#fuck martin österdahl

[theyhavetakenovermylife]

Hey all my beautiful people💚 I'm currently in the middle of packing before moving into my first place of my own, but I'm trying to push in some writing time.

In the mean time, I stumbled across this video, and it got my blood boiling. I already has strong feelings about what happened in ESC this year, but this tipped over, so this is where my rant will start.

As you all me already know, I'm a MASIVE Eurovision fan, and what happened this year simply wasn't acceptable. I knew that there had been some problems out backstage, but I had no idea it was this bad.

One thing is to let Israel take part in Eurovision, but to then ignore every single claim of harassment from the Israeli delegation, not just from the press but from the artists themselves, is more than just outrages, but breaks the exact rules that Joost Klein was desqualifed over.

To learn that parts of the Israeli delegation straight up harassed Joost Klein, Bambie Thug, and several of the other acts, let alone the press, without EBU taking any actions, makes me so angry that I can't even describe it.

I love Joost Klein and the Netherlands. I have a lot of friends there and many good memories from there. So to hear that Joost Klein and the other delegations was harassed and filmed without permission, did not just shock me, but made me feel like someone had hurt some of my friends.

In EBU's strange attempt to keep Israel in the competition, they have not just ignored every single claim of harassment made against the Israeli delegation, but screwed over the other artists, the crowd, the press and the viewers.

The amount of rules the Israeli delegation has broken, without any actions from the EBU is disrespectful, to the point I would call it gross.

[visenya-targarye]

I just want to remind everyone it does not end tonight. Israel may have lost tonight but never forget they were still allowed to compete even when they are actively commiting a genocide of the Palestinian people! The deaths of thousands of people were not enough for the EBU to disqualify them. The public was being lied to with the anti-booing technology. Israeli delegation was constantly harassing other contestants and threatening them. Still, it was not enough to disqualify them. No, they received more than 300 points, ending in the 5th place.

And they will definitely be competing again next year without suffering any consequences for their actions. Shame on everyone who voted for them.

Fuck the EBU, fuck Israel, fuck Eurovision, fuck Martin Österdahl.

FREE PALESTINE

[casismycherrypiebaby]

Fuck Martin Österdahl and the ebu

[esc-is-holding-me-hostage]

Final thoughts:

despite everything, the show itself wasn't as much of a mess as i expected

Gåte deserved better

congrats to Germany for landing on the left side for once

my boyfriend liked the UK the most and was soooo upset at those nul points

i'm kinda sorry for the person who decided to go with the Martin Österdahl fan-song as a skit, absolutely worst timing ever

uncanny valley 3D ABBA was probably even worse though. who greenlighted that?

my working unhinged conspiracy theory is that Joost was a sacrificial lamb, disqualified to consolidate the televote around Baby Lasagna (and possible getting Nemo a bit more points) to minimize the risk of Israel winning either the televote or the whole thing (this is a joke, a goof, a low-effort shitpost, please don't take it seriously, it's not a real speculation)

the Joost situation is still baffling though. I can't believe the EBU was willing to upset the fans and strain their relationship with AVROTROS over something that, from an outsider's perspective at least, could've been resolved by a public apology and a fine

Israel's televote score IS sus, but maybe that's what you get when anti-Israel people are either boycotting the thing or refrain from voting, while pro-Israel people are not

I expected Nemo to win, but goddammit televote's 5th(!) place getting the crown while Baby Lasagna was right there still doesn't sit right with me

i think the skewed scores are in part caused by the no-jury semi-finals. countries are more likely to send televote-friendly songs because otherwise they are risking NQ -> there are less jury-friendly songs -> jury favorites end up with more points while the televote is more split. enjoy reaping the results of a band-aid solution

GIVE ME THE DETAILED SEMI-1 RESULTS FOR FUCK'S SAKE

i can't wait for the fallout of this mess

[eurovision-flashbacks]

so can isr**l fuck off now

martin österdahl can also fuck off

[awaybacktothen]

fuck you martin österdahl

[esctrash]

anger over i am now just completely heartbroken fuck you ebu and fuck you martin österdahl

[man-made-misery]

Martin österdahl's gotta be having a fucking meltdown right now and I hope it's bad

[casismycherrypiebaby]

Today I miss Jon Ola Sand more than usually

Fuck Martin Österdahl

[aangarchy]

So this just in: the Netherlands got disqualified, the incident in question which caused this to happen was a VERBAL altercation between Joost Klein and a female production worker. No delegation was involved

BUT: the Israel team and delegation have been involved in multiple verbal altercations, including intimidation, harassment and threats and yet they can continue their participation.

Irish performer Bambie (who was the subject of one of the israeli threats and was censored by the EBU) did not show up during the flag parade for the family show, neither did Switzerland's performer and Greece's performer. I need every European who sees this to grow some balls and NOT watch tonight's show. Genuinely i don't give a rat's ass if that means israel wins, it's a non deserved and fake win anyway. We can't give them the satisfaction of views, attention, engagement. Show you disagree by not tuning in. If israel wins, we might as well be witnessing the downfall of eurovision, for a country not even in europe. But know that Croatia still has a chance of pulling through.

Fuck moroccanoil, fuck the EBU, fuck Eden Golan, fuck Israel, fuck Martin Österdahl and fuck everyone still supporting this bullshit show.

If any of you fellow europeans have any backbone, you'll not watch Eurovision this weekend. If you have tickets, don't go to the show. I'm hoping the other countries refuse to perform, so they won't have a show to broadcast. Let eden and her sad little delegation perform her sad little act in front of an empty stadium.