These CrowdStrike Memes Will Make the Outage Sting a Little Less

On July 19, global cybersecurity company CrowdStrike pushed an update that caused massive outages all over the world. Airports, banks, and multiple other services found their computers and online systems down, inconveniencing a lot of people.

In between the serious discussions about the crash and hurried solutions, many online are joking about the "blue screen of death" their computers are displaying, sharing memes to make light of the situation. Here's a handful of them.

Thankfully, Mac users are free from this nightmare — and are granted one day of gloating that their preferred system is better in return.

Many employees are logging onto work today to find that they're unable to access their work computers. Those of us who aren't are still looking for a get-out-of-work free card.

Though CrowdStrike is working to fix this issue, their previous ads are not holding up to their promises.

To be clear, the Las Vegas Sphere isn't actually down from the CrowdStrike outage — but this meme is still funny.

Kaboom!

Sometimes it's all about perspective.

It's really just Windows users experiencing issues today, so everyone who thinks they're better than a Windows computer can give themselves a little pat on the back for being right.

Your travel plans may be inconvenienced, but Mother Nature is breathing a bit easier right now.

Clearly this update needed some more time to cook.

This is why you don't put out updates on a Friday, people.