look the Spotify CEO is an evil sociopath like 99% of CEOs but… Spotify Wrapped just releases the last week of November, specifically on Wednesday
That’s why it was on the 1st in 2021 and it was the 30th last year and the 29th this year
it is not a massive anti-Palestine conspiracy (I don’t think, anyway)
in this one instance, it’s a coincidence that the CEO is a specific kind of evil sociopath and Wrapped, which I guarantee he had nothing to do with because massive projects like Wrapped are worked on by teams of people many levels lower than CEO, released today
[image description: screenshot of tags that say “Why Wednesday? Too many cool things happening on Thursday?”]
God, there’s actually an answer to this and I’m so sorry — historically and generally speaking, social media platforms are most active on Wednesdays. Spotify wants folks to share their Wrapped, might as well launch on the day statistically more people are around! From a tech perspective it also means they’re not launching the very first day of the week and can QA a bit more before launch, and they’re not immediately signing off for the weekend, have to work for the weekend, or have to hand off the project to the weekend crew. Community management during a major launch is all 8 hours of your day.
Also lack of competition; movies release Thursday/Friday as do video games, albums and books tend to release Tuesdays now.
The fact that the post that claims Spotify Wrapped’s release was an anti-Palestine conspiracy has like 50k notes makes me want to cast myself into the sea. It’s so, so easy to check this shit, y'all. Just google “spotify wrapped [year]” and you can see that it releases on the Wednesday of the last week of November; there’s always a ton of media coverage, so even if Google doesn’t spell it out for you, we can put our thinking caps on and surmise from Teen Vogue publishing “Spotify Wrapped 2020 is here!” on December 2 2020 or whatever means that’s when it came out.
Spotify has almost ten thousand employees. Do you know how little contact the CEO at a company that large has with the team working on Wrapped? The only thing he knows about Wrapped is that it’s happening, I guarantee it.
There are real painfully evil things happening in the world. There’s a new one every day with this horrible conflict. Reactionary spreading of disinformation like this is very bad whether it’s conservative talking points or progressive ones. Don’t get sucked in.
