noun phrase
Internet Slang
Reddit hug of death
· noun phrase · internet
When a link hits Reddit's front page and the traffic spike instantly crashes the destination site.
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The phenomenon where a small server gets so much sudden traffic from a popular Reddit post that it falls over and serves errors. Affectionate framing — Reddit loves you so much it kills you.
“Cool blog post but it's down — looks like it got the Reddit hug of death.”
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Reddit hug of death In A Sentence
Cool blog post but it's down — looks like it got the Reddit hug of death.
Origin & Usage
A friendlier rebrand of the older 'Slashdot effect' from the early-2000s tech news site Slashdot, which used to nuke small sites the same way when it linked them.
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