The net streaming servince Netflix faces a second of chaos. Moments after Stranger Issues Season 5 Quantity 1 premiered at 5 p.m. PT on Wednesday, a wave of keen followers surged onto the platform, solely to search out the app briefly crashing underneath demand.

Social media erupted inside minutes. Viewers throughout X (previously Twitter) complained that they’d waited years for this second, solely to be met with error screens.

“NETFLIX FIX YOURSELF RIGHT NOW BRO, IVE BEEN WAITING THREE YEARS,” one annoyed person wrote, whereas one other pleaded, “OH MY GOD NETFLIX PLS FIX YOURSELF I WANNA WATCH.” Lots of echoed comparable sentiments on Netflix’s Instagram posts, urging the streamer to resolve the difficulty instantly.

me ready for netflix to crash whereas everybody hundreds up stranger issues season 5 pic.twitter.com/BtVyWppWuM

— eva (@qlncr) November 27, 2025

How we’re gonna be watching Stranger issues 5 since Netflix is most definitely gonna crash pic.twitter.com/Aip8eYcoMD

— Basilius Targaryen (@VasilIliev21) November 24, 2025

I used to be actually watching the final episode of season 4 and it crashed on me. #Netflix, y’all a bunch of assholes realizing rattling nicely everybody was wanting to look at and knew it could crash. #StrangerThings5 pic.twitter.com/YvWzRG1Em5

— ʎpuǝM (@coolasacucumber) November 27, 2025

Outage Resolved Rapidly as Followers Have fun the Return

Happily for followers, the disruption was short-lived. Netflix appeared to revive performance inside minutes of the season dropping. The platform even leaned into the second, retweeting a person’s blunt celebration: “STRANGER THINGS IS BACK EVERYONE STFU.”

Curiously, co-creator Ross Duffer had shared earlier within the day that Netflix elevated bandwidth by 30 p.c in anticipation of the large visitors surge. However as Wednesday proved, even that wasn’t fairly sufficient to cease Hawkins mania.

The Hollywood Reporter has contacted Netflix for an official remark.

A Excessive-Stakes Last Chapter Set in 1987

Set in autumn 1987, the ultimate season brings the Hawkins crew collectively as soon as extra as they put together for a decisive showdown with Vecna. However their mission grows way more difficult when the city is positioned underneath army quarantine, escalating tensions and intensifying the hunt for Eleven.

The ensemble solid returning for the concluding chapter contains Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty, Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, Alex Breaux and Linda Hamilton.