Overview
- A Cloudflare system engineer posted a “first day” photo on X hours before a widespread outage disrupted major services including X, Spotify and ChatGPT.
- The timing fueled a meme wave that jokingly blamed the newcomer, with a viral repost from X user Tonia drawing millions of views.
- The engineer joined the jokes by claiming he was fired on day one, then clarified he was not actually dismissed.
- He leveraged the sudden attention to promote his Mac Bunny project, with reports of strong download activity afterward.
- Cloudflare acknowledged widespread 500 errors and serious disruptions to its dashboard and API as the outage persisted for several hours.