Archive · 19 Nov 2025
Cloudflare Engineer's First Day Coincides with Massive Internet Outage
A new engineer at Cloudflare started his job on the same day the company had a big internet outage.
People on the internet made jokes about him causing the problem, and he even got fired.
But then he started his own company later that day, which people thought was funny too.
Cloudflare suffered a major outage on the first day of a new engineer's job
The engineer, @bunnysayzz, joked about his role in the outage on Twitter
The internet responded with memes, blaming him for the service disruptions
Despite being fired, @bunnysayzz launched his own startup, Mac Bunny, the same day
The incident sparked widespread humor and discussion on social media
- Who
- Cloudflare engineer @bunnysayzz
- What
- Coincided with a massive internet outage
- When
- On his first day of work
- Where
- At Cloudflare
- Why
- Unknown, but likely unrelated to the outage
Those Blaming the New Engineer
Those Supporting the New Engineer
Timing of Outage
Those Blaming the New Engineer
The outage happened on the new engineer's first day, suggesting his involvement.
Those Supporting the New Engineer
Coincidence; no evidence suggests the new engineer caused the outage.
- Outage Duration
- Several hours
- Services Affected
- X (formerly Twitter), Spotify, ChatGPT, among others
- New Engineer's Twitter Handle
- @bunnysayzz
- New Engineer's Startup
- Mac Bunny (macbunny.co)
- Outage Cause
- Unknown, not attributed to the new engineer
