Polar bear facepalms upon hearing the news.
You guessed it, nothing big happened today.
AllThingsDigital reports that Justin Bieber’s “Baby” music video (248 million views at the time of this posting) just surpassed Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” (246 million views) as the most watched YouTube video of all time.
I am proud to say that I’ve never heard anything sung by Bieber, but apparently the chorus to “Baby” is absolutely incredible, having the word “baby” repeated around 18 times. I am genuinely surprised he didn’t forget the lyrics while recording it, as he sounds dumber than a fat marmot in his interviews.
If you believe Bieber doesn’t deserve the top spot, here’s what you can do.
Click this link and leave the browser running (you might want to put YouTube videos on mute though). It will keep reloading the Gaga video every 5 seconds, with each reload counting as an extra view. My horrible math says that over an hour, it adds 720 extra views. If you want to do it faster just download/use the Opera browser (pretty cool browser by the way) and use the reload every 1 second function (right click – reload every…).
And if you really REALLY dislike Bieber’s music, you can run multiple tabs of the page reloading the Gaga video, as well as running the Opera 1 second reload function in multiple tabs. That could make your internet connection and system slower for the duration of the reloads, though. It can, however, add tens of thousands of views every hour.
