MCU Fans Freaking Out After Disney Plus Crashes Because Of New WandaVision Episode
WandaVision has been getting more and more popular every week, as additional viewers catch up with the Marvel Studios series that’s gripping the internet with its weird mix of sitcom stylings and comic book madness. The show’s hype reached a new peak today, though, as the sheer number of folks who raced to watch the latest episode on Friday morning caused Disney Plus to face outages across the globe.
Tons of fans from the likes of the US, Canada and the UK checked into their D+ accounts this morning to tuck into episode 7 before they got spoiled on social media, only to find that the platform wouldn’t load at all. Many people were being faced with messages warning of “slow internet connection speeds” or “unexpected error” notifications, and as expected, the internet began freaking out.
Now, for those of you who struggled to watch the new episode of WandaVision on Friday morning, there’s a good reason why. Disney+ actually suffered an outage on the morning of Feb. 19.
According to outage tracking website
Downdetector, a huge spike in user-submitted problems was reported on Friday. Just after midnight when the new episode dropped in the U.S., the reported problems rose from zero to over 8,000.
The site further reports that most of these outages happened on the West Coast, mainly in the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle areas. Despite the number of problems submitted, customers were reportedly able to stream
Disney+ suffered technical outages as fans scrambled to watch episode seven of
WandaVision this morning (February 19)
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Outage tracking website
Downdetector reported a huge spike in user-submitted problems, rising from zero reported problems to over 8,000 just after midnight when the new episode dropped in the US.
The site reported that most of the outages occurred on the West Coast, with clusters centred around Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Early risers in the UK also reported problems.
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At the same time, many fans complained about the outage and the inability to watch the new episode with one fan writing: “Disney+ really crashing on me because everybody up in the middle of the night trying to watch
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