Yeah, that’ll teach them.
Hell some of them will be more encouraged.
Ya there really isn’t enough negativity in the media these days.
Fun on paper, but… then imagine people generating their theories to justify why, eg. RFK Jr lost to Musk or vice versa.
We should not be talking about why “shithead x is actually not so bad as shithead y”, we should be isolating before NASA can actually send BOTH of them to Mars where they belong.
We have big brother awards in Germany. Won among others by Google and Tiktok this year.
There used to be a “The 50 Worst People of the Year” series of popular / notorious articles in the 2000’s. They were pretty savage, wickedly amusing, and tended to target Americans more than not. Not sure whatever happened to that series, but it’s beyond necessary in these dark times…
Razzie awards
Fall’on d’floor for soccer.
I like it, but awards are mostly barely disguised advertising campaigns. I can see why negative ones are rare.
What about an awards system built on top of the fediverse. To win the awards, most comments from country X or something like that. Instead of advertising, it acts as a hook for people to join the fediverse.
The worlds 5 shittiest countries. Top award countries:
Who killed the most people? Russia lost 1.3m of their sent to a pointless war and killed a few hundred thousand Ukrainians, also committed countless human rights abises
Best dictatorships who live well and fuck everyone else over? Maduro?
Shittiest reputation for being wreckless and stupid? USA?
Most underhanded and likely to commit next mass genocide? China (here’s looking at you Mao- 65 million killed some estimates topping out at 150m, impressive)
There is. You have things like “Antisemite of the Year” “Jerk of the Year” “Nobel Peace Prize” “Worst Games of the Year”
FIFA Peace Prize
Did you see how the ceremony went? Trump just grabbed the award like he was the grinch stealing a present. Then he put the thing on his own neck, and stood there like a dork.
“Look at me! I’m the bestest president ever!”
No. You’re a dork, who just created the first ever FIFA whatever award, because you DIDN’T actually win the peace prize anyone actually gives a damn about. You didn’t win the real one because you don’t know what PEACE means. Peace isn’t ramping up agencies who’s sole job is to kidnap people off the street. You’ve done nothing to promote peace in our times. You’re not deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize. So now you’re standing there like a dork.
Everybody laugh at Trump! Look how embarrassing he looks!!! Hahahahaha!!!
Alright, alright. We’ve had our fun, but I do feel the need to appologize.
…The Grinch is actually a pretty solid guy. He gets undeserved hate. An entire town belittles him, and bullys him for being different. Fuck that town! Stand with Grinch!
What? You thought I was going to appologize to Trump? Fuck off! Fuck Trump!
Those responsible for the Antisemite award deserve other awards themselves. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz, one of the few media outlets there that still retains a spark of humanity, hints at this in the following opinion piece: This Is the ‘Crime’ That Got Ms. Rachel Nominated for ‘Antisemite of the Year’
You kinda answered your own question though. It’s a matter of opinion. Which is often a badge of honor.
Like North Corea wins sixth year in a row style?
Or for westeners only?
North Korea deserves it, but they won’t win it. North Koreans will all vote for the USA, while Americans will be split on voting for themselves and other countries.
The Ig Nobel Prize? It’s negative but in a good way.
It’s not as much a negative award as it is a funny award. The winners do real research and continue meaningfully to science.
I’d like to see an “Andrew Wakefield-Monsanto” award for intentionally bad science.
