'Women and children to the lifeboats.'
Everybody remembers where they were last night when Netflix went down for one hour. Well, at least, the internet remembers. Yesterday evening, users all over the world found themselves unable to stream their favourite TV show and social media went into full meltdown mode.
The problem struck at around 10/11pm last night, prime time for the post-work crowd to put their feet up and stick a Netflix show on. However those keen to watch Queer Eye or The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt were faced with an error message that read, ‘Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again later.’
As tends to be the case with situations like this, people flocked to Twitter to freak out and harass Netflix until the problem was sorted. Netflix Down quickly became the phrase of the hour as #netflixdown began trending, alerting more and more people to the problem.
The service eventually issued a Twitter statement which read, ‘We are aware of members having trouble streaming on all devices. We are investigating the issue and appreciate your patience.’
Keep calm and carry on was not the mantra of the evening, as people began to spiral on Twitter.
Checking Twitter to see if netflix is actuallu down #NetflixDown pic.twitter.com/saLkGCI4Ff
— Dan Knight (@DanK_1999) June 11, 2018
And its down Worldwide!! #Netflix #NetflixDown pic.twitter.com/HeM6oboFMn
— Tony (@TmLFC1988) June 11, 2018
So what do we do now? #netflixdown pic.twitter.com/bsXmKK0h6R
— Amy Prendergast (@amy_elizabethp) June 11, 2018
Netflix is down and people are trying to figure out where to put DVDs into their laptops, that now come standard without CD drives. #netflixdown pic.twitter.com/Y0Se4kxkuZ
— Cormac Moore (@CormacComedy) June 11, 2018
Some had an existential crisis.
When Netflix goes down and you suddenly realize how much time you’ve spent watching it #netflixdown pic.twitter.com/Wz5GHRT6vQ
— Therese Ryan (@TheRealTherese) June 11, 2018
#Netflixdown… This is it people. It's the end of days. pic.twitter.com/iwI9bZ5tnM
— Justin Hutton (@thebeerbeagle) June 11, 2018
Some blamed other users.
Okay .. which one of y’all broke @netflix? #NetflixDown pic.twitter.com/EoCO3Cdfu8
— tPetaccia (@tpet) June 11, 2018
Others rallied around one another.
Netflix is down. Women and children to the lifeboats.
— Sam (@morry_52) June 11, 2018
Like if you just come to twitter to see if netflix is down for everyone @netflix #netflixdown #whatshappeningtomylife #doihavetotalknow
— Julian Spiegel (@xxjul99xx) June 11, 2018
When Netflix starts working#NetflixDown pic.twitter.com/ZBbzmSqw5i
— Niall Moran (@NiallPFM) June 11, 2018
Some found other things to do.
Netflix is down, time to drink my own piss
— Yer owl lady (@JohnGitz_F) June 11, 2018
Nine months from today there will be a spike in births – watch. @netflix #NetflixDown
— Nicholas T. Newman (@nicholasnewman) June 11, 2018
Netflix is down, Time to go outside I guess #netflixdown pic.twitter.com/NRW5fHf3ul
— louis williams (@louis_willams) June 11, 2018
However after roughly an hour, Netflix fixed the problem and let everybody know they could go back to binging to their heart’s content.
The streaming issues we reported earlier have now been resolved. Thank you for your patience, and as always, happy streaming!
— Netflix CS (@Netflixhelps) June 11, 2018
People stopped talking to one another, queued up a season of Friends and watched Joey Tribbiani until their eyes blurred and they fell asleep.
And the world was at peace again.
