On April 16, streaming giant Spotify suddenly tapped out— and so did everyone’s will to live for a second. With playlists frozen and morning routine soundtracks interrupted, users did what any rational person, in this day of age at least, would do in a time of crisis: flock to X to scream into the void. And of course, the memes came faster than Spotify’s error message. A round-up featuring some of our faves, just below.
Spotify is down and the thoughts are getting in pic.twitter.com/iksEgapaJI
— Gracie (@graciem19999) April 16, 2025
Waking up to Spotify being down feels like waking up to a note saying your wife has left you and took the kids
— stef (@meritforsadness) April 16, 2025
spotify after taking my last $10 and turning off their servers: pic.twitter.com/2EtaqOTXmy
— dave (@davepiojos) April 16, 2025
my spotify keeps pausing every song after 10 seconds pic.twitter.com/6vwWgfrZFa
— m (@ksgparks) April 16, 2025
I think this has finally settled it once and for all. Apple Music > Spotify pic.twitter.com/uMF2OQWH3f
— Unbiased Ev (@DoubleVodkaDon) April 16, 2025
So with Spotify down… do we just use Youtube like we used to in 2011?
— Emma Schmeidler (@EmmaSchmeidler) April 16, 2025
spotify is down pic.twitter.com/I8sJsTS084
— alexis ❀ (@RTRNTOSNDR) April 16, 2025
