YouTube? More like BoOOoTube. Jk, love you.
YouTube fans and foes, as most of you know by now, the world dominating platform shut down early this morning.
Users trying to access the site were greeted with a blank homepage and a 503 error message saying that there was a problem with the network.
YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music ceased to work for users in the U.S., Brazil, Japan, parts of Australia Southeast Asia and Western Europe.
The HORROR.
YouTube was aware of the issue and tweeted that they were doing what they could to fix the problem.
Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018
However suffice to say, people all over the world were having a complete meltdown.
twitter, netflix, youtube and my tv have all crashed within the same 24 hour period,,, coincidence? I THINK NOT pic.twitter.com/UOCKoL3jRA
— aneeka (@parkersperaIta) October 17, 2018
If Youtube is down then do any of us really exist?
— Jacksepticeye (@Jack_Septic_Eye) October 17, 2018
^ Cue the existential crisis.
But not to worry, the insomnia-inducing site was up and running after about an hour.
We're back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know. https://t.co/NVU5GP7Sy6
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018
YouTube has not said officially said anything on the actual reason for the error other than the fact that the site had gone down and then an update stating that it was functioning again.
#YouTubeDOWN Guys its back online pic.twitter.com/KkUysV5d1h
— Hassan Abid (@hassanabid125) October 17, 2018
And though everything is all back to normal and up to speed, lol, it was still pretty hilarious how bad everyone was freaking out. Thank god Twitter didn’t go out, otherwise, we wouldn’t have had all the tweets to prove the global meltdown:
The day has come for all of us to use dailymotion
— howling風 (@the_kazemeister) October 17, 2018
Every impatient millennial YouTube star tonight. pic.twitter.com/vXg6u4SYWQ
— Jes (@DoYouEvenLIf) October 17, 2018
^ @Sham Idrees.
this is all the youtubers realizing they needed to get a job when youtube was down #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/hxIluofKF4
— 𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖔 𝖒𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖆 (@emilioomedina) October 17, 2018
@ Sham Idrees. Again.
Every famous YouTube star wondering if their fame carries over to Twitter………#YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/EvtvfSuiEj
— Jes (@DoYouEvenLIf) October 17, 2018
^ GET A JOB SHAM.
The best news headline i've ever read lol 🤣 #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/IHK1y0LCv4
— Randomhowell 👏 (@Io_Kobato) October 17, 2018
Yes, our @YouTube is down, too. No, please don't call 911 – we can't fix it.
— Philadelphia Police (@PhillyPolice) October 17, 2018
^ Killed it.
For that brief period of time when YouTube was down, children around the world struggled to be entertained by human beings before returning back to the warm embrace of recommendation algorithms
— Krish Ashok (@krishashok) October 17, 2018
BREAKING NEWS:
BREAKING NEWS: Work productivity increases to 29.75% due to Youtube down.
Source: (basta dyan lang)
— Ad People Of Manila (@AdPeopleOfMNL) October 17, 2018
is youtube still down pic.twitter.com/9z95uj9vJm
— ✑𝘒𝘢𝘺 (@intrakiff) October 17, 2018
YouTube's down… Can it really be true? Am I finally… free?
— Markiplier (@markiplier) October 17, 2018
#YoutubeDown
The people who hacked Youtube watching all of us right now: pic.twitter.com/Hhk7xRRbKi— 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙑𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙮 (@VICKYSZN) October 17, 2018
I survived the great #YouTubeDOWN of 2018 pic.twitter.com/0pGKsXjYMS
— 🧘🏻♀️ Internal Commentary🥰 (@GlueNotGlitter) October 17, 2018
The only silver lining for us Pakistanis was that most of us were sound asleep when the site shut down. Not a bad time to be in this time zone, eh?
I was sleeping during #Youtubedown and it was like sleeping during the apocalypse pic.twitter.com/VR5TVL7acv
— boich¹²⁷| ⤴해찬♥ (@babyboihc) October 17, 2018
Did you even notice the shutdown? Were you sleeping your worries away? Let us know what you think of the freak out in the comments below! Love you.
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