Microsoft's online gaming service Xbox Live was down Tuesday afternoon following a major outage, and furious gamers took to Twitter their frustration with a requisite amount of GIFs.

The Sun reported that major issues with the console's online services started at about 5:25 in the afternoon affecting users Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox on Windows 10 and other Xbox devices across North America, Europe, and Britain. An error code 0x87dd0004 was appearing on screen everytime users try to log-in to play titles online.

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A message from Xbox Live would also read: There was a problem. We couldn't sign you in. Try again in a few minutes, or check your account by signing into account.live.com."

According to Daily Mail, Independent Down Detector which provides a real-time overview of issues and outages with all kinds of services had received almost 10,000 reports.

On its Twitter account, Microsoft confirmed the issues while adding that their engineers and developers are "actively continuing to work to resolve the issue causing some members to have problems finding previously-purchased content or purchasing new content, it did not offer explanation for the outage, however.

Below are just some of the funny GIFs angry users tweeted:

me cause xbox live is down pic.twitter.com/eVzpMsP1fZ

— carlos

Xbox live is down right now. pic.twitter.com/eUC0MeLopF

— MB