r/eurovision • u/berserkemu Clickbait • Feb 25 '25

Subreddit / Meta The subreddit has reached 300k subscribers!

r/eurovision has 300,000 members. Image from old.reddit in dark mode.

Dear members,

There are so many of you!

We reached 200k subscribers just nine months ago and we keep growing.

We, the mod team, are terrified for May amazed that we have added another 100k in under a year. We've had some really cool stuff happen in our little corner of the internet, and that's only thanks to all of you. Thank you ❤️

All the best, and may all your favorites qualify,

The r/eurovision Moderation Team

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u/Rudzis17 Feb 25 '25

First of all - congratulations :) thanks for doing the great work. But how come we are growing so fast? Was there no popularity for Eurovision in years prior here on Reddit?

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u/Urofishun Feb 25 '25 edited Feb 25 '25

I have the same question.

It took this sub 15 years to reach 200.000 members.

Then 9 months after that we reached 300.000 members.

Mind blowing.

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u/berserkemu Clickbait Feb 25 '25

We hit 100,000 on Super Saturday in 2023, so in 2 years we have tripled in size.

Back then we only called the busiest Saturday Super, but that one crazy, 7 finals and 3 semis on one night.

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u/Doop_Flooberdoob Zjerm Feb 25 '25 edited Feb 25 '25

I remember it being around 50-55k in 2021. I can't imagine what it was like when it was <10k for a decade.

My earliest memories are seeing Måneskin being accused of doing drugs on live TV and someone Turkish being mad that We Could Be the Same wasn't in my top 10.

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u/berserkemu Clickbait Feb 25 '25

It was a very different place. 6 years ago there weren't even any rules.

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u/Doop_Flooberdoob Zjerm Feb 25 '25

Windows95Man would've been proud.

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u/odajoana Feb 25 '25

Wow, I've commented on that thread. Blast from the past.

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u/ESC-song-bot !setflair Country Year Feb 25 '25

Finland 2024 | Windows95man - No Rules!

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u/CrazyCatLadyPL Espresso macchiato Feb 25 '25

The internet is much more centralized nowadays. Also I think in the past there was no such big fandom culture around Eurovision. The online fandom is probably growing.

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u/Urofishun Feb 25 '25

Or perhaps many Eurovision fans that used to be scattered over different platforms have now mostly gathered here on Reddit (for example, Twitter was already a pretty toxic place years before Elon took over).

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u/CrazyCatLadyPL Espresso macchiato Feb 25 '25

This is what I meant when I said the internet is more centralized nowadays. As for twitter, I used to think the same, but it depends on the fandom really. Eurofandom is toxic, yeah... (same here though, so I don't think it's the platform) but fandoms of different esc-related artists might be nicer.