When the Facebook outage occurred on Monday morning, it seemed obvious that a whole bunch of memes related to the incident would show up online. Amazon Prime Video also jumped onto the bandwagon by sharing a meme on the official social media account for its popular series, The Boys.
While the internet went into a frenzy over Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp being down for almost six hours, The Boys decided to have some fun and turned to the surviving social media service, Twitter. Keeping in line with the series’ humorous tones, the meme shared by the account poked fun at Mark Zuckerberg’s empire, with Twitter coming out as the victor.
The meme perfectly captured the true state of social media, with users flocking to Twitter the minute the other services go down. The tweet simply read, “when Facebook and Instagram are down,” and the meme features Antony Starr's Homelander surrounded by a whole bunch of his fans. In the case of the social media outage, Homelander is Twitter and users are flocking towards him because the other social media channels have gone dark.
The scene is from season 1 of The Boys, in which Homelander appears in front of an audience of fans who seem to love the hero for all his work. The tweet immediately became quite popular among fans of the series, receiving a lot of likes and retweets.
Amazon Prime's hit series The Boys offers a unique take on a world where superheroes and citizens live together. While the vigilantes aren’t all necessarily good, they are being used as a distraction tool by the government to hide levels of corruption. The show’s dark humor has been appreciated by fans, making the series a massive success. When the second season premiered, it became one of the most-watched shows in its first week of release globally, as stated by a Nielsen report.
The Boys was renewed for its third season, with filming having wrapped just recently. As with many other projects, the third season of the popular series has been delayed due to the ongoing pandemic. While there is no official premiere date for the third season, many expect it to be released next year. Similar to the first two seasons, the episodes will most likely premiere in a weekly-release format. Amazon is also working on a The Boys spin-off series that will focus on a college for young individuals with superpowers.
The Boys is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Source: The Boys/Twitter