(Credit: PSY/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Gangnam Style is neither ganglike, nor Vietnamese.
It's more of a Korean Macarena for those who think cocktails should be green and jackets should be white.
And yet it has become immensely popular. It seems only some understand that it is meant to be just a little satirical.
Indeed The Verge breathlessly tells me that PSY's Gangnam Style video has become the most liked video ever on YouTube. Yes, ever. Yes, the most liked.
Not only has this video enjoyed almost 243 million views at the time of writing, but it has been adorned with more than 2.2 million likes, according to Guinness World Records.
The previous champion, should it have slipped your cranium, was LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," which now must feel obliterated, as it only had 1.5 million likes.
I know this will cause dancing in so many of the world's streets. I know that tonight, even more people will spend their evening emulating these scintillating Gangnam Style moves in order to attract members of their target sex. (Or perhaps talent agents.)
However, it is surely worth pausing to consider who bothers to "like" things and what sort of people hang out on YouTube.
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