Was YouTube hacked? Nope, it was a joke.

I was plodding around the Interweb last night and I noticed that there were some conspicuous blank spaces on my favorite blogs. Apparently, YouTube brought their servers down last night to do some upgrades and maintenance, and they decided to play a joke on the people that visited the site directly, rather than access their movies through embed-laden blog posts: they put a message up saying "All your video are belong to us." It was a take-off on the poorly-translated and oft-repeated phrase "All your base are belong to us," from the late '80s video game Zero Wing. Later in the evening they added a line saying "No, we haven't been hacked. Get a sense of humor."

Oh, those wacky engineers. Always leavin' them laughing, aren't they? Anyway, some new features are supposedly debuting today, including personal channels and the ability to post videos directly to a blog, so go over to the main YouTube site and check it out.

[via Pop Candy]