#mikko silvennoinen

[annaliisa8]

Hey guys!! The Finnish commentator Mikko from YLE was saying that all performers in semi-final 2 have not been published yet. I might be wrong but his tone gave clear KÄÄRIJÄ vibes!!

Edit. He also mentioned Bojan aka Käärijä's Eurovision boyfriend (his words) being part of Raiven's team.

[frikatilhi]

Last spring, I listened to Viisupodi a lot, and they have been making some new epsiodes in the fall as well.

The last two were especially great! They had Tapio Hakanen on, who is the chair of the selection jury for UMK, and he had lots of insights on how the whole process works. Also some nice words about Käärijä and how special last/this year was. (He heard CCC for the first time while he was at an amusement park with his kids, becuase he just couldn't wait to listen when he found out Käärijä had applied, aww.)

The last ep was an interview with Mikko Silvennoinen, the Finnish ESC commentator and known Bojere enthusiast (exhibit A, exihibit B). He does a ton of research for the postcards (it's really quite impressive), including sending dm's to contestants to ask about stuff. The host told him to drop some names, so he mentioned sliding into Bojan's dm's (and getting a response as well) 😍 Mikko is such a fanboy, I love him.

ANYWAY is it Eurovision time yet??

[his-argentite]

I feel like even mikko knew what a shitshow the esc was so he didn't even care what he was saying anymore 😭💀

[snapeingturtle]

"No particular order my ass"

- the Finnish eurovision commentator

[lesbiankiliel]

mikko is telling us that the members of voyager stole the last of pineapple at the breakfast table in hotel

[pahishylje]

See also:

Some of them have good taste and some of them aren't real professionals.

- Mikko Silvennoinen upon Finland not/receiving high jury points 2023

The Professional jury are so professional that they professionally give the big points to very near-by countries.

- The Finnish commentator 2023

[suomalaistavihaa]

@piisamit - vaaraton teille muille

Julkaisen tässä jutussa kuvankaappauksia. Nopeiten ymmärtää blogikirjoituksen tarkoituksen, kun lukee vihreällä yliviivatut lauseet. Kyseinen tili on @rantalanmira2 :n ohella X-twitterin ainoa (miinus trollitilit) joka tosissaan häiritsee, vainoaa ja hankaloittaa elämääni. Se on luotu minun demonisoimistani varten. Kummankin sisältö on vain ja ainoastaan minun mielipiteitäni ja tekemisiäni…

[holyprincenerd]

yes yes rigged this cha cha that but please let’s not ignore this right now:

https://www.aftonbladet.se/podcasts/ab/episode/355975 Swedish “eurovision expert” Tobbe Ek (for those of you who aren’t Swedish, this is the same guy who accused Måneskin of doing coke on live tv back in 2021) and his posse of minions decided that it was time to spread some absolutely hateful rhetoric against the people of Finland by calling them shitty, idiotic, telling them they should be ashamed of not voting for Sweden (??? literally what???) etc etc, while also dragging in other contestants like Lord of the Lost and insulting them as a means of questioning why the Finnish public voted for them but not for Sweden. (You know. Because it totally doesn’t make any sense at all that a country known for having the most metal bands per capita in the world would vote for Lord of the Lost. Not at all.) 

As the cherry on top of this xenophobic shit cake, they started to go on about how “There’s no way there were ten contestants who were better than Sweden this year.” (Again. Not only disrespecting the other contestants, but them pretending not to grasp the concept of a country known for preferring heavier music choosing to vote mostly for bands this year... Yeah... Couldn’t be their preferences...)

Again, this man is considered a Eurovision expert here in Sweden, yet this is the type of behaviour he and his coworkers display over a nonissue like the Finnish public not voting for Sweden this year. If there’s something shameful here, it’s this.

To reiterate: These are three grown-ass well past 40-year old people having a genuine meltdown over one (1) singular country not voting for them.

Why are we giving Tobbe Ek (and his irrelevant coworkers) a platform, again?

EDIT:

Hoo boy, there’s more. Because of course there is.

ALRIGHT here’s an article from one of our tabloids using quite suspiciously colonialistic sounding rhetoric about Finland being “the kingdom’s previous eastern half”.

https://www.expressen.se/noje/finska-sveket-mot-sverige-gav-noll-poang-efter-uppmaningen-rosta-taktiskt/

The specific quote in Swedish: “Tv-tittarna i tidigare östra rikshalvan gav nämligen Sverige noll(!) poäng under Eurovisionfinalen på lördagen.”

Translation: “TV viewers in [our] kingdom’s previous eastern half gave namely zero(!) points to Sweden during the Eurovision finale on Saturday.”

Yeah, Johan Bratell (the writer of the article) is technically not wrong about Finland having been a part of Sweden. But why bring this up now? This was so clearly meant as a condescending insult.

The article also talks about a throwaway comment that the Finnish commentator Mikko Silvennoinen made about tactical voting (or more specifically, an anonymous comment he read out loud about tactical voting). From my understanding this was a joke reference to the previous elections which took place recently in Finland and forced a portion of the Finnish public to vote tactically as an attempt to block a far-right party from getting into the parliament. It’s embarrassing how much these people are reaching.

And even if they were voting tactically, so what? Sweden won. Why are we so focused on the public vote of one (1) country, Jesus Christ this is embarrassing.

EDIT 2: WHY THIS MATTERS. A LOT.

For those of you who are not in the know about Swedish politics, these statements are reflecting some far-right political views that have their roots all the way back in the times when Sweden ruled over Finland. In recent memory, our far-right political party Sverigedemokraterna claimed that the Swedish minority group Tornedalians are not Swedish, because they may speak local dialects that blend Finnish into Swedish, or speak the minority language Meänkieli. Coincidentally, Meänkieli just so happens to be a minority language that blends Finnish and Swedish, as it is mostly spoken by people who live by the Torneå river, i.e. the Finnish-Swedish border. Here’s an article about this controversy (however you may not be able to read it unless you’re subscribed to said newspaper): https://www.dn.se/asikt/orimligt-att-tornedalingar-inte-skulle-vara-svenskar/?fbclid=IwAR33K_UVRhXlJhyPd3gY7GDXN_lotUdrtM1AeL-nRzWE26Tmq5BFE0lIUzw

Sverigedemokraterna also believe that the Swedish minority group of Sweden Finns should essentially cut their ties to their Finnish roots and that they should not be able to be citizens of both Finland and Sweden. https://aip.nu/sverigedemokraterna-och-de-dubbla-medborgarskapen/

This sort of rhetoric is ridiculously common here, and in situations like the ones that have occurred in light of the ESC, they almost never get called out. Because it’s common. Because it’s okay to call Finnish people names and to use colonial rhetoric against all Finns, both those who live in Finland and those who live in Sweden. Because this is “friendly banter.” Mind you, as someone who technically belongs to both of the aforementioned minority groups I’m completely fine with the actually friendly banter and piss taking that we usually partake in, because it is just that. Friendly. But this is not it. This is actually harmful. I have never seen so many Swedish people attacking Finns on social media as I’ve seen these past few days. The usual colonialistic and fennophobic insults have started to rear their ugly heads: People have started to insult the Finnish language (a fennophobic sentiment that goes way back to the days when Finland was under Swedish rule and the Swedish tried to get rid of the language), they have started to insult the way Finns look (goes back to fennophobic rhetoric of Finns essentially not being “white enough”), etcetera. For more information on how the Swedish government treated the Sweden Finns and Tornedalians (the fact that they tried to abolish both the Meänkieli language and the Finnish language from Sweden and have even done skull measurements as an attempt to prove that these minority groups are not equal to Swedes), here’s another article: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/regeringen-tillsatter-sanningskommission

For those of you who speak Finnish and are interested in the topic, the book Kansankodin pimeämpi puoli by Tapio Tamminen goes into both issues, with photographic evidence of skull measurement incidents among other things. Meanwhile, the Finnish media is mostly just reporting on the tomfoolery of these “journalists.” Sure, there are a lot of Finns who are acting out as well and spreading hateful rhetoric against Swedes, but the difference here is that one group is punching up, while the other is punching down.

Whether Tobbe Ek, Jenny Ågren, Markus Larsson and Johan Bratell meant to cause this does not matter. They’ve still done it, in the case of the former group, they’ve even dragged other Europeans (and Australians!) into this mess.

They’ve gone ahead and spread fennophobic rhetoric on huge platforms: Sweden’s biggest national tabloids. They should be held accountable for this.

To reiterate: ALL THIS OVER THE FINNISH PUBLIC “NOT VOTING FOR SWEDEN” DURING THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST OF 2023.

Edit 3: Just in case we need a bit of clarification:

I know this whole post may come across quite negatively. So let me make this clear: There is an issue with the Swedish culture and its normalisation of fennophobia, however, that doesn’t mean every Swede is maliciously fennophobic. It’s literally just so normalised here, that sometimes people don’t even notice when they’re partaking in it, and because of said normalisation, for many these fennophobic and colonialist insults have become a sort of knee jerk reaction to when there’s “actual beef” with Finland. (Which, obviously, is a fucking problem, because look who has to bear the brunt of that.) 

Moreover, many Swedes aren’t even familiar with their shared history with Finland, and the discrimination Finland was put through during the Swedish rule (not to mention the discrimination the Sweden Finns and Tornedalians have had to face and still face). That part of our shared history simply isn’t taught in schools here, so a regular person would have to know to go out and look for the information. Heck, the only reason I’m aware of this is because at the end of the day, despite having been born and raised in Sweden, I am ethnically Finnish, and grew up by the border with very strong ties to the Finnish culture because of it. But less about me, and more about this issue. Most Swedes (and Swedish journalists who have any sort of sense in them and who work for respectable publications) have expressed their dissatisfaction with this years results as well. There’s a reason Cha Cha Cha is charting so well on Swedish Spotify. There’s a reason for why the Swedish jury and the public gave Finland 12 points.

So, Tl;dr:

1. Swedish tabloids are trash.

2. We have an undeniable problem with how normalised fennophobia is here, and it’s absolutely bizarre that this is how it’s getting exposed.

3. Most regular Swedes aren’t happy with this either, and are in fact not Finland’s and the Finnish people’s greatest haters in the world.

4. Tobbe Ek should get fired. At the bare minimun, he and his coworkers should probably issue some sort of apology for spreading this, seeing how it is actually hurting a lot of people.

Anyway, please don’t hate on the Swedes because of this lol, think about what Jere from Vantaa would think about that. 💚

[angelicvomitdolls]

Smash or pass: UMK and Eurovision edition translation

Hey I’m Käärijä and now we’re playing smash or pass

Dancing Lasha Tubai: BEST

Mikko Silvennoinen(Finnish Eurovision commenter, very funny and beloved guy) LOVE HIM, GREAT GUY

Confetti rain: I don’t know, it’s kinda on the verge

Only scre-*realizes he’s reading it wrong and startes laughing* Churning butter on the stage!

Leather outfit: Oh my, I want it

[hehkuvamyyhapero]

"ja tähän he sitten päätyivät"

- mikko silvennoinen san marinon viisukarsinnoista, 2023

[tatteredpantaloons]

"hei benkku mä hoidan sut!"

"ben of finland"

mikko silvennoinen on ihan omaa luokkaansa

[welovetogether2023]

Our dream team getting ready for Nordic Party 🇫🇮❤️ 🎥: Mikko Silvennoinen ig

[silverior968]

Next day thoughts: No longer mad, Finland got the people's vote and that's what matters to me. I do however still think that sending in a previous year's winner is a pretty tacky move. Loreen is a good artist but she already had her time in the limelight. Sweden has so many amazing artists who haven't gotten their chance at Eurovision yet, my personal favorites are Anna Ternheim and First Aid Kit. Also, 12 points from Sweden to Finland was a surprise, like when it was announced my friends and I were just dead silent for like 2 seconds. Mikko Silvennoinen was baffled as well! When's the last time that happened? Anyways, now I'm done with Eurovisionposting for real, Finland and Serbia were my favorites, Estonia was the best ballad, I don't understand jury votes, see you again next year!

[teal-skull]

"and there is Slovenia and that guy over there Bojan is Käärojä's best friend behind the scenes"

-Mikko Silvennoinen, finnish commentator

Even Mikko is a fan of the Käärijä & Bojan bromance

[belzebong]

Mikko Silvennoinen on suicide watch

[hehkuvamyyhapero]

"jeren kaveri!"

- mikko silvennoinen, 2023