On Tuesday October 16th at around 9:45 pm eastern time, Youtube crashed for more than
an hour.
Youtube wasn’t just down for some people, it was a global problem that definitely didn’t
go unnoticed.
People took to twitter to complain about the shutdown, and the complaints were actually
what alerted the people at youtube that something was wrong.
So what the hell happened to youtube?
I’ll tell you what we know.
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Youtube appeared to be online and working properly this morning, but that definitely
wasn’t the case last night.
This website wasn’t working for more than an hour on Tuesday October 16th.
Youtube is the second most visited sight in the world as of august 2018.
More than one billion hours of content is watched every single day, and 400 hours of
videos are uploaded every hour.
In its 13 year history, youtube hasn’t really experienced many shutdowns, and this one was
definitely the most severe.
I mean, It wasn’t working for an entire 90 minutes, that’s pretty substantial.
The shut down caused global outrage on social media, and People are calling it the great
youtube shutdown of 2018.
You had one job google, one job!
If you were on youtube last night, you were probably were met with some pretty confusing
messages.
If you clicked on a youtube video, you got a message that said ‘an error occurred,
please try again later, or a message that said sorry, that video does not exist, sorry
about that.
If you were watching youtube on a desktop, the homepage was not working properly.
Some parts of it were visible but then there was all of this incomprehensible text.
Youtubes only explanation was that their engineers were working on the issue.
This was an issue being experienced on Youtube, Youtube TV and youtube music.
People who were trying to watch the opening night of the nba couldn’t because youtube
tv wasn’t working.
Understandably, they were pretty upset.
Oh and to make matters worse, youtube’s call center was closed, so the only way they
were able to find out about the problem was through the slough of tweets people were posting.
An hour after the site shut down, youtube tweeted that they were aware of the issue.
They said.
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 apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.
At this time, google hasn’t commented on the outage or given any explanation as to
what happened.
Which seems pretty weird.
Maybe they are trying to hide what really happened until they know more.
Because youtube hasn’t offered any explanation, conspiracy theories about the reason for the
shutdown are starting to pop up all over the place.
One youtuber has a pretty interesting explanation.
Marfoogle news is a channel with 46 thousand subscribers.
According to Marf, he was receiving emails during the outage and that said he was getting
personal emails related to a military op.
Someone said in these emails that there was a video of someone in uniform saying that
the moon was going to get hit, or the moon was in danger or something like that.
The video started going viral and was trending, hit hundreds of thousands of views and was
on the main page.
And then, the shut down happened.
I mean listen, I don’t know if this video was the reason why youtube shut down.
But what if the government caught wind of something compromising, or leaked information
with regards to this video.
I mean, if it was a matter of national security then they probably would have to take action
to remove the video.
Then again, would youtube have to shut down the entire website, just to remove one video?
And why would it have anything to do with the moon?
I mean, I just checked, the moon is still there.
But, there were some videos going viral on youtube about an asteroid hitting the moon.
I actually remember watching one of the videos because I was thinking about doing a story
on it for this channel, but then I decided not to.
But if you do watch this channel, you know that 3 asteroids recently whizzed by earth.
But as far as I can tell, no asteroid recently hit the moon, and why would the government
want to hide that anyway?
Another explanation is that someone might have actually hacked youtube.
I mean, how is it possible that this was a global problem, across the board, for youtube,
youtube tv and youtube music?
And actually, a hacker group has claimed responsibility for the hack.
Ghost Squad Hackers posted on twitter, youtube downed by ghost squad hackers.
Ghost squad has actually already hacked CNN, ISIS and the afghani and Israeli governments,
But ghost squad didn’t provide any explanation or proof that they actually hacked youtube.
Anyways guys, we will keep you updated on this story if more info comes to light but
for now its time to do some comment replies.
Sean Pitt – I feel like sometimes they make up things.
Who, US?
Never.
We might clickbait you but we don’t make up things.
Galaxy – theres 3 asteroids heading straight for earth, follow me on instagram, smh.
Yeah sounds about right?
You think I would miss a chance to plug my isntagram JUST because 3 asteroids were heading
for earth?
Pfff.
Anibal Davila – omg hey charlotte I love your channel please respond.
The gaming Saurus – why does charlotte wink so much.
;) Manifold yt – my potato queen never notices
me.
Nope never.
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