The backlash to the finale of Stranger Things didn’t just play out on social media — it spilled directly onto Netflix servers and caused a crash.
In the hours following the show’s divisive series finale, fans flooded Netflix en masse, convinced that what they had just watched couldn’t possibly be the real ending. The result was what many users described as a brief but widespread service failure, with login errors and outages reported as viewers desperately searched for anything resembling an alternate conclusion.