People across the world on Monday complained of unable to access various major online services including the video streaming platform YouTube, e-mailing service Gmail and even the Google drive. ALSO READ | Sundar Pichai Apologises As Controversy Over Firing Google’s Top AI Researcher Flares Up Questions Of Racism


At the time of writing this article, Downdetector, the website that tracks web outages, confirmed over 9,000 cases from users having issues accessing YouTube.

Hundreds of users across the world took to the social media platform to inquire about the abrupt crash of services. Responding to a user, Gmail via its official Twitter handle said, "Hi there. Could you share more details what's going on with your Gmail account? Also, how are you accessing Gmail (Android, iOS or browser)? We'll do our best to help."



Video streaming platform YouTube also took the cognizance of the matter and tried to cool down the audience saying, "We are aware that many of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and looking into it. We'll update you here as soon as we have more news."



As soon as the news of massive outage broke out globally, netizens within moments flooded the social media media with hilarious memes to tickle our funny bones. Check out here: