Breaking News: YouTube is DOWN all Over the World

Streaming behemoth YouTube appears to have crashed for thousands of users around the world. 

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Complaints registered on independent site DownDetector indicate the outage is global, but the source of the issue remains unknown.

The Google-owned site is usually very reliable and the scale of the outage is currently unknown.  

^{Pictured, what the YouTube homepage looked like when MailOnline tried to get on the website around 1pm BST}

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The site seems to be suffering a universal loss in functionality, with issues loading the homepage, playing videos and logging in. 

MailOnline has contacted YouTube for comment.