The outage that Facebook suffered on Monday, which also rendered Instagram and WhatsApp useless for six hours, generated a lot of jokes and memes at the expense of Mark Zuckerberg’s social media juggernaut.
Joining in on the joke was Marvel and DC director James Gunn, who doubled down on a long-running game that he has been playing with Guardians of the Galaxy fans.
For years now Gunn has been claiming that there is a huge easter egg hidden in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, which was released in 2014, and he’s been challenging fans to find it ever since.
He has even offered to pay $100,000 to whoever can find this fabled Marvel reference in the movie but to date, no one has succeeded in finding the reference at least that’s what Gunn says.
Anyway, Gunn made another reference to this much-discussed easter egg hunt when he teased fans by saying that he had just posted the easter egg on Facebook for “everyone one to see.”
I just posted the big Guardians Easter egg on Facebook for everyone to see.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 4, 2021
Of course, Gunn didn’t post the easter egg on Facebook because the website was inaccessible at the time making it impossible for even a Hollywood director to post anything.
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Gunn’s casual bit of trolling of Guardians of the Galaxy fans would appear to have caught a few people out who weren’t aware that Facebook wasn’t working, therefore the joke went well over their head.
WHAT???!!
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 4, 2021
To you and only you I am sorry for this joke.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 5, 2021
aaaaaand fell for this ☹️ https://t.co/zPAo7cTKFj
— bat groening (@TiredOfSeth) October 4, 2021
Others were divided on whether they thought it was hilarious or not.
Listen, it’s a good joke… https://t.co/Do5KXtz32R pic.twitter.com/u870OBtBpy
— c 🍂 dreaming of cool weather (@ok_imtired) October 4, 2021
😂😂😂😂
— Si (@sim_ni) October 4, 2021
I got the link, here it is: https://t.co/91ybn30eC8
— Jerome Gagnon (@jayboy495) October 4, 2021
Oh that’s the meanest joke ever 😳🤪
— Gaby Cam (@gaby_cam) October 4, 2021
I can’t wait to complain publicly on Facebook about your misleading Facebook troll… once Facebook is back up.
— Jeff Leach (@jeffleach) October 4, 2021
Still the search goes on for the easter egg but don’t expect Gunn to be revealing it anytime soon or ever. He’s currently working on the Peacemaker spinoff series from The Suicide Squad movie for DC and Warner Bros as well as a third Guardians of the Galaxy film and a Christmas special.
We’re honestly shocked he has time to do any trolling with that sort of schedule.
