It’s not every day that one of the top visited websites in the world seems to go down for most everyone, but when it does, it’s kind of incredible. In this case, as I type these words it’s 8:30 in the evening central time and YouTube has decided to go down. Well, not completely, you can go to YouTube, but it’s simply nonfunctional, as my tweet below will show.
Good old #YouTube totally fucking up for everyone. :3#GoogleFail #YouTubeFail pic.twitter.com/4TGUBPVDGs
— 민일성 (@Kurisu_Yamato) October 17, 2018
My first hint at there being an issue was a small moment of buffering that happened in a video I was watching, which coincided with a tweet by Dave of EEVBlog mentioning that YouTube was down for him in Australia.
Anyone else getting serious playback issues on @YouTube ?
Videos just aren't loading— Dave Jones (@eevblog) October 17, 2018
I figured it was just a local thing. Just a few minutes later, bam, it was out for me and seemingly everyone else, at least from what I could see on Twitter – more than enough people across the globe commenting on it tells me it’s damn near everyone.
Ya know, you would really think Google could keep this stuff under control. They have done such a good job before, right? No, not really, but this is the biggest outage pretty much ever for the service. Quite interesting to see, and even more interesting to know what will come of it – is this just an issue with a critical datacenter? A major server gateway failing?
BREAKING YouTube down 'worldwide' as furious users left unable to access video sharing website https://t.co/Mj0ZHohHxd pic.twitter.com/kxXilYQ2aq
— Mirror Breaking News (@MirrorBreaking_) October 17, 2018
Or is it something more? I’m not one to speculate but I’d be interested in knowing what the issue is.
Anyway, enjoy some of the reactions I’ve seen as this happened, and following that, since YouTube is down, maybe you should check out some of my other articles? 😉
>wants to post a youtube video that is just the sound of a massive shart
>youtube
>mfw#GoogleFail #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/0RKbeYYf5C— PrinceWatercress (@PrinceWatercres) October 17, 2018
I’m editing a new video but I guess I could just put it on xvideos or something.
— Chris Ray Gun (@ChrisRGun) October 17, 2018
#YouTube pic.twitter.com/VRsmcOZOiO
— Think Atheist 🌐 (@ThinkAtheist) October 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/ScammerRevolts/status/1052370160743411712
Wow, it’s down for most everyone around the world right now. How does such a heavily distributed service go completely offline? This is boggling, hopefully Google comments on it soon. Kinda depend on that site for, well, paying the bills 😉
— Barnacules Nerdgasm (@Barnacules) October 17, 2018
AAAAANd YouTube is fucked. lololol
— 민일성 (@Kurisu_Yamato) October 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/TaylorWright19/status/1052373898929561600
https://twitter.com/mdwiii11/status/1052372692723208192
Take a break and #YouTube is down. pic.twitter.com/83cIcCzaLv
— Steven Davis (@DevenStavis) October 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/ChasingNews/status/1052373901005742080
Come on monkeys! Do your job! #YouTube OMG poor monkeys. 😞 pic.twitter.com/C64tM1npWN
— Alejandro (@alejandroinPR) October 17, 2018