Spotify, Discord And Other Services Mysteriously Go Offline For Several Hours As Internet People React With Frustrated Memes And Speculation

The streaming service Spotify and the messaging app Discord, among other platforms, were down for several hours yesterday, spawning a smorgasbord of frustrated memes and tweets as the internet speculated on the outage that affected millions of users.

Us running to Twitter to see if Spotify and Discord is down for everyone else #spotifydown pic.twitter.com/1XWQVhrPP2

— Harshid (@harshid_17) March 8, 2022

Some memes addressed the question of what users could do instead of going on Spotify and Discord, offering a variety of alternatives (not all of which were very attractive propositions).

damn spotify and discord are down? guess we have to go back to this pic.twitter.com/8Hh6djsrcM

— vyn/vincent/valentino (@VynWas) March 8, 2022

me without spotify and discord: pic.twitter.com/ncd67yqxjq

— chris⁷ | YOONGI DAY (@celestialljoon) March 8, 2022

spotify logged me out, discord off the shits what am i supposed to do, be productive??

— kev (@AwestruckVox) March 8, 2022

Others captured the raw and intense emotional reaction of internet users to the temporary loss of two usually reliable platforms, expressing their woes through memes.

Me waiting for Spotify and Discord to go back up be like: pic.twitter.com/wcFS2HCmRb

— Svien 🇳🇴 (@ThatGoonerSvien) March 8, 2022

A few pointed out the convergence of the Spotify and Discord outage with International Women's Day, wondering how the problems with the two apps might relate to the observance of the holiday.

spotify and discord are down? oh i had no idea, im too busy celebrating the achivements of women on international womens day. sorry that happened to you or whatever though

— emi fisher (speculative) (@emi_f1sher) March 8, 2022

spotify and discord going down on WOMENS DAY?? fix it.

— aileen (@ayoaileen_) March 8, 2022

While the true reason for the outage turned out to be a Google Cloud error, which is a service both companies and many more use, there was also much speculation about the goings-on at Spotify and Discord during the outage. But, thankfully, the companies had reliable tech support on the scene, as noted by Twitter user @OddsOnFPL.

Spotify and Discord right now pic.twitter.com/z2IhpHco5z

— Paddy Keogh (@OddsOnFPL) March 8, 2022

Commentary about the spike in activity at other websites was also part of the afternoon’s anguished memery, especially on Twitter, where many of those who had been wasting time on Spotify and Discord prior to the outages went to continue wasting time.

everyone on their way to twitter bc spotify and discord is down pic.twitter.com/HK7pqXPB0k

— kii misses twice (@99sungyu) March 8, 2022

YouTube after Spotify and Discord are down pic.twitter.com/1MGYpImoMG

— Javi (@xjavieralealx) March 8, 2022

The sudden loss of two pillars of online life sent people around the world into an "emotional" spiral. While the services were only down for about six hours, the reaction to the outage was heated and heavily memed. While short outages like this one have happened in the past, such as the 2018 YouTube outage, it makes one wonder what we would ever do if Spotify, Discord or another prominent website faced an extended outage. Guess we know for certain there will be memes.