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minus-squareMantis_Toboggan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up82arrow-down2·2 years agoI feel like we should put a rest to the term “breaking the internet.” Am I the only one here completely out of the loop?
minus-squarenomadwannabe@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up31·2 years agoYeah 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.
minus-squareLiveLM@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·2 years agoNowadays Twitter breaks itself spontaneously, no celeb needed
minus-squareLemmynySnicket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoDoes Elon musk not count as a celeb? Because he was definitely needed to break twitter.
minus-squareDdhuud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoDefinitely doesn’t count. There’s famous, and then there’s infamous.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·2 years agoThere was that CDN that went down a couple years ago, that literally broke the internet briefly
minus-squareKnightontheSun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years ago…aaand hearty handshake!
minus-squarenbafantest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-22 years agoFacebook fucking up their BGP 2 years ago broke the internet for like 1/3 of the world
minus-squarerynzcycle@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoWhich is less impressive considering a gentle breeze can break Twitter now.
minus-squareKtheone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoAnd Gangnam style broke the youtube view counter too, but your point stands
minus-squareHolyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·2 years agoOn the same topic, the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscar slap pretty much saturated the internet for a few days
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?
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.
Nowadays Twitter breaks itself spontaneously, no celeb needed
Does Elon musk not count as a celeb? Because he was definitely needed to break twitter.
Definitely doesn’t count. There’s famous, and then there’s infamous.
There was that CDN that went down a couple years ago, that literally broke the internet briefly
Laurel
…aaand hearty handshake!
Facebook fucking up their BGP 2 years ago broke the internet for like 1/3 of the world
Which is less impressive considering a gentle breeze can break Twitter now.
And Gangnam style broke the youtube view counter too, but your point stands
On the same topic, the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscar slap pretty much saturated the internet for a few days