Tin foil hat time! Youtube is down, so how many of us think it might be connected to...

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The huge number of viewers watching last night's interview with Stephen Colbert and James Talarico?

[yellow dahlia]

1. My first thought.

[SharonAnn]

15. Oh, I thought I'd reached the End of the Internet!

[C Moon]

18. :D :D :D

[newdeal2]

2. YouTube works fine for me

I opened up the app and the first thing I saw was that interview on Colbert’s page.

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5. It came back up within 2 minutes of my post. Glad it's working for everyone again.

[BonnieJW]

9. It only works on my phone

It doesn't work on my tv

[Joinfortmill]

17. Me too

[ABC123Easy]

3. It's not down here in SE NC.

It's working fine.

[PSPS]

4. It was down for about an hour but it's back up now.

[Greg_In_SF]

6. No outage

here all day.

[stopdiggin]

7. Please don't feed the animals ... - - - - - -(nt)-

aliens, FCC, Iran and Putin have already been suggested ....

[Iggo]

8. YouTube and YouTube Kids alternately and sporadically going in and out over the last hour or so.

The whole time they were both trying to come back on, though. I think if they shut it down on purpose, it just would have gone dark or stayed steady on the “Try Again” page instead of coming in and out like it was.

[EdmondDantes_]

10. Not even a little bit.

Barring evidence in favor, I don't find conspiracy theories persuasive.

[orangecrush]

11. Been down here since 8 pm

App still gives error message at 10:30 pm Eastern.

I'm a total web illiterate, but I wouldn't rule out state actors.

"Starting at around 7:45pm ET (4:45pm PT) and expanding rapidly as of 8pm ET (5pm PT), YouTube is down in a fairly widespread outage. There are nearly 300,000 reports on DownDetector and growing, with a large spike for both Google and YouTube TV on the outage tracker as well – as far as we can tell, though, this is primarily a core YouTube outage."

https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/youtube-outage-february-2026/

[Bev54]

12. It is back up but it was world wide so I doubt very much that was it.

[boonecreek]

13. OK, this is almost 2 hours later

But you tube is working fine.

[niyad]

14. It is working for me.

[Marie Marie]

16. I thought it was me. I've been signing in as a guest for over a year and tonight it kept

rejecting that and asking me to sign into an account. I don't want an account!! Whether I sign in as a guest or account, they still follow which videos are being played on my TVs. Then I read (on google LOL) that google dropped the guest feature so I figured my incognito ride was over. Now I have to go try it since you are all saying that it was down but now back up.

But yeah, I hope Stephen Colbert's interview crashed the whole shebang. Fuck CBS and Trump