It appears even Netflix isn’t safe from the Upside Down.

When Volume 1 of the highly anticipated fifth season of Stranger Things premiered on the streaming service at 5 p.m. PT on Wednesday, fans flooded social media, complaining that Netflix had crashed.

“NETFLIX FIX YOURSELF RIGHT NOW BRO, IVE BEEN WAITING THREE YEARS,” one user wrote on X, while another person added , “OH MY GOD NETFLIX PLS FIX YOURSELF I WANNA WATCH.” Hundreds of people also commented on Netflix’s most recent Instagram post about the Duffer Brothers-created show , asking for the app to be fixed.

The streaming service was seemingly back up and running a few minutes after the new season of Stranger Things dropped, and the official Netflix account on X retweeted a user’s comment that read, “STRANGER THING

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