In times of anguish, we meme!
When Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all crashed on Monday (October 4) night the world plunged into chaos, with many people flooding to other platforms to share their thoughts and witty takes.
Here's some of the best:
Everyone's worst fear is Facebook becoming sentient.
https://twitter.com/richard_stevo/status/1445294082717257730
You know full well he wasn't fixing it, he was crying in his office.
https://twitter.com/MusaKha29993590/status/1445287152686977028
Understatement of the century.
https://twitter.com/Maziify07/status/1445088607295975434
Oh the good old days!
https://twitter.com/OyooQuartey/status/1445298645906173953
If you haven't watched Squid Game yet then skip the next two memes and go and watch it now.
https://twitter.com/whoistedo/status/1445078393423384588
Me without being able to watch random Facebook videos until I pass out.
https://twitter.com/LetitiaaWright/status/1445158292746014722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1445158292746014722%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unilad.co.uk%2Ftechnology%2Finternet-reacts-as-facebook-instagram-whatsapp-experience-outage%2F
Mr Bean has always been the perfect meme. More like Mr Meme, right? Right? Hello?
https://twitter.com/DanielNewman/status/1445094625065242647
What's a radio?
https://twitter.com/m6_steve/status/1445299950393430019
Brand interactions are the Marmite of the internet - either you love them or hate them.
https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1445087305052602375
No Instagram, don't show your face.
https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1445084977096314880
Even Twitter gets starstruck.
https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1445150670496141312
Amnesty International jump in with a gentle reminder.
https://twitter.com/amnesty/status/1445134155478675460
In similar news, Mark Zuckerberg's net worth took a dramatic dive after the collapse of his internet empire. Though the platforms were down for only seven hours, Zuckerberg took a $7billion hit along with his already diminished reputation dropping even further. That's a swift billion an hour.
During the chaos invoked by all of their platforms going BRB at once, Facebook stockholders began selling, selling, selling, fearing a total company collapse.
These seven hours were enough to shunt Zuckerberg down the wealthiest person list too, where he now sits below Bill Gates at number five.
Facebook has yet to respond with an explanation of the crash but experts believe it was an issue with the DNS which essentially meant that Facebook and all its platforms went puff. But it's fine, panic over, it's back now.
Please don't leave again...
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