Luis Fonsi’s record-breaking video for “Despacito” might have suffered a major setback after it appeared to have been deleted from YouTube in an apparent hack.
The tune released in January 2017 has now been the first video on YouTube to reach a whopping 5billion views.
The track already has six Guinness World Records, and now it has a seventh thanks to those who can’t get enough of the absolute earworm that is Despacito.
It’s beaten the likes of Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s See You Again, which sits at 3.4 billion views.
Just five days after it was announced that the video, which also features Daddy Yankee, had reached the remarkable milestone of becoming the first YouTube video in history to reach 5 billion views, it disappeared.
Fan worldwide who tried to access the video where greeted by this message in the above screenshot.
More than a dozen other artists, including Shakira, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift and Drake, have also been affected. The original clips had been posted by Vevo.
The hackers, calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi’sh, wrote “Free Palestine” beneath the videos.
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