YouTube Is Experiencing A Global Outage & Folks Are Losing Their Minds

According to a number of reports, video streaming giant, YouTube, is down around the world. As is often the case in times like these, folks have flooded Twitter with panic and memes.

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According to outages website, downdetector.com, a running graph of user reports has indeed spiked, suggesting the service is having some pretty wild issues. And if you’re fluent in heatmap, you’ll see that the below translates roughly to, “it’s fucked”.

At the time of writing, going to the site presents the normal search bar at the top of the window, but a blank screen below it which would usually be populated with my personalised feed. I was still able to search for videos and see results, but attempting to play anything was met with the message, “An error occurred, please try again later”.

It’s unclear what the issue is exactly, but reports of the service returning to normal appear to be slowly trickling in. On my end, it’s still well and truly buggered. The team has announced that they’re aware of the issue and are currently working to resolve it.

So while we wait for Google to sort its shit out, let’s look at some funny tweets.

https://twitter.com/pinkalosh_/status/1052375822554812416

https://twitter.com/JesusxPM/status/1052375849968660480

https://twitter.com/kabangeh/status/1052376380904808448

Don’t worry, folks, I’m sure your precious YouTube vlogs will be back up in no time. We’ll all get through this. Together.


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