This is tremendously bizarre to me. Apparently Saudi Arabia livestreams from Mecca and you can watch people circling around the Kaaba:

I also still can’t believe they actually made an emoji of the Kaaba. Seriously: who uses this 🕋? Do Muslims use it? How? Why?

Likewise, was live-streaming people’s hajj MBS’s idea? He certainly had to have approved it but a part of me suspects it could have been his idea.

Because it’s one of those ideas that is so skin-crawling terrible that only a billionaire monarch who beats his wife and hangs with Epstein could come up with it.