Right during primetime viewing hours on the East Coast and the end of the workday in the West, YouTube seemed to take a nap as more than 300,000 people reported the service, according to Downdetector. The outage started to gain traction at 5 p.m. PT and quickly spiked to 338,308 reports by 5:10 p.m.
Downdetector reports the start of a YouTube outage on Feb. 17, 2026.
CNET staffers who noticed the outage saw YouTube’s familiar home screen with a search bar and side column, but no videos. YouTube apps, such as on an iPad, showed a 1980s-style pixel artwork and the message “Something went wrong.”
This is a developing story.
(Disclaimer: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
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