So Youtube has been getting bizarrely slower and slower.

[Weaver]

Same thing happens to me. However, SOME videos would load fast and others would load slow.
I actually talked to my ISP and found some interesting information. They keep google servers ON the ISP's network which caches youtube videos and other google content. This really surprised me, but I bet it's an incredibly common practice. Thus things cached on your ISP's network I imagine would load quickly, but if it's not and has to fetch the video from the actual google servers I reckon they'll be pretty slow.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Youtube is ridiculously broken in countless ways. I'm a partner & the bugs are even more annoying when they're costing you money, lol.

 

[Trueflame]

I've been having the same problem, but I thought it was just my internet acting weird. It's even worse for me though. Forget about HD video at all, half the time I'm lucky if I can get 480p to load, and only 240p functions with some regularity. But with that level of quality, is there even any point in watching? Hope they get this sorted out soon, you never realize how dependent you are on a thing until you lose it.

 

[Reyold]

Man, everyone and their dog is having problems with Youtube. Guess I'm not the only one.

Here's hopin' they fix it up soon.