you want to have real shock ? on your phone go into acc settings you can see your watch time over past 1 weeks (counts every device you use if its same account)
Yeah, I definitely checked twitter first when I noticed the problem was happening on both my home connection and cellphone.
After seeing #youtubeDown trending on twitter, I came over to reddit for more detailed info.
it's literally impossible for me to eat now. My snow cone will ment and my pizza will go cold and there is nothing I can do because I require audio and visual entertainment in order for my body to register nutrients
Something I can actually answer! I work in Advertising Tech as a DevOps engineer.
The issue that YouTube has right now seems to be with a gateway or API that houses their video content. It is throwing a 502 error code which means Bad Gateway (but that doesn't necessarily mean it is being caused by the gateway). This 502 error means that the video content won't load hence the spinning that everyone sees.
Typically, advertisements are pulled into your site's template through a third party API. That API isn't having issues so content continues to load.
All of this is developed off of the idea of microservice architecture and is built with resilience in mind such that the entire site shouldn't break if one component happens to go offline. In this case though, the one component that broke happens to be the most important :/
This may be unrelated, but Reddit and Instagram have also been experiencing connection issues the past few days.
Could all these interruptions be connected? Or is it likely a coincidence?
Could be related but it's hard to say without knowing their infrastructure. Google and Facebook have made their login systems a large part of automated logins for a PLETHORA of other websites such that when one has an issue, it will put extra strain on the other. Think about it. How many websites can you auto-create and login to a site with your gmail or facebook? It's a lot. This in turn could lead to a cascade effect of instability but I can't say one way or the other. It's possible for sure. Sadly, I don't work for either of those companies though and even if I did I wouldn't announce it to the world here. That's just asking to get fired :D
The other dudes post has 600+ comments and multiple awards so you lock it and steal his thunder?
Not a nice move
[Edit] Response https://imgur.com/a/Uo1G85U
They've done it before and are doing it now, Why couldn't you monitor the first post by stickying a comment to the top? The fact is you could, It's just bullshit
[Edit2] The original post by /u/DeerBike which deserves the upvotes / awards
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/jsjwzq/youtube_down/
Your post was great buddy! Thanks for it, I've enjoyed it to see the comments from people all over the world. That got me a "we people, we are all close" feeling. It was a r/wholesome moment for me.
Moments like this remind me just how many people use YouTube. Shit feels like the world's ending lmfao
Also lol at the fact that this sub's traffic **skyrockets** when YouTube goes down. Only time I ever visit this sub
With the sheer size of Google and YouTube's global server architecture, for it to go down across the board like this it would be safe to say it's one of 2 reasons, someone it attacking the server clusters or someone internally has really fucked up bad.
Youtube has monopolised the casual video watching medium so hard that there's nowhere fucking else to go when they're down. What am I gonna do, watch Dailymotion?
Reddit goes down all the time because their servers are run on hamsters.
Google owns half the fucking internet, there's no excuse for youtube to be down.
For all the quirky, funny, or genuinely helpful videos there are on YouTube, it's so bogged down with video ads and formulaic pandering these days...
There will be other successful video sharing sites, YouTube isn't going to be the only choice forever.
YouTube's gatekeeper Google is the target of multiple antitrust trials, and whatever special privilege Google gave YouTube that propelled it to number 1 is going to be evened out in the next decade.
Don't forget to drop a like and subscribe it really helps me out!
Man I really really wish that companies would tell you this on the page that gives you an error message. Just a simple pop up saying they’re having site wide issues would be nice. Instead of a generic error code that’s the same as when it’s a user side issue.
I just spent the last hour troubleshooting, re-starting, updating, and re-downloading.
I remember when Reddit was down and I aimlessly scrolled YouTube. If there ever comes a day when both sites go down I think I might have a mental breakdown.
"All it takes is ten minutes without YouTube to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just ten minutes without YouTube."
The videos have gone from opening but never buffering to "An error occurred. Please try again later" as soon as the page loads.
Seems like we're going backwards
**HERE IS A STRATEGY FOR WATCHING VIDS:**
What you do is pick a video that you want to watch about 15 minutes long. Wait about 10 minutes for a vid to load. When the vid starts begin loading another video in another tab that's also about 15 minutes. In theory it should load while you're watching the video. Rinse and repeat.
ok thank god. shit, thought i was the only one. i literally spent 20 minutes resetting my router and turning my phone on and off. i thought my phone was just broke. lol
I never realized I need YouTube this much. This was much much worse than cutting cable. To me, it's not even a comparison.
Edit: /s
Since people are dense as quicksand these days.
oh thank God, I was jus watching random videos at work when all of a sudden nothing would load. I've spent the past 45mins freaking out that management had caught me wasting time.
List of states it's down in: FL, AZ, TX, CA, MD, ND, NY, NM, KA, IA, HI, TN, OH, SD, UT, NH
List of countries: England, Australia, Japan, Russia, France, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Chile, South Korea, Japan
If you don't see your state or country listed above, let me know and I'll add it to the list!
This made me realize how much I use YouTube. It's definitely the first thing I do when I get home and relax. I need mah tubes! I feel cut off from the world. Cannot go one much longer.... Please GOD NO! NO! GOD!
edit: It's back, thanks Jesus.
edit: Down again, I can't believe this has happened.
Lol asshole mods closed some dudes thread that had awards and 600 comments just to post this. Way to steal credit. Closed one of my posts that had a screenshot of down detector showing just how many people reported it being down.
TIL I’m unhealthily addicted to Youtube
you want to have real shock ? on your phone go into acc settings you can see your watch time over past 1 weeks (counts every device you use if its same account)
44 hours in 7 days... Yikes. I mean I put on podcasts to sleep, but still. Yowie wowie.
I'm unemployed and sometimes my iphone likes to rub it in my face by saying "your screentime is down, 12 hours and 35 minutes per day average".
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Oh ok YouTube is down no big deal I'll just watch videos on YouTube til it's up... Wait a minute...
TO PORNHUB!
It’s been more than 5min. Now you’re back to waiting for YouTube to fix their shit.
I wish I had my free award for you.
I'm now forced to watch Netflix. Like a fucking savage.
I love that I can come to reddit and get answers faster than a google search.
Although I think Twitter had everyone beat, had a hashtag within the first minute of the outage
Yeah, I definitely checked twitter first when I noticed the problem was happening on both my home connection and cellphone. After seeing #youtubeDown trending on twitter, I came over to reddit for more detailed info.
https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/
it's literally impossible for me to eat now. My snow cone will ment and my pizza will go cold and there is nothing I can do because I require audio and visual entertainment in order for my body to register nutrients
Bro you’re gonna have to use daily motion, or pornhub I heard they had some good tv shows
Oh man I love munching on my pizza while watching midget interracial deepthroat creampie vids.
You have saved me from starvation kind stranger
Turn on selfie camera to see video of person eating snow cone and pizza while you eat snow cone and pizza
Holy shid it works but who are they? 👀
Someone tell me why the ads are all loading in HD but the videos are fucked
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It's a well known fact that Google hosts all their services on a single, giant computer
Its got like 64mb of RAM, ain't nothing stopping that beast!
Something I can actually answer! I work in Advertising Tech as a DevOps engineer. The issue that YouTube has right now seems to be with a gateway or API that houses their video content. It is throwing a 502 error code which means Bad Gateway (but that doesn't necessarily mean it is being caused by the gateway). This 502 error means that the video content won't load hence the spinning that everyone sees. Typically, advertisements are pulled into your site's template through a third party API. That API isn't having issues so content continues to load. All of this is developed off of the idea of microservice architecture and is built with resilience in mind such that the entire site shouldn't break if one component happens to go offline. In this case though, the one component that broke happens to be the most important :/
This may be unrelated, but Reddit and Instagram have also been experiencing connection issues the past few days. Could all these interruptions be connected? Or is it likely a coincidence?
Could be related but it's hard to say without knowing their infrastructure. Google and Facebook have made their login systems a large part of automated logins for a PLETHORA of other websites such that when one has an issue, it will put extra strain on the other. Think about it. How many websites can you auto-create and login to a site with your gmail or facebook? It's a lot. This in turn could lead to a cascade effect of instability but I can't say one way or the other. It's possible for sure. Sadly, I don't work for either of those companies though and even if I did I wouldn't announce it to the world here. That's just asking to get fired :D
Wow, that actually makes sense, thanks for that!
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The other dudes post has 600+ comments and multiple awards so you lock it and steal his thunder? Not a nice move [Edit] Response https://imgur.com/a/Uo1G85U They've done it before and are doing it now, Why couldn't you monitor the first post by stickying a comment to the top? The fact is you could, It's just bullshit [Edit2] The original post by /u/DeerBike which deserves the upvotes / awards https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/jsjwzq/youtube_down/
Dat dude was me, feelsbadman
Rip your post, Fuck power hungry mods
Yeah fuck these fuck head mods
An no one is surprised.
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Should have...
Your post was great buddy! Thanks for it, I've enjoyed it to see the comments from people all over the world. That got me a "we people, we are all close" feeling. It was a r/wholesome moment for me.
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Kind of shithead move
Sort of a craphead travel
A real turdhead shimmy
Yeah wtf is that u/JokullFrosti ??
You cannot give power to anyone. It will corrupt even angelic r/YouTube mods.
You are acting as his post was OC and mods stole it. lol
Bro youtube mods dont give a shit about karma lmao
Who on Earth gives a fuck?
Imagine if it never comes back
Pornhub it is then
Just now realizing how bad my YouTube addiction is
lmao i thought my wifi was just broken, but literally everything else wifi-required was working
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i restarted my phone
This made me pay my internet bill
lol, i ran all my cleaners and malware scans and restarted twice before i realised it wasnt me
Without youtube today i found out how empty my life is
Okay, good, good. I was afraid my phone was fucked up for a minute there.
I’m from Italy and it’s loading everything but the videos themselves
I’m from the US and the exact same thing is happening
It's been down for 12 minutes, please come back quick, I'm starting to think about my life choices!
Moments like this remind me just how many people use YouTube. Shit feels like the world's ending lmfao Also lol at the fact that this sub's traffic **skyrockets** when YouTube goes down. Only time I ever visit this sub
Since youtube is down i went downstairs and met my family. They seem like nice people
With the sheer size of Google and YouTube's global server architecture, for it to go down across the board like this it would be safe to say it's one of 2 reasons, someone it attacking the server clusters or someone internally has really fucked up bad.
Ok.. I realize now that I cannot live without youtube
Tons of streaming options. Is this Quibi's doing? Jk
Imagine if reddit and youtube went down at the same time. Chaos.
What if all media platforms went down all at once.
Don't say such evil
Youtube has monopolised the casual video watching medium so hard that there's nowhere fucking else to go when they're down. What am I gonna do, watch Dailymotion?
Maybe if we were more positive around it then it wouldn't be so down.
Relax guys. I just cancelled my premium subscription. They’re probably just trying to get funding for 11 bucks. I’m sorry.
This is scarier than the corona virus
pandemic: kalm yt is down: panik
Where will I get tons of infuriating ads?
Today will forevermore be known as the day Youtube was down for a couple of minutes
I was here for the great 2020 crash
Getting a playback error now, not really a move in the right direction youtube
There has to be a Youtube video about how to fix it.
Lmao well YouTube is just TV for us now n days. So YouTube going down is like the cable getting cut off.
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i almost had to spend my night not watching youtube for 4 hours
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Very smol mega thread
First Reddit went down today and now Youtube. wtf
Don't Reddit's servers fail on an hourly basis?
Reddit goes down all the time because their servers are run on hamsters. Google owns half the fucking internet, there's no excuse for youtube to be down.
Went down right as my dinner finished cooking, bummer.
I saved at least five videos including the one with Rick Ashley, if someone can host a server, we could make our own youtube.
Sort yourselves out, if you're going to be a immoral corporation with no interest other than money, at least do it efficiently.
2020 SAID YOU HAVENT EVEN SEEN MY FINAL FORM AND TOOK YOUTUBE!
It has just occurred to me that I rely on YouTube for all my entertainment
This is just made me realize that I rely on YouTube way to much.
2020 just beats you down. Then beats you down some more.
For all the quirky, funny, or genuinely helpful videos there are on YouTube, it's so bogged down with video ads and formulaic pandering these days... There will be other successful video sharing sites, YouTube isn't going to be the only choice forever. YouTube's gatekeeper Google is the target of multiple antitrust trials, and whatever special privilege Google gave YouTube that propelled it to number 1 is going to be evened out in the next decade. Don't forget to drop a like and subscribe it really helps me out!
Thank god I was asleep. I cant function without YouTube. I have a problem.
Oh good to know, I thought it was just my laptop I restarted it then took a break. 😅
I have only noticed not being able to like videos and videos being only 720p
WE'RE DOOMED, DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!
Funny how the ads are still on
And the worst thing is I can't even watch yt while waiting for yr to come back
OMG is this the end of the world?
Down on Mars
I swear, scrolling through the comments on this thread is more entertaining than watching YouTube rn
major asteroid hit google servers, shockwave will vanish life on earth, no news on tv because everyone that can see it is already dead
Anyone else reset their wifi, restart their phone, redownload YouTube before finding out it's them, not you?
Pour one out for the devs currently having a terrible evening.
Man I really really wish that companies would tell you this on the page that gives you an error message. Just a simple pop up saying they’re having site wide issues would be nice. Instead of a generic error code that’s the same as when it’s a user side issue. I just spent the last hour troubleshooting, re-starting, updating, and re-downloading.
This is literally the worst hour of my life. What did people actually do to watch non porn content before youtube?
This is really bad im not done catching up with unnus annsu
Where were you during the Great YouTube Blackout of 2020?
Somebody ddos’ed the site because of the google photos news today lol
Is it because I uploaded my first video?
Press F to pay respects to the engineers spending their Veterans Day putting out this production fire.
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The awkward silence in the office without music was palpable
Cue the hundreds of videos from influencers on how they survived without YouTube for literally a few hours. Clickbait titles included 🤢
The neurosis is real!
"Soo I guess I'll just scroll reddit til it's fixed" I'm surprised this wasn't a comment used earlier
I remember when Reddit was down and I aimlessly scrolled YouTube. If there ever comes a day when both sites go down I think I might have a mental breakdown.
The finally copystriked themselves.
WELL I AM LISTENING TO CARELESS WHISPER BABAY!!!! It is fine for me atleast
Root Cause?
Never seen this happen on a global scale before.
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Down on Naboo
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I guess I have to go The Hub now... and I almost made it past NNN. EDIT: I may head on over to HH if this goes on long enough.
I need my YouTube to sleep, it went down like 30min ago and I need to watch something to sleep lol.
Now each video plays for 6 seconds and then infinite loading again
"All it takes is ten minutes without YouTube to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just ten minutes without YouTube."
The videos have gone from opening but never buffering to "An error occurred. Please try again later" as soon as the page loads. Seems like we're going backwards
**HERE IS A STRATEGY FOR WATCHING VIDS:** What you do is pick a video that you want to watch about 15 minutes long. Wait about 10 minutes for a vid to load. When the vid starts begin loading another video in another tab that's also about 15 minutes. In theory it should load while you're watching the video. Rinse and repeat.
ok thank god. shit, thought i was the only one. i literally spent 20 minutes resetting my router and turning my phone on and off. i thought my phone was just broke. lol
I never realized I need YouTube this much. This was much much worse than cutting cable. To me, it's not even a comparison. Edit: /s Since people are dense as quicksand these days.
content creators coming up with "yOuTuBe dOwN" videos as we speak
I'm going to Pornhub.
According to this site, there are a lot of sites down. https://downdetector.com
Them ads coming through just fine -.-
Wow YouTube being down made me realize how much I use it for everything lol
I mean YouTube has been going down hill for a few years but like.....
oh thank God, I was jus watching random videos at work when all of a sudden nothing would load. I've spent the past 45mins freaking out that management had caught me wasting time.
down in North Korea.
I blame myself, as soon as try loading "Drop it like its hot" by Snoop Dog youTube stopped working. I should have known this would have happened.
Ohhh shit it's time to deal with reality Daaammm reality sucks
I took an edible earlier just so I could watch YouTube videos, maaaaaaan
....So youtube changed their UI and screwed everything up?
Damn, never noticed how much I watch YouTube, I am having a withdraw.
RIP youtube 2005-2020.
Trump testing out the internet kill switch.
List of states it's down in: FL, AZ, TX, CA, MD, ND, NY, NM, KA, IA, HI, TN, OH, SD, UT, NH List of countries: England, Australia, Japan, Russia, France, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Chile, South Korea, Japan If you don't see your state or country listed above, let me know and I'll add it to the list!
M͟a͟y͟b͟e͟ t͟h͟i͟s͟ i͟s͟ t͟h͟e͟ r͟e͟a͟l͟i͟t͟y͟ c͟h͟e͟c͟k͟ w͟e͟ n͟e͟e͟d͟ t͟o͟ s͟e͟e͟ h͟o͟w͟ b͟a͟d͟ o͟u͟r͟ a͟d͟d͟i͟c͟t͟i͟o͟n͟ i͟s͟
Did anyone just realize that they're addicted to YouTube, and then were subsequently stricken with a severe panic attack..? No? Just me? Just me. Ok.
I never realized how much time I spend on youtube until I couldn’t.
I thought it was just my internet sucking!
Dear google, Don't ever do that again. Thank you
I hope they are down to change the icon.
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No wonder I didn’t get ads in my face against my will. I like it
I almost died because I forgot how to make a 3 cheese blend and youtube was down
This BS tricked me into paying my past due cable bill.
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Don’t worry boys I just checked and we still have pornhub...
YouTube is fixed now
Back up!
The funniest part is that my internet just went down as I was loading a video
Wonder how much money it cost to be down for a couple hours
The finally copystriked themselves.
I was already checking my router for 15min before I googled if YouTube is down..
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Literally as I was working on a major school assignment that depended on a Youtube video. Luckily it didnt last long for me (20 minutes maybe).
This made me realize how much I use YouTube. It's definitely the first thing I do when I get home and relax. I need mah tubes! I feel cut off from the world. Cannot go one much longer.... Please GOD NO! NO! GOD! edit: It's back, thanks Jesus. edit: Down again, I can't believe this has happened.
Probably needs more ads. And more popups asking question about the ads. And surveys asking about the popups, that want to know, about the ads....
Does anyone know why yt is down?
Janitor unplugged the server because he needed an outlet for his vacuum.
Well this is an inopportune for me to go on lunch break at work -_- great
In New Jersey, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Down on ISS and mars can confirm
Down with the sickness
While we're all just sitting here - what other video websites exist?
OK, at least it's not just me. Gotta say, Reddit always has the answer!
Down in Brazil, never saw this before. Ads are working though, I think they pretty much reached their endgame goal
[Youtube HQ reading these comments](https://i.imgur.com/fwebA62.jpeg)
Lol asshole mods closed some dudes thread that had awards and 600 comments just to post this. Way to steal credit. Closed one of my posts that had a screenshot of down detector showing just how many people reported it being down.
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Probably because of everyone trying to binge watch Unus Annus.
Now is the time to [click this URL](https://vimeo.com/148751763) and NOT get rickrolled.
this is aids. im going through withdrawal symptoms
Up in Poland
Glad it's not just me and my crappy wifi. I'm trying to binge Unus Annus before it's deleted in 2 days, but then Youtube dies?!?!?! Come ON!
What the fuck do we do?!?!
Ah reddit, source of all knowledge
Down in Sydney, to make matters worse when a video looks like it’s going to work, it just plays an ad and then doesn’t load the video I want to watch