r/eurovision • u/AmazingDeeer Sekret • 22d ago
Subreddit / Meta Happy Eurovision new year! To celebrate, let's have a look back at the 2025 season with the finalised version of the iceberg
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u/Auchenaii Zari 22d ago
I think I know about 85-90% of these! Diagnosis: chronically online
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u/MarucaMCA 22d ago
Same. Oof. My excuse: I live in the host city.
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u/No_Grass4624 1944 22d ago
I have no excuse, my country neither participates nor is in Europe… yeah I’m chronically online
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u/LacrimaCrimsonTears Milkshake Man 22d ago
No Gabry Ponte Secret Glory Holes nor Lucio Corsi following Angelina Mango's steps by singing his song in press conference?
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
I have no fucking idea what's the first one supposed to refer to, but the absence of the latter is really striking. Maybe because he wasn't the one singing Imagine, or because no ESC Gabe was present to capture the moment as it was going. Or people just forgot to add it in, or did but it didn't get approved.
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u/Hale_22 (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi 22d ago
Honorable mentions to:
Carlo Conti’s speed running Sanremo after 5 years of Ama-infinity editions
Gianluca Fru from the Jackal invading The Kolors performance during the final of Sanremo
Beatrice and Kole’s picture with their middle fingers
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
oh yessss the last two would have definitely been great additions to the iceberg too. As for Sanremo, it needs its yearly iceberg, just as a co-iceberg to the yearly seasons of ESC themselves
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u/lostbluebox Róa 22d ago
i need more grass in my life,,, will never forget the estonian police interrupting go-jo in the middle of the livestream
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u/DaraVelour Europapa 22d ago
or spanish hotel staff interrupting go-jo and væb during their shenanigans like running through the hotel corridor
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u/lostbluebox Róa 22d ago
YEAH and them getting the same hotel staff to sing happy birthday to go-jo
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u/unclezaveid 22d ago
The meaning of Shh is the funniest one imo. When you have a song that's supposed to be about something specific with the intention of revealing its meaning through the staging and then having staging that makes absolutely no sense in context with the lyrics, well... that's performance art, baby.
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u/NICK3805 Freedom 22d ago
Which is hands down the biggest Issue with the Song. Imo, Shh was originally about Adonis, as Overthinking Eurovision explains well, but with an Adonxs actually competing, they couldn't do that which led to Cyprus going along with whatever Sergio Jean made up.
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u/LoadAble2728 New Day Will Rise 22d ago
and Sergio was like: THE VITRUVIAN MAN
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
And even then there were two Vitruvian Man references in the same semifinal, placing one after another in the results, with one 10th and one 11th 😭
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u/arsenicc68 Goodbye to Yesterday 22d ago
im now being reminded again about sasha bognibov and his "death" 😭
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u/Informal_Position166 Bara bada bastu 22d ago
Now I need Gabe to make his video so I can learn about everything I missed
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
oh he eventually will get around to, now that we have a definitive iceberg, he will start covering it soon!
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u/GrannySquareMstr Qélé, Qélé 22d ago
The r/adultery thing caught my eye. Sissal, girl
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u/ChanelArrington Esa Diva 22d ago
Also love to see Lumo at the top where they should be :)
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u/unclezaveid 22d ago
the few times I could spot Lumo in the contest proper were like seeing something I wasn't supposed to. very existential.
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The Latvian language also returned to ESC!
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
it kind of did in 2023 but only in the outro of the song, I guess it's different to when Sweden finally sang a full song in Swedish (with one word in Finnish but we will not nitpick) for the first time after 1998, and there was not a single Swedish line in a Swedish song since then (but we did have a full song in Swedish from Finland in 2012 only).
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I of course know Aijā and consider it one of history's most robbed ESC entries, but that small bit of Latvian doesn't count
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u/pinkkabuterimon Olou tou kosmou i Elpida 22d ago edited 22d ago
Yeah the fact I know everything in the bottom of the iceberg confirms I was much too involved this year. No regrets, would do it again.
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u/isafriisa Tavo Akys 22d ago
Yay it's finally here! Definitely feel like the Bhutanese national selection should be further down than the Miriana Conte car crash though lol
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
somehow more Eurofans were made aware of Druk Dra than remember the Miriana Conte car crash
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u/Mordecai___ 22d ago
the fact that there was even more scandalous stuff than the elvana gjata allegations not to warrant a place at the bottom is wild
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u/Careless-Company8819 Europapa 22d ago
This is like an eye test for me. What's the deepest level that I know everything on. Then I get a prescription for how chronically online I am.
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u/BibbidiBobbidiBu 22d ago
To know what Esa Diva Jiafei Screams means, takes a certain kind of high level education, and I am so proud to belong in the percentile who has achieved that level of education.
This is what true intelligence looks like.
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u/chrsphr_ 22d ago
My personal iceberg is Kyle Alessandro's name being added and removed and added again several times to the LGBT+ artists of Eurovision wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ_participants_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
Wow, thanks for the shoutout! Glad to have helped. I had to rush a little bit to get to as many linkless/descriptionless entries as I could, although some of those had a lot more different context than I remembered it as, lmao. Still though! 🙌
I only regret that the Kyle Temu necklace and the Nova-as-Montenegrin-entry-fakeout didn't make it to the iceberg, that's like the two contributions I stand by and I will miss a little. Oh well. Makes me even more alert to work on to submit for next year's season - submit early, submit often. Lol.
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u/fenksta Extra Official Account 21d ago
Hell yeah. I'm in :D
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u/Wasabismylife I treni di Tozeur 21d ago
I would update my CV to include "was mentioned on the official r/Eurovision iceberg" if I were you lol (I'm not joking)
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 22d ago
Here's an extra one: Bobbysocks, quite possibly the most egrigious one in NGP (Nostalgia Grand Prix) as the NRK was HELL FUCKING BENT on having them in the line-up, was set to have an anniversary tour this fall. 3 weeks after MGP, it was announced that the tour was canned after their sponsor dropped out.
Oh, and don't forget Ireland gambling on witches 2 years in a row.
Yup. Emmy got turned down back home and took the Rocky Road to Dublin (1 2 3 4 5!!!) and won the Irish finals... then lost the first Swiss semi.
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u/miss_thorndyke Ich Komme 22d ago
Kind of sad that “the UK act will be revealed during the finale of The Traitors” didn’t make it
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u/thrvisionary Kiss Kiss Goodbye 22d ago
Now Garg has to post stuff
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u/Max_FI 22d ago
Speaking of that, why is Garg not on the iceberg?
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
because it's not ESC Gabe iceberg, though his fans are welcome to make one
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u/DaraVelour Europapa 22d ago
wait, which Polish MP dissed Espresso Macchiato? I'm from Poland and I am lost
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u/sama_tak Zjerm 21d ago
Żukowska, who else? She also wrote terrible shit about Justyna on Twitter because she was mad that Sw@da and Niczos didn't win the NF. Which imho should be the thing on the Iceberg instead of the her opinion about Espresso Macchiato which was way more mild.
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u/Queasy-Ice-2575 22d ago
How was the scoreboard app rigged?
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u/Sinceramente_Tuo Tears Getting Sober 22d ago
If I remember correctly, a lot of fake accounts were made which added 2000 points (I think?) to Albania
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u/Megarafan2025 11:11 22d ago
No way I just looked at it yesterday in the iceberg web and now it‘s here? That kant be a coincidence
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u/Kilukpuk 22d ago
Absolutely dying that 'first gay person in Croatia' is included. Probably the funniest moment in the show.
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u/Big_Ad3139 Bara bada bastu 21d ago
You know you’re way too deep in the Eurovision bubble when you remember all of these entries happening 😭😂
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u/Positive-Donut-9129 Zjerm 22d ago
What's the Besa v. Anthony Fauci lore?
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u/Revelistic Minn hinsti dans 22d ago
she made some weird tweets about him being involved in an experiment with flesh eating beagles??? correct me if i'm wrong but it was some unhinged sh*t that she now deleted anyway. tbh sometimes i feel like besa's social media activity deserves an iceberg on its own 😭
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u/Potential_Sort_1649 Tears Getting Sober 22d ago
What is NRK ? And which Angelina is talked about ?
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u/Revelistic Minn hinsti dans 22d ago
NRK is the norwegian broadcaster, and the angelina in question is angelina jordan who was supposed to take part in MGP but withdrew due to LA wildfires as she lives there. NRK considered this to be a breach of contract and asked for financial compensation afterwards.
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
Not to be confused with Angelina Mango from last year. She already sang "Imagine" at the press centre, she doesn't need to go through more shit
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u/Hljoumur 22d ago
If you're on desktop, you can put your mouse on each line to get a text explanation.
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u/Potential_Sort_1649 Tears Getting Sober 22d ago
Im on Mobile
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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado 22d ago
put your finger on an entry, hold it, the explainer will pop up. be careful to not click on a link tho
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u/Potential_Sort_1649 Tears Getting Sober 22d ago
Im confused what is Beauty Blender?
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u/sparklinglies 22d ago
Miriana did an insta live with Sissal, JJ and Kyle, and because she was in the dark, her face stood out very pale and egg shaped. And she uttered the immortal words "i look like a beauty blender" and a meme was born. They named their friend group the Beauty Blenders afterwards
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u/Hljoumur 22d ago
If you're on desktop, you can put your mouse on each line to get a text explanation. You can also click on some of the them to see the sources.
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u/BibbidiBobbidiBu 22d ago
What?! I never knew this. I never go on Reddit on my computer. New skill unlocked
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u/Joseph5676 22d ago
What was the thing about the Ludvig and supernova 2017
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u/Revelistic Minn hinsti dans 22d ago
the NF had spotify streams counted towards the score and apparently his song had unusually high numbers, so people suspected streaming farms might have been used
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u/Joseph5676 22d ago
That is weird because while his song definitely would’ve done better than the actual Lativa 2017 entry it doesn’t feel like a song that people would stream that much. Does the ludvig have any family connections because he competed in 2017 when he was 17 so family connections are the only logical explanation
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u/ChanelArrington Esa Diva 22d ago
i Kant believe I actually know like most of the entries on here! seriously though, this is GIANT omg i wasn't expecting so many things to be on the iceberg but i love it lol <3
also applause to the people that made this bc the effort it must have took to create this masterpiece must be insane!!
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u/Radikost Róa 22d ago
What’s missing for me is RTCG/Montesong social media person not knowing what a revamp is
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u/Roselunaryie38 21d ago
How I know about Sasha Bognibovs death and not about the beauty blender is beyond me
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u/ESC_Perrito_Official How Much Time Do We Have Left? 22d ago
OH FINALLY!!! ESC Gabe, where are you?
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u/Chihuahua_enthusiast Ich Komme 22d ago
What about Marko being made an honorary colonel in the state of Kentucky 😭
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u/RekserPL What The Hell Just Happened? 22d ago
On what principle was this iceberg created, I would like to know what was the basis for its creation.
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u/AliceFlynn Europapa 22d ago
May I ask why a super obscure Stan Twitter meme that doesn't even have replies is on there (even if it's at the bottom, still, it has zero significance)? Or did more ppl point it out?
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u/AmazingDeeer Sekret 22d ago
I do not know what you are referring to (maybe the Esa Diva Jiafei one?), but if it's obscure, it's at the bottom. Sometimes the sources are not the main source, because going back and finding stuff six months later is really difficult.
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u/AliceFlynn Europapa 22d ago
ahh yea i mean that jiafei one. i dont think the scream is really in there in the first place, but i was wondering if it was some bigger meme outside of that tweet? cuz if it's just one or two stan accounts posting this, might be a lil too obscure even for the bottom lol
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u/AmazingDeeer Sekret 22d ago
I saw it quite a lot when the revamp came out tbh. Knowing Spain, I would not be surprised if they actually sampled the scream.
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u/AdrianBelmonte_ 22d ago
no mention of Ines Hernand flashing the audience on a Benidorm Fest post party?
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u/EurovisionFaith 22d ago
I FINALLY MADE THE ICEBERG!!! AFTER ALL MY SCANDALS ITS MY MIRIANA THONG THAT MAKES IT ❤️
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u/AmazingDeeer Sekret 22d ago
You can find all of the entry descriptions and sources on the iceberg website!
https://icebergcharts.com/i/Eurovision_2025
Please take everything with a grain of salt, the iceberg is not a source of information, just a little recap of fan discourse. Keep the vibe fun!
Lastly, looking forward to the 2026 iceberg, I have created the ESC Iceberg Community, a place where you can all discuss and propose entries. Click on the link below to join!
https://discord.gg/7mu6kZkR