Marked, Silenced, Forgotten: The Other Side of Spotify After Hack April 15th / 16th

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They told us the tools were broken.

They told us "things are fine."

They told us it was just a small glitch.

Meanwhile, thousands of artists ,small, independent, and even mid-sized have watched their profiles collapse overnight.

Coincidentally (or not), it all started around April 15 and 16, 2025.

The "incident" that Spotify politely refuses to acknowledge.

What followed was brutal: 30%, 40%, even 50% drops in monthly listeners, without explanation.

Showcase promotions reaching... no one.

App crashes and errors when trying to play our tracks.

Support teams sending us copy-paste responses, carefully crafted to say absolutely nothing.

Some artists stayed untouched.Some continued to grow.

Others ,the "marked" were quietly exiled to a digital Siberia.

No warning. No fair trial. Just silence.

Meanwhile, Spotify claims "everything is working fine."

Of course they do if they ever admitted otherwise, their precious stock value would evaporate faster than a free trial after seven days.

The worst part? It's not just about the algorithms.It feels... targeted.

Accounts, tracks, profiles almost as if some were marked to decay, regardless of the music, regardless of the fans.

Some are calling it "the quiet cleansing.We prefer to call it what it feels like: abandonment.

While Spotify pretends nothing happened, thousands of artists are quietly moving their catalogs elsewhere to YouTube, Bandcamp, Audius, and beyond.Places where visibility doesn't come with invisible shackles.

This is not a tantrum.This is not conspiracy theory.This is the lived experience of countless creators who refused to stay silent.

Music deserves a platform that respects both the creators and the listeners.Not one that treats some of us like inconvenient data points to be swept under the rug.

We are still here.We are still creating. 

Dear Spotify,If this is how you treat your soldiers...

don't be surprised when they find new flags to march under.