YouTube is down, so please stand by for the total collapse of human civilization

Look, we don’t know about you, but we rely on YouTube for a lot of shit over the course of a day. What was the theme song to that TV show we watched three times in the 1980s? YouTube’s got it. Need to watch another human being play through the entirety of Chex Quest? YouTube has your back. Children having annoying thoughts, feelings, and noises? Your pal YouTube will step in as babysitter. It’s kind of like our old friend, TV, except without all those pesky demands to work on its schedule all of the time.
All of which is to explain why the entirety of human civilization is now on the brink of collapse, as we enter (at the time of writing this) minute 30 of what appears to be a total YouTube outage, cutting us all off from the life-giving makeup tutorials we NEED to get the right accents over our troubled pores. At least YouTube’s support team appears to be aware of the issue, with bug reports presumably being sent to their offices through those old low-tech favorites, the flaming arrow, the hurled rock, and the berserker barbarian horde.