The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.

The V&A museum has reconstructed an early YouTube watch page, showing the 19-second clip “Me at the zoo” from 2005.

Feb 17 (Reuters) - YouTube said on Tuesday it has resolved an issue that briefly affected access to the video-sharing platform, after outage-tracking website Downdetector reported widespread global disruptions.

In what’s a rare occurrence, it seems the YouTube platform is down this February 17, and it’s affecting both the browser and app versions based on our testing. Players will see issues loading new videos or even the app itself for now, with a ton of reports surfacing now.

For an hour, users were met with the message, "Something went wrong. Try again."

YouTube users have reported being unable to view comments while using ad-blocking tools, with some claiming it’s even happening to YouTube Premium subscribers.

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It's 2026. If you're still using ad blockers to watch YouTube instead of paying for YouTube Premium, we need to have a talk.