People Lost Their Minds When These Popular Websites Went Down

People Annoyed When UK Government Website Crashes After Brexit Exit

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Servers for the parliament.uk site failed to cope with the huge surge of people unhappy with the United Kingdom’s recent decision to exit the European Union. Thousands of people flocked to the site to sign a petition calling for another vote. When they couldn’t do so, they flocked to Twitter instead.

Petition to have a 2nd Referendum caused the Gov website to crash. Let’s just make everything crash and go on strike! #sulking #Brexit

— Ena Q (@Enaregina) June 24, 2016

@crash_matrix what next? “I’M SORRY, DUDEBROS, BUT GAMERGATE FAILED IN RIGGING THE BREXIT PETITION!”???

— Lyle Yiannopoulos (@Lyde15) July 2, 2016

Petition to build a motorway around the UK so that continental Europe can gorp at the horribly compelling ‘brexit’ car crash as it drives by

— Stuart Clarke-Frisby (@stuartfrisby) June 19, 2016