Its enormous impact showed itself on charts and platforms alike. The track reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, became one of the most recognizable songs of its era, and in July 2020 its video passed 1 billion views on YouTube. Shinoda, though, does not seem especially emotional when he talks about that durability. In an interview with Forbes in 2020 he said he no longer feels a visceral emotional reaction to Hybrid Theory. For him, the song and the album now have their own ubiquitous identity, a public existence everywhere. And he commented, memorably, that when you have heard “In The End” in a Starbucks bathroom, it becomes hard to feel emotional about it in the same way anymore