#käärijä won

[tesb]

“5 minutes before the performance I was still sure of victory. I didn’t win. Thank you and I’m sorry ❤️” @paidatonriehuja (Käärijä) on Instagram

#käärijä #finland #eurovision #esc #escedit #eurovisionedit #eurovision 2023 #esc 2023 #eurovision song contest #jere pöyhönen #euroviisut #gifs #* #yes i'm still heartbroken sorry. #käärijä we love you. you won europe's hearts last night #any translation mistakes here are my bad! the original interview was in finnish

[bananaa-fever]

#eurovision 2023 #eurovision #esc #esc 2023 #FINLAND SHOULDVE WON #it was rigged there's no way sweden winning a year before abba win 50th anniversary so they can host #on the anniversary is a coincidence #käärijä was robbed #finland #will tag them bcs they're the ones who deserve it. #honorable mention WHAT HAPPENED TO CROATIA SERBIA AUSTRIA N SLOVENIA I THOUGHT THEY WERE GONNA GET MORE?

[aesukhia]

with all the media shitstorm of käärijä vs. loreen can we acknowledge how supportive loreen is being towards käärijä? a swedish reporter kept trying to bait her to talk shit by asking how bad it must’ve felt to hear “cha cha cha” from the crowd every time sweden got 12 points and loreen kept answering with nothing but praise for käärijä’s performance. i’m pretty sure that if the artists have their shit sorted out between them that the public should too.

#am i still convinced that finnland should have won? yes. will i shit on loreen for that? no. #but for both sides (whatever that means) to talk shit about eachother is just nasty #käärijä #loreen #eurovision #cha cha cha #esc2023 #esc 2023 #sweden #finland

[warofthefivekings]

(1) it is clear that eurovision wants Israel to win (2) the Netherlands have a huge chance to win with Europapa being the massive banger that it is (3) it is 2023 all over again: a certain country HAS to win and eurovision will make it happen anyway it can (4) why is anyone surprised they're going after the Netherlands this way?

#eurovision #Joost Klein #Europapa #Käärijä should've won

[petrodragonicapocalypse]

i love eurovision season because when else would hundreds of people be calling in to the UK's most renowned family friendly radio station begging them to play Finnish industrial rap metal at 8am. and then they play it

#one of the presenters was like 'an amazing second place after a well deserved win from loreen' and the other presenter was like 'HMMMMMM. i #think if it had been up to the public we all know who would have won' OOOOHH #käärijä #cha cha cha #eurovision #my posts

[slavhew]

Winner Winner Pina Colada Dinner

#eurovision #esc 2023 #esc2023 #eurosong #kaarija #cha cha cha #käärijä #admin draws #fanart #anyways. coughs. cha cha cha won idk what to tell you #dont talk to me about sweden ive moved on #we stan a KING not juries #finished this pretty quickly so its underrendered but #i think its about time i come to terms with things sometimes looking a little shit

[dreamscatch]

it's so much fun to be a finnish museum tour guide for primary school groups during the week after eurovision. these 7-8yo kids will just completely unprompted start screaming CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA at the randomest moments and singing their own versions of the lyrics. one kid asked if they had eurovision back in the early 1900s (the era i was talking to them about). finland will remember käärijä and esc2023 for a very long time. eurovision history is in good hands with these kids who will tell about this moment for so long.

#eurovision #käärijä #finland #vee talks #i didn't expect to love working with kids as much as i do!!! #they're actually really sweet and fun and genuinely excited #i hope they hold on to all that #and keep their interest in eurovision because i remember being their age when lordi won

[utover-byen]

if the jury has a million haters, i am one of them. if it has ten haters, i am one of them. if it has one hater, it’s me. if it has none, i’ve been crushed by loreen’s sandwich press.

#eurovision #eurovision 2023 #esc23 #käärijä should have won and i will die on this hill #still not over the whole crowd chanting his name #HE IS THE TRUE WINNER #WE MADE OUR CHOICE #käärijä #💚💚💚 #fuck the jury

[peri-peri-sauce]

Given the current chaos surrounding ESC, let me brighten up your timeline with pictures of last year's winner.

Bonus:

#john won eurovision and no one can change my mind #john #käärijä #jere pöyhönen #mine

[lyxchen]

It's ESC time again so do y'all remember how Käärijä won last year? That was a good year wasn't it? Great winner performance I am still so happy for Käärijä that he won <3

#what do you mean that's not what happened?? #that totally happened #i think you watched the esc wrong last year because the way i remember it he won!! #esc 2023 #esc 2024 #käärijä #unreality #(still gonna tag this because sadly he in fact did not win but i can make myself believe he did if i just imagine it enough) #lea's random thoughts

[chut-je-dors]

Now I'm curious cause of your tag. What did Swedish media say about the eurovision thing?

Oof yeah, here's a post detailing it ... here another... Basically they've absolutely flipped over the fact that Finnish public didn't give Loreen points at all (which I find absolutely hilarious) and suddenly started wielding such rhetoric as "the former eastern part of our kingdom" referring to Finland, which is???? like??? do I even need to say how Not Okay that is?

It might seem to some that the Finnish people are reacting to Sweden's (unfair) win and them being sore winners (which, points to them, I didn't know was possible!) with too much drama, but it's all tied to our history together. Finland has traditionally seen itself, and has been seen by other countries (Sweden included) as the sort of "little brother" to the more advanced, better-faring, glorious Sweden. While Sweden to my knowledge doesn't much care about what Finland gets up to (perhaps overlooking/ignoring us and our merits), Finland is always comparing itself to Sweden and trying to live up to it. It's a very common rhetoric and sort of, the atmosphere over here. We know more about Sweden than Sweden knows about us; we're constantly conscious that Sweden exists. Sweden gets talked about in international news; Finland, if mentioned, is often tied to - you guessed it - being Sweden's neighboring country.

We used to be part of Sweden for 600 years. During that time, Swedish was implemented as the language of the culture and the "civilised" whereas the finns living in the eAstErn pArT oF tHe kiNgDoM were seen as "wild" and "uncivilised" and just, generally a lesser people to the Swedish speaking population. We haven't been under Sweden's rule for some 200 years and STILL we can't seem to shake their influence on us. Swedish is still a mandatory language to learn at school (and I have many opinions on that, but that'd be another post). Finnish as a language has been disregarded for its whole existence. Our leading national thinkers and poets in the 19th century, who were the first ones to really push for the Finnish identity instead of us seeing ourselves as part of Sweden or Russia, wrote in Swedish. The first novel in Finnish was published in 1870.

So this is monumental to us, to have the whole word watching Finland and not Sweden. Finland has a lot of merits, especially considering how small a people we are (just 5,5mil). To have a song in our language, in Finnish be this popular, is something we couldn't have imagined. We as a people are humble to the extreme, so much that we might easily scorn anyone who is too successful (not a good thing!), and this is the first time in my life that I'm seeing the whole country rally behind someone like this. When we say "Our Jere" we mean it with our whole hearts. We're so so proud of him, everyone is, and for once Finnish people seem to think in unison that someone deserves all the praise and the success.

SO, to have Sweden in this UNIQUE moment of Finland raising its head and being "we're so amazing", with the rest of Europe going "yes you're so amazing!!", spew rhetoric like this, is just, unbelievable to me. Like I can't just believe that in the 21st century there are people in Sweden who hold up 200 year old thought patterns of our country. It's been shocking 'cos though there's always been rivalry, it's felt more... tongue in cheek. We "love to hate" Sweden over here. It's been "I hate Sweden (affectionate)". But now we find this unbelievably condescending and belittling attitude towards us raising its head, and we wonder, we thought we two were okay?? But have they always held these beliefs???

So there's a sense of betrayal in the air as well. And just, full on disbelief. And maybe we're starting to see that it has been like this all along, but we've decided to turn a blind eye to it? True colours shining through? Perhaps not... but yeah.

Sweden not looking good here!

(here's one more post that says the same that i did but was better at making it SHORT oops)

#eurovision #finland #sweden #käärijä #loreen #look i have nothing against loreen or individual swedish people #i don't believe most swedes would think like this! #still to have something like this in a piece of media over there is... wild #and somewhat telling? #welp #bit of a long answer but there's more to this mess than just what's happening now #it's 800 years of shared history that we understand without it needing to be said #at least i think so! #if anyone has anything to add/discuss please go ahead! #anonymous #answered #the finnish people have a forever inferior complex when it comes to sweden and now the one time the world actually sees us sweden's like #'such dumb people :( we won look at our trophy. stop celebrating the circus act' #they're just jealous we have the crazy we have the party #:) <3 i wrote this cos i'm hiding from work heheh #esc23 #suomi

[luderailing]

It’s (kinda) party

#OMG GUYS LOOK WHO WON EUROVISION 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮 #pretending as hard as I can rn #käärijä #eurovision 2023 #he genuinely deserved the win so bad I ….need to take a nap #I really wanted to draw this before it ended? #oh well though. still love you king 💚

[bigsmallworld]

Joker Out's Carpe Diem documentary series is so Käärijän heavy that it's basically a documentary about Bojan finding his soulmate

#käärijä #joker out #carpe diem #carpe diem documentary #bojan cvjetićanin #kaarijan #käärijän #hey gif makers i'm waiting the new gifs #and didn't expect bojan beeing so FINNISH on how they did it in the finale #aka my country never wins #and the documentary totally showed joker out and käärijä so much in the end that you might think finland actually won

[emimillerart]

Käärijä, the blorbo of all time

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#Käärijä #kaarija #eurovision #eurovision2023 #my art #cha cha cha #finland won in my heart

[because-its-eurovision]

i love how after everything that has happened, he STILL somehow thinks people won't turn up to his gigs. what a guy

Here's the thing: he hasn't actually seen everything that's happened. He hasn't had time to take that all in.

Before UMK, some dozens or tens of people came to his shows and he has made fun of it, saying that his gigs never have a back row because there are so few people attending. He even organized a joke contest in his IG stories, and the winning one was along the lines "I don't like crowds, that's why I only go to Käärijä's gigs". Then after UMK his gigs were suddenly sold out, but most of them were still on small venues and nightclubs that could fit maybe a few hundred people. He got big hype before UMK and even bigger after winning that of course, but he really didn't have time to react to anything as he was doing as many shows as possible and doing hundreds of interviews and podcasts and challenge videos and what have you, and practicing singing and dancing and performing before leaving to Liverpool.

Then he was in Liverpool for two weeks without almost any time off, again every day filled with interviews and promotion videos and parties and rehearsals, and the hours he had off he didn't spend on social media but with Joker Out and other contestants, just to relieve the stress and pressure. So he wasn't in Finland, and he wasn't on social media that much, so he didn't see the actual craze that took over this country. Kids dressing in green and practicing Cha Cha Cha on music classes, stores running out of piña colada and Malibu and pineapple juice and everything green including grapes, all landmarks and statues in every city either dressed up in green boleros or lighted up with green lights, people dying their hair green and getting bowlcuts, people getting Käärijä tattoos, people sewing so many green boleros and other outfits that the biggest fabric store chain ran out of all green fabrics, people with green make-up and nails, the fan art everyone was making, even the government offices and political parties changing their logos Käärijä green on Instagram and Facebook, the support messages and posts, literally every store from clothing chains to grocery stores and art supply stores putting their neon green and pink stuff on display in the window - hell, even my local pet store had their neon green fluffy cat toys on the prime spot!

He said in an interview that he heard rumours of all that happened, but of course he hasn't seen it. He said that he has around 100.000 notifications unread and he won't have time until maybe autumn to start checking out what has actually happened this year.

When you think about it from his point of view, six months ago he was a broke-ass musician with a day job, living in a tiny apartment. Some dozens of people used to come to his shows, and then suddenly after Cha Cha Cha he was selling out venues, small ones, but still. Then he left for Eurovision with the single goal of winning, and he didn't achieve that, so he thought himself as a loser, that he had disappointed everyone who supported him. From his point of view he is still the same broke-ass musician living in a tiny flat, but now he's unemployed and Eurovision loser so even more of a failure. So why are there thousands of people suddenly coming to the shows and wanting to see him? Of course it would be baffling to him. He wasn't there when he became a national hero, and he doesn't yet understand that he is no longer a failed musician, he is an international phenomenon.

#I really hope his head can take all this #but he said that he is already planning to start therapy to deal with everything which is a great decision #I know UMK has their own therapist but this is so ridiculously huge #I said a couple of years ago that there hasn't been a craze like Blind Channel since Dingo fever in the 80's #but this is bigger than that #everyone knows who Käärijä is even if they are not on social media or didn't watch esc #this reminds me of how people acted when Lordi won #but we didn't have social media with billions of likes and shares and edits and dms and what have you #asks #käärijä

[jerichoes]

the titanic cover for “huhhahhei”. the two “j_re” bracelets on the “ssol” cover.

#im sorry brainrot has won #käärijä #joker out