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32 Funny Memes That Show How Freaked Out Everyone Was By The At&t Outage

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If you’re an AT&T customer, you’ve likely been affected by the widespread cell outage that left users across the US unable to place calls, text, or access the Internet.

Though the company provided no official reason for the outage, the issue appears to be related to how cellular services hand off calls from one network to the next, a process known as peering, according to CNN.

While Verizon and T-Mobile customers also reported some network outages, they appeared to be less widespread.

The issue began Thursday (February 22) morning. Roughly 11 hours after reports of the outage first emerged, AT&T informed that it had restored service to all affected customers and “sincerely apologized” for the inconvenience.

The company also added that it’s “taking steps to ensure our customers do not experience this again in the future.”

Below, Bored Panda presents 32 memes that creatively capture people's reactions to the situation, ranging from despair to humor.

#1 Y2K Flashbacks

Ok millennials, we’ve been training for this for 25 years. You know what to do.#Y2K #attoutage #outage #leavetheworldbehind pic.twitter.com/Ee20imi9cr

— The Problem (@prob1984) February 22, 2024

#2 Six Hours Can Be A Long Time Not To See Insta Stories

ATT still isn’t working like 6 hours later????? pic.twitter.com/s3bF46kLjQ

— Angela (@angelamaay) February 22, 2024

#3 Boomers Had A Plan All Along

All the boomers with land line phones this morning. 15 years in the making for them. #ATTdown #outage pic.twitter.com/cYPm8Do3HV

— Tim Dougherty (@Tim_D88) February 22, 2024

#4 Going Back In Time To The 90s

Me trying to get in touch with @ATT this morning to see how this will reflect on my bill #CyberAttack pic.twitter.com/AqrFOO7wIf

— benji (@benji0rdie) February 22, 2024

#5 Service Credit

People’s reaction when AT&T asks them if a $10 service credit is enough. #outage #ATTdown #CyberAttack #sosmode pic.twitter.com/Sx8uS6TfZk

— steve (@stevetapernacle) February 22, 2024

#6 A Baseball Teams Joins In On The Fun

Image credits: TheChicagoDogs

#7 A New Page Written In Social Media History Books

What was it like the day of the Verizon At&t and T-mobile all having a nationwide outage #outage pic.twitter.com/y1ejKsHMrz

— Pizza Dad (@Pizza__Dad) February 22, 2024

#8 An Unexpected MVP

Metro PCS after not being apart of the problem ???? #outage pic.twitter.com/yliBJbMsRK

— ‏ً (@_Xins) February 22, 2024

#9 There’s Always A Fitting Scene From The Office

iPhone users stuck in SOS mode waking up like… #outage pic.twitter.com/FN3AkIZiTb

— chrissy paradis (@chrissyparadis) February 22, 2024

#10 Verizon Girlies

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#11 Kris Jenner Would Never Manage At&t

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#12 Cast Away

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#13 No Internet = End Of The World

How it felt checking Twitter this morning #noservice #att #myiphone pic.twitter.com/CXBZeRaWM1

— Rach |-/ (@variantpolarize) February 22, 2024

#14 Internet Withdrawal

Me sitting at home on WiFi and watching people melt down with internet withdrawal due to the AT&T #outage pic.twitter.com/nwttdQokGo

— efitz (@m0ralh4zard) February 22, 2024

#15 Verizon Customers Looking Down At The Peasantry

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#16 Tracfone Users Saw It Coming

I use Tracfone????. Me watching everyone complain about att being down pic.twitter.com/EVxXFq2Vim

— Michael (@megoing) February 22, 2024

#17 Completely Clueless

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#18 Not An Expert

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#19 AT&T Users Right Now:

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#20 Leaving The World Behind

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#21 Scrolling Down Your Social Media Feed As The World Burns

Me with Verizon while everyone on my timeline with AT&T is losing their freaking minds. #outage pic.twitter.com/7GKuTUrEUx

— Kayla Braxton (@KaylaBraxtonWWE) February 22, 2024

#22 Duolingo Strikes Again

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#23 The Good Old Days Of Cingular

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#24 Do You Have AT&T?

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#25 Final Texts

Me after sending my final texts and leaving my WIFI riddled home to run errands on ATT’s “America’s Oregon Trail provider” wireless network. #ATT #ATTdown #attoutage pic.twitter.com/ib8tpBTgAX

— Kristy Mullican (@kristy_dots) February 22, 2024

#26 Some Thought They Forgot To Pay Their Bills

Everyone with #ATT waking up this morning and trying to remember if they paid their bill this month #outage #ATTdown #attoutage pic.twitter.com/elFmtdvUUa

— SUGARBOMB (@REALSUGARB0MB) February 22, 2024

#27 Confused Screaming

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Image credits: Stolenmemesrus

#28 A Celebration After The Tragedy

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#29 Flocking To X (Twitter)

Americans are flocking to Twitter to find out why AT&T is experiencing an outage. #outage pic.twitter.com/z1T7MbXb5g

— ???????????????? ???????????????????????? ???? (@lisagreeneusa) February 22, 2024

#30 IT Workers’ Favorite Line

Hey, @att did you try unplugging it, waiting 10 seconds and plugging it back in yet? #noservice pic.twitter.com/D1MZKhwFFo

— Caroline ???? (@o_line) February 22, 2024

#31 A Gold Mine For Conspiracy Theorists

T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, AT&T all reporting nationwide outages the conspiracy theorists be like… pic.twitter.com/jBq9Z2yylS

— Meme Kingdom (@MemeKINGD0M) February 22, 2024

#32 There’s No Escaping Zoom Meetings

T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, AT&T all reporting nationwide outages...but I still have to hop on this Zoom meeting at 9 a.m. pic.twitter.com/6XTb9xiVqS

— Ryan Boger (@rboger12) February 22, 2024


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