Twitters Best Memes About Facebook & Instagram Being Down

Twitter’s Best Memes About Facebook & Instagram Being Down

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When Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down, Twitter was there to save the day, with some hilarious memes and tweets to commemorate the outage.

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The Facebook outage of October 4th seemed to cause a collective panic, and not just because the Big Tech giant hadn’t been down before, but because unlike in 2019, it took its subsidiary social media apps with it. Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went offline too, and for roughly 6 hours the internet didn’t seem to know what to do with itself. And then, like a beacon in the darkness, users turned to the one platform still standing tall in the chaos — Twitter.

Humor became the only way to turn a bad situation into a positive one, and Twitter users new and old joined in the fun of creating barbed memes and tweets to fill the void left by Facebook and Co. While 1 Hacker Drive tried to regain control of a rudderless ship, everyone wondered — would Facebook ever come back? Would they want it to? Was it something out of Squid Game, or just some guy who spilled a can of soda on his keyboard, thereby causing a snowball effect of one catastrophic failure after another? The possibilities, like the memes and tweets, were endless.

10 Dolly Parton With Some Wisdom

Everyone showing up to @Twitter today while @Facebook @instagram @WhatsApp are down like… pic.twitter.com/SGtr722FAo

Even Dolly Parton, movie star and singer herself, couldn’t resist getting in on all the fun, posting a hilarious gif of her in her “high heeled boots and painted-on jeans,” ready to engage with Twitter after Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down for hours.

Dolly recognized that many users new to Twitter would be making their entrances onto the platform in a similar bombastic fashion, forced to get used to a new way of engaging and sharing content. Ever the positive one, the country singer knew that in no time at all their tweets would be “a cowgirl’s dream.” One of the reasons Dolly Parton is so successful on Twitter is because of her ability to adapt humorously to any current situation.

9 Ppogi Problems

This is the best squid game meme of the social apps downtime 😂🙌 #facebookdown WhatsApp pic.twitter.com/Gla5w6zAth

Facebook’s outage has rivaled Netflix’s popular Squid Game for theories, though the latter involves violent punishment for those who lose its challenges. This user put a spin on one of the games undergone by participants hoping to get rich, involving a sugary snack (known as Ppogi) normally sold by street vendors in South Korea. Contestants must try to cut out a shape with a needle, but since the treat is made almost entirely from sugar, the slightest mistake will crack the disc.

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To think that Twitter’s success balances on a knife’s edge like that implies that the entire schema of social media is a precarious one that users should reconsider their emotional investment in.

8 Gingers Ails

These memes aint stopping anytime soon.#facebookdown pic.twitter.com/Vgb2bEsCsn

There was a lot of speculation about exactly why Facebook and the rest of the social apps shut down, and much of it focused on a recent whistleblower’s attempts to shed light on the company’s less than sterling policies behind the scenes. But what if it wasn’t even that complicated?

One user postulated that it could have been as simple as a programmer with butterfingers, accidentally spilling a soda on some of the company servers, thereby short-circuiting them and causing a system-wide shutdown. It’s interesting –and somewhat disconcerting– to contemplate how the largest social media platform in the world could be undone by something so elementary, given how many people depend on it for communication.

7 Only Servers That Haven’t Crashed Get In

Twitter rn pretending their severs never crashed #facebookdown #zukerberg pic.twitter.com/yCJ7w72k1j

Twitter was in an elite category on October 4th, becoming one of a handful of social platforms and apps (including Discord and LinkedIn) to remain standing in a sea of fallen competitors. This user’s meme, conveying Twitter as a member of the gilded Volturi from the Twilight Saga suddenly in a class all its own, was actually a back-handed compliment.

Twitter received an influx of users thanks to Facebook’s kerfuffle, but it can’t claim that it’s never had similar problems. As recently as April of 2021, the social media platform was down for some users, though they usually get a notification from Downdetector when such outages occur.

6 Stop, Or We’ll Reboot

The best meme so far on the #facebookdown news pic.twitter.com/3rT8hP6Wni

Some users wondered if the Facebook outage wasn’t the insidious work of hackers hoping to topple the giant and prove their mettle. Groups like Anonymous have often threatened to overthrow companies associated with the powerful elite if they don’t expose underhanded financial and political dealings they’ve been involved in — a little “confess or we’ll do it for you” warning.

But would it really be so bad if Facebook was down for good? Some users thought a more worthwhile threat than never reactivating Facebook was actually bringing it back online since a lot of its users complain its algorithms have been accused of promoting hateful content to ensure more engagement.

5 What The Zuck

Mark Zuckerberg fixing Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram. 😂😂#WhatsApp#WhatsAppisdown#facebookdown pic.twitter.com/wRaueAm7HU

There’s something quaint about the thought that Mark Zuckerberg, one of the most influential individuals of recent times, is in the back knee-deep in the innards of Facebook’s servers, trying to take responsibility for the outage as this meme suggests.

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg being called upon to make an official statement about one of Facebook’s myriad problems has become a meme in and of itself, to the point where his apologies on the subject –even in Congress– have become rote and clinical, achieving the opposite of what they’ve set out to do.

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4 Wherefore Art Though, Wifi?

Y’all acting as if your WiFi never crashed before #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/1mr2va0LTP

Facebook and its other social apps have in some ways become synonymous with the internet itself. Users have been turning less to Google and news sites to search for headlines and rely on referrals from Facebook to know what’s going on in the world. With the outage, everyone seemed to forget that there were other ways to know about current events.

In the days prior to Facebook, when a router would go down, a modem wasn’t functioning properly, or someone lived too far away to get a reliable internet connection, people simply turned to other ways to occupy their time. At least with Facebook et al being gone for half a day, Wifi was still going strong.

3 Red Light, Green Light

Lol definitely my favorite one #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/U1tl6kr23r

Another appropriate Squid Game meme, this time referencing the incredibly harrowing game of “Red Light, Green Light,” in which any participant caught not freezing at the end of the phrase from the giant doll would be shot to death by a sniper. Like Ali, one of the most likable main characters on the show, Twitter is heroically risking its life to keep everyone from having their social life eliminated.

The meme seems to suggest that without social saviors like Twitter, everyone on October 4th might have been on the brink of losing the one thing they valued most — their online presence. And if they don’t have a life online, do they even have a life? Like Squid Game, everything is about perception.

2 A Man Of Few Words

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Luke Skywalker himself, as though sensing a disturbance in the Force, couldn’t help participating in the aftermath of the Facebook outage, contributing just one simple word — “tweet.” It was instantly liked by tens of thousands of users, proving the power of the platform and of his unique comicality.

Mark Hamill is known for his sense of humor as much as his iconic roles, which vacillates between the truly ridiculous and the subtly ironic. By simply tweeting out one word, he said all he needed to say about the hilariously amplified catastrophe that was happening.

1 Speaking Of Something Being Suddenly Silenced

I wonder if @HamillHimself felt the disturbance as well #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/EAwIzDejRj

This user decided to poke fun at Facebook and its endlessly squabbling population of users, as indecisive as the Galactic Senate, and as prone to feeding on hatred as the Emperor — or is that Facebook itself?

Facebook has long been a place for users to get in plenty of arguments, so maybe this was a good thing of sorts. As it turns out, it wasn’t the fault of users for being endlessly bombarded by negativity, and maybe it wasn’t so bad its outage gave them a break from it for a little while.

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