See, a group of 4chan morons, working on behalf of Larry Correia, an incredibly shitty author, were very very buttmad that their preshy-weshy Larry’s stupid sci-fi novels full of sexism and racism weren’t winning the Hugos they were nominated for. This is mostly because the books are just really shitty: the writing is poor, the editing is almost non-existent, it’s full of sexism, racism, and the general “Big tough buff white man as a proxy for a sad small-PP white man defeats the Bad Guy Aliens he is racist to and gets to bang lots of chicks with big boobs” tropes that have made sci-fi and fantasy obnoxious.
So what they decided to do was rig the system. Originally, they tried to rig it so that Larry won, but even with a botnet creating fake votes for him, Larry Correia’s writing so was godawful that he STILL couldn’t win. This goes on for a few years, and the group is taken over by Brad Torgerson and Theodore “Vox Day” Beale, who start trying to run the botnet to nominate random people, as well as nominating Theodore’s book to try to win. And they get caught.
It is a SHITSHOW. Nominees, not knowing if their nomination was legitimate or at the hands of the botnet, declined the nominations. The announcer who awards the winners quits. Nobody knows if the wins are legit, and the HUGOS opt to basically just not award anything to anyone because we can’t know if they were legit. That’s when they decided to REALLY “show us” by nominating the author who was the biggest internet joke at the time, Dr. Chuck Tingle.
Now, mind you, this was all done to discredit the HUGOS. A bunch of shitty authors were incredibly feefees-hurt that, despite their white privilege and despite living in a white supremacist society, they had amounted to very little. So they were not only going to discredit the HUGOS as a joke in a huge “sour grapes” move, they were going to dismantle the entire system that told them that even though they were white and well-off, they were shitty at their job.
The problem was that, unlike Larry Correia, Brad Torgerson, and “Vox Day”, people actually LIKE Dr. Chuck Tingle’s writing and books. He already had a pretty substantial fanbase, and this exposure only skyrocketed his popularity. He embraced the nomination he got, and when the 4chins started screeching “IT’S NOT EVEN A LEGITIMATE NOMINATION!!!! YOU ONLY GOT THAT NOMINATION FROM OUR BOTNETS! NOBODY ACTUALLY LIKES YOU LMFAO TOP KEK LE OWNED *troll face*”, he was like “I’m putting that I was nominated for a Hugo on every fucking book I write now.”
At this point, 4chins are screeching like rabid apes because their SUPER SICK AWESOME COOL HOMOPHOBE SEXISM PARTY FUNTIME was failing rapidly in real time in front of their eyes. Instead of pointing out how uncool and lame and beta Dr. Chuck Tingle is, they actually pointed out how fucking cool he was, and it got him a ton of friends. Instead of Dr. Tingle being upset that his nom wasn’t “legit”, he seized it as a massive “Fuck you” to the 4channers running the campaign.
They then proceeded to try AGAIN, which led Dr. Tingle to now list that he has not ONE but count them TWO, TWO Hugo nominations, and that’s whether you like it or not.
TL;DR: 4chan tried to mock the HUGOs by nominating Dr. Tingle because their shitty author friends suck too hard to win awards, end up making Dr. Tingle massively popular and rich instead
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