Probably going through and scrubbing any videos that go against their narrative that the algorithm didn't catch.

From reddit-

I did the maths and assuming youtubes annual 15 billion revenue is evenly split across the year they are loosing around $28000 a minute it is down. Which is around $850,000 for a half hour.

Subreddit on youtube has folks from turkey, chile, all over us Iceland, thailand, saying is currently down -looks like is a global impact. Strange.

The great purge