Daily Lessons from Life 18 September 2012 - "Gangnam Style" tops 200 million YouTube views

""Gangnam Style" tops 200 million YouTube views - AFP 18 September 2012

SEOUL: South Korean pop sensation Park Jae-Sang posted another landmark Tuesday, when the video of his global-hit "Gangnam Style" notched 200 million views on YouTube, days after topping the US iTunes chart.

"Got 200 million views!!! Thx everybody!!!" Park, better known by his stage name "Psy", wrote on his Twitter account psy-oppa.

The video, featuring Psy performing his signature "horse riding dance", went viral shortly after being posted on the video-sharing site in mid-July, turning the chubby, 34-year-old singer into an international star.

Recent appearances at the MTV awards in Los Angeles and on numerous prime-time US talk shows have boosted his profile even higher, pushing "Gangnam Style" to the top of the US iTunes Chart on Saturday.

Psy has also signed a contract with Justin Bieber's management agency, although he has some way to go to topple Bieber from the top of YouTube's all-time, most-viewed chart.

The teenage heart-throb's "Baby" video is currently closing in on 800 million views."

In this age of social media and internet, what does this REALLY mean? 200m views.

Lessons for me are:

1. a single view by a single person multiply by 200m people clicking on the mouse and in front of a computer or mobile devices is NO big deal seriously. It is just a click.

2. does it mean ALL or the majority of the 200m people share Gangnam Style music and dancing or lifestyle? NO. It is superfluous. Though for the modern marketers, it is big deal. Or at least big fuzz to make a big deal of this 'phenomenon';

3. for serious messages like Nation Building, World Crisis, War and Peace and Religious Harmony, can such millions and millions of click help resolve? What if there is a 200m view of the 'Innocense of Muslims' and 180m commented that 'it is NOT worth KILLING others because the movie/clip wre SO badly filmed and we DO NOT believe the message in it!', would it have STOP the terrorists who hijacked the SILENT MAJORITY of the Muslims from using it to wipe up hatreds? Would it INSPIRE and galvanise the SILENT MAJORITY of the Muslims to VOICE their moderate stance and shut down the extreme minority who are using violence to spread/defend Islam?

If use in this manner, MAYBE, just maybe, this 'YouTube view' will be helpful!!