YouTube Suffers Major Outage: 'Subscribed Channels' Save the Day for Many Users
On February 18, 2026, a large-scale system outage occurred on the video-sharing service YouTube, causing widespread confusion among users. Starting around 10:00 AM JST, many users reported issues such as their homepage not displaying or showing error messages. Some also reported being unable to log in. However, in many cases, video playback, search functions, and especially browsing