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minus-square@Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink104•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-square@nomadwannabe@lemmy.calinkfedilink41•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-squareLiveLMlinkfedilinkEnglish43•2 years agoNowadays Twitter breaks itself spontaneously, no celeb needed
minus-square@LemmynySnicket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoDoes Elon musk not count as a celeb? Because he was definitely needed to break twitter.
minus-square@SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink27•2 years agoThere was that CDN that went down a couple years ago, that literally broke the internet briefly
minus-square@nbafantest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink20•edit-22 years agoFacebook fucking up their BGP 2 years ago broke the internet for like 1/3 of the world
minus-squarerynzcyclelinkfedilink10•2 years agoWhich is less impressive considering a gentle breeze can break Twitter now.
minus-square@Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•2 years agoOn the same topic, the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscar slap pretty much saturated the internet for a few days
minus-square@VikingHippie@lemmy.wtflinkfedilink1•2 years agoTrue, but the point is that didn’t break it
minus-square@Ktheone@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilink4•2 years agoAnd Gangnam style broke the youtube view counter too, but your point stands
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.
There was that CDN that went down a couple years ago, that literally broke the internet briefly
Laurel
…aaand hearty handshake!
You’d do it for Hedy Lamarr!
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.
On the same topic, the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscar slap pretty much saturated the internet for a few days
True, but the point is that didn’t break it
And Gangnam style broke the youtube view counter too, but your point stands
A Homestuck flash broke Newgrounds once
The internet never breaks, it only splits