Second Life experienced a notice incident on October 31, 2025, lasting 30d 20h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 31, 2025, 09:57 PM UTC
We are aware that YouTube embed URLs, not in an iframe, are failing with an error 153. This may be a result of YouTube changes with embed link policies. We are investigating the issue but have seen success using embed URLs in an iframe.
- monitoring Nov 19, 2025, 07:21 PM UTC
We have an update on YouTube embed issues and how to manage your viewing of video content inside Second Life on our Featured News blog here: https://community.secondlife.com/news/featured-news/youtube-embeds-in-second-life-what-happened-and-how-to-keep-your-media-working-r11233/
- resolved Dec 01, 2025, 06:08 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.