Venturing into the most lawless, id-driven textual battlefield on the internet and expecting civility. The trauma is the sheer whiplash of human expression: one comment is a brilliant, sourced analysis, the next is a racist screed, below it is a bot selling counterfeit shoes. Engaging guarantees exposure to staggering ignorance, weaponized pedantry, and personal attacks over your opinion on a video about toasters. It shatters your faith in collective discourse and leaves you with a lingering, low-grade misanthropy, questioning how so many people can function while possessing such a profound lack of reading comprehension or basic empathy.
*Example: "He made the mistake of politely correcting a fact in a history video's comments. The ensuing 200-reply thread, featuring personal insults, whataboutism, and a guy linking to his cryptocurrency scam, gave him permanent trauma from YouTube comment sections. He now types replies and deletes them, screaming into a digital void."*
by Abzugal January 30, 2026
Get the Trauma from YouTube Comment Sections mug.An event that took place on February 17th/18th, 2026, in which YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music went down for around half a million users.
Around 350,000 users reported issues accessing YouTube from 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the 17th (1 a.m. on Wednesday 18th in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)), according to the unofficial, crowd-sourced site Downdetector. The most commonly reported problem was users saying they had issues using the YouTube app.
Around 10 p.m. EST (17/2/2026) equivalent to 3 a.m UTC (18/2/2026), YouTube confirmed the “issue has been fixed” across its platforms.
The event is named for the volume of users who the platform went down for.
Around 350,000 users reported issues accessing YouTube from 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the 17th (1 a.m. on Wednesday 18th in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)), according to the unofficial, crowd-sourced site Downdetector. The most commonly reported problem was users saying they had issues using the YouTube app.
Around 10 p.m. EST (17/2/2026) equivalent to 3 a.m UTC (18/2/2026), YouTube confirmed the “issue has been fixed” across its platforms.
The event is named for the volume of users who the platform went down for.
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