Yahoo! Answers Shuts Down As Twitter Pays Tribute With Their Favorite Posts

Yahoo! shut the doors for good on its beloved question-and-answer website Yahoo! Answers yesterday, sparking tributes across the web — not for the site's helpfulness, but for the sheer amount of entertainment it brought us in its 15 years online.

Googled a question today and found out yahoo answers shut down yesterday pic.twitter.com/nTw1xNIito

— DaShaqMan (@_Da_Shaq_Man_) May 5, 2021

Launched in 2005 as a way for internet users to ask anything at all to the world at large, Yahoo! Answers is most remembered and revered for the bizarre questions and answers that it inspired, many even becoming memes themselves.

The closing of Yahoo! Answers has sent many web users down a bit of a nostalgia hole, sharing their favorite posts from the website on Twitter in honor of the fallen legend.

Today Yahoo Answers goes offline forever.
you were too good for this world pic.twitter.com/h6AChUtt5i

— Lulu🌈🎏 (@luulubuu) May 3, 2021

rip yahoo answers pic.twitter.com/1D0Zw7My7O

— ‏‏ً (@fancysnaake) May 4, 2021

Yahoo answers is shutting down tomorrow so here is my submission for best post on that site pic.twitter.com/iwrRg4E3Xp

— Cool McDude (@cool_mcdude) May 3, 2021

rest in peace yahoo! answers 😢 questions like this will be missed 😞 pic.twitter.com/fvXDb0kziI

— The Cowabunga Kid (@atell0104) May 4, 2021

Rip Yahoo! Answers. It was a goldmine that made me laugh until I cried a ton of times. Here’s an example. pic.twitter.com/6GkflwBXll

— GeoSn0w (@FCE365) May 4, 2021

Still my favorite Yahoo Answers question ever pic.twitter.com/HnBR9da26e

— Spheal Queen (Semi-Hiatus) (@EpicSpheal) May 4, 2021

RIP Yahoo Answers, you are wit the angles now. pic.twitter.com/rRG5ZZwHfX

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 4, 2021

Some absolute gems from Yahoo answers because it shut down today: pic.twitter.com/GuuQmZvJZ9

— Luke Szumyckyj (@lmszu) May 4, 2021

In an effort to archive the site's content, Yahoo! is allowing anyone with a Yahoo! Answers account to download and preserve their site data, allowing them to recall it at any time. The Wayback Machine took to Twitter earlier today to remind everyone that they can also access old Yahoo! Answers links through their archival site. Still, it feels as though the web has lost a dear old friend with the closing of the site, and the hole it's left will be hard to replace. RIP, Yahoo! Answers. You'll live on forever in meme heaven.

🪦RIP #YahooAnswers.
At the @waybackmachine, we've got your back.https://t.co/nbt4F7MWZS pic.twitter.com/ubPDnhbKdQ

— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) May 5, 2021