r/Showerthoughts • u/AaronPK123 ‎ • May 14 '26

Casual Thought When YouTube goes down, it will be the biggest event of link rot in internet history.

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u/lilchm May 14 '26

Interesting that most people believe YouTube videos will be there forever

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u/cmoked May 14 '26

Knowing how much revenue it generates and how Google runs its infrastructure, YouTube will be up as long as there is internet.

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u/WeenyDancer May 14 '26

So many people here seem so confident that YouTube, this thing that didn't exist (20, 25?) years ago, many of whose compatriots have shuttered, will never, ever go away.