'Fortnite' players are coping with The End with black hole memes, obviously
No Fortnite and black hole make gamers go something something.
For millions of Fortnite players across the world, the past thirteen or so hours (and counting) have been a waking nightmare, after Battle Royale Island was sucked into a black hole and the entire game became unavailable. All that exists now is a continuous stream of the black hole itself (with some mysterious numbers fans have decoded as a cryptic message) and a minigame activated by entering the Konami Code on the black hole screen.
Players eagerly awaiting the reveal of Fortnite's next phase have little solace beyond the fact that the communal experience of everyone having to either stare at the same near-static image for half a day or actually find something else to do with their time is the kind of event memes are made of.
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Some people looked deep into the hole, and learned something about themselves.
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Others noticed some prior parallels in pop culture.
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Pornhub, of course, had the money shot ready to go.
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The only thing we know is that we still know nothing.
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But anticipation is the purest joy, and while it might be hours yet before the game is back up, the Fortnite community is all in it together.
Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.
