Grootyvision Discord

The Grootyvision Discord, founded 25 July 2023, is the server utilised by Groot's community to chat with one another, share opinions, and connect as a community. From the 1991 Watchalong, the Grootyvision Discord has been used as the primary method to vote for each members' favourite song the respective watchalong.

The server can be joined via a link in the description of Groot's watchalong streams.

The Discord has been the central hub for numerous types of shenanigans, and even some controversies.

## Shenanigans and Controversies

### Roman Unerals

Widely considered to be one of the earliest memes associated with Grootyvision, the concept itself is unknown by some. It was sourced from the 1957 Watchalong, wherein the introductory sequence to the voting for the contest saw the presenter refer to a scoreboard with the participating nations. The scoreboard was numbered from one to ten in Roman Numerals. Unfortunately, when presented with the scoreboard, Rodmorg instantanously wrote "ROMAN UNERALS" in the Youtube chat (as seen below). This misjudgement of spelling the simple phrase "Roman Numerals" became an instant meme as a fellow voter, namely "Connor's Eurovision", would repeat the unintentional error. The meme would continue to appear in subsequent sstreams in the form of voting names, such as "Neapolitan Unerals" and "Rodmorg" with variations.

### Football

Being one of the world's most popular sports, football is also a very popular conversation topic in the Grootyvision Discord. Many playful jabs are given at the expense of favorite teams, and conversations about football are known to break out at any given moment in the server, despite the existence of the #football-and-sports channel.

### Hatred of children

Due to the general disinterest in Eurovision performances performed by or with children during the Grootyvision watchalongs, such as Israel 1989, as well as Groot stating that there would not be watchalongs for Junior Eurovision, it is a common joke that the Grootyvision Discord "hates children." However, the server’s anti-natalist sentiment seemed to die down on October 18th, when Rodmorg created the jesc-jeneral and jesc-news-only channels under the category, "Kid’s Corner".

### Edgar

On 30 August 2023, and into the wee hours of the 31st, after the 1995 watchalong, Groot encountered a spider in his apartment. It promptly disappeared, which prevented the arachnophobic Groot from being able to go to bed, due to fear of the spider "crawl[ing] up [his] nose while [he is] asleep." After nearly an hour and a half of searching for the spider, Groot never found it, presumably gave up, and went to sleep. It is implied that the spider survived the night, as Groot claimed to have woken up with a spider bite on his leg. The spider, as Groot's "new roommate," was eventually given the name "Edgar" by the Discord members, recommended by Alipan. Edgar is typically mentioned if the topic of spiders is brought up, and he is portrayed as a tough, world-traveling spider who is apparently capable of breaking one's kneecaps.

Later, Groot announced he was moving accommodation in early 2024. It has widely been speculated that the presence of Edgar contributed greatly towards the decision to move.

### Airplane toilets controversy

On 15 September 2023, a conversation broke out among server members over using the restroom on an airplane during turbulence. Rodmorg was taken greatly aback by Turtle Jones, who suggested he "[try] sitting," "put[ting] toilet paper down," and "point[ing] it down." Rodmorg could not believe what he was hearing, and David was confused as to how Turtle could give this sort of input in the first place, being female. This shift caused Grandma and Rodmorg to request a new topic of conversation, but not before Sajjad revealed his intricate and personal airplane toilet ritual. The conversation shifted to being about coffee at the idea of David.

### (PLATONIC)

On 13 September 2023, David posted a voice memo in the general channel which highlighted his own Maltese accent, which he stated he tried to avoid "using too much" and he described it as being "stupid." Turtle Jones replied with the message "I like your accent," which Rodmorg took to be an attempt at flirtation.

To make her intentions clearer to understand for Rodmorg in the future when complimenting others, Turt took to putting (PLATONIC) at the end of such messages to indicate friendship. This often had the opposite effect, with people thinking Turt looked suspicious or in some sort of denial when using this indicator. This eventually would devolve into people using names of philosophers, such as "(SOCRATIC)" used by David, or other words starting with P, like "(PLANKTONIC)" used by Grandma.

### Groot and his uncle egged a house on New Year's Eve 2003

This meme is believed to have originated in the voice chat on 20 September 2023. While some context is lost due to it being spoken rather than preserved as text, it is believed to first be mentioned by Groot who wrote, "Belarus 2009 is the equivalent of your scary uncle having taken too much vicodin and wakes you up in the middle of the night wanting to egg someone's house," prompting 5 crying-laughing emoji reactions. Rodmorg replied that the message sounded based in personal experience, to which Groot turned down the opportunity to explain himself further.

Rodmorg in response posted the infamous "WANTED FOR EGGING A HOUSE ON NYE 2003" message, which contributed greatly to the meme's status:

However, it is still unclear as to how Groot's uncle became involved in the story, or why New Year's Eve 2003 has been singled out as the date of the alleged egg vandalism. More research in this area is needed.

### Alipan's fashion advice

Server member Alipan is known to give Groot a hard time for his choice of clothing, both on Discord and the YouTube streams. In his words, he is attempting to lead a horse (Groot) to water, but he is unable to make him drink (wear better shirts.) He also has a tendency to critique Eurovision outfits while critiquing the entries themselves.

### Yugoslavia

Rodmorg, full name "Lord Rodmorg I of Yugoslavia," is known for a long and well-documented interest with Yugoslavia's participation in Eurovision. It all began when he recognised Vice Vukov of Yugoslavia 1965 had a similar haistyle to his own, deeming him to be an impostor of Rodmorg. Later on, 1967's entry, "Vse Rože Sveta" by Lado Leskovar, would become one of his favourite songs in the competition, subsequently establishing a "Yugo hype" train in the Youtube chat. The interest would further carry on to the Discord Server, where Lado Leskovar woudld also have two emotes to his name.

Another one of his favorite Eurovision songs is Danijel's "Džuli" from 1983, which has spawned two different emotes in the server with both seeing frequent use due to the song often being mentioned by members of the server. He, amongst others, have regarded Yugoslavia as one of the best nations in ESC history.

### Ralph Siegel

Not only in Grootyvision is Ralph Siegel considered to be a terrible songwriter.

### KNIB

Depending on who you ask (notably Rodmorg, although many in the server have now taken it up), Ukraine's capital city is "KNIB". Cyrillic is strange.

### Server Shippings

Server member Groot's Grandma is notorious for shipping a number of Grootyvision Discord members. Some examples include MarkyMark x Elendil and Anton x Wabuu. She even ships Aijā Nation with Sakis Rouvas (Greece 2004 and 2009). Rodmorg even joked that Groot's Grandma tries to turn the Discord server into a dating site.

## Trivia / Short Lore

* The server is known to be generally most inactive during morning European hours, as most of the server is European and asleep at this time, and during the watchalongs, as members will prefer to chat in and pay attention to the YouTube stream.
* Rodmorg is believed to live inside Anton's walls. This is evidenced by wet spots that have been found, caused by his tears from the dissolution and ended Eurovision participation of Yugoslavia.
* There is a conspiracy theory that Groot's Grandma is not Swedish, but in fact Polish. But those are only silly rumors :)
* Groot's real name is Abdul. He later suggested he was a Sultan and Rodmorg is his Jester
* Groot's legs have never been seen on camera
* Rodmorg and Groot's Grandma are speculated to be married

1. ↑ This is a server meme, it's *probably* not true, as Groot has never stated his real name. Unless his real name *is* Groot. But who knows and who cares