#YouTubeDown: Users share memes on Twitter as platform suffers outage

YouTube went down for a couple of hours overnight thanks to an outage, meaning that users around the world couldn’t watch videos.

According to monitoring site DownDetector, the issues appeared most acute in the northeast US, the UK and western Europe, as well as in Mexico, Australia and South America.

If you’re having trouble watching videos on YouTube right now, you’re not alone – our team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. We’ll follow up here with any updates.
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020

But, as you can imagine, the Internet didn’t just sit around waiting for the platform to return – instead users made the best use of their new free time: by sharing memes to capture the moment. Under the trending hashtag #YouTubeDown, many took to Twitter to share their thoughts:

One Twitter user used a screenshot from the popular game Among Us to call an emergency meeting:

**YOUTUBE goes down**
😅Everyone comes to Twitter be like:#YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/nSR2Gkj991
— Jay 🇮🇳 (@_Jayy_02) November 12, 2020

Many users assumed their routers were to blame at first, not YouTube:

how do I apologize to my router for hitting it #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/A0ImQqU7LS
— im bitches (@heaventypagirl) November 12, 2020

youtube is back up everyone go hug your routers and say sorry for restarting and blaming them so much, you wont survive without them #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/dQrGQ2Lfvi
— Dark Eren (@HORAS47829848) November 12, 2020

Me after restarting my router 100 times just to find out that YouTube is down #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/4ycvgycIte
— Jose (@JZepeda_13) November 12, 2020

Others blamed their apps:

Me realizing YouTube is down after restating my WiFi 50 times and uninstalling the app 6 times #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/KLnzINpQ9h
— Seán (@seanuploaded) November 12, 2020

Me deleting and reinstalling YouTube 5 times jus to find out it’s down #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/o2EOJgdoNW
— Aesthetic words🖌️ (@medico_writes) November 12, 2020

Or chalked it down as a Wi-Fi issue:

MY wifi router after i banged it 12 times #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/ZDLyDg0cKf
— Serena Fossi (@SerenaFossi1) November 12, 2020

When everyone realizes it wasn’t your WiFi #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/KlAbAU9sqA
— \/inny 🅱️uffone (27-46) (@Veno202) November 12, 2020

Me calling my internet operator at 3AM 😂 and then came to knew about#YouTubeDOWN

My Internet operator 👇 pic.twitter.com/8Bnwq6ViLt
— L̶̦̝͙̰̥̹͒̎̄͒̒͜𝖊𝖑𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍 𝕷𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖊 (@LelouchL11) November 12, 2020

However, the problem was eventually resolved by YouTube, allowing for users to return to their videos. Perhaps, quite fittingly, as__kwadwo shared the most meta-meme of the night: