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We have big brother awards in Germany. Won among others by Google and Tiktok this year.
People will compete for those negative awards to get famous.
Source: look at the fucking internet.
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.
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.
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
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.
Razzie awards
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.
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!
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
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.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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