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Those graphs are really misleading. All of the services look severly affected [0], though the number of reports differs significantly from service to service.

Slack: 16167 reports. Zoom: 224 reports. Google: 220 reports.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/KeIlwuV.png

I would expect the graphs to be normalized against a noise floor of how many people report the service being down "most of the time."

(And looking into it, indeed they are — looks like, in the detail view of a chart, there's a long-term weighted-running-average "baseline" value on the chart's data-points. See e.g. the dotted blue line on https://downdetector.com/status/google/. And the summary view seems to normalize its charts by their baseline.)

What is happening here? Am I reading this correctly? These are outages on a massive scale, affecting several international web services and infrastructure?

I think you just identified a strong contender for "next service to crash" ;)

It wouldn't surprise me if Indeed has most of its usage during the workday.

https://downdetector.com/status/indeed/

I'm not sure if that's a normal spike, or not, but the recent spike in the graph there for AWS is a little ominous in context.