Spotify, Discord Crash in Google Cloud Outage — Elon Musk Has the Last Laugh
A major Google Cloud outage on June 12 disrupted a long list of popular platforms — from Spotify and Discord to Google Meet — leaving millions of users across the U.S. temporarily disconnected. While engineers scrambled behind the scenes to restore services, Elon Musk took to X (formerly Twitter) with a typically cheeky response: a meme that read, “LOOK AT ME. X IS THE INTERNET NOW.”
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With just a few emojis — fire and flex — Musk once again did what he does best: turn a major tech incident into a viral moment.
What Happened with Google Cloud?
The outage began around 2:30 PM ET, according to reports on Downdetector, an outage tracking site. Google Cloud services went down for thousands of users, causing ripple effects across internet services that depend on it — including Gmail, Google Meet, and even third-party apps like Spotify, Discord, and Twitch.
At its peak, over 44,000 Spotify users and more than 10,000 Google Cloud users reported issues. While cloud service hiccups aren’t rare, the widespread nature of this one made it especially disruptive — not just for individual users, but also for businesses that rely on cloud platforms to keep things running.
Google’s Response to Elon Musk
Google acknowledged the Google Cloud outage via its official status page, stating that multiple products were experiencing issues. Engineers are still working on root cause analysis and mitigation, but the incident has already sparked renewed concern about just how dependent we’ve become on a handful of digital infrastructures.
A Joke With Strategy?
While Elon Musk’s post may seem like just another meme, there’s a message underneath the humor. As the owner of X, a platform he’s been aggressively expanding into everything from media to payments, Musk used the moment to subtly suggest that his platform is a more stable alternative in a time when the internet feels increasingly fragile.
Whether taken seriously or not, it’s a classic Musk move: turning headlines into brand building.
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