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Dear Internet,

A couple of weeks ago, we told you that you could stop making Gangnam Style parodies, because the Deadpool one was so clearly brilliant. You ignored our advice, Internet, and it turns out, you were right to do so. We regret the error. If you had followed our advice, the K-pop hit of the minute may never have been translated (oh, very roughly) into Klingon and given a Star Trek parody, and the world we live in would be a poorer one for that. Now, Klingon Gangnam Style is a thing, and one that brings us great joy. Forgive us for our hubris, Internet, and thank you for making our lives better with this. That is all.

How do you measure a video's popularity on YouTube? Conventional wisdom says; "look at the number of views", but just because a video has a huge number of hits means that everybody enjoyed what they saw: It's implied, but not clearly stated. That's why the internet has "like" buttons. After all, "liking" something, whether you do it on YouTube or Facebook or Google+, acts as an endorsement what you saw. The barometer for judging the king of random internet videos will likely be a hard-fought internet for years to come, but in the meantime a new contender has earned a solid claim to the throne. The Guiness Book of World Records named everyone's favorite K-Pop hit, PSY's Gangnam Style, the most "liked" video in the history of YouTube.