#Voting Contest

[eurovisionart]

I should have been drawing the last 1993 contestant today, but instead I decided to sketch some of this year's artists.

It pains me that this Eurovision will forever be remembered in a negative light. Despite all of the talented artists this year, the wonderful hosts and production, it is indeed very hard to stay positive. I wished that the contest would live up to its 'United by music' slogan. Without exaggeration, Eurovision has always been my favorite time of the year... But not this year.

I am Dutch, so I guess I will not be able to vote tonight. Regardless I hope we can show support for the artists tonight.

Because it has always been the artists that have made Eurovision into the wonderful show that it is. Not the EBU.

#esc 2024 #eurovision 2024 #eurovision song contest #I wish I could vote tonight... #it is a mess this year #I feel bad for the artists. The hosts. Everyone in the arena tonight. #eurovision

[manjushagep]

"If we remove the juries this'll be a popularity contest with just the wackiest acts making it through and do you want that?" YES? In this economy? In this depressive state of the world? I wanna have one week when snorting glitter and putting cabbages on your arms would be encouraged, not ridiculed thank you very much

#eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #esc 2023 #eurovision 2023 #besides do y'all really not trust the public vote? #at the very least make the percentages favour the public vote otherwise what's the point of asking us to vote anyways

[danteskygod]

Tumblr: Boycott Eurovision and don't vote for anyone

Also Tumblr: How the fuck is the country we're boycotting getting all the votes?!

#eurovision #eurovision song contest #eurovision 2024 #A basic lesson in democracy right there #your vote counts

[m66nchil6]

eurovision is for serving cunt and not boring ballads when will you people learn!!!!

#eurovision #anyways vote croatia and finland #esc #eurovision 2023 #eurovision song contest

[itsunsafeinsidemyhead]

Wow, I'm so happy that Croatia won eurovision 2024, so happy for them

#eurovision #eurovision song contest #esc #eurovision 2024 #esc 2024 #Martin you dumb fuck #Fuck you you piece of shit #And all who voted for Switzerland too #Croatia is my winner

[galacticsabc]

I can finally post my Fanfest art contest entry!!!

And I am happy to say that I made it to finalists!!! WAHOOOO. Mine is Entry: I-17!

#please go and vote for your favourites! #literally everybody who entered something in the art contest is really fucking good #ffxiv #ffxiv fanfest #fanfest 2023 #na fanfest #fanfest art contest #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #ffxiv endwalker #endwalker spoilers #ffxiv spoilers #art #illustration #my art #artwork #my artwork #digital art #dreamerx86

[handwrittenhello]

i think its kind of ridiculous to think that homestucks are seriously using bots in this poll because why the hell would they bot this poll instead of the tumblrwoman poll which was the poll EVERYBODY in the hs fandom was actually making a big deal out of . also because im going to be real but i dont think anyone cares about polls enough to rig one? even the bayonetta/miku poll turned out to actually not be vriska voter fraud (most people in the homestuck fandom voted miku anyway) i think people are just unable to comprehend that a lot of people are still dormantly into homestuck & probably just saw vriska serket at the front of the trending disco elysium tag and thought it was funny. like oh my godddd no one cares enough about the outcome of this poll to bot it . somebody with a lot of followers probably just posted about it on twitter or something mundane like that its not that deep . a lot of people on tumblr have read homestuck its not extraordinary that a lot of vriska voters exist. disco elysium fans im sorry your blorbo is losing you’ll probably be back in the lead in a couple hours anyway all of you need to chill out‼️‼️‼️

answering only this ask about the cheating/botting, and no others, because i'm getting a lot of asks about it. congratulations, this contest has officially had all the fun sucked out of it.

here's data i've been collecting for every poll i've run. it's organized by votes the character received per round, then the total number of votes on that poll, for all five rounds. then there are two columns for totals.

the next five columns, Notes 1-5, are the number of notes on each poll. i've highlighted two posts that were circulated with a greater-than-average frequency even after the poll ended (the loki/JC one because people were memeing on JC, and then HDB/Howl one because it gained popularity following a popular blogger reblogging it.)

V/N is the votes to notes ratio for each poll. it was taken by dividing the number of votes when the poll ended by the number of notes on each post. one limitation is that this was not taken at the same time each day, and so older posts will have slightly higher notes. however, i believe this uncertainty isn't enough to discount the conclusions i'll come to.

i've highlighted vriska's V:N ratio in red at the top. as you can see, round vriska's V:N ratio wasn't even the highest; she beat kaeya alberich easily, and the comments in the notes reflected that.

in round 2, things started to get interesting. this is where i and other people noticed a sudden flip, but i didn't think much of it. she was up against izzy hands. izzy was leading all day, and when i queued the next day's poll and went to bed, izzy was leading by 60%. when i woke up, it had flipped to 53/47 in vriska's favor. it's not a HUGEamount, but it is a NOTICEABLE amount.

keep in mind that every single day, there have been other, closer polls, that hovered around 49-50-51 all day, and which also flipped at the end of the day, or remained 50/50 and could only be determined by tumblr. in these cases, the notes also reflect the split. these polls also never swayed more than one or two percent.

in round 3, when vriska faced zuko, there was a clear and immediate lead for zuko, with him leading by 80%. keep in mind that by this point, all 28 other polls i ran, besides vriska's the day before, never swayed more than 1 or 2% once a clear lead had been established.

this poll went from 80/20 zuko to 59/41 vriska. that's RIDICULOUS. the only way that's possible is if an OVERWHELMING amount of people voted vriska and NO people voted zuko. for such a thing to happen, this post would need to spread really rapidly, right? surely this post had tens of thousands of notes and comments!

the V:N ratio for round 3 is TWENTY-SEVEN to one. that's the most out of any poll. the standard deviation for the round 3 polls is 9.0, compared to 4.8 and 4.9 the days before. not to mention reading those notes also does not get us an overwhelming amount of comments rooting for vriska.

today has also been highly suspicious. it started out with an 85/15 lead for harry. i wouldn't necessarily expect it to hold exactly at that percentage, but the flip was immediate and drastic. you can see the trend being tracked on this post. not at all suspicious, right? also note that the comments all day have been 95% rooting for harry and maybe 5% for vriska.

please also look at the GRAND TOTAL column, which has reliably predicted the winners of future polls each day. vriska has received 49,064 votes over the course of the whole contest. harry has received 64,644. that's 24% more votes. and yet the poll is locked at 50/50?

and if this isn't enough evidence for you, then remember the tumblr sexywoman poll. it is a FLAT FUCKING FACT that those polls were spammed by bots. out of respect for their privacy i won't go into detail, but they outright admitted it.

TO CONCLUDE,

it's pretty fucking obvious that something is up, and although i admit that there's simply no concrete way of proving it, there would have to be a really standout explanation for this.

and besides this being super lame, it's also removed all the fun from this contest. it's a stupid tumblr poll that wins literally nothing, congratulations!

also, to everyone making death threats in the notes, BOTH SIDES, you've failed my secret challenge of not being rude which means i'm judging you personally. be fucking nice.

#tumblr's plmm contest #to people campaigning lightheartedly: this post isn't about you you're great and fun #to people actually fighting and taking this way too seriously: what positive impact did you have? #and to people spamming bot votes: get fucked and get a life you're not funny #director's commentary #anon #yeah now i'm fucking mad #long post

[anotherpapercut]

my city elects a "captain" every year who's like a well known local that contributes to the community and they hold a ball as a fundraiser and do some public events etc. this year a beloved book store cat was nominated and the city banded together in a way I've never seen in my 24 years living here to make sure that he absolutely fucking destroyed the competition and became this years captain

#he won :) #his name is googey #the book store has an extremely funny commie name i wish I could say it w/o doxxing myself #i was sending the voting link to all ny friends lmao. apparently it was like absolutely no contest. he annihilated everyone #formerly ori/ons/belts

[nartothelar]

The idea that Emmet could lose the next Nimbasa sexy man contest to his brother and a literal Zoroark copying his appearance has me cracking up.

(bc the way you draw Zoroark Emmet is a bit 👀👀👀. That side-eye.)

it’s all in the vibes

#emmet thinks he’s a shoe in to win the sexy man contest this year but he gets bumped to third place because the ‘rugged gilf’ lovers #come outta the wood word #AS WELL AS people vote??? for the zoroark??? THAT LOOOKS JUST LIKE HIM????? WHAT GRAHHHH #ingo and the zoroark #submas #emmet #kudari #nobori #zoroark #pokemon #pokemon fanart #fanart

[drev-the-procrastinator]

Like. ok

ok 15 12s from the juries and zero (0!!!!!) 12s from the public taking the win from 2 12s from the juries and 18 12s from the public. ok. ok. sure

#eurovision #esc 2023 #eurovision 2023 #käärijä #eurovision song contest #loreen #ig idk #also public vote for finland: no country gave less than 6 points. even in the jury votes sweden got some 4s and 5s #also like on a small scale easy example of how the jury system sucks: finnish jury: 12 points to sweden. finnish public: 0 points to sweden #a larger gap does not exist #am i salty? yes!! am i bitter? yes!!!! will i continue to be til the end of time? probably!!! #this sucks. if we couldn't even win this year with the 2nd most public votes ever received in esc history and all the hype. why even try #fucking juries #anyway!!!!! i am very sad and feel very bad for käärijä but he did amazing!!!!! we love you king ♡♡♡♡

[stephen9260]

I'm so bitter about this

#who the fuck voted for them smh #esc 2023 #eurovision #eurovision song contest #poland #nepotism entry noooooooooooo

[stairset]

Sabine IS the best Mandalorian character of all time and I won’t accept any substitutes. She literally has it all. She is a punk tomboy lesbian who changes her hair and armor every season. She also has by far the coolest and most unique armor out of all of them, literally no contest. Her story arc is so good that another show just blatantly ripped it off. She defaces fascist propaganda with graffiti. Said graffiti is done with explosive spray-paint and she blows people up with it. She’s voiced by Mishti from Phineas and Ferb. Her father is voiced by Shang Tsung. Her ex-girlfriend is voiced by Vixen. Her brother is like the only fictional character I know of that has the same first name as me. Of all the people to use the Darksaber she’s the only one we know of besides Tarre Vizsla himself to have training from a Jedi Knight. She spray-painted the main villain’s personal assassin while he was unconscious just to humiliate him. She’s the reason Wedge Antilles joined the rebellion. She defeated the Imperial governor of Mandalore. BOTH of them. Darth Vader deflected a blaster bolt into her face and she lived to tell the tale. She told an art historian she was smarter than him to his face and she was right. She literally created the symbol of the fucking Rebel Alliance. She’s gay, she’s asian, and she’s popular. She is truly one of the characters of all time.

#you know every time i see a ''who's your favorite mando?'' poll din predictably always wins #and look. i like din. but between him and sabine it is literally no contest to me. #far as i'm concerned anyone who doesn't vote her in those polls is an uncultured philistine who probably only watches the live-action shows #also her design is literally what got me to watch rebels #like before it came out i saw some promotional material and wasn't sure what to think #but when i saw her design i was just like idk who this chick is but i like her #sabine wren #star wars rebels #star wars #shut up tristan

[jaarijani]

The fact that Joost got disqualified yet we still don't fully know what the hell happened yet is super sketchy...

Also the fact that one of the most (if not the most) beloved songs this year got disqualified is a really, really bad move on EBU's part...

Everyone better be prepared for tonight...

it's ridiculously stupid they've already lost about 90% of dutch viewers with this move and I'm sure they'll lose many international viewers as well because Europapa was so popular. This whole scandal is so ridiculously hypocritical and it looks and feels like a total setup. It feels entirely manufactured both to turn our eyes away from the cruelty in Rafah and to boost Israel in the final results.

They won't tell us the full story because they know it's unfair and hypocritical, Joost does not deserve any of this and I am so so saddened to see him turned into a scapegoat at the event that he's worked towards for years and years.

🇳🇱JUSTICE FOR JOOST🇳🇱

🍉BOYCOTT EUROVISION🍉

#joost klein #joost verdient beter #FUCK the ebu FUCK eurovision FUCK Israel FUCK all of this #do not watch this shitshow do not vote do not give them your money #esc #eurovision #boycott eurovision #if you need something fun to distract you we're having a lovely cruelty-free käärijä-centered music contest in our discord server #dm me for details if you're interested

[ace-beef]

actual image of me going to bed while listening to Cha Cha Cha, Blood and Glitter, Promise, and Who the Hell is Edgar on repeat

#I’m so grumpy lmao #robbed; all of them #I don’t normally come out of the results THIS angry about them #often I’m bothered about something but this year has been bullshit #good year overall for songs but the voting oh my god #eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #eurovision 2023 #esc 2023 #beef speaks

[wait-whaaaat]

Time for the first episode of the European hunger games

#LET THE VOTES BEGIN #esc 2023 #eurovision #eurovision song contest #lia.esc

[handwrittenhello]

Tumblr's Poorest Little Meow Meow Contest

Remember, don't just vote for your fave! Consider who is the DARLINGEST, MOST WRETCHED, and has COMMITTED THE MOST CRIMES.

#tumblr's plmm contest #homestuck #star wars #anakin skywalker #vriska serket #MY vote goes to meenah in the back <3