People will compete for those negative awards to get famous.
Source: look at the fucking internet.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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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...
Someone on the list probably bought the media company behind it and shut that shit down with the quickness. Speculation of course.
Makes sense to me, not unlike regulatory capture.
It really was a striking project that only should have grown in impact & awareness over the years, especially with the Bush Jr regime being such a disaster at the time.
I've often thought about how society might be different if every year or so, we all voted on who was the worst person in the world, and then executed them. Similarly, voting for the worst company in the world and then dissolving it entirely, with executives and board members imprisoned. The absolute worst individuals and companies would have significant societal pressure to avoid being monsters. It wouldn't even matter if everything they did was legal, it's just a matter of public opinion.
Eventually. we reach a point where we are executing good people, because they are not wuite good enough.
In theory, in practice, there's always garbage people, and this would work.
Yeah, that’ll teach them.
Hell some of them will be more encouraged.
When I was a kid, each wing of the school was for a different grade. And once a month, the school would punish the wing that was the filthiest by publicly announcing it on the speakers.
So kids would go out of their way to sabotage other wings. It really backfired when one wing was proud to be the filthiest, and would actively destroy their side of their school the day before the announcement. And when they were called out, you can hear the cheering.
Fully agreed
It's time we put the words assholes in the spotlight
We have the Razzie awards too to counter the Oscars, so left have awards for the pedophiles, the war mongerers, the mentally deficient with money, the most vile beings
Trump, of course, would win first prize in just about all categories to start, but y'know, there is room for others
Some people will try to earn the awards, this is the main flaw:
Perverse incentives.
You think Trump is worse than Netanyahu? Openly corrupt and ruling a fascist religious ethno-supremacist terrorist state that openly talks about eliminating the native population, celebrates raping prisoners, shoots children in the knee for sport, and actively committing a livestreamed genocide with your tax dollars?
Expand your bubble, homie, Trump is a symptom not the disease.
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.
...Dumbest person of the year?
Ya there really isn't enough negativity in the media these days.
Exactly it's all this "yes we're sorry we didn't release the files we promised to release in may and were legally required to release by Friday, but y'all are gonna be cool about it right" and then everyone is cool about it when they should be defunding the fbi send removing bug-eyed scum from authority roles.
Get these softie collaborators out of journalism and bring in people who've got a pair
Who's cool with it? Even MAGA people started turned on Trump over it.
I guess I don't see any maga media, but I haven't seen a lot even on lemmy. Maybe 2 articles. Nothing much on the news that I follow.
In contrast I saw the same three steam box articles over and over again, crosspost after crosspost, for like 3 insufferable weeks.
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.
Razzie awards
Fall'on d'floor for soccer.
Exactly what I was gonna say
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.
Yeah it's kind of a stupid idea to select bad people by popular vote. They will select the most unliked person, say donald trump (he's bad but putin have had millions killed and so on), not the actual worst person.
There's the Darwin awards but those are a little mean spirited as most win them by dying
Most? Dying is a mandatory requirement.
Only being removed from the genepool actually!
No, occasionally people win the award just by becoming sterile
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)
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.