Holy kittens! YouTube screens go blank

Google’s mega video service YouTube appears to be down for some and out for others. Square-eyed netizens who trekked online for their a fix of cats are being confronted not with moving pictures but 500 internal server error warnings. Others got blank screens, screens of text of messages and other messages saying an error had …

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seems back now

[Alexander J. Martin]

It's intermittent as far as I can see. I could access it fine when we first got the complaint, but it was unavailable recently, does seem to be back up now.

[Anonymous Coward]

Different error message here

Dumped it on Pastebin for the sake of it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Different error message here

64 different symbols present (A-Z a-z 0-9 - _). Custom version of base64?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Different error message here

My friend sent me a screenshot of it.

I don't know whether he was trying to frighten me and call me a trained monkey at the same time.

Either way, I was looking for the actual text, so thank you.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Funny" error messages

I really can't stand those seemingly funny error messages, which appear to become a trend lately.

(Seems to be increasingly common for paid-for services too.)

[Dave 126]

Re: "Funny" error messages

Lately? They've been around for as long as I remember.

"Windows is checking for a solution to the problem" always has me in stitches!

[Ian Michael Gumby]

@Dave 126 Re: "Funny" error messages

Uhm... Windows? You're young.

I wonder how many people here remember Unix and that there's one error message that pokes fun of Cleveland OH...

Now I forget if that was ATT's SYS III or SYS V or both?

Mine's the jacket with the Geritol (Old Geezer vitamins) in the pocket.

[Dan 55]

Re: "Funny" error messages

Office changed from passive error messages to second person plural and I hate it.

"We cannot open this file."

"We cannot connect to the Internet."

Etc...

Who the fuck is we? Me and Microsoft? The team of trained hamsters in the Intel CPU?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "Funny" error messages

> Who the fuck is we? Me and Microsoft? The team of trained hamsters in the Intel CPU?

Most machines (even phones) these days are multi-core. So "we" is quite appropriate.

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: "Funny" error messages

So my boxen are schizo?

[VinceH]

Re: "Funny" error messages

"Who the fuck is we?"

The various TLAs.

[Pookietoo]

Re: second person plural

"We" is first person plural.

[Jeffrey Nonken]

Re: second person plural

Correct. Second person plural would be "all y'all."

[quattroprorocked]

Re: second person plural

yourn (though to be fair, in a geographically smaller place than "The South") :-)

[Francis Boyle]

Re: second person plural

Struth mate, everyone knows the second person plural is "youse".

[Dan 55]

Re: second person plural

What have I done? I'll never be able to use the grammar nazi icon again.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "Funny" error messages

This youtube one is very old.

[a_a]

Re: "Funny" error messages

Aw, too young to have seen a Guru Meditation.

[chrishansenhome]

Re: "Funny" error messages

The funny error messages aren't new. Around 30 years ago I worked for a company that made a DOS research tool. Every once in a while I'd get a service call from a user reporting that their program had stopped with the error message: "Pinocchio". I would then tell them that it meant their hard disk was full and they would have to make more room before the program would work.

Why "Pinocchio"? I asked the programmers and answer came there none. Their noses got a bit longer, though.

[Kaltern]

What was almost as amusing was the site www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com was unavailable due to too many connections at the exact same time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is it

That when I refer to my staff as trained monkeys I get reported to HR but Google is allowed to do this?

[Andy E]

Re: Why is it

Perhaps its the "trained" bit they are objecting to....

[TRT]

Re: Why is it

They might pay them peanuts.

[Alan W. Rateliff, II]

Re: Why is it

Chimpanzees, and for the most part orangutans, can be called anything you desire. You had better be in tight with a gorilla before you start flinging around words (or poo.) But call an ape a monkey and see if you can walk away. It's a mad house!

[Chika]

Re: Why is it

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Ook.

[Vinyl-Junkie]

Re: Ook.

A form of natural selection is learning not to use the M-word around the Librarian....

[JimmyPage]

Re: isn't there an old joke ...

"What do you call a gorilla with a banana in each ear ?"

"Anything you like, he can't hear you."

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: isn't there an old joke ...

At least he isn't a trifle deaf.

[Dwarf]

Re: Why is it

Isn't this a reference to the standard voice prompts for Asterisk, which includes random phrases such as "they have been carried away by monkeys", "something is terribly wrong" and "furious ferrets have eaten our phone system"

You can get some example English voice prompts from here

[MonkeyCee]

Re: Why is it

Because we're apes not monkeys, and it makes us very upset to be compared to one another. Another round of cultural sensitivity training for you!

Love

The HR Felines

[oneeye]

Re: Why is it

Because it's not Google making the statement, it's the Ghost in the machine.

[M7S]

A team of monkeys,

It's a backup plan for lost content. The monkeys are infinite in number and all have typewriters.

42

[pinkmouse]

Re: A team of monkeys,

...and GoPros...

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: A team of monkeys,

"If you sat Dave in front of a typewriter for a thousand years, eventually he would type the word 'monkey'. (It's his favoured word.) - Christopher Titus

[Kenny Millar]

Whats youtube?

[phuzz]

It's a pipe that's just the right size for one person. Hipsters use them.

[Anonymous Coward]

HTTP ERROR 502

The www.youtube.com page isn't working.

www.youtube.com is currently unable to handle this request.

HTTP ERROR 502

[m0rt]

Works now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbaAyvyYjyI

[ma1010]

But inquiring minds want to know...

Are they flying monkeys?

[oneeye]

Re: But inquiring minds want to know...

No, because the "Flying Monkeys" belong to Trump. AKA his supporters.

[Chika]

Re: But inquiring minds want to know...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDkNCJ8xrJk

[Chika]

Re: But inquiring minds want to know...

Seems like the perfect time to wheel out a classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDkNCJ8xrJk

[Jayman2005]

The Monkeys never came...

I had the error message handy but the monkeys didn't arrive to pick it up.

[bigphil9009]

Nice to see a Playmobil image

Fond memories of Mr Haines. Perhaps we should have a new Playmobil icon in his memory?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dunno about the kittens

but Big Dookie seems fine!

;

[Mark 85]

Kudos on the Playmobil

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[Johnny Canuck]

bald chimp

Lest you think it's OK to taunt chimps, thats because their hair hides their muscular, ripped bodies. Just google "bald chimp" and you'll see what I mean (NSFW - maybe)/

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: bald chimp

Naked chimp porn? OMG that's SICK. And so are YOU!

Signed

Outraged of Cheltenham

[Camilla Smythe]

Way to Go Google...

Does that mean they fucked up the associated CDN, Content Delivery Network, as well? Wankers.

[Anonymous Coward]

DRAT!

It is working here, my 3 y/o is watching Vampire Queen Elsa and Vampire Princess Anna being chased around by SpiderDaddyPig and Mermaid Barbi

How I long for the days when she was 2, didnt know how to use YT, and I could load up educational programs like kidstv123.

At least this means she isnt hacking my PC, like that undocumented keyboard shortcut that deletes all of my browser history and bookmarks she's discovered.