New Delhi, Nov. 18 -- A global Cloudflare outage on Tuesday (November 18) caused widespread service disruptions - and sparked a flood of memes on the few platforms that staggered back online. As X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Canva, League of Legends and even Downdetector went down, users rushed back to X the moment it partially recovered, turning to humour to cope with the chaos.

Even after Cloudflare announced it had identified the root cause and services were slowly coming back online, the memes kept flowing - transforming a massive technical glitch into a global moment of comic relief.

With major platforms inaccessible, users turned to their default coping mechanism during an online crisis - meme-making. Blank screens and frozen das...