Turns out John Oliver got people fired up against the Federal Communications Commission

A check of the FCC’s comment database late Wednesday afternoon shows that the agency had logged in excess of 7,200 comments on the matter of “Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet” received June 2, the day after Oliver’s segment ran. The count had been climbing throughout the day.

That would make Monday at least the second-most active day for formally commenting on the FCC’s net neutrality proposal since May 15, the day the commission voted to open up its proposed rules on the matter for public debate. The FCC’s database shows that it received 9,251 comments on the issue that day; it’s recorded in excess of 34,000 from then to Wednesday.

As of Wednesday evening, however, the database hadn’t logged any comments received Tuesday and Wednesday — and Monday was hardly finished — meaning that the total number is sure to rocket upward. (Vocativ approximated Monday afternoon that “[b]y early morning on Monday, there were 10,000 comments (some of them making actual sense) waiting for the FCC to leaf through. At the time of this post, that number had mushroomed to more than 45,000, and the momentum showed no sign of stopping.)

The FCC reported access issues with its comment system for a couple of hours on Monday, one day after the segment aired.

The platform eventually went back online. An FCC spokeswoman was quoted in National Journal as saying there was no way to know if Oliver’s rant was responsible for the crash — but he sure has heck was taking credit for it.

If you missed Oliver’s Sunday night broadside, get the lowdown here, and watch the video again in the embedded tweet above.