The Future Of This Blog

As you may or may not have noticed, it's late April as of writing this, and I've now gone 1.5 months without updating the blog with, well, anything. If you're one of the few people who only follow me on here and not Twitter, don't worry, I'm still alive; just not particularly motivated.

I've still got a handful of videos to be posted. In fact, a rather large backlog of them. My next video is a WWKSF video that I filmed at the start of April, before I went to all the preparties. After that, the intention is to edit the rest of my vlogs, namely the ones from Klaipeda, Stockholm, Kaunas, and of course Barcelona and Amsterdam. And as of writing this, right here in Gothenburg. So there's lots of videos coming up, just not many blog posts.

And why you might ask? Well, it's a combination of demotivation and actual busyness. Unlike previous years, where I was free to sit at home in East Asia and just comment on every minute little thing about Eurovision, this year I'm actually here in Europe, travelling around. Not to mention the fact that I'm literally enrolled in a university and have coursework to do. Could I theoretically write blog posts while I'm flying into Copenhagen for the millionth time? Sure. Would I actually do that? No.

Because there's also the elephant in the room, which is of course Israel. I don't want to come off as "oh how does this major humanitarian crisis affect me personally", but it is quite ironic, isn't it, that the ONE year that I'm actually able to stay in Europe for a relatively sustained amount of time, is the year that Eurovision (and honestly Europe more generally) is put into an insane amount of disrepute, causing many people to (rightly) boycott Eurovision, if not apply massive amounts of pressure on artists and broadcasters.

Am I personally going to boycott Eurovision? Well, I've got all these tickets worth thousands of euros, what do you think? "You could always go to Eurovision some other year" NO I CAN'T. I do not live in Europe, and for at LEAST the next few years I will probably not even return to Europe, even on a short trip of any kind. Do you know just how expensive intercontinental flights are? I'm not made of money.

What I have been doing, and what several prominent Eurovision Youtubers are rightly doing, is intentionally ignoring Israel in my own coverage of Eurovision on the Youtube channel. You may or may not have noticed a sudden jump cut in my latest WWKSF video, where I skipped over Israel in the odds discussion. As one might expect, that's very much deliberate. Hell, I haven't even heard their song yet, and I don't plan to at any point. I'll also try to minimize coverage on Azerbaijan, although in fairness there really isn't a whole lot to cover about them anyways. I suspect they've sort of gotten past the "using Eurovision for positive press" phase.

So yeah. Tentatively, Eurovision-related videos will still continue, but just keep in mind watching them that I myself am not clued up to every single minute detail this season. I just try to do the best I can, despite the adverse circumstances. I might just stop doing blog posts until 2025 season, and/or until Israel gets suspended from the EBU. For Eurovision week itself, I'm concerned about my personal safety. Fortunately, my hotel's in Copenhagen, not Malmo. Many fans probably did this to save on hotel prices, but it turns out that that's become a security measure as well. Meanwhile, Wiwibloggs is openly advertising that they are having a Eurovision lounge event at the mall opposite the arena, knowing that malls are some of the prime targets for terrorism. Make of that what you will. But also William is a Zionist, so what's new.

Speaking of Sweden though, now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to have lunch and then go to a Cornelia Jakobs gig here in Gothenburg.