“Not now sweetie, Mummy’s making CrowdStrike memes” — a compilation of the finest jokes the internet has created amongst crippling digital chaos
In times of crisis, you can count on the internet to make a joke out of it, and today hasn’t disappointed in these quality memes
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What you need to know
If there’s anything human beings do well in times of crisis, it’s buy massive volumes of toilet paper and make memes about catastrophes. Today, theCrowdstrike outage led to a global meltdownas planes were grounded, 911 lines went down, health procedures were delayed, and the most crucial disaster,Starbucks mobile orders ceased to function.The whole crisis has been referred to as a “digital pandemic” by many tabloids, and while it may not have resulted in people queuing at Costco for bulk orders of toilet paper, it has thrown out some of the best memes I’ve seen in a long time. Here’s our round-up of the best that social media had to offer in these trying times:
Remember the millennium bug?
As the year 2000 approached, those of us old enough to remember will recall how the world held its breath for a digital meltdown… and absolutely nothing came of it. It looks like the millennium bug was just a little tardy.
The millennium bug showing up 24 years late https://t.co/GzPW7AvRbT pic.twitter.com/WLvkMmGd2gJuly 19, 2024
What a first day
While it wasn’t this guy’s actual first day, his commitment to the meme throughout the day has been stellar. Vincent has since changed his bio to “Former Crowdstrike employee, fired for an unfair reason, only changed 1 line of code to optimize. Looking for a job as a Sysadmin.”
ex-UK Prime Minister catching strays
Anyone know how Liz Truss’s first day at Microsoft is going?July 19, 2024
Liz Truss, the ex-UK Prime Minister famed for lasting less time in power than a lettuce, has even caught some strays in the fray today. Already subject this week to a King’s Speech decreeing that " the mistakes of Liz Truss’s ‘mini-budget’ cannot be repeated"— a comment that has since been removed at her request—she’s now been blamed for Microsoft’s transgressions, too. What a resume.
You know it’s good when it gets Community noted
Ah the iconicBlue Screen of Death(BSOD), while airport screeen have genuinely been affected, the Vegas Sphere was just a great joke. So great too many people fell for it and its currently showing Community note suggestions including “Fake News. The photo is from 2023, and the Sphere is located in Las Vegas, not Los Angeles.”
Never forget the Suez Canal
A line of code has gotten itself stuck in the Suez Canal
More blue screen of death
crowdstrike mood board 🫧𓇼𓏲*ੈ✩‧₊˚🎐 pic.twitter.com/XaZTSZWvjEJuly 19, 2024
The comment “wait are these real?” is the funniest part of this tweet. Yes, the world really is completely melting down right now!
Special mentions
If your IT guy dresses like this you don’t have to worry about crowdstrike pic.twitter.com/J9T42dcLkOJuly 19, 2024
Waking up as a Linux user today #Crowdstrike pic.twitter.com/rkC4hGQhLYJuly 19, 2024
The self-own…
62 minutes could bring your business down say Crowdstrike on its own website, well one update today took less than that…
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Crowdstrike is now fixed
Here’show to fix the Crowdstrike Blue Screen error on Windows 11if you’re still having issues. The disaster may now be over, but many services will be recovering for days to come. And, of course, the memes will live on.
Jen is a News Writer for Windows Central, focused on all things gaming and Microsoft. Anything slaying monsters with magical weapons will get a thumbs up such as Dark Souls, Dragon Age, Diablo, and Monster Hunter. When not playing games, she’ll be watching a horror or trash reality TV show, she hasn’t decided which of those categories the Kardashians fit into. You can follow Jen on Twitter@Jenbox360for more Diablo fangirling and general moaning about British weather.
