Moments That Broke the Internet

Answer questions relating to situations where online services were broken by moments of intense traffic

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Hint	Answer
Artists who both crashed Ticketmaster with the release of US tour tickets	Taylor Swift
	Beyoncé
Video game character whose reveal for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is believed to be behind one of Twitter’s longest outages	Steve
Media personality whose “Break the Internet” magazine cover resulted in the outage of the magazine’s website	Kim Kardashian
Celebrity whose 2009 death caused so much search traffic that Google believed they were on the receiving end of a DDoS attack	Michael Jackson
TV show whose final episode resulted in extreme lag spikes and outages of HBO services	Game of Thrones
Marvel movie whose pre-sale day resulted in the crashing of AMC, Fandango, and Atom	Avengers: Endgame
Video game console that became available for pre-order without warning, resulting in multiple websites going down	PlayStation 5

Hint	Answer
Billionaire who purchased Twitter, resulting in a surge in user activity and failure of some platform features	Elon Musk
Korean boy band whose partnership with McDonald’s crashed their app	BTS
Google service whose reveal livestream was struggling to keep up with viewership demands	Stadia
U.S. President whose election resulted in unprecedented search traffic and the failure of many news websites	Barack Obama
Actress whose joint Oprah interview with her royal husband caused an online CBS outage	Meghan Markle
Billionaire media personality whose baby reveal video caused extreme stress on YouTube servers	Kylie Jenner
Mobile game whose 2016 launch was botched due to not being prepared for the extreme traffic it would receive	Pokémon Go