5.5 billions views according to Youtube itself [1]. So it's way over the Gangnam Style (3.2B) and See you again (3.8B). Impressive, it's way more popular than I even thought possible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk

A fairly impressive achievement on Youtube's part. They must be dynamically remirroring popular videos, otherwise disk io would fall behind load.

That's quite the achievement.

They also reached this amount of views faster than the others nearing 3B views.

As a 'fun' side-note, it was actually banned in Malaysia: https://money.cnn.com/2017/07/20/media/malaysia-ban-despacit...

Reading the comments on that site: don't they have even the most basic spam filtering/moderation in place?

The article is from 2017. Views seem to be at ~5.5B now.