What I find extremely hilarious right now is how Sweden can’t accept that people aren’t focusing on them. How Finland isn’t just crying in the shadow of Sweden. How Finland is celebrating Käärijä even if he didn’t bring the trophy home. They don’t want to accept why we are celebrating. Swedish media is trashing Finland right now harshly and so does Swedes in media. Hell, even Swedish ice hockey coach made some stupid comments to Finnish ice hockey team.
But why are Finns celebrating like we won?
We are celebrating because for the first time in ages THE WHOLE WORLD sees us as our own and not the shadow of Sweden. Käärijä made the world acknowledge us! Point us on the map! And that’s something that rarely happens.
Sweden is acting like the bitter big brother who doesn’t accept that someone is paying attention to little brother Finland instead of them.
okay but l*reen winning aside because that's false and i don't belive in that: it's so insane that a song IN FINNISH got SECOND PLACE and im absolutely crying about that and the entire country is so so SO proud of our funky green man 💚 he won everyone's hearts and that's the most important thing
eurovision audiences on social media are so different. here we all see the juries as a mortal enemy and live for camp and on twitter i've already seen several different people complaining about croatia going through and actually dreading the possibility of a no-juries final in the future. totally different ecosystems.
It’s been almost three months and not a day goes by when I don’t think about the time when Bojan called Jere ”Brother” on their personal messages and Jere just… left him on read
When the losing song is a cultural phenomenon transceding language barriers and hitting virality across the globe, and the winning song is mainstream pop, you cannot make the argument that the better song won. It was not the better song. The audience didn't think it was the better song.