Getting home from school on a Friday was the best time of the week for me. It meant I had a whole weekend to fangirl over my favourite people, to chat to my long distance family members, and compare hot internetters with my fellow fangirler friends. I pulled off my tie half-heartedly, sat at my desk and typed in my favourite website, when I saw a message that I hoped I would never see again.

'Error. Web domain .com does not exist. Check for misspellings and try again.'

I checked, but I already knew inside that there could not be any misspellings. I had typed that URL in thousands- no, millions of times. I could type it forwards, backwards, upside down, blindfolded and in my sleep. Then I looked on Google, and the Youtube button had gone. I searched my favourite youtubers one by one, and all together. This is what I saw.

Your search for Charlieissocoollike, Danisnotonfire, Danisnotinteresting, Amazingphil, NotSoAmazingPhil, Nerimon, AlexDay, WheezyWaiter, ItsWayPastMyBedtime, JacksLab, TylerOakley, Fred, Lucas, CallumPiper, InventivePanzer, Jackwelling, RachaelHasanA, AnnoyingOrange could not find any results.

I felt like my world was crumbling. Even without Youtube, wouldn't there be at least some results? Fan pages, fan fiction, Facebook- Oh my god. I had searched for some of my friends, and nothing had come up. I've searched for my friends on the internet before, and I know for sure that at least something comes up. With my friend Rachael it always comes up with her Deviantart account, her Facebook, or her FanFiction account, but now…

I searched everything. Frantically typing in any words that linked to my friends, I looked on any website I could remember they were signed up to, but there was nothing. I tried sending them all emails to ask if they knew what was going on, but they were wiped from my contacts, and all of my sent emails to them had gone from my inbox. I don't understand!

My phone! Maybe they'll be on there! I anxiously looked for their names, but they were gone too. It was literally as if someone had deleted them from the earth. What would I do? Without my friends, or my Youtube subscriptions that felt like friends. Their companionship, advice, they've helped me, and influenced my sense of humour. They've made me who I am. Dan and Phil have helped me realise that is it okay to be wacky and random. Charlie and Alex have showed me that you don't have to have bags of money to make music dreams come true- but my friends, the people I spend every day with in the real world, the ones that I've tried so hard to get them, and now I've lost them. I don't know what I'll miss most of all; Rachael's FanFiction stories about her beloved Draco Malfoy, Callum's songs, Emily's random dance breakouts, Jack's artwork, or their hilarious videos on Youtube. Wait, Youtube.
Youtube! That's it! I checked my Gmail- only one of my friends still existed on there. He doesn't have Youtube. Youtube is the key. Wait, I have Youtube. Or rather, I did have Youtube. I was never any good at it though, and I never made a video good enough to put online. I had Youtube, but I never uploaded videos. Callum, Jack, Rachael, Emily and all of my other friends have all at some point uploaded videos, and they've all vanished from the internet... So, maybe you had to have uploaded something to Youtube to have gone missing!
Well that's just great.
These people are my life. I am extremely socially awkward, so without these people, I will be alone. No more advice, no more people comforting me and verifying that I'm not the only random person on this planet. Youtube has gone, and with it, they have taken the most important people in my life from me. I have to find a way to get them back!