Why Is YouTube Giving Me Grief?

[MattyD]

Is anyone else having trouble with YouTube being slow and generally crap recently, or is it just me? The last couple of weeks it's gone from being fine to suddenly being very inconsistent and generally just not working very well. Nothing downloads fast enough to watch and sometimes it just won't start playing at all. I haven't changed my browser or ISP or anything, it just started happening out of the blue. Any ideas?

[Johnny]

I've been having major problems since this afternoon, takes ages for videos to load (if they do at all) and the site seems very slow.