Youtube app giving playback errors

I updated this app to the latest just a little while ago, and have been able to play videos on it until tonight. Now for some reason no matter what video I click on, and it can be completely random, it gives a gray background with a cat's head shadow on the background and says "playback error".
What's going on? My internet is usually fine for videos so I don't know why it would be picky now. Is anyone else having trouble with this app?

See:
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