The internet never breaks, it only splits
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Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I feel like we should put a rest to the term “breaking the internet.”
Am I the only one here completely out of the loop?
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
nomadwannabe@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Yeah nothing viral has really ever broken the internet.
Ellen Degenerate’s Oscar tweet sort of broke Twitter briefly, I can’t think of much else.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Nowadays Twitter breaks itself spontaneously, no celeb needed
LemmynySnicket@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Does Elon musk not count as a celeb? Because he was definitely needed to break twitter.
Ddhuud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Definitely doesn’t count. There’s famous, and then there’s infamous.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There was that CDN that went down a couple years ago, that literally broke the internet briefly
LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 10 months ago
Laurel
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…aaand hearty handshake!
nbafantest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Facebook fucking of the BGP 2 years ago broke the internet for like 1/3 of the world
rynzcycle@kbin.social 10 months ago
Which is less impressive considering a gentle breeze can break Twitter now.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 10 months ago
On the same topic, the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscar slap pretty much saturated the internet for a few days
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
True, but the point is that didn’t break it
Ktheone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And Gangnam style broke the youtube view counter too, but your point stands
outer_spec@lemmy.studio 10 months ago
A Homestuck flash broke Newgrounds once