Eurovision 2024: A Drama-Palooza

[lurkymclurkson]

Eurovision, the yearly song competition between (mostly) European Countries is having a time right now. Most of the drama so far is surrounding Dutch entrant Joost Klein:

UPDATE: RTL news (a legit Dutch media network) has just announced Joost has been disqualified and will not be participating in the Finale tonight. Wow.

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[picturemegone]

I'm not watching this year. I have seen bits of news scrolling through twitter. I usually watch with my mom and it's a fun time, but I can't do it this year.

Israel received 39% of all televotes

[loveumbrella]

From Italy, and even then RAI stated that the leak did not feature actual percentages. Idk if that is true or damage control, but that's what was said.

[teacoat]

they said the numbers were "incomplete" iirc. like maybe they included phone votes but not sms votes or something like that.

[koelnnleok]

if it came out that Isreal was manipulating the votes or paying bots/people to vote for them it wouldn't surprise me - they are so obsessed with shoving themselves down everyones throats and being seen as a beloved little victim! I can only imagine they were fully expecting the response kalush orchestra got, a landslide win

[xdecadentx]

I feel like this shows that the people disgusted that "Israel" are boycotting and the audience is gonna be a bunch of Zionists, so I'm glad tbh.

[lone_concertina]

There's conspiracy theories that there's SIM card farming going on (Azerbaijan is notorious for doing this too)

[trekkiepetrelli]

it's such a shit show. I'll never look at this show in the same way. ever. the double standards are hideous.