image description: STAND FOR THE FLAG (soldier saluting in front of enby flag) AND KNEEL FOR THE CROSS (soldier kneeling in front of swiss flag)
ESC 2024 in a nutshell:
🇨🇭 The Swiss finally found Nemo, who is non-binary and won by breaking the code and riding a Tagada
🇮🇪 Ireland performed a demon summoning and was awarded 6th by the jury, 6th by the audience and ended up in 6th - 666 intensifies
🇳🇱 The Dutch dude was disqualified for allegedly being an asshole
🇮🇱 Israel did not decapitate Netanyahu on stage and still finished high up in the ranks, sending pro-palestine Twitter users into rage
🇪🇪 We saw Estonian VSauce
They desperately tried to bait the audience with Abba just to show us the worst deep fake in human history and letting some previous ESC winners (including Conchita Wurst) perform Waterloo on stage.
(Did I miss anything?)
This is the first time Joost got to do such a big event, and then he got filmed without his consent, indicating such multiple times. This happened while he was under time pressure, so he made a “threatening movement” towards the woman holding the camera. I feel like a punishment other than disqualification would’ve been better, this felt disproportionate.
They made it sound like he assaulted someone ar first but it does seem to have been just a (offensive) gesture after repeatedly requesting they leave him alone.
Disproportionate is an understatement especially considering the already tense climate.
Song would have gotten good points for sure aswell.
Is there any publicly released footage of the incident? I only read about it in the news and if the reaction is justified imo depends on what he exactly did to her.
Taking part in such an event (sadly) often leads to a certain loss of privacy which one should be aware of. On the other hand pointing the camera on him even after him indicating he doesn’t want to requires a certain amount of ignorance.
But then again, I cannot really judge the situation and need to leave that to the investigators.
Nope, the Dutch broadcaster Avrotros said what happened as described above, the EBU says the story from the photographer or whatever is different, but has failed to tell us what that difference actually is
pro-palestine
Weird way to spell “people who aren’t totally cool with genocide”, but OK
I watched the show involuntarily at first but it was alright after some getting used to.
My 2 cents:
- Finland should have been top 5 minimum
- Ireland should have been top 3
- I would have been okay with ‘Baby Lasagna’ to win as well
Many artists were quite interesting, queer and political - which was not something I had expected. It was a pleasure to watch with a queer poly kinky bubble :D
