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8 Funniest Memes About The Worldwide Facebook Shutdown

Of course there were 'Squid Game' references.

By May Vin Ang — 05 Oct 2021, 12:53 PM

Cover image via @JeybProno (Twitter) & @hridz_11 (Twitter)

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Facebook and its family of social media platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were down for hours on early Tuesday morning, 5 October

According to The New York Times, the outage affected over 3.5 billion people around the world who use these apps not only to communicate with friends and family, but also for work, news, advertising, food deliveries, livestreaming, and many other forms of distribution of information.

Image via Reuters/Hindustan Times

As people slowly found the platforms unavailable for use, many turned to Twitter to look for answers... and it also led to hundreds of hilarious responses and memes.

We've compiled a few for your viewing pleasure:

1.

When Instagram & Facebook are down. pic.twitter.com/mVFlVOOCOC
— Netflix (@netflix) October 4, 2021

2.

Instagram and Facebook coming to Twitter to announce that their service is down right now, #WhatsApp #facebookdown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/txrWcjaC6U
— Hridita (@hridz_11) October 4, 2021

3.

This is Twitter after #Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp are down #whatsappdown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/uG0IMZ0wAk
— Harjinder Singh Kukreja (@SinghLions) October 4, 2021

4.

#instagramdown #facebookdown #WhatsApp #InternetShutDown00Facebook dead00Instagram dead 00whatsapp dead pic.twitter.com/10ZU8bINkZ
— JEYBPRONO (@JeybProno) October 4, 2021

5.

Instagram down. WhatsApp down. Facebook down.Twitter right now: pic.twitter.com/8dTjlSfzzH
— B/R Football (@brfootball) October 4, 2021

6.

Me waiting for FB IG WA to come back: pic.twitter.com/sbd0SrtqUO
— GSC (@GSCinemas) October 4, 2021

7.

Mark zuckerberg and his employees right now #InternetShutDown #serverdown #facebookcrash pic.twitter.com/2ORrTh55qn
— Anushka Kohle (@AnushkaKohle) October 4, 2021

8.

One minute. Just trying to find the Mercedes MySpace password.
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) October 4, 2021

The whole incident also led to this ultimate response from Twitter:

hello literally everyone
— Twitter (@Twitter) October 4, 2021

Basking in the spotlight, the tweet garnered over 2.5 million likes and replies from other major social media platforms, brands, and celebrities who were online.