Sick of polls about heroes and duos? Want a poll about guys who hate? Guys who loathe? Guys whose raison d'ĂȘtre is just to suck, like, so bad?
INTRODUCING: the Hater Bracket, a single-elimination competition to find the Biggest Hater in All of Fiction. Your Iagos, your Yzmas, your Syndromes, your GLaDOSes: characters whose primary motivation is a grudge against one specific person or group for some (perceived) slightâthe pettier the better.
Entrants will be judged on:
Proactivity: ok, so they're a hater, but what do they do about it? Anyone can hate, but a true hater puts everything they have into their effort to screw over the person who's wronged them.
Pettiness: how "wronged" has this person been, anyways? Did the object of their hatred kill their entire family in front of them, or were they just less than perfectly 100% accommodating once and the hater has literally never gotten over it?
Successfulness: is a successful hater or a failed one a "better" hater? You be the judge!
Overall panache: The "x factor" of haterness. Did they hate with swag? Were they super eloquent in their monologue that basically boiled down to "oh my god I hate that guy SO MUCH"? If not, was it at least funny to watch them fume incoherently?
Submit a hater here. Nominations are closed; you can still submit through the ask box, but we reserve the right to point and laugh at you if you do.
FAQ below the cut.
FAQ:
How do I navigate this blog?
With the tags!
#mod post - housekeeping stuff
#hater polls - bracket polls
#hatemail - asks
#haterprop - propaganda (asks and reblogs)
#hb off topic - anything that isnât housekeeping or a poll
How will competitors be selected?
Mod discretion. Note that we will be more likely to select haters that we either know, have friends who know, or that come with a good explanation of their hater-ness (that is verifiable by google) in the submission. Stuffing the ballot box, as it were, will have zero effect, since the bracket is not selected by number of nominations.
How many characters can I submit?
As many as you like.
Can I submit real people?
No. This is a bracket for fictional haters. Real-life haters are way less cool and fun anyways.
Note: Real people who have been sufficiently fictionalized (either in one piece of media, or multiple), and real people who play a public âpersonaâ that is separated from their actual private life & beliefs do qualify for the purposes of this tournament.
What about [MCYT/celebrities/other thing where people play ambiguously fictionalized versions of themselves]?
Sure, but if we think it isnât sufficiently fictionalized, we won't include it.
What about...?
Submit it if you want! In the worst case I simply won't include it, in the best case I will.
How many submissions has _ gotten?
We will release a full tally of submissions after nominations close. We are working on tallying up all the submissions! We will post a full list once weâve cleaned it up sufficiently. Until then, we will not be answering any questions about how many nominations any particular character has gotten.
Anon from Tumblr SHOULD be allowed to compete because it's a collective identity. He's none of us. He's all of us. He is our impotent rage and our poor coping skills.... and also our single solitary brain cell who thinks that there is no country called Spania, but there IS one called Port o' Rico, and that gore/pomegranates should be tagged! I say, LET HIM IN! #AnonPropaganda (I do not endorse REAL anon hate, of course, I'm just thinking of all the dumbass anons that get passed around in Best/Worst of Tumblr compilations đ)
intriguing... you are propagandizing for anonymous from tumblr dot com but don't even pause to consider that SHE may be a WOMAN... #whyineedfeminism
anyways, the Circle of Haters will take your input into account. we make no confirmation as to whether or not Anonymous (from Tumblr Dot Com) will be included in the main bracket, but we CAN confirm that Anon will definitely be in a bracket.
why are so many people with âpro-shippers DNIâ somewhere on their blog following this bracket. what about our theme makes people think that we DONâT approve of Literally Any Possible Problematic Behavior as long as the person âdoingâ it is a fake guy from a piece of fiction. like,
eta 2 things:
1. i have turned off anon bc i donât care what random strangers in the internet think of my stances. if you DESPERATELY want to say smth to me abt this, say it w ur name attached. i wonât be posting any asks on this topic bc again i am not obligated to entertain any passer-by with an opinion, and also because i donât want to invite people to get into arguing in bad faith on my posts or to send hate to anyone who is willing to approach me under their own username.
2. âshipping is ok unless itâs pedophilia/incest/problematic in some other way that i personally find uncomfortableâ It Is Fiction. saying âthis sort of fiction is morally unacceptable and nobody should write, share, or enjoy itâ leans uncomfortably close to (and often is outright followed up with) ânobody should be Allowed to write, share, or enjoy itâ, which is censorship. âshipping of problematic topics is ok UNLESS itâs romanticizing, then [see above]â still fiction. still endorsing censorship. âpeople with DNIs donât endorse censorship, theyâre just trying to set boundariesâ and a VERY effective way of setting boundaries it is when ppl w that phrase regularly follow (& therefore interact with) blogs that very much Do believe in âship and let shipâ. đ but i guess having a DNI makes you exempt from actually enforcing your own stated boundaries? more research may be needed.
recommended reading: Why defend freedom of icky speech? by Neil Gaiman. Discusses legality of various pieces of fiction rather than âwhat should people argue about onlineâ, as the former is much more significant to Actual Life, but still makes a good argument against censorship and for accepting âthere is and will be fiction that I personally find disgusting, offensive, or âproblematicâ, and it is not my duty or my right to prevent that fiction from existingâ.
Remember folks: Being a hater is only good if it's interspersed with periods of being a lover, genuinely captivated by the joys in the world, in love with the beauty and the miracles that exist even in the ordinary.
good news, haters! the bracket is now fully filled out (with a whopping 64 characters! well, 65, if we count the one entry that's actually a duo...), and almost all the contestants have quotes associated with them & their haterdom as well! so we should have the competition finally ready to start sometime within the next week!
should non-fictional, non-fictionalized haters (ex, anon from tumblr) be allowed in the main bracket?*
no, it literally says âFICTIONâS biggest haterâ right there, stick to ur tagline
yes, if itâs funny enough it should be allowed. fascist.
vanilla extract
i hate that you included vanilla extract
Voting ended onMar 27, 2023
*the outcome of this poll will Probably not change the circle of hatersâ final decision, because we hate democracy. but vote anyway because Clicky Button Fun
should non-fictional, non-fictionalized haters (ex, anon from tumblr) be allowed in the main bracket?*
no, it literally says âFICTIONâS biggest haterâ right there, stick to ur tagline
yes, if itâs funny enough it should be allowed. fascist.
vanilla extract
i hate that you included vanilla extract
Voting ended onMar 27, 2023
*the outcome of this poll will Probably not change the circle of hatersâ final decision, because we hate democracy. but vote anyway because Clicky Button Fun
Not to be a hater, but when is this bracket going to start?
my co-hater in chief is working on tallying submissions and judging which ones we hate right now, so the bracket should hopefully be finalized by the end of this weekend
Anon from Tumblr SHOULD be allowed to compete because it's a collective identity. He's none of us. He's all of us. He is our impotent rage and our poor coping skills.... and also our single solitary brain cell who thinks that there is no country called Spania, but there IS one called Port o' Rico, and that gore/pomegranates should be tagged! I say, LET HIM IN! #AnonPropaganda (I do not endorse REAL anon hate, of course, I'm just thinking of all the dumbass anons that get passed around in Best/Worst of Tumblr compilations đ)
intriguing... you are propagandizing for anonymous from tumblr dot com but don't even pause to consider that SHE may be a WOMAN... #whyineedfeminism
anyways, the Circle of Haters will take your input into account. we make no confirmation as to whether or not Anonymous (from Tumblr Dot Com) will be included in the main bracket, but we CAN confirm that Anon will definitely be in a bracket.
now that submissions have closed, the final count is 384 submissions through the google form, and a handful more in the ask box from people who either donât have google accounts (power to them!) or refuse to learn how to read (cringe).
Sick of polls about heroes and duos? Want a poll about guys who hate? Guys who loathe? Guys whose raison d'ĂȘtre is just to suck, like, so bad?
INTRODUCING: the Hater Bracket, a single-elimination competition to find the Biggest Hater in All of Fiction. Your Iagos, your Yzmas, your Syndromes, your GLaDOSes: characters whose primary motivation is a grudge against one specific person or group for some (perceived) slightâthe pettier the better.
Entrants will be judged on:
Proactivity: ok, so they're a hater, but what do they do about it? Anyone can hate, but a true hater puts everything they have into their effort to screw over the person who's wronged them.
Pettiness: how "wronged" has this person been, anyways? Did the object of their hatred kill their entire family in front of them, or were they just less than perfectly 100% accommodating once and the hater has literally never gotten over it?
Successfulness: is a successful hater or a failed one a "better" hater? You be the judge!
Overall panache: The "x factor" of haterness. Did they hate with swag? Were they super eloquent in their monologue that basically boiled down to "oh my god I hate that guy SO MUCH"? If not, was it at least funny to watch them fume incoherently?
Submit a hater here. Nominations will be open until at least March 15, possibly longer; watch my pinned.
FAQ below the cut.
FAQ:
How will competitors be selected?
Mod discretion. Note that we will be more likely to select haters that we either know, have friends who know, or that come with a good explanation of their hater-ness (that is verifiable by google) in the submission. Stuffing the ballot box, as it were, will have zero effect, since the bracket is not selected by number of nominations.
How many characters can I submit?
As many as you like.
Can I submit real people?
No. This is a bracket for fictional haters. Real-life haters are way less cool and fun anyways.
Note: Real people who have been sufficiently fictionalized (either in one piece of media, or multiple), and real people who play a public âpersonaâ that is separated from their actual private life & beliefs do qualify for the purposes of this tournament.
What about [MCYT/celebrities/other thing where people play ambiguously fictionalized versions of themselves]?
Sure, but if we think it isnât sufficiently fictionalized, we won't include it.
What about...?
Submit it if you want! In the worst case I simply won't include it, in the best case I will.
How many submissions has _ gotten?
We will release a full tally of submissions after nominations close. Until then, we will not be answering any questions about how many nominations any particular character has gotten.
To celebrate the Ides of March, one of the supreme acts of haterdom by both Brutus AND Cassius, submissions will be open until midnight EST (in your time zone here!) tonight!
Submit your hater at the link above ^^^ before we become haters ourselves and cut you all off!
also shoutout to the one person who submitted gordon ramsay. iâm not SURE if he counts as a hater by our criteria (although he Might⊠i shall have to consult the Circle Of Haters), but heâs a top submission of all time for sure
