A hurricane of memes and trolls erupted after Mark Zuckerberg's Meta-owned social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp suddenly went down. The outage led users of these platforms to criticize the ordeal and take funny digs at this. With many users facing problems with Meta-owned apps, chatting platforms like WhatsApp Business, and Facebook Messenger also went down which came to attract online traction. Many reports regarding the issue have emerged from people all over the world.
Websites that are designed to show outages of such kind also gave significant data regarding users having difficulty signing into their accounts, and some had issues with the interface while accessing their accounts.
The recent outage issue and consequent online reaction offer a subtle commentary on users' dependence on Meta-owned social media platforms. Social media dependency is a common phenomenon and it has become widespread. From teenagers to adults, everyone enjoys spending time scrolling through their social media feeds. Therefore, a sudden outage came off as annoying to many.
Some users were confused if the issue was specific to their device or if it was happening to everyone. Those with an understanding of the issue took no time to post memes around it.
Let's take a look at what netizens are posting on the sudden breakdown of Meta-owned social media apps
Some went on to X to get an understanding of the sudden outage, clear out the confusion, and check if there were any live updates on the breakdown.
Memes offer a scope of light-hearted criticism and funny insight into a sudden ordeal and failure. The popularity of these social media platforms is another factor encouraging the virality of Meta-owned social media outage memes.
Following the outage, Meta has already posted this on X,
"We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience."
An X user took to the platform with this post. The user also made sure to attach a funny caption to enhance the humor. The caption goes:
"Elon messing up Facebook and Instagram so everyone can come back to Twitter"
Here is the post,
Another X user posted with a caption that says,
"Me checking my WiFi, internet connection, refreshing WhatsApp to see if it’s down #whatsappdown"
The Internet is a space that entertains its users and gives them a chance to voice their thoughts. Therefore, many users who were active on multiple chatting platforms, took alternatives like Snapchat, Telegram and X. Netizens are cooking up warm and humorous roast content with hashtags like "#whatsappdown," "#instagramdown," and "#facebookdown," and so on.
An X user took to the platform with a funny gif that offered a comment on how badly the server crashed during the sudden outage.
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