It wasn’t Vecna sabotaging Netflix as the final two episodes of Stranger Things season 4 dropped; it was you.

The network went down for a brief period on Friday, after a large number of users logged on to stream new episodes, overwhelming the service. The global outage monitoring service Downdetector noted more than 14,000 outages at around midnight Pacific time.

The issue was resolved in around 30 minutes or so, according to Variety, but that didn’t stop a lot of disgruntled viewers from taking to social media to voice their dismay.

And Netflix wasn’t just down for Stranger Things fans – the whole service went dark.

Stranger Things has been racking up significant viewership since the fourth season bowed on May 27th. Deadline reports that the first volume of episodes closed the 28-day window with 930.3 million hours viewed, the most for any English-language Netflix series ever and the second largest audience overall behind the hit smash Squid Game, which clocked in 1.6 billion hours viewed over that period.

All 32 episodes of the show racked up 7.2 billion minutes of streaming from May 30 to June 5. That’s the most of any title since Nielsen began tracking streaming in 2020, which beats out the previous record-holder, Tiger King, which has dominated since March of 2020.

Because the viewership for the two expanded-length episodes in Volume 2 will be added to that for volume one, the show’s final Season 4 tally will become clear in late July but it is not expected to surpass that of Squid Game. 

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