The Best Memes And Reactions To This Morning’s Great Spotify Meltdown
Turns out it was all Facebook's fault.
This morning, Spotify crashed. You might have heard something about that, on the account of the fact that the entire internet had a meltdown.
Quickly, the blame was pinned squarely on Facebook. See, a bunch of apps — including Spotify, Tik Tok and Venmo — all rely on the social media giant’s software development kit (SDK). That means when you log-in to Spotify, the app will also open Facebook, which it feeds off for “advertising insights.” Sounds bad, imo.
Anyway, a bug with the Facebook SDK meant that Spotify users around the world found that they couldn’t log in to the music streaming service without it immediately crashing.
How did they deal? How do you think? By making a bunch of memes about it, and generally treating the whole thing like the complete circus that it was:
Matt: WTF my Spotify app won’t open!
Me: Spotify is probably down.
Matt: That doesn’t make sense, the whole platform can’t be broken.
Me: Yes it can, Tik Tok is down right now too. Happens a lot.
Matt: That’s impossible. That’s not how the internet works.
Me:
Matt:
Me: Really?— Rachel Ballinger (@MissRBaller) May 6, 2020
my spotify app after i’ve tried opening it for the 20th time pic.twitter.com/7ywqLk3ACc
— jose (@justahole5) May 6, 2020
me going to twitter to see it’s not just my spotify down bc of my shitty wifi pic.twitter.com/nQ7sERPz8w
— is a bella (@hartbrekwether) May 6, 2020
pls fix your app it’s crashing and the 6 songs I listen to on repeat are keeping me sane xoxo Sos pic.twitter.com/ZsNYhHWaVW
— anarchist cat owner (@smhcassielol) May 6, 2020
me after my spotify app won’t open so i come to twitter and find out that it’s down pic.twitter.com/XXv7SfCfO4
— michaelangelo (@mxegany) May 6, 2020
i deleted spotify and downloaded it again thinking it would work just to find out its down for everyone pic.twitter.com/YU6hXuKMqn
— ʳᵐ ⁷ | nsfr (@jooniechops) May 6, 2020
my spotify, soundcloud and tiktok app right now #spotifydown #tiktokdown pic.twitter.com/BgtDKQ23Ts
— ًtay (@sireIine) May 6, 2020
Im having a stressful moment, can Spotify please open so I can play my calm playlist? #spotifydown pic.twitter.com/R7R8ehw622
— The Baird’s Roar (@ChainedBaird) May 6, 2020
The author and environmentalist Wendell Berry once said that we have become “mere” consumers, helpless unless we are being supported by the big corporations that dominate every minute of our lives. I always thought that he was talking about the corporations that clothe and feed us.
I guess I never realised that unless I can listen to Emperor’s In The Nightside Eclipse literally whenever I want, I will feel as helpless and lost as a sticky child wandering about the packed floor of a supermarket.