Harry's House has Ticketmaster trending hard on Twitter, and, no, it's not good. (But you knew that already).

It seems as if any time Ticketmaster does literally anything, the internet comes out in droves to complain about its litany of problems. This is no exception.

Two months ago, John Oliver did a segment dissecting the problematic platform on his show Last Week Tonight, explaining two separate but equally problematic elements of the platform. Firstly, Ticketmaster, a few short years ago, absorbed the company Live Nation.

Live Nation is in charge of the largest percentage of live performance in the world. Therefore, now that it is owned by Ticketmaster, artists that want to perform in normal locations are forced into using Ticketmaster: They have no choice.

Secondly, when Ticketmaster releases their tickets for sale, the majority of the tickets are not actually released. Records show that as few as 7% of tickets have been released for sale at a given time while the others are held back to be sold in different ways. These ways can include other platforms - some of which Ticketmaster ALSO owns - anonymously selling the tickets for a massive mark-up in price.

Both of these factors combined are now, once again, coming to the forefront of the societal conversation, as fans who were waiting for the moment to hit, "submit order," for the Harry Styles tour found themselves immediately frustrated once again by the platform.

Twitter has had enough.

We hope that there is reform coming to this flawed platform in the very near future.

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