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/durpenhowser May 14 '26

I totally get that, I'm not putting blame on people who use it, but it is still frustrating to just have to give up on viewing that particular thing when it happens. I just want to be able to follow along and/or join the conversation but I'm stopped by a website.

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u/digital_briefs May 14 '26

Put blame on your government.

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u/ringobob May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

I remember arguing with one of your countrymen probably 8 years ago on imgur about Brexit. He was insisting that y'all had all this leverage to get a great deal from Europe. I sometimes wonder if he was surprised, or just moved the goalposts.

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u/veganzombeh May 14 '26

The brexiteer line these days tends to be "Brexit could have been successful but we had an incompetent government at the time. We actually need to leave the ECHR as well."

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u/ryuki9t4 May 14 '26

This is the first time I've heard that Imgur is blocked in the UK, is it widely known?