I mean I was un-ironically, but I am literally Iranian

two buttons meme but it's rooting for iran vs boycotting the cup because the us is horrible.

It's not just slurs (nowadays it's very rare for players to do that during the game usually it's the fans who say racist shit), players would constatly trash talk the referee and other players. Shit like that already ruined other games in the past, like what happened with Zinédine Zidane and Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup.

Greta Thunberg is the only good European

The thing i- sigh... yeah.

I've noticed it too. I had practically avoided all online discussion pertaining to the World Cup until the final, so I was really taken aback by the amount of hate I saw. Not that they don't deserve it. I've even seen people say that Argentina is the Israel of Latin America. They're not wrong, but it's really surprising.

I don't know if it's artificial though, because from what I can tell, both Argentinian players and fans have essentially been behaving like Pissraelis throughout the entire tournament. That doesn't exactly make you popular. It's been an endless torrent of playing dirty and being unprofessional, hurling slurs, being violent, etc. I saw videos of racist abuse against Ishowspeed, and he's a very popular streamer. He even refused to accept an autographed t-shirt from Messi's wife.

To me it seemed like no one cared about the Falklands stuff except for British chuds who were seething when Argentinian players were holding up Malvinas signs to get a reaction out of them. That even pissed off Piss Morgan.

It grew out of Black Twitter, Black Youtube and more prominently Black TikTok as a consequence of the explosion of racist content concerning Black players on FIFA teams

It gained viral motion because of the factoid concerning Argentina genociding all its Black people and because of viral racist actions made by Argentina fans, also the fact there are no Black players on Messi's team, the fact Trump gave them 20 billion dollars, the blatant favoritism displayed by the refs, the fact Argentinians were waving Israeli flags.....

I mean if Argentina was dedicated to generating an organic hate campaign against itself using the World Cup, they did everything possible to make it happen

The Argentine team has had a reputation of playing dirty through the years, but they outdid themselves in this year’s final. It was one of the ugliest games I have ever seen, and a lot of casual fans likely got very turned off by it. People who like entertaining sporting events, let alone people who like soccer, are infuriated.

Combine that with how badly Egypt got screwed over by the referees when they played Argentina (and Argentina fans waved Israeli flags at Egypt’s team). And overall it looked like FIFA, who are corrupt but also outdid themselves this year, was favoring Argentina in the tournament. That pissed off fans of the sport.

And combine that with public well wishes for the team from Netanyahu and Ben Gvir, which likely turned most of the world’s non-genocidal, casual fans against Argentina, and anyway, it’s organic. Media are following, not leading this one.

Most Latinos just wanted to make fun of Argentina and "support" Spain because of how unbearable it would be if Argentina won again. Most Right-Wing Argentinians like Milei hate football and probably doesn't even give a shit that Argentina lost. It doesn't help that out of nowhere Israel comes to support Argentina because they are buddies with Milel, most people in LatAm fucking hate Israel. Also a bunch of racist Argetinian assholes were attacking random African-American, African and Afro-Latino people by shouting slurs and dumb shit, they even attacked the Streamer Ishowspeed (it wasn't dumb sport thing, these people were just being racist).

Doesn't feel very organic but I can't guess who would be pushing it, maybe Britain seizing a moment because Argentina being hated is beneficial to getting sympathy over the falklands?

Afaik only Europeans (specially British People) give a shit about the Islands. Most of the Global South usually side with Argentina in this issue.

i wonder how many brits actually care about the falklands outside of chuds? a coworker saying they'll watch england v argentina didn't mention the falklands once

i think people just hate argentina

Cape Verde should've won unironically

eh, certain teams in the asian confederation deserve support too

Polymarket became a news account for some reason, so probably yes

Ppl really were yearning to eat that psislop up