A global Cloudflare outage on Tuesday (November 18) caused widespread service disruptions — and sparked a flood of memes on the few platforms that staggered back online. As X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Canva, League of Legends and even Downdetector went down, users rushed back to X the moment it partially recovered, turning to humour to cope with the chaos.

Memes fill the void

Even after Cloudflare announced it had identified the root cause and services were slowly coming back online, the memes kept flowing — transforming a massive technical glitch into a global moment of comic relief.

If anything, the outage underscored one truth: when the internet goes down, the memes only go up.

Among the most widely shared posts were:

“Twitter is down… but our memes are still up!”

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