#the webbys

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expectation:

reality:

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GUYS WE BOOSTED IT

IT'S IN FIRST PLACE BUT LET'S MAKE SURE THIS WIN FUCKIN LANDSLIDES

COME ON MY AGENTS OF CHAOS WE CAN DO IT

Vote for the best of the internet

I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

[trashworldblog]

WATCHERINAS

GHOST FILES IS NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY AWARD

you know what we have to do.

VOTE HERE

come on, i saw what you guys did with shane sweep, now we can do it with an ONLINE AWARD

its important that we do this the right way!! dont try to vote a billion times, and dont vote too quickly. worth it, and the try guys' without a recipe is also nominated!! we dont wanna get our votes deleted!!

press read more to hear me talk about how much i love ghost files

I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH!!

its the perfect mix of comedy and suspense, and all the new tools are so fun to watch. even as a true shaniac i get nervous watching the show (usually becuase i think theres gonna be a PERSON walking around these abandoned places, and not a ghost, but i digress)

the payoffs for the high anticipation is so good, especially when its one of them does something funny, or the ovilus gives a funny response is always so good. they got bullied by their equipment! shane fought a ghost! they met night time dan! they fucked around with a creepy doll head!! theres SO MANY GOOD MOMENTS !!

its the perfect ghost hunting show because it's the ghost hunting show for believers and skeptics alike, and all the different tools and techniques keep the hour long episodes fresh.

plus! they go all in on the solo investigation! and thats when some real insane shit happens. shane pranks ryan, ryan goes insane, shane lays on the floor and looks at dolls, ryan eats some popcorn, incredible stuff. 🤌✨️

[shaniacsboogara]

GHOST FILES JUST WON A WEBBY BABY

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[sorenbowie]

Webbys, Please Quit Doing This Awful Thing You Do

I assume this must be true of most awards but nowhere is it as egregious as for awards celebrating accomplishments on the Internet. At least with Oscars or Emmys or even MVP, the playing field is fairly equal and the expectations for excellence are the same across the board; professional athletes aren’t competing with a kid in high school who’s still trying to decide if he wants to play basketball or be a biologist. But the Internet is, literally, everyone with Internet access. Even worse, the categories are so nebulous that they can include pretty much everyone on the Internet. Point in case, when the category is Best Writing for Social, and the nominees are four legitimate candidates in their respective social arenas... and then also the entire show of Last Week Tonight, that poisons the whole process.

Four of those nominees above are relegated to one social platform and they are competing against the general idea of one of HBOs most popular shows. How is this a fair fight? I know why it’s necessary, the Webbys need to court big names to the award ceremony for the sake of clout to keep the Webbys prestigious, but now the only way for the other four to win is by campaigning hard enough to overcome the direct or peripheral awareness that John Oliver exists; a man who could casually mention the Webby over the closing credits of his show and win by a landslide. Even if one of the others somehow succeeds, it’s only because the giant didn’t care enough to try and that doesn’t feel particularly earned.

For most people, this won’t matter. This is a silly gripe about an award that barely matters to 98% of the world (I made that percentage up but, ballpark, it feels right). But for people who have built their entire careers on the Internet, who work there every day trying to make something other people will like, the Webbys are a huge deal. Winning a Webby can bring dollars to your business, encourage other great writers to work for you, and make your stupid site better in countless other intangible ways because it is inarguably the most important award for entertainment on the web. When that spring is essentially gifted to any celebrity who might be willing to come to the award show, it cheapens the significance of being nominated at all.

Anyway, Cracked is nominated for Social writing on Facebook. This is a wonderful and very deserved nomination for Anita Serwaki, Chris Pauls, Katie Goldin, Randall Maynard, Dan Duddy and everyone else who writes our posts every single day. They are wonderful and deserve this award.

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2017/social/features/best-writing

[harryspaceshipmchale]

Joel McHale on The Webby’s red carpet.