Well, looks like Patari is in serious trouble now.
The musical startup has been making headlines for quite some days now, for all the wrong reasons. First,
their founder was embroiled in a sexual harassment claim, then the core team resigned and the investor came in to rescue the startup as the interim CEO.
To add fuel to the fire, just yesterday, someone working at Patari shared screenshots of conversation which clearly indicated that Ali Zafar allegedly is trying to manipulate the music streaming platform to discount the efforts of Meesha Shafi’s brother, Faris Shafi’s work. It must be noted here that Ali Zafar and Meesha Shafi are fighting a legal battle on claims of Meesha that Ali sexually harassed her on multiple occasions. Ali Zafar had allegedly asked to change the placement of Faris Shafi’s song from Patari’s top new releases to which Patari easily obliged.
Pakistanis took no time to act outrageously on Twitter. Here are some of the tweets that show how pissed they really felt at this incident. In fact, a hastag ‘#deletePatari’ picked up very soon too.
1.Well, here, people are sharing the screenshots of the conversation.
That blurred name clearly says humayunharoon, btw. That’s the co-founder and CFO of Patari.@AliZafarsays, thora aur neechay gir sakte ho? pic.twitter.com/hqNYSQdHT8
— Faizan ?️? (@merabichrayaar) July 4, 2018
2.People feel Ali Zafar is getting exposed on his own
Meesha Shafi doesn’t need to prove anything now, as the time is passing Ali Zafar is exposing himself. Couldn’t even tolerate a song by Faris Shafi on Patari. #DeletePatari #AliZafar
— Anas Tipu (@teepusahab) July 4, 2018
3. Irfan Junejo is all set to delete the music streaming app and get his latest Podcast removed Patari.
Hello jee, since I have always liked Patari and have worked with them on a few projects as well I just wanted to let you all know that I have deleted Patari and trying my best to get my JoBhi podcast removed from it as well. And also, #JiyeNaqviGroup
— Irfan Junejo (@irfanjunejo) July 4, 2018
4.Pakistanis being called out for their mentality.
Pakistanis: mumtaz qadri (a convicted murderer), is a hero, aaafia (wife of alqaeda’s top leader and convicted terrorist) is a hero
Also pakistanis: Ali Zafar is innocent unless proven guilty. Abay as you give two fucks about the law. At least own up your misogyny
— v (@curljhung) July 4, 2018
5.The popular social media celebrity, Mahwash Ajaz shares recipe of successfully ruining a startup.
An excellent case on how to ruin a great idea and a perfectly good start up. #Patari
— Mahwash Ajaz (@mahwashajaz_) July 4, 2018
6.People feel that Patari just fired a harasser and hired another one.
what was the point of firing your CEO if you were going to host another harasser on your platform again? this is why women don’t speak up. our fucked up systems always support the wrong people. #DeletePatari
— adenah (@starryskiesxx) July 1, 2018
7.People have started giving bad reviews to Patari on App store and Facebook.
Dont just delete Patari, review them on appstore and Facebook. Thanks for the idea @curljhung #DeletePatari #BoycottPatari pic.twitter.com/4bpAjt59Tb
— Anas Tipu (@teepusahab) July 4, 2018
8.People feel the fault lies in ourselves.
#DeletePatari won’t solve anything until we ourselves change our mindset! A song from #TeefaInTrouble has over 5M views on YouTube in 5 days! He didn’t get those views because #patari hosted his music. He got those views because we still listen to his music despite everything!
— Waqas Balkhi (@BalkhiWaqas) July 4, 2018
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