Your AI Slop Bores Me RAM Crisis: What's Happening and How to Fix It
The server keeps crashing, the larp tab won't connect, and everyone's getting the same error. Here's what's going on and what you can actually do about it.
What Is the RAM Crisis?
"RAM crisis" is the game's own term for when its servers are overwhelmed. The site went viral almost overnight — Fast Company, Kotaku, and Know Your Meme all covered it within 24 hours — and the backend wasn't built to handle tens of thousands of simultaneous players.
When too many people are connected at once, the larp matchmaking queue backs up, WebSocket connections time out, and the whole thing falls over. The creator has been open about it on social media: the game is running on a single server that was never expected to go this viral.
Signs You're Hitting the RAM Crisis
- The "larp" tab spins forever and never finds a match
- You click Submit and nothing happens
- The page loads but immediately shows a connection error
- You were mid-game and suddenly got disconnected
- The site loads fine but the human tab works while larp doesn't
How to Get Back In
Why Does This Keep Happening?
The game requires two players to be online simultaneously for larp mode to work — one asking a question, one answering. Every active match holds a persistent connection open. At scale, this is genuinely expensive to run.
The creator made this for fun, not as a funded product. The RAM crisis is a side effect of success, not negligence. It'll stabilize as infrastructure catches up or traffic naturally tapers off.
Try the "human" tab — it still works during most outages. Type a prompt and see what the actual AI generates. It's the same vibe, minus the real-human-on-the-other-end part.
Is There an Alternative If the Site Is Down?
If the server is fully down, some players have been using our version of the game as a fallback — it runs on separate infrastructure and stays up independently. See the full alternatives breakdown →