huhu

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678468065070030856

The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.

The AS claim: https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1678397195039526912

Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)

As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:

DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao 

This is a Polish artist Jann. His song “Gladiator” got many good reviews from Polish audience, buckmachers and people from all around the world. He was and still is the most popular candidate to represent Poland in Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

In the preselections, he got 18 000 votes from the audience. However, he did not win. In fact, the singer who won the preselections, Blanka, only got 6 000 votes from the audience, which is 3 times less than Jann.

The rules of choosing the winner were changed a little time before the end of the preselections to give the jury more power and more to say in choosing the winner. The jury is obviously biased for many reasons. Back-up dancers that Blanka performed with are actually Augustin Egurrola’s dancers - he is a known choreographer and dancer in Poland. He was also a part of jury.

POLAND CHOSEN JANN.

The preselections were manipulated and biased, most people wanted it to be Jann to represent our country.

There is a petition for Jann to be choose for Eurovision - over 30 000 people signed it already and it has started only two days ago.

( you can sign it if you want)

If you are a fan of Jann, Eurovision or you’re against manipulating and refusing people to choose their own representation, please share this information by liking and reposting. It would be very good if you’d sign the petition, too.