# Why is YouTube totally NOT working at all for me?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-youtube-totally-not-working-at-all-for-me/437683>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 15, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-youtube-totally-not-working-at-all-for-me/437683 "2008-02-15T00:38:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-youtube-totally-not-working-at-all-for-me/437683/1 "2008-02-15T00:38:57Z")

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Right now, on YouTube, EVERY video won’t work. By which I mean, I click on the video, and it comes up, but instead of loading, it’s just frozen on the first frame of the video.

It’s doing this in Firefox AND Internet Explorer, and it’s the same for EVERY single YouTube video.

What is going on here?

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**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-youtube-totally-not-working-at-all-for-me/437683/2 "2008-02-15T00:51:43Z")

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There’s a Flash update out there–I had to install it today, maybe that has something to do with it…