--- ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Announced Its Return With an Ice Block and Everyone Had a Meltdown ## Video: This Video Is No Longer Available [Watch (HLS stream): This Video Is No Longer Available](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8) (0:10)  _Published 2026-06-23. "Gotta love Game of Thrones, even their livestreams end on cliffhangers"_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 9, 2017 9:03 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 9, 2017 9:03 PM UTC After technical difficulties seemed to arise during HBO’s reveal of [_Game of Thrones’_](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/)season seven [premiere date](http://time.com/4666067/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-july/), the Internet got pretty frustrated with waiting to find out when the show would return. Hundreds of thousands of fans watching the announcement—a [Facebook Live video](https://www.facebook.com/pg/GameOfThrones/videos/?ref=page%5Finternal) of fire melting a block of ice containing a sign with the date ‘July 16, 2017’ on it—took to social media to vent their impatience over the delay. “It was faster for Jon Snow to come back to life than to melt this block of ice,” one Facebook user jokingly [commented](https://www.facebook.com/GameOfThrones/videos/10154555967312734/?comment%5Fid=661877774013912&comment%5Ftracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D). See some of the best reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/kikobunnies/status/839918404618358790) > [](https://twitter.com/WolfOfWesteros/status/839918453851041792) > [](https://twitter.com/RyFons/status/839930175857045504) > [](https://twitter.com/Albino%5FDirewolf/status/839918456740925440) > [](https://twitter.com/carolineframke/status/839929184117997569) > [](https://twitter.com/shirklesxp/status/839928145696411648) > [](https://twitter.com/carolineframke/status/839918750451314688) > [](https://twitter.com/lavelleophobia/status/839926878416666624) Game of Thrones Season 7 Premiere Reveal: Ice, Fire Reactions ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4697244/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-reveal-ice-fire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4697244/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-reveal-ice-fire/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Announced Its Return With an Ice Block and Everyone Had a Meltdown","datePublished":"2017-03-09T21:03:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:50.946Z","description":"\"Gotta love Game of Thrones, even their livestreams end on cliffhangers\"","url":"https://time.com/4697244/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-reveal-ice-fire/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Internet","game of thrones","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdea7e2614879218c/6988bdd34dd21524d2efe14a/game-of-thrones-premiere-date-reveal.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdea7e2614879218c/6988bdd34dd21524d2efe14a/game-of-thrones-premiere-date-reveal.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Game of Thrones Premiere Date Reveal","caption":"","creditText":"HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4697244/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-reveal-ice-fire/","name":"Game of Thrones Announced Its Return With an Ice Block and Everyone Had a Meltdown"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"\"Gotta love Game of Thrones, even their livestreams end on cliffhangers\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4697244/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-reveal-ice-fire/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4697244/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-reveal-ice-fire/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```