According to the news reports (and of course personal experience), YouTube was down on October 16, 2018, at 9:20 PM ET for exactly one hour or more! This service disruption not only affected the channels but YouTube music and YouTube Tv was also under the impact of this issue. And not only a specific region but the whole world faced this issue together, at the same time.
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.
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018
YouTube Down Mean YouTubers Doesn’t Have A Job, Right?
When we talk about YouTube many things come into our mind and first amongst them is the long queue of YouTubers who will be waiting on the login forum of this site wondering when their office will open.
Every impatient millennial YouTube star tonight. pic.twitter.com/vXg6u4SYWQ
— Jlifsonmoon.com (@DoYouEvenLif) October 17, 2018
In a very uncertain way that whether the office will open, or they are expelled, or their only video presenting platform is down forever! Mean YouTubers need to get another job, right?
https://twitter.com/emilioomedina/status/1052399155010785280
In this case, if they are calling at the police station then I guess it’s their right to report! Might be the owner has met an accident or this was a spam or something! So, some people did that too!
The Philly Police won the internet today. #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/DvMeQubUzR
— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) October 17, 2018
Till this official announcement, most of the users thought that calling 911 is the solution!
Were YouTubers Only Famous At YouTube?
Well, this is very obvious that if TV stars are only famous till the public has access to their Tv screens, Movie stars are only famous because the public has the access to cinemas then YouTube stars are also famous just because people have access to it When the Youtube went down, the stardom of these YouTubers also fell down with it.
https://twitter.com/DoYouEvenLIf/status/1052403228334333954
Every famous YouTube star wondering if their fame carries over to Twitter………#YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/EvtvfSuiEj
— Jlifsonmoon.com (@DoYouEvenLif) October 17, 2018
And Twitter is a complicated myth guys!
YouTube stars logging onto Twitter due to the crash. #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/PZ0nO1PpDZ
— Jlifsonmoon.com (@DoYouEvenLif) October 17, 2018
Getting A Proper Job Actually
So most of the people might actually be thinking that they need to do a real job now! Because this incident just gave them time to think about their actual career apart from making videos!
Imagine all the youtubers thinking “oh no, I have to get a real job” after seeing youtube down
#YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/KoN1obCUZv
— Abraham Cavazos (@cavazus) October 17, 2018
So what could be the possible reason for this incident?
Youtube has suffered this breakdown before when the censor board of Youtube allowed the trailer of anti-Islamic film and Pakistan made a protest which caused a global breakdown in the server of this site!
But now the outrage of its service is unknown, though Pat McAfee took the blame on his shoulders
I apologize to all of the YouTubers… I assume that my YouTube channel “The Pat McAfee Show” is probably the cause of #YouTubeDOWN. No clue how or why, but I will get to the bottom of this
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) October 17, 2018
But people also thought that Thor is the reason for it? Duh!
The best news headline i've ever read lol 🤣 #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/IHK1y0LCv4
— Limboo Nyx 👻🏳️🌈 (@Io_Kobato) October 17, 2018
After the Service Returned
Everyone had a sigh of relief ” especially the YouTubers” when the service came back after 90 mins.
We're back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know. https://t.co/NVU5GP7Sy6
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018
And some expressed this breakage as their personal loss!
I survived the great #YouTubeDOWN of 2018 pic.twitter.com/0pGKsXjYMS
— 🖤&💉💉👍🏻 (@GlueNotGlitter) October 17, 2018
for others, the return of this service was the return of their power, (not exactly)
When YouTube comes back online after #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/wemoQdRnEh
— Kaden (@KallixVA) October 17, 2018
Anyhow, people have never observed such long time breakage in the service of Youtube globally, but glad that public survived and came out of this “trauma” safely! What if Twiter rests for a few minutes someday, I wonder where people will go to express their thoughts, on the record?
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