A few moments after the highly anticipated Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 2 released on Netflix, many reported that the streaming service had crashed.
Now, we won’t immediately blame it on Vecna, but it does seem as though as the influx of people hopping onto Netflix to watch the final 2 episodes caused a bit of traffic congestion.
According to global uptime-monitoring site Downdetector, user reports of problems with Netflix spiked around 3am ET, which is when the series went live. Thankfully, the problem seemed to be resolved within half an hour but complaints peaked at nearly 13,000 at a point.
This didn’t come as much of a surprise as the fourth season already set the record as the number 1 English-language series on the service in its first four weeks of release.
And with the last two episodes being almost feature length films in their own right, with the finale clocking at 150 minutes, it seemed inevitable that the anticipation would cause some overflow of streaming. But as the adjustments were being made, social media was of course blowing up with memes about the whole ordeal.
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