The current Eurokickyball kerfuffle reminds me, very obliquely, of a series of tweets by iowahawk from 2024: “Olympic breakdancing illustrates how America invents a thing, then some dorkwads in France somehow appoint themselves as the Federation Internationale de Thing (FITHI) to control the rules of global thinging. And then FITHI moves their HQ to a chalet in Switzerland, with a whole governing council of corrupt Thing potentates from around [...] America: invents 500 genres of popular music [...] France: we have appoint a select committee to write a 500 page rulebook for L' Eurovision Contest”