So, that December 22nd TikTok thing. What a circus, right? I was just trying to unwind, scroll through some videos, see what nonsense was trending. Opened the app, and it was just…busted. Completely. Wouldn’t load a thing. My first reaction? Great, another thing broken. Seems like that’s the theme lately.
I did the usual dance, you know. Toggled my Wi-Fi, restarted the phone, the whole nine yards. Nada. Then, the lightbulb moment – maybe it’s not just my bad luck for once.
So, I hopped over to what used to be Twitter. And yeah, it was blowing up. #TikTokDown everywhere. People losing their minds. It was a mix of pure panic from the super-users and a ton of memes from everyone else. Honestly, some of the memes were pretty good.
- You had folks acting like the sky was falling.
- Some were convinced it was a super sophisticated cyber attack.
- And a lot were just complaining they couldn’t see their favorite creators.
It was a whole thing. And watching it all unfold, I couldn’t help but think, this is just how things are now. One little hiccup and everyone goes into a frenzy.
It’s like everything is held together with tape
This whole TikTok meltdown, it just reminded me of something else entirely, actually. Just last week, I went to that new automated grocery store, the one with no cashiers? Supposed to be the future. Half the scanners weren’t working. People were just standing there, waving their items at these dead machines. One guy was trying to pay for a single banana for, like, ten minutes. Total chaos. And the staff, if you could find any, just shrugged. Said it was a ‘system update’ or some nonsense.
It feels like that everywhere. Things are supposed to be super advanced, super connected, but then they just…fall apart. And everyone just sort of accepts it, or makes memes. Whether it’s TikTok going down or the self-checkout refusing to acknowledge your existence.
I remember trying to call my internet company a while back – similar vibe. Got put through an endless phone tree, talked to three different robots, and then finally a human who sounded like they were reading from a script written in another language. Problem never got fixed, by the way. Just magically started working again three days later. No explanation.
So when TikTok went down, yeah, it was annoying for a bit. But part of me was just like, ‘Yep, sounds about right.’ Another cog in the machine sputtering. It came back on eventually, of course. And everyone moved on. But it’s just… tiring, isn’t it? This constant state of things being slightly, or massively, broken. And we all just keep scrolling, hoping the next thing works. Wild world.
