Cloudflare Snaps and Half the Internet Goes Down -- Thanos Style

Description

A meme using the iconic Thanos snap scene from Avengers: Infinity War. Thanos (Josh Brolin) is shown about to snap his fingers with the Infinity Gauntlet, with text overlay reading 'SNAP! and Half the internet is DOWN.' Below his hand is the Cloudflare logo (orange cloud icon with 'CLOUDFLARE' text). The meme compares Cloudflare outages to Thanos's snap that wiped out half of all life in the universe, implying that when Cloudflare goes down, half the internet disappears with it due to so many websites depending on their CDN and DDoS protection services

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Thanos needed six Infinity Stones to wipe out half the universe. Cloudflare just needs one bad deploy to wipe out half the internet -- and they didn't even need a gauntlet, just a misconfigured edge node

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Thanos needed six Infinity Stones to wipe out half the universe. Cloudflare just needs one bad deploy to wipe out half the internet -- and they didn't even need a gauntlet, just a misconfigured edge node
Anonymous

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. 50% of websites are up, 50% are returning a 502 Bad Gateway. It's the DNS-level equivalent of a coin toss