diff --git a/src/constants.ts b/src/constants.ts
index 04d4a067..327b68ad 100644
--- a/src/constants.ts
+++ b/src/constants.ts
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ export const LN_INVOICE_REGEX = /(ln(?:bc|tb|bcrt))([0-9]+[munp]?)?1([02-9ac-hj-
 export const EMOJI_REGEX =
   /[\u{1F600}-\u{1F64F}]|[\u{1F300}-\u{1F5FF}]|[\u{1F680}-\u{1F6FF}]|[\u{1F1E0}-\u{1F1FF}]|[\u{2600}-\u{26FF}]|[\u{2700}-\u{27BF}]|[\u{1F900}-\u{1F9FF}]|[\u{1FA70}-\u{1FAFF}]|[\u{1F004}]|[\u{1F0CF}]|[\u{1F18E}]|[\u{3030}]|[\u{2B50}]|[\u{2B55}]|[\u{2934}-\u{2935}]|[\u{2B05}-\u{2B07}]|[\u{2B1B}-\u{2B1C}]|[\u{3297}]|[\u{3299}]|[\u{303D}]|[\u{00A9}]|[\u{00AE}]|[\u{2122}]|[\u{23E9}-\u{23EF}]|[\u{23F0}]|[\u{23F3}]|[\u{FE00}-\u{FE0F}]|[\u{200D}]/gu
 export const YOUTUBE_URL_REGEX =
-  /^https?:\/\/(?:(?:www|m)\.)?(?:youtube\.com\/(?:watch\?[^#\s]*|embed\/[\w-]+)|youtu\.be\/[\w-]+)(?:\?[^#\s]*)?(?:#[^\s]*)?/g
+  /https?:\/\/(?:(?:www|m)\.)?(?:youtube\.com\/(?:watch\?[^#\s]*|embed\/[\w-]+)|youtu\.be\/[\w-]+)(?:\?[^#\s]*)?(?:#[^\s]*)?/g
 
 export const MONITOR = '9bbbb845e5b6c831c29789900769843ab43bb5047abe697870cb50b6fc9bf923'
 export const MONITOR_RELAYS = ['wss://relay.nostr.watch/']