Server admins were deep into a 14-hour goon sesh and didn't notice
She said wrong answers only
There was a hard drive failure, and they restored from a 2023 backup. The 9 hours of downtime was spent making 6 months' worth of plausible-looking posts
DEI
i chewed through the servers power cable, nyaa~
It was the Eclipse.
The eclipsed blocked the solar panels powering the server
30-50 feral hogs headbutted the servers
Because Capitalism is actually the most efficient way of operating a website
He got his revenge.
DPRK officials be like "why don't they like our cool photo 
"
I typed "Exxon Valdez NUTS" into the comment box and the site couldn't handle my power level
Oh shit, I just did it again oh god oh fuck I don't wanna touch the grass again nooooo 
we banned all the liberals but then decided that you're cool anyway
I strongly believe in the benefits of going out, so I unplugged the site for awhile so you kids could play
the servers got drunk celebrating the eclipse.
The mods & admins were trying in vain to stop future badposting from me.
They failed. Look out 
A wizard did it.
That wizard?
He came from the moon.
Solar flare emp over the server farm on an abandoned research oil rig in the Indian ocean.
Is this mgs2?
a second 
hit the servers
Somebody wanted to torture me by taking away my Hexbear content on the very day Bluesky is having 100,000,000+ "like farming" posts about the goddamned eclipse.
Okay, whoever you are - I'm sorry for whatever I did. Please don't do this to me again.
Hamas.
Xi's check didn't come through since the Chinese economy is tanking so they had to take down the site until he could borrow the money from Kim and wire over the server fees.
Too many piss
Ill omens
I clicked the purge everything button
Imbalance of the humors. Too much phlegm, not enough black bile.
God punished us for gay.
All libs were banned. Sadly this killed the site, because it's all libs, so the process had to be undone.
im gay
Sabotage by lemmygrad to steal users.
moon magic 
A solar eclipse happens on Thatcher Day and Hexbear goes down. Coincidence?
A piano fell on the server and when the server smiled its teeth were piano keys
Sun broke
i wanted to take a nap but didn't want to miss anyone so i just asked really nicely to pause the site
My Bill Gates post got us taken down by the pedophile cabal.
Sophons
Trisolarans afraid of our advanced bad posting technology they locked the site
I tripped over the cord soz
Capitalist counter revolution
Zoltraak
Nerds unplugged Hexbear to plug in their rock tumbler.
Sorry, my bad, I knocked the power cable out from the server when I trying to pick up my popcorn.
It ran out of Chips.
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald was so good that it broke the site.
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