It's not just you. YouTube has fallen in the world.

The mega-popular video site was disconnected Tuesday night for users around the world. Visitors to the YouTube homepage were greeted by a half-load page containing the subscribed channels, but no video.

By clicking on any channel, users are greeted by the image of a monkey holding a hammer and the text "Internal 500 Server Error". A message was saying, "Sorry, an error has occurred." A team of highly trained monkeys has been sent out to deal with this situation, and if you see them, send them this information as text. Screen scares them) "followed by a long string of code. .

In an update posted on Twitter, YouTube said they were aware of the problem, but did not specify when the service would be restored or the cause of the outage.

About an hour after the first use of the site, YouTube came back on Twitter to announce that everything was back up and running.

Needless to say, the Internet was not ready to handle this problem. Users flocked to Twitter with #YouTubeDown, which came fifth on the list of news stories on the US site, and the first topic on trend trends in the United States. Twitter.

Some have lamented that it is so that begins the apocalypse.

Others were trying to figure out what to do with their time.

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