Snapchat went down and kids were freaking out

This is about all you'll see right now.

Snapchat, the ethereal messaging app valued at about $20 billion, went down for about 45 minutes a little before 12pm ET today, according to internet traffic monitors. As with many other social networks and internet services, users have taken to Twitter to voice their frustrations with the popular app being down. Many are concerned that their streaks—the little number that Snapchat puts next to friends that have snapped back and forth with each other—are going to be broken.

• The myth of millennial entitlement was created to hide their parents’ mistakes

Some Snapchatters are having issues with the app. Thanks for reporting this, we are looking into it now!

— Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) July 1, 2016

• African migrants are returning from China and telling their compatriots not to go

Although the app was down for less than an hour, hundreds of people posted to Twitter, complaining about the dropped service. Here are just a few of the reactions that poured, as if Generation Z had just experienced their own personal Brexit:

Snapchat's down and I'm almost ashamed at the amount of distress this unfortunate event has caused me.

— Rachael Metallo (@rachaelmetallo) July 1, 2016

snapchat is down and if Iose any of my streaks I'll die like no joke

— catherine (@CoxCatie16) July 1, 2016

love it when you're mid convo on snapchat and then the app goes down. Fave thing that, yep

— V (@verityperity) July 1, 2016

@Snapchat wtf snapchat I'm gonna lose my streak cos the servers are down

— Jude Hardy (@MrSpxnge) July 1, 2016

@snapchatsupport none of my snapchats are sending. Is snapchat down? I have a 171 day streak with someone that I really don’t want to lose.

— matt chupp (@mattchupp) July 1, 2016

Not funny when snap chat is down and my streaks have got the timer on ����

— lily allcard (@lily_allcard) July 1, 2016

I made a gamebreaking typing mistake in my snap story and can't even fix it bc snapchat is down RIP

— Croissant (@OathKeeper43) July 1, 2016

Snapchat servers are down and I have streaks I need to keep alive somebody fix it

— Carson Chumley (@rcc197) July 1, 2016

Well SnapChat is down so it looks like I'm losing my streaks ����

— JOHNÄNTHONY (@JohnSavino_) July 1, 2016

Snapchat is down, my life is bloody over ����

— nikita (@mattykooks) July 1, 2016

snapchat is down and I'm gonna die

— izzie (@izzie0542) July 1, 2016

Sign up for the Quartz Daily Brief, our free daily newsletter with the world’s most important and interesting news.

More stories from Quartz:

• Just like ‘Two Broke Girls,’ except we were seven Millennials living in a two bedroom apartment

• Millennials are obsessed with side hustles because they’re all we’ve got