'Made fries, chicken tenders for nothing': YouTube outage leaves users scrambling as meme storm begins on X. Check the best ones here

YouTube experienced a massive global outage on February 17, and thousands of users across various countries were unable to access videos or use the app properly. Users were greeted with 'something is wrong' error message when they were attempting to access YouTube. As YouTube suffered an outage, thousands of users flocked to social media to confirm whether the issue was widespread — and, of course, to share memes. What might have seemed like just another technical glitch quickly spiralled into a meme fest, as social media timelines were flooded with hilarious reactions.

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YouTube Down memes

Many joked about the now-familiar ritual of rushing to Twitter to check if others were facing the same problem. One user wrote, "Everybody running to Twitter to see why YouTube is down."




Another shared their disbelief at the rare crash, saying, "i dont even remember the last time youtube went down wtf." "saving yall the energy yes youtube is down and here is a cute cow with some bows on to help u feel better," wrote a user on Twitter.



"YOUTUBE IS PARTIALLY DOWN AND ITS MY BEDTIME," another user joked posting a hilarious GIF.


"I knew I should’ve went here first �� 45 minutes of refresh/restart wasted #YouTubeDOWN," posted another user.


"A YouTube engineer who hasn’t worked a real day since he was hired clocking in for his shift to find the site down worldwide #youtubedown," another one read.


Some users humorously described their frantic troubleshooting attempts before realising the issue wasn’t on their end. One more equipped, "Me just refreshed my page 14 times, toggled my Wi-Fi twice, and restarted my phone, only to find out YouTube is just taking an unannounced nap. Unbelievable!"


Others expressed mock frustration over disrupted plans. A user posted, "Man wtf I made some fries, got some chicken tenders and opened YouTube to find a video just for it to be down, I'm not even hungry anymore."

YouTube outage reason

YouTube said on Tuesday that some users were experiencing issues accessing the video-sharing platform, after outage-tracking website Downdetector reported ‌global ⁠outages. Reports suggest the outage was global, with many users encountering the familiar “Something Went Wrong” error message while trying to stream content. YouTube TV was also reportedly affected during the disruption. The services were resstored after a while.

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“We’re ⁠aware some of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now. Our teams are aware, and we’ll provide updates as soon as we ⁠have them,” ‌YouTube said.

There were over 150,000 reports of ⁠outages in the U.S. at 9 pm ET, compared with the peak of over 320,000 users an hour earlier, Downdetector showed.