See, a group of 4chan morons, working on behalf of Larry Correia, an incredibly shitty author, were very very buttmad that their preshy-weshy Larryâs stupid sci-fi novels full of sexism and racism werenât 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, itâs full of sexism, racism, and the general âBig 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 boobsâ 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 Correiaâs writing so was godawful that he STILL couldnât win. This goes on for a few years, and the group is taken over by Brad Torgerson and Theodore âVox Dayâ Beale, who start trying to run the botnet to nominate random people, as well as nominating Theodoreâs 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 canât know if they were legit. Thatâs when they decided to REALLY âshow usâ 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 âsour grapesâ 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 âVox Dayâ, people actually LIKE Dr. Chuck Tingleâs 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 âITâS NOT EVEN A LEGITIMATE NOMINATION!!!! YOU ONLY GOT THAT NOMINATION FROM OUR BOTNETS! NOBODY ACTUALLY LIKES YOU LMFAO TOP KEK LE OWNED *troll face*â, he was like âIâm putting that I was nominated for a Hugo on every fucking book I write now.â
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 wasnât âlegitâ, he seized it as a massive âFuck youâ 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 thatâs 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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