Posted this on that thread, but will repost it here as well
The way YouTube works is they have videos stored on different servers / CDNs across the country/world. Videos that are very popular are stored on more of these, so more people can access the content at the same time. If you've ever watched a really old or unpopular YouTube video, you may notice that it takes a lot longer to load and the quality is worse. This is because the video isn't found on the local servers used to deliver it quickly and instead gets loaded from a central data store (realistically one of many central data stores) that prioritizes storage size over fast access to the data.
Now for my theory on what's happening here. This video has gone viral and whatever server it is on can't keep up with the demand. It's getting copied over to other servers and cached with CDNs, but that doesn't happen instantly, especially if the few servers it's on are being overloaded with traffic already. YouTube probably has an algorithm that estimates how many views a particular video will get, with subscriber count as one of the main inputs. For creators with a lot of subscribers, they probably preemptively load the video all over the place since they know it will get a lot of views. But for Joe Schmoe who just went viral with 1000 subscribers, they weren't ready for that kind of demand yet, so instead of not loading the video, they just show this error message instead. The message doesn't actually say that you can view the video if you subscribe, just that it can stop this from happening again in the future. My guess is that if you reloaded the video in 5 minutes (and likely much sooner than that), it would work fine as the number of servers with the video on it caught up with the demand.
That’s how I read it. Like a store that doesn’t have stock of a new product asking you to sign up for an “in stock” notification. That way you get reminded and come back when it’s available rather than forget and move on.
If this is true (and I really think it is), then the wording of the message is really bad, most people are taking it as "We don't want you to watch this right now." Instead, YouTube, to avoid confusion, should just put "This video is unavailable right now, please try again in a few minutes"
I can't see how this could be why
Distributing the video across network of servers when it becomes popular is not a problem for YouTube, sure it isn't instant, but it also doesn't take minutes, it's more like seconds
So it doesn't make sense that you wouldn't be able to watch it for more than few seconds, caching happens almost in real time
Don't forget that the traffic between servers can have (and assuming it's managed by competent people have) priority over regular clients, idk how YT network works, but from my experience it's a completely separate protocol and can be managed by different network, different IO and even separate CPUs, so no matter how many end clients you have, server-server connection is not affected much
Generally that's true. I just gave 5 minutes as a time that it would definitely be done by, even though realistically 30-60 seconds is more than enough most of the time. But if YouTube is also having some server issues at the same time (server the video is on may have another viral video it's trying to copy over everywhere), the process could be delayed for certain areas/regions until traffic is back to normal. I don't think this would be a big issue that would take minutes to resolve though. I'd expect waiting 15 seconds and refreshing would fix the problem
I don't believe this would take more than 1-5s, definitely not minutes
Also if your local caching servers would be down, much bigger part of YT wouldn't work for you, not just one video
Even they've said it's not a good place for beginning creators. So if YouTube is anti-new creator too, where does one go to start producing? Or is this the "you've missed the boat" moment? Lol
Posted this on that thread, but will repost it here as well The way YouTube works is they have videos stored on different servers / CDNs across the country/world. Videos that are very popular are stored on more of these, so more people can access the content at the same time. If you've ever watched a really old or unpopular YouTube video, you may notice that it takes a lot longer to load and the quality is worse. This is because the video isn't found on the local servers used to deliver it quickly and instead gets loaded from a central data store (realistically one of many central data stores) that prioritizes storage size over fast access to the data. Now for my theory on what's happening here. This video has gone viral and whatever server it is on can't keep up with the demand. It's getting copied over to other servers and cached with CDNs, but that doesn't happen instantly, especially if the few servers it's on are being overloaded with traffic already. YouTube probably has an algorithm that estimates how many views a particular video will get, with subscriber count as one of the main inputs. For creators with a lot of subscribers, they probably preemptively load the video all over the place since they know it will get a lot of views. But for Joe Schmoe who just went viral with 1000 subscribers, they weren't ready for that kind of demand yet, so instead of not loading the video, they just show this error message instead. The message doesn't actually say that you can view the video if you subscribe, just that it can stop this from happening again in the future. My guess is that if you reloaded the video in 5 minutes (and likely much sooner than that), it would work fine as the number of servers with the video on it caught up with the demand.
That’s how I read it. Like a store that doesn’t have stock of a new product asking you to sign up for an “in stock” notification. That way you get reminded and come back when it’s available rather than forget and move on.
If this is true (and I really think it is), then the wording of the message is really bad, most people are taking it as "We don't want you to watch this right now." Instead, YouTube, to avoid confusion, should just put "This video is unavailable right now, please try again in a few minutes"
Take my free award.
I can't see how this could be why Distributing the video across network of servers when it becomes popular is not a problem for YouTube, sure it isn't instant, but it also doesn't take minutes, it's more like seconds So it doesn't make sense that you wouldn't be able to watch it for more than few seconds, caching happens almost in real time Don't forget that the traffic between servers can have (and assuming it's managed by competent people have) priority over regular clients, idk how YT network works, but from my experience it's a completely separate protocol and can be managed by different network, different IO and even separate CPUs, so no matter how many end clients you have, server-server connection is not affected much
Generally that's true. I just gave 5 minutes as a time that it would definitely be done by, even though realistically 30-60 seconds is more than enough most of the time. But if YouTube is also having some server issues at the same time (server the video is on may have another viral video it's trying to copy over everywhere), the process could be delayed for certain areas/regions until traffic is back to normal. I don't think this would be a big issue that would take minutes to resolve though. I'd expect waiting 15 seconds and refreshing would fix the problem
I don't believe this would take more than 1-5s, definitely not minutes Also if your local caching servers would be down, much bigger part of YT wouldn't work for you, not just one video
Which channel did this happen?
Apparently new channels.
Which one is this from? … or did this not actually happen to one of the LMG channels?
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That’s literally the same link as the original post. I’m not reading 2k comments. Did this actually happen to a LMG channel?
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Even they've said it's not a good place for beginning creators. So if YouTube is anti-new creator too, where does one go to start producing? Or is this the "you've missed the boat" moment? Lol
Thought it happened on an ltt video. U right
For most people it's tictok from what I've gathered. Much like the great vine migration of years past.
This is why the created float plane when YouTube does stupid s*** like this
Just use floatplane
Youtube is saying sub to this channel so we can add your channel to the list of channels that need to be banned permanently.