YouTube is DOWN and the world's reactions are CRACK UP!

Publish date: Wednesday, 17 Oct 2018, 3:37PM

YouTube is down across the world and many people across the globe are panicking as they try to get their video fix.

Videos are not playing on the website and are showing an error message asking people to return later.

YouTube posted on Twitter to say that it was aware of the issues and working to resolve them.

Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018

People are taking to social media to react over the outage and the hashtag #YouTubeDOWN is trending on Twitter.

You don’t realize how much YouTube you actually watch until the site goes down. pic.twitter.com/3r4d9FY4VN
— FatboiDeV (@KlipschRVA) October 17, 2018

Me switching to Netflix while YouTube is down #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/ju70b6edyF
— Brianna Winfield (@BriannaWinfiel1) October 17, 2018

#YouTubeDOWN The new Youtube engineer when he realized he shut down youtube. pic.twitter.com/r48faOpRFj
— BEEEN (@Ab2Blue) October 17, 2018

A live map shows YouTube outage hotspots across the United States; the northeast is hit particularly hard. Facebook also appears to be down for users in Australia and New Zealand.

It looks as though the outage began at around 2pm.

We at Flava have been affected as well with many of our videos posted from YouTube also not playing, so hang in there!