This isn’t going to make fans happy about the idea of watching live sports on YouTube TV.
On Wednesday night, during the Miami Heat’s Game 1 Eastern Conference playoff win over the Boston Celtics, YouTube TV suffered an outage, with fans having trouble accessing TNT’s feed.
They either got an error message or, for some, the Little Mermaid trailer played over and over. Not great! And with Sunday NFL Ticket coming to the streamer this fall, there were a lot of concerns from NFL fans about what that could mean later this year.
Here’s a roundup of the complaints and worries on Twitter:
YouTube TV stopped working country-wide during the final minutes of Heat/Celtics tonight.
With the NFL moving Sunday Ticket exclusively to YouTube TV, they're banking this won't happen come September. pic.twitter.com/uXuGyIEC7w
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) May 18, 2023
YouTube tv making me watch this Little Mermaid commercial 100x instead of the Heat-Celtics pic.twitter.com/AFwskmyDFc
— Beanie Seagull (@DaBlackHoward) May 18, 2023
Me realizing that YouTube TV has the rights for Sunday Ticket pic.twitter.com/ho1b0uZMPj
— Blake Garman (@FrostedBlakes34) May 18, 2023
NBA fans watching the Heat vs Celtics on YouTube TV pic.twitter.com/WxKsvYG4HB
— Blake Garman (@FrostedBlakes34) May 18, 2023
YouTube TV during the final minutes of Celtics-Heat pic.twitter.com/x9RapNoFM0
— christy (@christynh_) May 18, 2023
Celtics crunch time and YouTube tv has made me watch the little mermaid trailer 18 times in a row
— Mike Wanders (@Mike_Wanders) May 18, 2023
Every nba fan going to YouTube headquarters after getting the little mermaid ad on YouTube tv for 20 minutes pic.twitter.com/n3NxBtLaje
— John (@iam_johnw) May 18, 2023
YouTube TV crashed during the 2nd half of Heat-Celtics — with many fans stuck watching the same ad for ‘The Little Mermaid’ on loop.
The service is set to take over NFL Sunday Ticket this fall. pic.twitter.com/JUDx15VzEq
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) May 18, 2023
I’ve watched the little mermaid trailer 50 times now, fix your app YouTube tv
— Major Passons (@Major_Passons) May 18, 2023
YoutubeTV putting up an all time stinker of a performance
— Honk The Bobo (@ColeyMick) May 18, 2023