YouTube Outage Caused After User Smashed Subscribe Button Too Hard

VIDEO STREAMING platform behemoth YouTube is appealing to users to dial down their enthusiasm when responding to Youtubers’ requests to ‘smash that subcribe button’ after one 14-year-old’s smashing caused an outage of the entire platform.

“It’s a delicate ecosystem, finely tuned and it doesn’t take much to derail the whole thing. When smashing that subscribe button, we just ask you don’t do it so enthusiastically as young Anthony,” explained head of product and design Stefan Schwartz.

The user in question, Waterford teenager Anthony Power, had been watching a number of shorts when one gaming YouTuber implored Power to ‘smash that subscribe button’. Not wanting to disappoint the YouTuber and due to enjoying the content, Power slammed his index finger down with the ferocity of a wrecking ball landing on a marshmallow and in the process fried YouTube’s complex subscription mechanism.

“We haven’t had an outage like this since an intern tried to upload a YouTube video of a Youtube video back in 2020,” offered Schwartz.

Work is underway at YouTube to figure out a system which simply allows users to press the subscribe or like button, however many believe this technology could be years away.

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