Youtube means more to us than we thought
It gets over 1 billion visitors a day, and sure enough emotions run high when the world's biggest video platform goes offline..
We've shared so much content online that when Youtube suddenly disappears there's a huge void that can't be explained. What happened to all our great content that we made? What's going to happen to my short film, music video or personal rant about there being too many cat videos? Was that Jean Claude Van Damme splits video just a strange dream? Am I dreaming now?
These are some of the emotions people expressed during those 20 minutes:
Self-awareness, a tingling in the body
YOUTUBE IS DOWN WAIT WHAT IS THAT THING UP IN THE SKY HOW LONG HAS THAT THING BEEN THERE? WAIT THERE IS AN OUTSIDE?! pic.twitter.com/lwWui3jI0P
— Kaleb Nation (@KalebNation) November 18, 2013
Overwhelming panic and fear
YouTube is down!! Panic!!! Everyone get in your bunkers full of rice and non-perishables!!! — Charles Trippy (@CharlesTrippy) November 18, 2013
A sense of doom and no return
YOUTUBE IS DOWN! It's the apocalypse!
— Jenn McAllister (@jennxpenn) November 18, 2013
Amusement, but dependancy too
YouTube is down. Guess it's time to turn on the TV. JUST KIDDING. I never turned it off. — Elliott Morgan (@ElliottcMorgan) November 18, 2013
Lonely, a feeling of coldness.
YOUTUBE IS DOWN SOMEBODY HOLD ME.
— Tyler Oakley (@tyleroakley) November 18, 2013
Sarcastic amusement
http://t.co/XSlzNQooP6 is down. Good thing no one is arguing that online video lectures are the future of how we'll all learn. — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 18, 2013
Emotional breakdown. All emotions in one outburst
YouTube was down for legit 10 minutes and i had a nervous breakdown!
— ~Mary~ (@marypolisky5) November 18, 2013