YouTube shocked the internet world yesterday evening (Pacific time) when it faced a worldwide outage issue. The disruption lasted well for over half an hour (although it felt like a lifetime) for users worldwide. Users were unable to log in, upload or watch any of the videos as it showed a message saying “500 Internal Server Error: a team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation”.
Although the cause of the outage isn’t clear yet, the YT team was well aware of the issue and took Twitter to update users on the issue:
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
Last time YouTube experienced a service outage was back in July during the World Cup game between Croatia and England and once in May when YT TV faced a similar disruption during the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
Once yesterday’s issue got resolved, YouTube notified the users about the same on Twitter:
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
While YT was down, users all around the world found themselves stuck with a question “what should I do with my life now?”. Twitter was just the perfect platform for passing time with everyone stepped up their meme game, venting their frustration over the outage.
Here are some of the best tweets by users expressing their feelings about their temporary exile from YouTube:
The best news headline i've ever read lol 🤣 #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/IHK1y0LCv4
— Randomhowell 👏 (@Io_Kobato) October 17, 2018
youtube goes down for 30 minutes
the entire world: pic.twitter.com/Xl8aKNOsmy— hanna mohammed (@mxhmdhanna) October 17, 2018
YouTube has been down for almost an hour… Anyone taking job applications? 💀
— Lewis Hilsenteger (@UnboxTherapy) October 17, 2018
When Youtube goes down and you have no way to escape life problems #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/GxRW0o126X
— Spotticus (@_Spotteh_) October 17, 2018
If Youtube is down then do any of us really exist?
— Jacksepticeye (@Jack_Septic_Eye) 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
I was sleeping during #Youtubedown and it was like sleeping during the apocalypse pic.twitter.com/VR5TVL7acv
— boich| minnie day💜 (@babyboihc) October 17, 2018
But, the meme game didn’t stop just there. Memes continued to roll out even after YT was up and running. We’re guessing it was people’s way of recuperating from the exile.
ITS WORKING 😨😨😨😨 MY SOUL IS BACK pic.twitter.com/zy4tPsLS4w
— Fresh Bread, (@itz_lunaaaa) October 17, 2018
me when my youtube finally loaded pic.twitter.com/imXeCAUrYp
— STAN (@heykittygorl) October 17, 2018
Guys, guys. It's ok, YouTube is working again. pic.twitter.com/5AsSPMxp8r
— Andrea Lugo (@dreeealugo) October 17, 2018
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