‘Leave the World Behind’ Trending Amid Nationwide Cellular Outrage
Get to your bunker and stay away from those Teslas, because we’re apparently living in the opening act of Netflix’s Leave the World Behind.
A nationwide cellphone outage struck the United States on Thursday morning and impacted more than 70,000 customers. The issue apparently started with AT&T’s network, but has affected customers who use Verizon and T-Mobile as well. The problem is serious – it has impacted emergency services such as 911. While the reason for the outage has not yet been revealed, there’s no indication it was due to an intentional or malicious act.
Still, everyone is seemingly making the same reference: Netflix’s recent apocalyptic disaster movie, Leave the World Behind, starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke, which opens with all communications going down after satellites get disabled in an apparent cyber attack. Given that things in the film only got worse from there, some online are either mock panicking or actual panicking, or a combination of both. For added conspiratorial relevance, Leave the World Behind counted Barack Obama as one of its producers (though the story was based on the novel by Rumaan Alam, not pitched by the former president as a prophetic warning or something).
Some of the reactions:
And this Donald Trump parody account:
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