hhaa...the joke is on american idol...

votefortheworst.com

this is the funniest shit since whatever...

read this too

Idol votes get turned inside out: College buddies create votefortheworst.com to throw off competition


By Maria Elena Fernandez
Los Angeles Times
05-03-2005


For at least three weeks, fans of American Idol have been pondering a deep philosophical mystery: How in the world has charisma-challenged R&B balladeer Scott Savol managed to survive this competition, jumping ahead of the magnetic Nadia Turner, the soulful Anwar Robinson and total-package Constantine Maroulis?

A group of wireless rogues thinks the answer lies with a little social experiment they began last year, one: a call for viewers to vote for the least talented contestants, in the hopes that American Idol producers will get stuck with marketing a lemon at the end of the season.

After noticing that his favorites kept getting voted off last year, Dave Della Terza, 22, and a group of college buddies, took matters into their own hands. They created their online campaign, votefortheworst.com, to throw the competition off course. (American Idol votes are supposed to be cast in favor of contestants fans want to keep each Tuesday. Fans can call or text message as many times as they want in a two-hour period.)

"The producers and the judges tend to say, ‘We like this person’ ... ‘This person is going to win’ — and then America just tends to vote along with them," says Della Terza of Santa Clarita, a suburb of Los Angeles. "So, we were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if ... we pick somebody else and vote for the one (who has been told by the judges), ‘You’re going home, you’re terrible.’ "

To date, that person has been Savol, 28, who has drawn the ire of Simon Cowell week after week, and who last Tuesday inspired the cranky judge to tell him to pack his suitcase. But on Wednesday, Savol had earned so many votes that he landed in the top three, sending the show’s most popular contestant, Constantine, to pack his bags.

A statement issued by Fox and the producers of the show, 19 Television and Freemantle Media North America, dismissed the group’s impact: "While it is unfortunate that a small group of people are so caustic that they believe it would be humorous to negatively sway the voting on American Idol, the number of purported visits to the Web site would have no impact on voting."

But that doesn’t address the increasing support for a contestant who obviously has turned off many fans with his back-talking and what comes across to many as a cold personality, not to mention the revelation of a previous domestic violence arrest.

Della Terza, who estimates he called in between 100 to 150 votes himself last week, added a visitor counter to his site last Monday. By Sunday afternoon, 323,000-plus hits had been registered at votefortheworst.com, the majority from people who pledged to keep the Savol cause alive.

Della Terza says that while Fox has not asked him to shut down the Web site, on Friday, Freemantle Media demanded in writing that he remove all copyrighted materials from the site.

Some people who have left messages at the site use terms such as "idiot" and "Charles Manson" to describe the site’s creator. Parents have blamed Della Terza for their children crying themselves to sleep when their favorites have lost. Others accuse the Web site of "shattering dreams." Fox and the Idol producers agree. "Each week millions of votes are received for each contestant, and based on the tiny number of visitors this site has allegedly received, their hateful campaign will have no effect on the selection of the next American Idol," they say in the statement.

 

Might just be me.. but the link doesn't seem to go anywhere.. just turns up an empty screen here

Ah nevermind.. the www.votefortheworst.com one does work .. hehe

 

thanks for fixing that...yeah what do you think about thejoke?

 

Pretty funny.. we had a Dutch version of American Idols here and the whole competition thing is really weird. The voting always seems to be a bit predestinate for some reason.. like with the Bush election Sometimes it feels like a pitty vote (like one time there was this goodlooking guy competing with a fat, gay guy with glasses.. guess who one? How politically correct.... oh.. for the record.. they both don't sing too brilliant.. hehe)

I only know about the William Hung -hype (she bangs!) when it comes to the american version.. that's very funny.. hehehehe.. he should've won.. not out of pitty (well, that as well.. hehe) but because he has the guts.. and it's entertaining.. teehee

http://www.williamhung.net/

 

Hahahah..i Havn't Seen That Pic In Years..thanks For The Good Laugh

 

He can go Hung himself for all I care.


OH THE WIT!

 

Thats Why I Want To Hump You

 

That is fucking hilarious. Although I'm not going to sit there and vote for him for 2 hours straight. I will pass it along though.

 

William Hung. I remember him. He even had his own DVD out. My friend and I got bored one day last summer when we were getting stoned so we rented it. We laughed our asses off at him for the whole movie. It was just so pathetic.

 

Pretty funny, and I'll be interested to see what happens. I was wondering why the hell that guy made it back each week

 

haha nice. i hope it works that show honestly freaks me out... same with the plastic surgery one(s)... oh god, what the hell...?

however, the more people that do this, the more ratings the show gets... which is what they're really after. they don't give a shit who you pick or why, they just want you to watch it (and don't touch that remote).



thank you TheGanjaKing, i've just been reminded, The Mars Volta fucking rocks! ^.^