YouTube Was Down for 30 Minutes and the World Didn't Collapse

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By Christina Warren2013-11-18 22:36:48 UTC

YouTube is currently down. The world's biggest video host and second-largest search engine is inaccessible as of 5:25 p.m. ET, meaning that instead of seeing your favorite viral videos, cats and memes, visiting the site serves up a big ol' 500 Internal Server Error:

See also: The Beginner's Guide to YouTube

Early Monday morning, YouTube experienced some sporadic outages affecting how certain videos were viewed. Since you can't visit YouTube, let us know your favorite alternatives in the comments.

We've reached out to Google and YouTube for comment and will update this post as soon as we have more information.

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Topics: Apps and Software, outage, Social Media, YouTube