Did We Break the Internet Today? What Is Happening?

Today started simple enough: we woke up to the news that there is basically a nuclear arms race between Russia and the United States yet again. Completely normal stuff for 2019. But then, you know, the internet began to break. First, it was with a very weird video that the Netflix Film Twitter posted mashing together our love of Lady Gaga singing “Shallow” with … Sandra Bullock in Bird Box?

Are you doing okay, Netflix social media person?

Super weird but nothing to be alarmed by. Just someone who clearly had a day. But then, we discovered that the official Twitter account for Sparknotes is just filled with memes about classic literature.

All of this seems like just typical internet garble but then pair it with a pop-up shop for the Fyre Festival and you have a great big question mark over what is happening with the internet today. Basically, you can go to a pop-up at a store that just mocks the Fyre Festival and it even lets you take a picture on a fake jet with a cheese sandwich. And, if you go, you get to take a picture with an imagie of Billy McFarland in prison clothes! So neat.

If that wasn’t enough, Squarespace released this commercial where Idris Elba, who can sing, is lipsyncing to “Que Sera Sera” as sung by a little girl. The video is directed by Spike Jonze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6GU3ywU6U

Don’t worry though, this is apparently Squarespace’s tactic for Super Bowl traction, because last year, they had Keanu Reeves standing on a motorcycle to promote building your own website?

Speaking of Keanu Reeves, at least, in the world of everything being bonkers today, he’s still a good one. May he live forever and continue to be our immortal king.

Have we all been trapped inside for too long? Has the polar vortex cold reached to us to the point where we’re making super weird memes and starting Fyre Festival pop-up shops? Maybe we’re universally having a case of the Fridays so we’re all just scrambling for weird things to make sense of the universe which results in *gestures wildly* whatever this is.

Someone, save the internet! You’re our only hope.

(image: STEFANIE LOOS/AFP/Getty Images)

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Rachel Leishman (She/Her) is an Assistant Editor at the Mary Sue. She's been a writer professionally since 2016 but was always obsessed with movies and television and writing about them growing up. A lover of Spider-Man and Wanda Maximoff's biggest defender, she has interests in all things nerdy and a cat named Benjamin Wyatt the cat. If you want to talk classic rock music or all things Harrison Ford, she's your girl but her interests span far and wide. Yes, she knows she looks like Florence Pugh. She has multiple podcasts, normally has opinions on any bit of pop culture, and can tell you can actors entire filmography off the top of her head. Her current obsession is Glen Powell's dog, Brisket. Her work at the Mary Sue often includes Star Wars, Marvel, DC, movie reviews, and interviews.

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