Reddit confirms it is investigating the widespread outage after users report repeated crashes.
Over 20,000 outage reports logged on Downdetector, mostly linked to website issues.
This marks Reddit’s second disruption in 24 hours, following a similar outage yesterday.
Reddit Down: Popular social media platform seem to be going through disruptions as the users are unable to access the platform across the world. The social media platform known for social news aggregation and forum is unable to use the platform with major complaints stating that the social media platform is crashing.
SurveyThe company has issued an official statement on X. “Investigating: We are currently investigating this issue,” it stated in response to the users’ complaints on X.
Investigating: We are currently investigating this issue. https://t.co/sTFypTbkpt
— Reddit Status (@redditstatus) December 9, 2025
According to Downdetector, approximately 20,000 reports have been submitted to the real-time outage detection platform downdetector. Over 72% of complaints are about the website, 22% about server connections, and the rest about the app. Notably, this is the second time the platform has experienced an outage. Yesterday, the platform experienced problems with over 48% of the website and 42% of the apps.
The Reddit status page also says ‘Elevated Errors’ and that the company is investigating the issues. However, the reason behind the Reddit outage remains unknown at the moment. However, we think it is a technical glitch and is expected to be back to normal in few minutes.
Just like every time, social media platform X is abuzz with frustrated users trolling Reddit for multiple outages. Some have even found humour in this situation and posted memes, funny videos using the hashtags Reddit Down and Reddit outage. We have attached few memes that are funny.
Someone at Reddit office now.
— Aj (@powernikedata) December 9, 2025
Reddit down pic.twitter.com/Cin833q6CK
is reddit down pic.twitter.com/JZl9mG7HM7
— ǝɔɐǝd •ᴗ• (@bloxdisney) December 9, 2025
reddit down when i'm asking my questions pic.twitter.com/GxqAUE4Rla
— ً۟ (@sickohs) December 9, 2025
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