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YouTube Outage (Feb 17, 2026). What Happened?

On February 17, 2026, YouTube went down for users worldwide. Starting around 8:00 PM ET, the platform's homepage, Shorts feed, sign-in system, smart TV apps, YouTube Music, and YouTube Kids all stopped working. Over 21,000 reports were logged on IsDown alone. The error message was the same everywhere: "Something went wrong." For consumer users, it was an inconvenience. For businesses that depend on YouTube — content teams, advertisers, media companies, live streamers — it was a blind spot.

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