.

          • Soaring Soul

            no problem, good work with maintaining this site!

  • stevendan

    is there a way to ask youtube for an explanation? like some big petition or dunno…

    • Soaring Soul

      A big petition, or a big facebook page like those lifesavers who lost their jobs from parodying and wanted their jobs back would be good. But right now awareness is first. We need more people to know about this – so I say promote this page EVERYWHERE so we have a lot of discussion. we have 18 comments now, we will need at least good few thousand maybe? then we can start doing something with those numbers. post it on youtube comments, other forums, psy’s facebook page maybe etc etc! #1 INCREASE AWARENESS!

  • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

    Added Facebook Send, Linkedin, and Pin it social buttons.

  • SJ

    We demand an explanation!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/Saymite Daniel Silva

    Dafaq?

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      I agree I would have the same WTF reaction like you do if I saw a site like this for the first time, LOL.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002939894390 Rzv Avn

    i just found out that it’s not the first time when youtube removed popular KPOP videos from their charts. look what i found:
    http://www.thepetitionsite.com/261/519/115/we-want-mr-simple-back-in-youtube-charts/

    there are 25 pages full of requests to put back in the charts the popular kpop video. if you check out the charts now , you’ll see that youtube indeed put the kpop video back in the charts, at people’s request. i really hope they’ll also put gangnam style back , just like they did with mr simple. what do they have against kpop, i wonder? one year ago, youtube added KPop as a new music genre (youtube.com/music -> all genres), and so i always thought that they respect kpop. Was i wrong?

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      That is an excellent discovery!

      Maybe US label companies are feeling the threat? Remeber the KimDotCom incident? They sent a military to take the man down from his home, like he is a Colombian drug mob or something…

      Regardless of any problem Youtube might have (view and like counters, due to server overload), taking the #1 video of the chart doesn’t make any sense to me.

  • Soaring Soul

    My post got deleted… it was for evidence to support this page, but I can’t remember the link anymore..

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      You mean, it’s posted here? That’s strange.

      • Soaring Soul

        Yeah here.. hmm.. I’ll post it again when I find them

        • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

          I see. Sorry for that. Looks like there are some hiccups with this commenting system. It’s an online remote service, hope it will be back to normal soon.

          • Soaring Soul

            No that’s okay! Wow I really like the new layout. it’s a lot clearer and explains the problem better. and makes positive use of the visitors. Thumbs up!

          • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

            Thank you! It’s my first experience to create a site like this, so visited other petition sites, and they all had a petition form, so got this idea and and added to the page. Got rid of the clutters so it can be understood at glance, I am still learning :)

  • sojung

    IM KOREAN AND I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION!!! >//<

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Thank you for stopping by Sojung. I have created the petition form now, will be greatly appreciated if you can site it. Thank you.

  • 은미

    Youtube 그쎄기

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002939894390 Rzv Avn

      그XX ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

  • soomin kim

    wow! how did notice and make the Petition Signature? amazing. thanks very much! honestly, i don’t care ranking in Youtube Chart. but. it’s so interesting about disappear chart.! fucking world hahaha.

  • YUN PARK

    We demand an explanation!!!

  • soomin kim

    WOW. how get noice and thinking PETITION? anyway thanks a lots honestly, i don’t care ranking. but, it’s so interesting disappear! what happen in youtube? haha fucking world!

    • Kiki

      If they starting taking out one by one, then it could be a problem in the future.

  • Terry Whitacre

    I doubt Japs on this case……… They are somewhat kinky to adjacent countries.

  • susana lee

    강남스타일의 파워를 보여줍시다! Show the Gangnam Style Power, yeah!

  • Soaring Soul

    한국분들, 다음, 네이트, 네이버 등등 한국 유명 사이트 들에 이 사건에 대해서 좀 널리 퍼트려 주세요. 저는 외국에 살아서 계정을 만들수가 없어서 답답하기만 하네요. 한국에게 이 사건을 알리세요! (Dear Koreans, please spread this outrageous incident to all the famous top Korean websites like Daum, Naver and Nate. I live overseas, so I don’t have those official Korean accounts to do it myself and it’s a bit frustrating. Spread the word!)

  • Soaring Soul
  • JK

    Err.. Just saying, in the ‘petition’ box.. thingy “atleast” (in the sentence, “with atleast a reason for why this is”) is spelt wrong.. (it says “altleast”) Or maybe it’s meant to like that >_> er.. hahahaa!

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Thank you for pointing that out. Don’t know why that was missed :)
      If you can find any other errors or would like to give suggestions, you are welcome! And thank you for stopping by.

      • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

        Several mome suggestions from myself for the petition:

        “…September…” (don’t shorten in formal text)
        “…the irony is that on September 21,…”
        “…the reason behind the removal of…”
        A complete re-wording: “Millions of K-popfans around the world deserve that YouTube at least give them an explanation for this removal.”
        “…reinstate this music video in your charts…”

        Also on the main page, from top:

        “…so we can send it to YouTube!”
        “…Gangnam Style MV became the most LIKED video…”
        “…but 7 days later, on Sep 20, …”
        “…as you can see on the snapshots below.”
        “…when it reaches a certain number…”
        “Let’s discuss how to bring it back into Youtube Charts again!”

        • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

          Forgot:
          “…might want to discuss this?).” (correct: talk about or discuss, wrong: discuss about)

          • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

            Thanks for the grammar correction! Will update it ASAP I can.

        • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

          Now all the correction is updated! Thank you so much!

  • http://twitter.com/Dumpling1997 Danping Zhu

    LOL! super junior is in the video :O But main task: BRING PSY GANGNAM STYLE BACK!!

  • 정종일

    왜 삭제된거야? 도대체 왜 !
    Why deleted it? I wonder!

  • 김범준

    왜 사라지지?;; 대체.. 누구 좋으라고?;

  • http://www.facebook.com/trung.vu.564 Trung Vu

    You tube has got something against the Koreans, maybe. Their music gets a lot of views so maybe that it could flood the YouTube charts

  • ㅁ

    유투브 방사능국 뒷돈 쳐먹고 어디서 주작질이고 부끄러운줄알아야지!

    • susana lee

      유투브가 방사능을 아주 제대로 쳐먹으셨나봐요. lol

  • quietly brilliant

    Let us support PSY

  • meer

    it is a shame what happened and they need to fix it

  • Jina

    where is Psy?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/XWPJTNLA7AFAI7LVOTKXG2OPUY Random

      off the charts :) ) literally :) ))

    • kikybaby

      Strange the comment went missing, when i replied the one right under this one, which was something like “It went off the charts :) ) literally :) :):)” probably DISQUS bug.

      • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

        I can see the comment is back, looks like it takes some time to get updated on the list…

  • kiki

    20,000 people dancing gangnam! now, that’s what i call greatest music hit!!!!???

    http://gangnamstylenews.com/dance-videos/20000-people-dancing-gangnam-style/

  • Gasaraki

    Hope they bring it back

  • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8
  • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

    I see a weird bug: my latest comment is invisible (but re-appears when further comments come).

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Yes, I have noticed that too. It looks like some of them takes a while to get updated.

  • http://twitter.com/tao_mandragora Tao

    I am totally in this. They either need to fix it or provide an acceptable reason for it!

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Thank you for the info. I have posted this info at the top of this page.

      • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

        Actually, Gangnam Style was removed from all the all-time charts (most comments and favourites too) at the same time, and never appeared on the all-time most viewed chart (it passed the lower limit for the chart after the removal).

        As I wrote somewhere else, only the weekly music chart still shows gangnam Style, but that chart fails to show other PSY MVs (RIGHT NOW and KOREA) which got more views in the past week than what some songs on the chart got altogether.

        • kikybaby

          That’s kinda fishy…

        • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

          Thanks for reminding about it. Also posted on the top of the page. I don’t think a lot of people even know about this.

  • Charles

    That is money problem. because one view = $. Now over 250M views =$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$.$$
    Youtube doesn’t want pay for that.

    • kikybaby

      But why only Gangnam Style MV? Not the others? BTW, Youtube capitalizes the income from the ads that are displayed in the videos.

  • Rob

    Sign the petition to bring justice to Gangnam Style! It has been MYSTERIOUSLY wiped off the youtube chart! Sign this to bring it back!

  • hansmil

    Not at the same time, the first removal was the Top Favorites All Time Charts, the second from Most Discussted Videos All Time, and the last from Most Liked All Time. (#6, #5 and #1, respectively when deleted)

  • hansmil

    To Tao : I have never seen the Gangnam Style M/V on the Most Viewed Video Charts All Categories, except Most Viewed Video Weekly Chart. When did you see that?

    • http://twitter.com/tao_mandragora Tao

      I usually do not check youtube charts, but I tried checking other charts as well and I just noticed that it’s not there. Apparently it never appeared in the Most Viewed Charts to start with.

  • kim

    왜 삭제한겁니까? 쪽바리 짓이 분명함

  • Minah

    I’m sure you’re the only people who care… because it’s really not that serious. Oh yes, google is being sooooo racist let’s make them put the video back!!! Call me when a REAL petition that make world differences happen… not wanting some video so many of you guys can refresh the page xx times a day.

    • http://twitter.com/tao_mandragora Tao

      Man, if you don’t wanna care about this why bother to put a comment? And we are not even talking about google. We are talking about youtube.

  • grarafa

    FUCK JUSTIN AND BELIEBERS

  • jems

    return
    kangnang

  • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

    Hey guys, I looked around how YouTube can be told about the problem, and I found these two possibilities:

    1) YouTube doesn’t display a contact email, but some forum posters claim that there is a working email address from which they even get replies: support@youtube.com.
    2) On every YouTube page, in the middle of the second line from bottom, there is a link: Report a bug. You can write a short message, and YouTube automatically stores a screenshot for you. I suggest that everyone report the bug on the YouTube All Time pages (as I did). Be polite!

    Furthermore, I now have a suspicion as for the root of the problem, in the form of some computer bug. Go to the YouTube page of the Gangnam Style video, and click Show video statistics (the button right of the view count). There you can also see the other counts, including Favourites. I noticed two days ago that it is stuck on 790,038, and it is still stuck there, even though the diagram doesn’t display a plateau and all the other counters continue to rise every day. In fact it must have gotten stuck a few days before I noticed it, the way I remember where Gangnam Style was on the Top Favorited chart a week ago [it passed Eminem - Not Afraid]. So I suspect that this malfunctioning counter somehow blocks the Charts listing. (I reported this as a bug on the Gangnam Style page, too.)

    • Alkaizen

      i also did it first time i saw

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      My personal opinion is (having experience with programming and database, server management), it still does not make sense. The counts may be wrong depending on your location (Europe, Asia, U.S., etc.), because the servers are distributed all around the world in different data centers, and the database servers need to replicate among themselves to update the counts. But removing from the chart? I have never seen that happen in my life when you get results from database query results.

      It just doesn’t work that way, unless that particular video is flagged.

      • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

        Let’s test the location-dependent counter error. I’m in Europe, but you’re in the USA. Do you see the 790,038 number or another? At any rate, this counter bug must have started around the same time as the charts disappearance.

        • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

          Checked out the Favorites count, it’s 790,038 too for me in NYC (5:44pm – Sep 25, 2012).

          • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

            So it’s stuck there for a week, but the time evolution diagram displayed next to the number shows an unbroken rise… that’s some bug.

  • Sam

    YouTube needs to put Gangnam Style back on it’s “most viewed/most liked” lists ASAP, it’s not fair that it’s not getting the credit that it deserves.

    • kikybaby

      And imagine if it loses about 1/3 of the views per day… from the video itself and from the charts. That’s quite significant overtime if you tell me.

  • Alkaizen

    They not only removed from most liked, they removed from ALL charts (including most watched, favorited, commented..)
    I smell VEVO…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002939894390 Rzv Avn

    yeah i also noticed many days ago that the counter of how many people added the video to favorites also stopped.
    you people have to understand this : if they don’t want gangnam style to be the most liked video, then they don’t want it to be the most favorited, either. so of course the counter stopped at 800.000 favorites. think about it, if the counter would not have been stopped, by now gangnam style would be the most added to favorites of all time, since the current number one has only 1 million favorites.

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      People should really stop with these conspiracy theories… if the stopping of the Favourites counter had been on malicious purpose, then it would have been logical to stop the Likes and Views counters, too.

  • Alkaizen

    Also, the next day after the removal, youtube was slowing the view count on purpose, only raised 1 mil views in 24h.

  • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller
    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      They failed to notice the screen grabs and speculate about special metrics YouTube could use, though… I wrote a comment there.

  • OngDal Sam

    Asia YouTube is operated in Japan. So, korean people call YouTube ‘JapTube’. Do Japanese accept this Petition really?

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Didn’t know Youtube Asia was operated in Japan. I think the total signatures are still too low to sent it them now.

  • Dominic

    Wow. I actually read the betabeat article first and got directed to this site.
    A HUGE dissapointment with YOUTUBE, but am happy to see that some people are noticing this unfairness.
    Long story short.
    WTF
    뭐야 이것들 증말 ㅡ.ㅡ) ㅗ

  • king

    아시아 유투브 관리하는 곳이 일본이라고 합니다.

  • sun

    아시아쪽 유투브 관리하는 곳이 일본에 있다고 함.강남 스타일 며칠동안 조회수 멈추고,유투브 차트에서도 빠졌음.일본이 조작했다고 볼 수 있다.

    • chang

      사실이 그렇다면 그냥 넘어갈 문제가 아닌것 같습니다.

  • dfadfg

    아시아쪽 유투브 관리하는 곳이 일본에 있다고 함.강남 스타일 며칠동안 조회수 멈추고,유투브 차트에서도 빠졌음.일본이 조작했다고 볼 수 있다.
    소시 일본노래가 유투브 5위에 있다는게 이상하고 조회수로만 보면 근래에 나온 gd 노래들이 조회수가 더 빠른 상승세인데도 순위에도 없는걸 알수 있다.

  • kim

    소시 일본노래가 유투브 5위에 있다는게 이상하고 조회수로만 보면 근래에 나온 gd 노래들이 조회수가 더 빠른 상승세인데도 순위에도 없는걸 알수 있다.

  • what ?

    it is a shame what happened and they need to fix it

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002939894390 Rzv Avn

    in the article cwk1004 posted, i agree with everything EXCEPT the part where he talks about the big difference in views between party rock anthem the audio-video version and party rock anthem the audio only version. i mean come on , the VIDEO “party rock” went viral, everybody shared the link of the VIDEO “party rock” , the VIDEO “party rock” went to charts, so of course there’s a big gap between those 2 versions. for example, gangnam style (audio only version) has just 200.000 views. so yeah, he made some valid points, but he blew it with this :P .

  • Suna

    Youtube.. Do a right thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Maria

    I need Gangnam Style.

  • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

    Gangnam Style is back in the All Time list at #19. It is still not in the Most Liked list yet.

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      It’s nice to know! Updated the info.

      • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

        Update again: it’s #18 actually!

        • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

          It’s still #19 to me.

          • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

            But the actual view count is already higher by six million than that for Nicki Minaj – Super Bass, no? If so, it’s just the usual YouTube idiocy of updating the charts every few hours or once a day only, which happens at different times for the servers in different timezones.

          • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

            That’s true, but let’s see how Youtube updates their chart.

          • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

            #19 is correct. Since #18 is at around 301 mil. Nicki Minaj is at #20 right now. It probably won’t move up until this Friday, maybe to #17.

          • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

            Funny, then you have one more video shown which I don’t. Here is the top 19 for me, which is the extra video you see in the charts?
            1. Justin Bieber – Baby
            2. Jennifer Lopez – On The Floor
            3. Eminem – Love The Way You Lie
            4. Waka Waka
            5. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
            6. LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem
            7. Charlie bit my finger – again!
            8. Michel Teló – Ai Se Ei Te Pego
            9. Eminem – Not Afraid
            10. Pitbull – Rain Over Me
            11. Justin Bieber – Never Say Never
            12. Bruno Mars – The Lazy Song
            13. Adele – Rolling In The Deep
            14. Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know
            15. Katy Perry – Firework
            16. Miley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A.
            17. Justin Bieber – One Time
            18. PSY – GANGNAM STYLE
            19. Nicki Minaj – Superbass

          • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

            #9. Don Omar – Danza Kuduro ft. Lucenzo. 389,204,972 view.

          • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

            Ah. I see I can’t view it due to a regional restriction, but it’s stupid to exclude it from the charts for that reason…

          • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

            Just what is YouTube doing? Now Justin Bieber’s Baby, Jennifer Lopez, Eminem’s Love…, LMFAO disappeared from this list…

    • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

      It is now #17. At this rate, I think it will enter the top 10 by next week.

    • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

      Wow, lots of video got removed from All Time Most Viewed Video. The #1, #2, #3, is gone. Also LMFAO #6 is gone too. PSY now jumps to #13.

      • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

        Still not restored, nor those videos taken off the Most Commented and Top Favourited chart.

        Meanwhile, by accident, I found that something like this happened before – to Eminem’s videos:
        http://forum.trshady.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=100582

  • ConceptVBS

    This is such BS!

    FIX IT YOUTUBE!

  • super2012
    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Thank you for the info, it’s updated on the page.

  • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

    Did you notice that the other summer hit “Call Me Maybe” now no longer in the All Time list? I find it interesting that the video to beat in the ranking for this year has disappear since a few days ago. I was just wondering if they take that out just to explain later that sometimes video get removed since most people are comparing these 2 video the most.

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      You mean the Most Watched list. “Call Me Maybe” is still on the three other lists.

      • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

        Now it’s back.

  • Jezz

    Gangnam Style should also be in the most discussed chart. Currently with 1,349,965 comments it should be 7th.

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Yes, that’s true.

      • Soaring Soul

        AND Top Favorited AND Most Liked!

        • Jezz

          Where do you find the number of favourites on youtube?

          • Soaring Soul

            @Jezz there’s a little tiny box with vertical graph lines on the right hand side of the number of views. That shows the statistics if the uploader makes it public. that shows the favourites as well as who their main audiences are.

  • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller
    • http://twitter.com/tao_mandragora Tao

      Yay for Psy!

  • catchWind

    Please report this problem as a bug in the Youtube website! At the bottom of any Youtube web page there is a link called “Report a bug”. Everybody should report this as a bug, The more bug reports, the better chance they will address the issue quickly and respond..

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      I did; see downthread.

  • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

    The YouTube techies are working on something: the Favourites counter of all videos is displaying a zero for me (in the Top Favorited Chart, too). Hopefully, this is at last a sign of a coming solution…

  • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

    Confused, there are 2 identical Gangnam Style Music Video on Itunes Chart?
    http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/music-videos/

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      LOL! But there is a reason: one was released via YG Entertainment, the other via Schoolboy Records.

  • ryan

    is there any response from youtube? with a reason or comment about this? why did they do that? for sure is not a malfunction in their system.

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Although the video is back and the petition is now closed, I will send a thank you message to them, and see if I can get any info (hopefully). Will update it here. Just hope this won’t happen again.

  • ryan

    I suggest to contact a news reporter about this.. with psy’s huge popularity I’m sure there will be someone interested to ask youtube why they did that.. k-pop conspiracy? because it’s asian? racism ?wth..

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Already tried that (Korean News, U.S. News), but I don’t think the big guys were interested.

  • RyK

    It is back as number #1 !!!!!!!!!!

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      In Most Liked. Cool. Now Most Commented and Top Favorited remain to be fixed (in fact the Favorites counter of all YouTube videos remains to be fixed).

  • ryan

    KIIS FM’s Ryan Seacrest is a fan of psy’s, I think he would be interested about this.

  • ryan

    Ryk is right it’s back to number 1 most liked video !!!

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      That’s good news! I can’t see it updated yet though, will check it from time to time. Maybe it’s because Psy met Eric? The Google President a while ago? LOL.

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Yes, now I can see it is back!

  • http://twitter.com/SKDrama KPop

    i still want an explanation for what happened, does that make me weird, or bad, or crazy? :D ?

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Me too. These kind of issues can cause quite an impact on the videos. Youtube is practically an Internet TV now. I will update any info that I receive or I can find on this page.

      • http://twitter.com/SKDrama KPop

        to be honest i think we’ll never know :D anyway i’m happy that it’s back where it deserves to be :) . you did a very good job with the website,you’re a good admin, lol ^_^.

        • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

          Thank you! The site was just launched right out of the blue without any plans, so it was kinda messy :)

  • Soaring Soul

    I think we should keep the petition going until Gangnam Style is back on Most Commented and Top Favorited Charts as well.

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      That is a good idea. But looks like everything is coming back one by one, but if it doesn’t on these 2 charts, I will restart it. But if you think otherwise, let me know.

      • Soaring Soul

        Well the Video was taken off the charts exactly 1 week after it was charted #1. Exactly 1 week later, the video is back. So I suggest maybe we give it a week max for them to chart them again.

        • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

          The charts are updated at least once a day, so if it takes longer than that it is due to techie laziness or lameness… By the way, they still failed to repair Favorite counters.

        • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

          Still not in Most Commented and Top Favorited. In the mrantime however, Justin Bieber’s Baby disappeared from Most Commented, too, and Top Favorfited became a mess.

  • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

    Hmmm, I found out something interesting. Since some of the places has been talking about how the All Time list has something to do with VEVO. Psy is back to the list. Now every video in VEVO has a background of PSY advertising. Clicking on the link will to go the page in VEVO with the profile “Gangnam Style – Psy”. The video in there doesn’t play yet.

  • Soaring Soul

    I just saw a VEVO advertisement on other youtube videos promoting PSY. Is it just me, or do you find it weird how youtube is suddenly pro-psy after they put the video back up on the charts?

    • Soaring Soul

      I hope PSY doesn’t go VEVO!

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      I saw it yesterday, and already then something was not right: the VEVO advertisement doesn’t link to the video now watched by 300 million, but a version that has been “removed by the user”…

  • stevendan

    still not on comment chart.. but hopefully it will be back shortly

  • http://twitter.com/SKDrama KPop

    justin bieber’s “baby” disappeared from the most viewed chart ,wtf

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      humm… should we start a petition for this too? LOL

      • http://twitter.com/SKDrama KPop

        hahaha! a good one :D ^_^.

  • Lennon

    Did youtube freeze the number of Views this morning and stop at

    320,924,565? Meanwhile when you search this video on youtube by typing Gangnam Style It’s currently shown 324,094,780 at 2AM Eastern Time on September 30, 2012. Another conspiracy? http://image.ohozaa.com/i/c12/8Jg8ag.jpg

    • http://twitter.com/SKDrama KPop

      this happens often lol don’t worry about this stuff :P

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      What I found out is when you search “Gangnam Style”, the video’s view count is different from the actual video page. And it seems different depending on where you are too.

  • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

    Just thought the page was kinda dead, so added the Gangnam Style Music video here, LOL.

  • Soaring Soul

    Update!

    Gangnam Style is now back on all chart categories – most liked, most commented, top favorites, most viewed!!
    But now some other videos are gone… lol

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Thanks for the update! BTW, it made my day that Gangnam Style made to #1 on UK Singles Chart today!

      • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

        The Billboard Hot 100 doesn’t yet look good for #1 this week, however:
        http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/psy-watch-will-gangnam-style-reach-no-1-1007963302.story
        But if as they say it is getting more radio airplay, maybe next week.

        • Soaring Soul

          Yeah it’s a shame that Psy went back to Korea to keep his promises with various concerts. If he stayed in the States just one more week while Gangnam Style was still climbing up the charts and appeared on more TV and radio shows, he would have had high chance of being #1 Billboard hot 100 this week. Really hope he can top the chart sometime soon!

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      Yes, the four other videos are still gone, and the Favourites counters still display zero for all videos (even though evidently Gangnam Style is ranked higher than it would have with its pre-problems count of 790,038). YouTube must have some pretty overworked and/or incompetent and/or underpaid and/or lazy techies…

  • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

    New update. Since 4 of the top Most Viewed Videos is missing. Gangnam Style is now listed at #8. Actual is probably #12 at the moment.
    It’s back in the Top Favorited at #5.
    It’s back in the Most Discussed Videos at #3.
    And of course it’s still in the Most Liked at #1.

    • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

      Thank you for the update! Really appreciate it!

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      A fifth video ahead of Gangnam Style, Pitbull – Rain Over Me, disappeared from the Most Viewed Videos chart, too. (It’s now #6 for me, should be #7 for you with Don Omar – Danza Kuduro.) A sixth video disappeared behind Gangnam Style: Katy Perry – Firework. The same videos are missing in the Most Discussed Videos chart, too.

      There is a new weekly music chart out today, too, still led by Gangnam Style. However, even though PSY’s older hit RIGHT NOW must have collected over a million views over the past week too (half of it on the two weekend days after PSY tweeted it), it’s not on the list.

      • http://www.facebook.com/toan.hoang.900 Toan Hoang

        My list is now same as your with Gangnam at #6. Don Omar is mising now. Looks like they are moving everything out of the way to make up the difference for last week’s missing. :)

    • http://twitter.com/m4n8tpr8 m4n8tpr8

      I screen-grabbed a historic moment at Most Liked: 3,333,333 likes:

      • http://opencondomstar.com/ Marveller

        Wow! It’s jackpot! You should buy a lotto now, who knows?

  • Soaring Soul

    New Update: Not sure if anyone still hangs around here, but Gangnam style is off the YouTube 100 list…. It was #1 last week, but now it’s off the list completely. how can it completely drop off from top 100? Impossible!!!!

    • hood

      they’ll put it back lol don’t worry. if we learned something from this whole “whathappenedtogangnamstyle” thing, that’s precisely the fact that they’ll put it back eventually, lol.

      • Soaring Soul

        The difference with YouTube 100 and the other chart is that, with other charts, you can put the video back, and the placing changes. simple as that. But with YouTube100, it’s a permanent record for that week. If you browse past dates you can see how Adele songs and Carly Rae song has been on #1 spot on YouTube100 for many many weeks. But Gangnam Style lost that spot it deserves and it cannot be compensated. It could have broken a record on how many weeks it can stay as #1 on YouTube 100 in a row as one of the most viral videos on youtube. I just don’t understand why they keep doing this!

        • tsueG

          Why don’t you ask people to watch the video instead of just clicking and closing it?

  • vic

    Gangnam Style just became the most added to favorites video in youtube history. congratulations.

  • http://www.facebook.com/wood0771 Ryan Wood

    You suck Youtube!

  • shins

    Has any noticed that Gangnam Style Youtube view count has been stuck at 520m for 4+ days ?

    • vic

      it has happened 4 times in the last 2 months. don’t worry ,they’ll fix it like they always did . by the way it’s 530 not 520

  • Alkaizen

    The view count from Gangnam Style is frozen for like 4 days!!!
    We demand an explanation youtube!

    • vic

      overreact much? it’s been frozen for many videos, not just gangnam style, get your facts straight. calm down and wait for youtube to fix it

  • mak

    why do a view count stop on youtube?

  • Dan

    And now Gangnam style is less than 20 million views away from 1 billion views.

    • http://marveller.com/ Marveller

      Yes, Gangnam Style MV has gone so far! I didn’t expect that to happen at all.

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