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Funny how Fidesz squirmed to grab the attention of the digital generation throughout the whole 2025-2026 campaign. (Unsuccessfully, often embarassingly.) Then Tisza went globally viral with Zsolt Hegedűs’ spontaneous dance on the stage on election night.
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- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la75WSR6i1I - or just type into any search bar “Hungarian Health Minister Dancing” :)
- His dance even made it to The Daily Show with John Stewart and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
- Oliver two weeks earlier dedicated his main segment to the Hungarian elections, although I think he dropped the ball on it.
- His dance even made it to The Daily Show with John Stewart and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
- You can be performative but only up to a point.
- As a content creator, I need to remember that it is futile to search for some market-friendly optimization. I rather should focus on who I am and what comes to me naturally.
- I’m not sure if Susannah Conway or Josie Lewis gave the advice that you don’t have to be famous (in order to be commercially viable), you just need to be household-famous for a small, selected group.
- I find Elizabeth Gilbert’s Job-Carreer-Hobby-
- As a content creator, I need to remember that it is futile to search for some market-friendly optimization. I rather should focus on who I am and what comes to me naturally.
- The political reality of change in Hungary: 3f-political-reality-of-change-in-2024-26-hungary-looks-very-different-than-the-idea-that-ignited-it
- Ironically, FIDESZ is short for Fiatal (young) Demokraták (democrats) Szövetsége (alliance), but by the time the world started to pay attention, they were neither young, nor democrats anymore.
- Great recap of the evolution of Orbán and Fidesz: https://youtu.be/pBRwO8xHG9k?si=ZhOOkkWwScJ3MKAx
- Wiki page for Fidesz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidesz
- Zsolt Hegedűs is of the older candidates of the Fidesz-opposing Tisza party, yet he was the one bringing the virally youthful energy to the 2026 election night celebration. (He was also a practicing surgeon throughout the campaing, often sharing check-in social media posts in full surgeon gear.)