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Even AO3 could not withstand the awesome power of horny.

Archive of our Own went down for a few days over the 4th of July weekend, upsetting the holiday fanfiction reading plans of the site’s millions of users before service was restored. AO3 goes down occasionally for all sorts of issues, but the reason for this outage was special and hilarious.

According to a post on Reddit, the site went down because someone tried to make 2,147,483,647th bookmark which was beyond the limit that specific database could support. And the bookmarked fic that caused all this: extremely graphic One Direction erotica.

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