It only takes the smallest glitch to stir up a storm on the internet. On Wednesday morning, people awoke to find that YouTube was down. The online video platform then confirmed reports of a global outage, as suspected. So if you were busting out those lo-fi/study jams or watching your hundredth 'what I eat in a day' video around the time of the Google I/0 2021 live, you probably witnessed the anomaly. How did netizens all across the world deal with the situation? Well, the same way they deal with everything else - by spamming Twitter with a barrage of existential memes and reactions.

For some users the outage caused a slight change in video quality, others reported a playback fail or videos abruptly ending, and for some, the platform wasn't functioning entirely. While YouTube was down for a bit, the chaos that ensued was endless. Within minutes, memes with the hashtag #YouTubeDOWN erupted on Twitter as distraught users flooded the social media platform looking for much-needed answers. Between blaming the wi-fi connection and feeling the dread of a YouTube-less day creeping in almost immediately, here's how people reacted to the global outage:

Okay, that was quite cathartic. As our overreliance on YouTube increases, the site has become an integral part of our lives amidst the pandemic. No wonder it sparked such panic.

Luckily, YouTube is back. YouTube's official Twitter account confirmed that the issue is resolved and we can all go back to spending all of our time watching videos. But on a more serious note -