YouTube goes offline before ‘highly trained monkeys’ fix the problem
Video site YouTube went offline today. The site’s 1 billion users had to wait a few minutes for “A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation,” according to an error message on the site.
Nice 500 @YouTubepic.twitter.com/fQxK0L4jZz
— Chakib (@chakib_melaika) June 22, 2016
Users of the site took to social media to express their “horror” at the outage, faced with the realization that they might have to read a book, watch TV, or, eek, go outside!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE... @YouTube is down! I repeat... #YouTube is not working! 😨 pic.twitter.com/5ljenETJrR
— We The Unicorns (@wetheunicorns) June 22, 2016
#YOUTUBE COME BACK, I AM SCARED AND ALONE RIGHT NOW pic.twitter.com/nnpozfjgfW
— Kai Ross-Best (@KaiRossBest) June 22, 2016
#YouTube is down people , the world is gonna end .... Oh no wait , a team of monkeys are sorting it 😂🙈🐵🙊. #WTFpic.twitter.com/DulbjDwgDX
— DANNY DEARDEN (@dannydeardenuk) June 22, 2016
Relief was felt worldwide when the monkeys saved the day.
I thought it was the end of the World there for a second @YouTube don't scare me like that! #Youtube
— Kristy | (@KristyMorrows) June 22, 2016
We're all good here. Everything back to normal #Youtube#TheFlashhttps://t.co/cqprTPAT6Apic.twitter.com/5pTBxZnnL3
— Charlie Schneider (@AwesomEmergency) June 22, 2016
The cause of the outage is unknown, but RT will be following this important story.
Youtube is down since 07:23 AM ESThttps://t.co/8B06O9Ooyi
— Outage Report (@ReportOutage) June 22, 2016
RT if it's down for you as well #youtubedownpic.twitter.com/ubvwZnABB3
