Can't create Custom Shortcuts with type URL

[nichdenes]

Recently, upon clicking on my Youtube shortcut I was greeted with an error message about "No application is associated". I did some research and found a solution where you create a txt file and change the extension to .url and then set it to "Open With" google chrome (my default browser) however when it opens it just goes to a page called Youtube.url with a message: [InternetShortcut]
URL=https://www.youtube.com/. How can I get the URL custom shortcut to work again?