As a message highlighted above the thread warned YouTube users that there were “longer than normal wait times” for support requests, YouTube continually asked for “patience” and turned off the comments.
“We are very sorry for this error on our part,” YouTube said.
Unable to leave comments, thousands of users mashed a button on the support thread, confirming that they had “the same question.” On Friday morning, 8,000 users had signaled despair, and as of this writing, the number had notched up to nearly 11,000.
YouTube has not confirmed how many users were removed, so that’s likely the best estimate we have for how many users were affected.
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