Instagram Users Think Thanksgiving Day Outage Was Conspiracy to Force Them to Spend Time With Family

It's Thanksgiving Day 2019, and at the time of writing this, Instagram has crashed. While it's not expected to be a major delay before the social media site is back up and running (probably working as you're reading this), a lot users can't help but to feel that the crash - on this day of all days - wasn't purely coincidental. In fact, Instagram users have already jumped from that social media platform onto Twitter, where they've quickly constructed a trending topic based on the conspiracy theory that Instagram is trying to force users to stop photo hunting and endlessly scrolling, and spend Thanksgiving engaging with family.

While it remains almost certain that Instagram would not forgo the chance to get some big traffic out of some many users being off work and/or school for the holiday, there is a lot of humor to be found in users' conspiracy theories about an ulterior motive for the downtime. Scroll below to see what we mean: