@MojangSupport are Minecraft realm servers down, bc earlier I was on my realm with a friend and we got a message in chat saying they would be shutting down.

Hmm, I'm not seeing any issues at this time. Are you still running into any issues or errors with your realm? If so, can you provide some more details and any screenshots of error(s) you're seeing? ^FF

No, it ended up coming back. It just said that it was down for maintenance and then kicked me and my friend out it came back up after 2hrs though.