Jay-Z Defends Tidal On Twitter, Internet Responds By Mocking Him And The Service #TidalFacts
It's not easy being a multi-millionaire in the music industry nowadays, thanks to Spotify, which is stopping them from becoming even richer than they already are. So needs must and other streams of revenue must be sought. Hard times, hard times indeed.
So Jay-Z and fellow top tier musicians showcased Tidal recently, a music service that he bought and rebranded which lets you stream CD-quality songs for a subscription fee. Since it's announcement, however, it's not had the best of times.
Not only has there been a backlash and lots of negativity saying it's too expensive, but it's also lost staff (including its former CEO) and subscriptions haven't been as high as they'd hoped. So, at the weekend Jay-Z took to twitter to defend his new venture against the haters using the hashtag #TidalFacts.
Here's a few of those tweets.
Tidal is doing just fine. We have over 770,000 subs. We have been in business less than one month. #TidalFacts
There are many big companies that are spending millions on a smear campaign. We are not anti-anyone, we are pro-artist & fan. #TidalFacts
And so on. But this being twitter, people weren't just going to let Mr Carter get away with creating a hashtag without it getting hijacked for them to air their opinions and mock him. So mock him they did.
Jay-Z tryna make it seem like he aint damn near a billionaire im not paying $20 a month for no damn Tidal i have Weed to cop #TidalFacts
If Hov really wants everybody to sign up to Tidal, he needs to upload the audio to that Elevator Fight feat. Solange #TidalFacts
And, as is the unwritten internet law in these type of circumstances, someone created a parody account called @FakeTIDALFacts. Read a selection of some of the best ones below.