Vincent Flibustier "First Day at CrowdStrike" Tweet

About

Vincent Flibustier "First Day at CrowdStrike" Tweet refers to a Twitter / X post reading, "First day at Crowdstrike, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️" posted by user Vincent Flibustier (@vinceflibustier) who alleged to be a former CrowdStrike employee who was fired for implementing the update that caused the 2024 Microsoft Global Outage. Flibustier is pictured in a blue hoodie giving the camera a peace sign and duck face, seemingly located at the CrowdStrike headquarters with the company's logo on the wall behind him. Flibustier's tweet was satire as he's never been employed by CrowdStrike. Flibustier instead runs the parody news site Nordpresse. Regardless, the post amassed millions of views after its upload, generating memes and interest, including some who believed the post to be real.

Origin

On July 19th, 2024, X^[1] user Vincent Flibustier (@vinceflibustier) tweeted a selfie of himself appearing to be at the CrowdStrike headquarters with a captioned reading, "First day at Crowdstrike, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️." In less than a day, the tweet amassed over 10.9 million views and 207,000 likes (shown below).

Flibustier used the tweet to create a thread of replies, including a video in which he stated, "It was indeed definitely absolutely certainly me who did the CrowdStrike modification that caused all this worldwide …" The video received over 1.6 million views and 6,300 likes over the same timeframe (shown below).

Here's a short video to explain what happened..I'm waiting for my letter of dismissal. #Crowdstrike pic.twitter.com/bl4vPxX1E8

— Vincent Flibustier 👽 (@vinceflibustier) July 19, 2024

In his X^[2] bio, Flibustier wrote, "Former Crowdstrike employee, fired for an unfair reason, only changed 1 line of code to optimize. Looking for a job as Sysadmin" (shown below).

Debunking

Vincent Flibustier is not a CrowdStrike employee and he was not fired by the company. Flibustier runs the parody news site Nordpresse on the Belgian internet.^[4][5]

Spread

The tweet received viral reactions after its upload, like one tweet shared by X^[3] user @alifarhat79 on July 19th, 2024, who posted a screenshot of Flibustier's tweet, writing, "Never deleting this app," gaining over 17,000 likes in less than a day (shown below, left).

Less viral memes were also shared on July 19th, such as a quote posted by X^[6] user @EffMktHype that photoshopped Flibustier in the Domino Effect meme template, gaining over 20 likes in less than a day (shown below).

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