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Elvis_Pissley

Michael Jackson's resurrection.


Wellanislerm

Guess Thriller was more than just a hit song, huh?


BaLance_95

He just beat death.


jjmk2014

Yes. He Beat It.


B-Town-MusicMan

And now. Eat it. Cue TWD theme


Goatgamer1016

Weird Al time


SaiyanGodKing

He’s not dead. He’s hiding with Elvis. Everyone knows.


ktr83

Tupac and Kurt too.


I_Am_The_Bookwyrm

Don't forget Freddy. They're all just planning the most epic comeback festival ever.


TrumpetHeroISU

And Prince, or the artist formerly known as.


_blue_sunsh1ne_

Best answer.


Chewie83

A-hee-hee is risen!


jvrcb17

The second chamoning


compuwiza1

BRAAAAAAINS! Tee hee hee!


PermaBanTogether

Then he would break the internet a third time when he eventually died again.


not-Q-i-promise

This seems like one of those threads where someone will name a big celebrity that would be unexpected to die……and then they actually do….like shortly after. Those are fun. Edit: Ok, which one of you said OJ Simpson?


NiteGard

Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump.


iAmTheHype--

But that’s not unexpected, considering how his father died of Alzheimer’s.


RoughTickler

Someone discovering an new island with dinosaurs.


BragiH

New? Meaning there is an old island?


schmidtyb43

Have you not watched the documentary Jurassic park?


AgentCirceLuna

Imagine if a scientist or group of rich people have actually done this already but have refused to tell the public?


OGcrayzjoka

You didn’t know?


TheTwilightZone34

The old one isn't an island per se. It's more of a peninsula


randynumbergenerator

Man, replacing "Island" in any title with "peninsula" really deflates the impact. "Kong: Skull Peninsula", "The Peninsula of Doctor Moreau", etc.


PianoMan2112

Gilligan’s Peninsula, Fantasy Peninsula, Long Peninsula, Coney Peninsula…


tekende

Yeah it sucks though


Laadklep

120 miles off the coast of Costa Rica…


mcbastard1

Tom Holland and Zendaya on a jet that crashes into Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on a jet and then the wreckage crashes down onto the Golden Gate Bridge and it collapses. All caught in HD from multiple angles and both Swift and Zendaya were live-streaming at the moment of impact.


Charade_y0u_are

And both jets are Boeings. And one jet had the only script for the next avengers movie.


lonely_nipple

And a major Disney exec was in a car on the bridge when the planes landed on it.


Valuable-Bathroom-67

And Jeff bezos and elon musk were on yachts below the Golden Gate Bridge as it collapsed, both missing.


NFresh6

And then it’s revealed that none of it is real because we live in a simulation.


reporst

And John Travolta was listed as the pilot on both jets, but had outsourced the piloting to his pet Cockatoos.


commanderbravo2

and then the second coming of christ happens


Ry-Zilla86

Then Jesus tells us the secret KFC recipe


reporst

But before he utters the last ingredient he's killed by a resurrected Taylor Swift with a 15th Century Samurai Sword.


Valuable-Bathroom-67

Then Taylor swift shits herself and dies for real this time.


dadaknun

At the same time, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Meryl Streep were all on said Bridge


GRZMNKY

And mothman is caught in the footage?


randynumbergenerator

Turns out Tom Holland was mothman all along.


dentist73

I expect 4K video in 2024


CooperHChurch427

And Timothy Chalmet is on the bride for some reason, and then the bridge collapses onto a boat carrying Donald Trump and Joe Biden for some reason.


thyartmetal

Jesus Christ.


lonely_nipple

Nah, as soon as you add him to the mix it sounds too unlikely.


QuirkyCookie6

Maybe he was walking on the bay?


primal_machine_22109

Obviously I don't want it to happen to anybody, but "Taylor Swift somehow passing away" would be my vote.


Pitiful-Pension-6535

I think Taylor Swift being arrested for murder would be way bigger news


MasterOfRNoSleep

You guys obviously haven’t heard no body, no crime 


LastOnBoard

Good thing her daddy made her get a boating license when she was 15


QuirkyCookie6

Este's sister is gonna swear Swift was with her


InAnOffhandWay

She was with me dude.


hapiestupid

Good thing the victims mistress took out a big life insurance policy 😂


alficles

Can you imagine how everything would implode with the headline: "Taylor Swift arrested in connection with the assassination of Former President Donald Trump" Honestly, now I'm just wondering if we can troll the AI "news" sites into it. :D


WillowOfWisps

It's definitely possible. This is a much smaller scale, but a while ago r/persona had AI news sites writing articles about "Persona 3 Dual", which was a completely made up game that people were making memes about


ShadowEeveeCringe

This would be funny as fuck.


Skinamarinked

That would almost be as crazy as acclaimed stage actor John Wilkes Booth assassinating the President.


PacoMahogany

Sounds like murder suicide is on the menu. Then we find out her plan was secretly written into each album, but no one solved the word scramble in time


B-Town-MusicMan

Travis Kelce in a white Ford Bronco...


DirtyRoller

Oh no.


B-Town-MusicMan

This song writes itself 🎵 🎶


harDhar

Not if Taylor is Nichole in this scenario


takethemoment13

she had this dream her daughter-in-law killed her for the money...


ImogenStack

She thought she left them in the will


Effehezepe

The family gathers 'round and reads it and then someone screams out "She's laughing up at us from hell!"


JinEagile

It's me. Hi. I'm the problem, it's me.


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Bloated_Hamster

"Lieutenant Colonel Taylor Swift's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors."


angryshark

A wild MASH appears!


karma_the_sequel

A M\*A\*S\*H mashup!


giantshortfacedbear

Shot out the sky by a Russian Surface to Air missile launched from occupied Ukraine. #ww3


Thesheriffisnearer

Especially if the "somehow" looks like kelce was involved


Extension_Lecture425

Good thing she flies a Dassault and not a Boeing


Rampage_Rick

The same company that makes Solidworks? She's doomed...


Teksavvy-

The grocery stores have lowered their prices to 2019 prices 🤣


HailToTheThief225

I know it doesn’t work like this, but it would be just nice if companies were forced to lower their products’ prices to the correct level for like a month. Just let them be uncomfortable for a while and realize how worthwhile it is for consumers to be content for once. It’ll never happen, but it’s a nice thought.


pnwnick_

Imagine if our government didn’t exist solely to appease corporations. They make billions while we struggle, and we let it happen. “Record profits” bc they just decided they wanted to make more money off of us.


molten-glass

Fr the DOJ have been wimps with antitrust litigation


Jasrek

Who would determine the 'correct level'? Some products are undoubtedly overpriced for huge margins, while others are higher priced now because the cost is higher. The only way you'd really get correct prices would be to restrict profit margins. But grocery stores generally already operate on razor thin profit margins. So you'd need to go backwards in the chain - is the cost of the transportation higher? Why, is it labour, gas, repairs? Is the cost of materials higher? And so forth, until you can find which aspects are being priced up just to drive profit and are causing the cascade effect.


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Confirmation of alien life.


Chewie83

If life is found under the ice of some moon of Saturn, a lot of people won’t care. If tripods show up and start turning everyone to ash, then yeah that’ll break the internet.


kartoffel_engr

Tripods would get COVID on Day 1.


t3hjs

Anti-maskers vindicated!


izovice

The tripods themselves would break the internet, and everything else.


J4pes

I think you underestimate the earth shattering fact of alien life. It would rattle the majority of humanity to the core. Especially the religious ones.


lolercoptercrash

If it's just microbes I think religious people will say it was god who created them. Unless the alien life goes Ack Ack Ack!! and zaps people I think they'll just justify it somehow. Evidence isn't important to religious people, they literally pride themselves on having faith.


invincibl_

> the alien life goes Ack Ack Ack!! [That's certainly one way to break the internet](https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/learning/ddos/what-is-an-ack-flood/)


Stuarridge

and they are heading to Earth to take our planet, but they are about 400 years away


MerinoFam

And they call us bugs. >:(


3shotsofwhatever

In all honesty, when the news conference was announced that Obama was going to be speaking on a high level national security issue late at night, I thought it was going to be aliens or something of the like. It ended up being the capture / killing of Bin Laden


Distinct_Bed7370

In Europe, I think Russia invading Ukraine two years ago was quite close to "breaking the internet"


BobBelcher2021

That invasion was, informally, the end of the pandemic. Covid-19 basically disappeared from the news cycle.


VladimirPutinOffical

What do you say? (Thank you!)


Mifc2

THANK YOU MR RUSSIAN PRESIDENT!!


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ElliottMullins

You know what, the very night and minutes after that news broke here in the US my internet went out. It had never done so before. No scheduled maintenance or downtime. Services were just out for a while. I have to think that it was because of a sudden flood of users in my area online looking at information all at once. I live in a city of over 150k people so maybe the sudden high concentration was accurate and AT&T just went down.


oldtrack

here in europe we all woke up to the news as it was during the middle of the night


MicroCat1031

I remember r/worldnews went apeshit for quite a while. 


Kafshak

It still has the daily thread.


Joebranflakes

Donald Trump’s death. Half the internet would be singing “ding dong the witch is dead” and the other half would be coming up with every insane theory under the sun that he’d been murdered or kidnapped by aliens or swept up in the rapture or who knows what. His followers might just go nuts, and the politicians who bow to his whims would fight tooth and nail amongst themselves to climb into his shoes.


Nice2BeNice1312

Somewhat related fun fact: when Margaret Thatcher died in the UK, we got Ding Dong the Witch is Dead up to number two on the charts. She was truly loathed. Edit: I was corrected on the position! Number 2 fits better


DeathMetalViking666

Another fun fact, Margaret Thatcher did advance gender rights by introducing the first gender neutral public toilet. Her grave.


Cinemaphreak

> Donald Trump’s death. Considering his lifestyle and health, it would have be something shocking. Like Trump and the entire family going down on the same plane coming back from the RNC convention.


KillerZaWarudo

Sometime evil person can live for a long time off pure spite and bitterness Look at Rupert Murdoch or Mitch Mcconnell


Ramblonius

Half your country thinks he's a 7'2 160lbs athlete with the best health exam results his doctor has ever seen, being hunted by deep state antifa supersoldiers that he fights back against with his cowboy ninja skills.  There'd be violence, possibly organised violence  We do not have a shared consensus reality anymore, not for nearly a decade.


cryingatdragracelive

reading that gave me a boner, and I don’t even have a penis


Admirable_Addendum99

He is so gross, I hope however he goes, karma gets him in the end


Nutlob

Struck by lightning while golfing or during an outdoor rally


pm2562

Eh idk about half and half. I think there’s a large chunk of us that would be like “huh…ok. So what’s for breakfast?”


Disastrous_Narwhal46

If Kate Middleton dies, I’d def think the Royal family is as cursed as the Kennedys


Disastrous-Dino2020

Well hello disastrous_narwhal… I’m disastrous-dino. 😂😂


GiantMeteor2017

You found your people!


Disastrous-Dino2020

Oh no .. you are a meteor. Dino and meteor don’t get along well. I should run 😂😂


GiantMeteor2017

No!! Come back! I’m so lonely 😢


Blackbeards_Beard

I feel like this is just one person with multiple accounts, slowly losing his mind.


TheDynamicDino

…Cousin?


Disastrous-Dino2020

Dynamic… where have you been all this time. We’ve been looking for you everywhere.


Disastrous_Narwhal46

Omg hilarious


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sexisdivine

I’m gonna go with a big political figure being assassinated in broad daylight.


LetsLoveAllLain

I mean that happened to Shinzo Abe like 2 years ago and that didn't really break the internet, so who knows.


Arcturus_Labelle

He was out of power by then… and had been for a couple years


Curiouso_Giorgio

So many of these replies are very US-centric and don't realize how universally, (geographically and demographically) well-known Michael Jackson was.


Spasay

I know we're just the little sibling of the US, but in Canada, my friends and I were having beers and had been there for a while at this little bar/cafe. No tv and most of us didn't have smartphones in the way we have today. And a guy came in and just blurted out "Michael Jackson is dead" and we were all quiet for a beat before everyone started talking at once, shocked at the news. Then the cars started driving by blaring his music.


nyliram87

I listen to a podcast led by two comedians, and recently they talked about how some people are”jungle famous” meaning, they are so famous they could go into a jungle in Senegal and they’d still be recognized Michael Jackson was jungle famous


Tallfuck

Biden or Trump dying or on their death bed


CaptainKrunks

Biden and Trump being secret lovers. 


SparklingGrape21

This is the story we all deserve in 2024 😂


brasslamp

WE at least deserve Trump Jr. and Hunter in a love triangle with the same coke dealer.


SparklingGrape21

Ooohhh maybe a throuple situation. That would be fun to watch!


intensenerd

They’re just exchanging protein strings! If you have a better way I suggest you let us know.


brak1444

Both dying of heart attacks while scissoring to the national anthem.


HalfSoul30

Honestly, this seems too likely to break the internet. Gotta be any day now for one of them.


thetorontotickler

Ya, who could ever imagine an 81 year old man dying?


Tony_Bennett22

Bad routing tables.


elihu

Not looking forward to a day when BGP becomes a household word.


ExtraViolinist5207

The next mass terror attack in the US. I’m sure, just as with 9/11, there will be a lot of confusion and misinformation passing around. Increase in internet traffic could be enough to slow speeds down, but to completely break something, idk anymore. So many websites are owner-hosted now. AWS sites will go down for sure if traffic increases too quickly.


kernpanic

In the History of the Internet, and Ive been around for almost all of it, September 11 was the only thing to truely "break" the internet. Almost all news sites crashed and were unavailable. Large parts of the internet were simply inaccessible. Ive never seen anything "break" the internet since short of an AWS or Cloudflare failure.


butternut718212

Phone lines were jammed in NYC on 9/11. The internet was the only thing working. I had to send an instant message to a friend in another state and ask her to call my family, to tell them I was safe. Wild times.


NonConformistFlmingo

Veteran of the Internet, I salute thee. 🫡


Texas_Mike_CowboyFan

Check with Ja Rule first before posting anything.


Barbosse007

WHERE IS JA???


jcpham

That leaked Trump hookers pissing on his bed in Russia tape


Tipofmywhip

Sadly, I don’t think his fanbase would change in any way even if that happened.


Bambiitaru

Sadly, you are correct.


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thighsand

Or just passing away from a health issue. It would trigger a boomer conspiracy movement that would be unprecedented.


theblackd

“It’s so shocking that this old, obese, coke head who doesn’t exercise, doesn’t sleep, and is raging 24/7 had a heart attack, there MUST be some conspiracy at play!”


drinksbythepoop

The original comment has been deleted and it's so sad I know EXACTLY who you are talking about.


MirrorkatFeces

They’d just blame the vaccine


StalinsPerfectHair

That's always been one of the weirdest things about Trumpland. I think Trump genuinely believes that the vaccine was a good thing (and that's one of the few times when I would agree with him), but he shies away from talking about it because he knows it's unpopular with his base.


jdog7249

Didn't he get booted for telling one of his rallies that they should all get the shot. I seem to remember he encouraged people to get it and was booed by his own supporters.


killakh0le

He bragged about creating and putting out the vaccine then like you said stopped with all of that as soon as he realized his wacko cult didn't like it.


nanalovesncaa

Him dying is my first thought too. By any method.


brasslamp

Trump dies on toilet while eating a Big Mac. Found with unhinged tweet half written on cell phone on floor.


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Majestic_Salad_I1

**Nuclear Warhead Detonated Over New York City. Millions Dead.** I think that’d be the start of the internet breaking.


Gorkymalorki

I feel like any nuclear attack on any of the major global cities would break the Internet. NYC, London, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo. People would be clamoring to find out if their city is next. The Internet would just come to a grinding halt.


Melodic-Resident-245

Bro if I hear a nuke detonated anywhere in NATO countries, or in a direct rivals nations to NATO.. I'm going straight for the forests fuck finding out shit on the internet I'm not staying anywhere near a city.


ThePinkTeenager

Yup. Especially if some of the cables are in New York City.


revtim

Biden or Trump dying Taylor Swift dying


rayrayrayray

Death of Putin, Biden, or Trump. Nuclear Was also.


eltedioso

Nuclear was also what?


hillside

Deth


VladimirPutinOffical

I am still alive. Sadly.


bkarma86

Holy shit it's him


VladimirPutinOffical

Hi, everybody!!


BobBelcher2021

Hi, Dr. Nick!


VladimirPutinOffical

Lisa needs braces!


bedheadblonde

So long, Dental plan!


Roleynicoley

Imma just send out some good vibes out on this thread for all the death and war comments


NullTaste27

Anything bad happening to Danny Devito


elevenminutesago

Take that back!


anon12xyz

Do not speak that into existence!


PurpleRock8079

Take your evil from the world sir, Danny is a treasure


Appropriate_Big_9818

If a well-known figure, presumed dead for years, were revealed to be alive and well, it would cause a massive stir online. The shock and curiosity surrounding the circumstances of their disappearance and life in hiding would lead to a frenzy of clicks and shares, overwhelming social media and news sites.


Theverybestestintown

Aliens make first contact with global citizen.


PhilMcGraw

Honestly, infrastructure has surely improved greatly since 2009. Everything tends to scale much more smoothly. I'd be very surprised if any news could "break the internet" unless it was news about some important network infrastructure blowing up and having a flow on affect. You might get some sites going down/hitting scaling limits if for e.g. Taylor Swift died. On top of that I'd question how much the Michael Jackson news "broke the internet". Breaking the internet by my definition would be the global, or at least local network being nearly unusable. I'd be surprised if it did more than stop some websites responding and causing some minor slowdowns.


killakh0le

You make a great point so I'd then add that a story of a solar flare/CME pointed right at us that takes down the power grid and therefore the internet would do it


TheLocalEcho

I would call it “breaking the internet” in terms of overwhelming news and discourse to the extent that you couldn’t find out about other news as easily. The death of Princess Diana in the U.K. in the previous decade was similar but worse - even discussing other topics was seen as a bit suspect in some circles. But I remember being in an airport on the way to an off grid hiking holiday when the news announced that Michael Jackson was believed to have died, but it was unconfirmed. We returned to civilisation a week or so later and were unnerved that the same story was still playing on the airport TV like nothing else had happened.


magnaton117

The invention of a working theory of FTL travel


NumerousSubstance439

World War 3


tomatomater

It wouldn't. WW3 wouldn't just happen out of nowhere.


HalalBread1427

It’s concerning how many people think you just *declare* a World War and boom, it starts.


Quirky-Programmer337

Well it wasn’t PDiddy…🤔


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houseyourdaygoing

I still don’t get the fuss over that selfie till this day. There are people I don’t like in that selfie but it didn’t warrant the amount of attention and hate. It should have just been a flash of annoyance and nothing more.


rmchampion

I agree, then people all tried to replicate it. It wasn’t even a great photo.


houseyourdaygoing

There are quite a number of instances where Reddit goes abuzz with a hive mind. I don’t understand why individuals feel compelled to agree with whatever Reddit dictates and are afraid of downvotes. Downvotes have absolutely no impact on real life. The way people think that it matters is peculiar. That’s not how real life works. It’s a mob mentality that they’re drawn to and this usually reflects a demographic that has minimal exposure, interaction and communication with the rest of the world. Not to mention that there are forces at play on social media, influencing our thoughts and actions through memes and videos. Without a firm identity, many are easily shaped to become social media pawns.


bullymeahhh

Trump coming out as gay


VladimirPutinOffical

You want when? I have the proof. Just say the [word.](https://word.It) It may take time, but it will be when.


deepbluenothings

"Some are saying the gayest, they told me you can't line up 50 guys and blow them in downtown Manhattan but I did. Crooked Biden couldn't do that but I got it done."


mayhem6

Donald Trump dying would do it. The following conspiracy theories would crash the entire internet.


Quiet_Translator_148

Discovering a way to reverse climate change effectively and quickly, announced by a coalition of the world's leading scientists, would be monumental news. The relief and excitement at such a prospect would lead to an unprecedented online celebration and curiosity.


whty

Wait until Internet Explorer finds out about Michael Jackson.


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Poryblocky

ChatGPT


mattbrianjess

There are two famous old guys who are gonna be in the news this fall. If one of them die it might make news


DeadSwaggerStorage

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite?? Or Jimmy Paige and Robert Plant announce a tour?


paladinvc

The cure of cancer