February 17, 2026
The Great Buffering
YouTube Is Down
Home page blank, history hack works, and bedtime jokes win
TLDR: YouTube’s home page and app feeds glitched for many, but some users could still play videos via their watch history while ongoing streams continued. The community split between jokes about early bedtime, panic over blank screens, and sleuthing after a dropped Google status link—reminding everyone how much we rely on the Tube.
Internet drama alert: YouTube—the free video site everyone uses—faceplanted tonight, and the comments are juicier than a season finale. For many, the home page and app feeds went blank, while a few lucky souls found a workaround: open your History and videos still play. One dad reported his kid’s Mark Rober video rolling on like nothing happened, but fresh loads? Nope. Meanwhile, others stared into the void: “Now I have nothing,” one user sighed.
The mood split fast. Team Chill is joking about “touching grass” and going to bed early. Team Meltdown is mashing refresh and demanding answers. Somewhere in the middle, the DIY crowd is swapping hacks and confirming that ongoing streams keep working, but the front door to YouTube is slammed shut. Then a curveball: one commenter dropped a mysterious Google status page link, sending amateur detectives into overdrive, though there’s no official cause yet.
The result? A perfect storm of sarcasm, survival tips, and pure chaos. It’s the kind of outage that turns a quiet evening into a group therapy session where half the internet jokes, half panics, and everyone just wants their videos back. Until the feed returns, history is the new homepage, and bedtime wins for once.
Key Points
- •YouTube is described as a free video-sharing website for watching online videos.
- •Users can create and upload their own videos on YouTube to share with others.
- •The page notes that YouTube problems have been reported in the last 24 hours.
- •A “View Map” feature is available to visualize where issues are reported.
- •Comments are public and aim to help others understand the ongoing issue.