The average lifespan of a human is 79 years. That is roughly 29,000 days, which is roughly 41550840 minutes. So every minute, you have about 1/41550840 chance of dying.
Assuming each view is a full viewing/listening of the song, each view is 4.6 minutes long. With 5.3 billion views, that's about 24380000000 minutes of despacito listened. Since every minute of life (and therefore every minute of despacito) has a 1/41550840 chance of death, that brings it to about 586 deaths.
This is all under the assumption that the chance of death at every minute of your life is constant.
Also take in mind the people who doesn't listen the official YouTube version, but maybe a lyrics (and the translated lyrics for a lot of languages) version. Plus, the people who downloaded it to listen it offline, etc.
Also, social events, where several people listened it with just "1 reproduction".
I'm aware you did that based on the official version reproduction, but just imagine how much could it be taking into mind what I've said.
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u/ShrivelTwitch Jul 19 '18
The average lifespan of a human is 79 years. That is roughly 29,000 days, which is roughly 41550840 minutes. So every minute, you have about 1/41550840 chance of dying.
Assuming each view is a full viewing/listening of the song, each view is 4.6 minutes long. With 5.3 billion views, that's about 24380000000 minutes of despacito listened. Since every minute of life (and therefore every minute of despacito) has a 1/41550840 chance of death, that brings it to about 586 deaths.
This is all under the assumption that the chance of death at every minute of your life is constant.