Reddit incident

Video posts are not displaying correctly

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Reddit experienced a minor incident on December 18, 2025 affecting Desktop Web and Mobile Web and 1 more component, lasting 2h 10m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Dec 18, 2025, 10:49 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 19, 2025, 01:00 AM UTC
Duration
2h 10m
Detected by Pingoru
Dec 18, 2025, 10:49 PM UTC

Affected components

Desktop WebMobile WebNative Mobile Apps

Update timeline

  1. investigating Dec 18, 2025, 10:49 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating reports that some video posts are displaying as images.

  2. identified Dec 18, 2025, 11:06 PM UTC

    We've identified and mitigated the underlying problem. Newly uploaded videos should now appear correctly, and we're working on a fix for videos uploaded during the outage.

  3. resolved Dec 19, 2025, 01:00 AM UTC

    A fix has been rolled out and we have fixed the issues with impacted video posts.