As parents around the country were wrapping up their days (or perhaps just getting ready to) they heard a cry from the living room. "Mommmmm! Daddddd!Is the Wi-Fi down?"
They likely rolled their eyes and reset their router. But when the nagging "moms" and "dads" turned a little panicky a new reality set in. YouTube was down.
What. The. Hell.
Around 7 p.m. ET, people started getting notifications about YouTube being down.
By 7:23 p.m., YouTube confirmed it on Twitter with no details and only a promise of it being fixed. By 9:13 p.m., YouTube finally gave the all clear that things were back to normal.
But the time in between was kind of pure chaos for parents.
Parents had mixed reactions.
Parents of teens and preteens had a good laugh, joking that it was the first time they'd really talked to their kids all year because yanno, they weren't glued to their screens for once. Refreshing, even though we are sure the eye rolls and deeps sighs got increasingly irritating during the outage.
Then there was a group of slightly ... um ... less chill parents.
Because let's face it. Parenting right now is hard AF, and when you don't have the lifeline of YouTube so you can sneak away and cook dinner or inch out of the room to go pee, it going down is a big effing deal.
As the minutes ticked on, it felt like it'd never end.
Judge away, sanctimommies, but the truth is, you're lying through your teeth if you haven't leveraged YouTube to get through some mundane task — be it teeth brushing or lunch. And we're sure this hit at likely the most inconvenient time for families.
Although it was by far and large not the worst tragedy of 2020, it definitely was not a welcomed hiccup.
Listen, YouTube, we understand that things happen, but for the sake of our sanity, please never betray us like that again.
