Instead of clicking through to the content they need, users have been seeing YouTube Internal 500 Error messages instead. It appeared as a line of code and a purple monkey holding a hammer. As usual, the frustrated YouTube users turned to social media sites with a stream of comments asking why YouTube wasn’t working worldwide. Famous YouTube stars turned to Twitter, in an obviously scared mode. Losing fame is that scary, right? They mostly used the hashtag #YouTubeDown. The hour-long outage affected YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube music. However, the YouTube support team took to their Twitter to restore a bit of faith in the service users that they were fixing the issue.
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018 Twitter community threw jabs to the YouTuber who relied on the service instead of getting ‘real’ jobs.
Twitter was on fire after YouTube went down
The Police in Philly made a hilarious tweet about the incident. Below is the Philly Police tweet that has been making rounds across Twitter after YouTube went down.
YouTube support team later tweeted that the service was back. However, they did not provide any further information on what caused this morning’s outage.
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018