Friday, July 19th, 2024 will be remembered as one of the most chaotic days around the world. The global IT outage caused massive problems for banks, airlines, and hospitals and has been analyzed through technical breakdowns, report analyses, articles, and news outlets — so we won't add another analysis to the mix.
We're here to share the memes.
But before we have a bit of fun with some of the Qase team's favorite memes and jokes in response to the CrowdStrike outage, we'd like to acknowledge that while some of us were having a good laugh, thousands of others were negatively impacted by this issue. We appreciate and acknowledge all the IT, Development, Quality Assurance, and Testing professionals who worked (and continue to work) on resolving the issues.
A collection of the best CrowdStrike outage memes
IT, Dev, QA, and Testers’ meme game was strong
— ᴉpᴉǝH 🐐💕 (@summer__heidi) July 19, 2024
#Crowdstrike #Friday #infosec #Memes pic.twitter.com/JazRbK1E4A
— Gr@ve_Rose (@Grave_Rose) July 19, 2024
Trying to convince the United gate agent to let me reboot Windows in safe mode and delete “C-00000291*.sys”, to no avail pic.twitter.com/NOFkEDnd3y
— Russell Kaplan (@russelljkaplan) July 19, 2024
Last time civilization collapsed, it was the Sea Peoples, but this time it appears to be the C++ Peoples.
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) July 19, 2024
Outages, but make it art
A few people got creative with parody songs, poems, and graphics.
Bye, bye cs zero two nine
— Floreat concordia et ars (@L_A_Scott_) July 19, 2024
Admin'd windows into update but the update said :-(
Them good ole boys were hacking emacs and vi
And sayin' this'll be the day that I load 'nix
This'll be the day I load 'nix
The HugOps Song was written for such a time as this.
— Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal) July 19, 2024
Hugs to CrowdStrike, but even more so to the IT teams around the world dealing with the fallout of this outage. https://t.co/gHzilACY0T
Crowdstrike pic.twitter.com/gZi4rR1nue
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) July 19, 2024
it's official #microsoft #crowdstrike #falcon pic.twitter.com/JaHzYRkg1p
— dw1 (@dwisiswant0) July 19, 2024
It's already been changed back, but this is funny#Crowdstrike pic.twitter.com/NvPFGsv9mx
— Anthony Bennett (@Anthonydownunda) July 19, 2024
todays horoscope pic.twitter.com/DWoQRPAc8y
— david powell (@AchiestDragon) July 19, 2024
Microsoft didn’t start the fire but they sure got some heat!
CrowdStrike is an independent cybersecurity company, so while their software update took out many Microsoft systems, this was not a Microsoft incident. Of course, that wasn’t immediately clear and the jokes were abundant.
Microsoft right now. pic.twitter.com/5AA5YuseR5
— Matthew Highton (@MattHighton) July 19, 2024
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) July 19, 2024
— TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) (@TechnicallyRon) July 19, 2024
Engineers at Microsoft right now pic.twitter.com/jcPSIzEjJD
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) July 19, 2024
Kelly Rowland checking if Microsoft is working yet so she can send a text on Excel pic.twitter.com/5IJAo7GhqU
— SHANE REACTION (@imshanereaction) July 19, 2024
CrowdStrike, you ok?
Many people wondered what the CrowdStrike offices looked like last week.
Leaked footage of CrowdStrike's legal department this morning pic.twitter.com/OyS0aoxjH4
— vx-underground (@vxunderground) July 19, 2024
crowdstrike mood board 🫧𓇼𓏲*ੈ✩‧₊˚🎐 pic.twitter.com/XaZTSZWvjE
— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) July 19, 2024
First day at Crowdstrike, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️ pic.twitter.com/bOs4qAKwu0
— Vincent Flibustier 👽 (@vinceflibustier) July 19, 2024
Laughing from the sidelines
While people and companies around the world struggled, plenty of others were enjoying being on the sidelines and feeling smug about not being affected.
Southwest airlines being rewarded for not staying up-to-date with the latest tech https://t.co/8z0MGH2OW9 pic.twitter.com/CkDu8T41gf
— SuttonImpaQt, JD (@suttonimpaQt) July 19, 2024
Let’s not leave our Windows friends alone :( pic.twitter.com/zZnVMQuTxn
— Dogan Ural (@doganuraldesign) July 19, 2024
Mac users watching the #Crowdstrike debacle: pic.twitter.com/Pn3XVZsnfx
— ᴺᴼᵀ Jony Ive (@JonyIveParody) July 19, 2024
When there's a global Microsoft IT outage but you have a MacBookpic.twitter.com/dwaW2XDeSy
— LilMoonLambo (@LilMoonLambo) July 19, 2024
So terrible it's funny
Again, we know this massive outage was a disaster. But aren't disasters a little easier to deal with when the jokes are good?
This is what they told us Y2K was going to be like. #crowdstrike pic.twitter.com/1pNaXzOLle
— Grifter (@Grifter801) July 19, 2024
it's amazing that the CrowdStrike fix is literally " have you tried turning it off and on again?" It's working for some IT admins! pic.twitter.com/YVQb9Lc9Fp
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) July 19, 2024
a moment of silence for all those affected by today's tragedy pic.twitter.com/nSAHJH4ASV
— yifei e/λ (@yifever) July 19, 2024
happy international bluescreen day😍 pic.twitter.com/caAvytQyS9
— sxchopea (@sxchopea) July 19, 2024
