Nominations will stay up until 12th January, where the finalists of each category will be decided!

A warm welcome and good to see you all again, catty old gays and younger queers alike! Somehow this lovely shithole has now officially managed to outlast any other serious contenders as a Reddit alternative, and frankly I'm surprised that y'all are still here after my semi-ongoing hiatus due to annoying real life commitments throughout the year. I don't even recognize half of all the latecomers that have joined the party more recently (and I assume the feeling is mutual), but I'm glad to have you here all the same! I'm Marco by the way, and one of my janitorial duties is doing these annual award threads.

If you weren't here for them last year, here's 2022's award ceremony:

https://rdrama.net/post/134825/marseyking-the-drammy-awards-2022-nominations

https://rdrama.net/post/135319/marseyking-marseyking-the-drammy-awards-2022

But that aside, whilst throwing this up a couple weeks late, it's time to reflect back on the shenanigans y'all have had all through 2023 - and frankly looking back I found that there was a lot more that went down than I remembered at first. So why not walk down the memory lane of drama with me and reminiscence about r-slurred online slapfights that only us disabled neurodivergent folk would ever care to obsessively document and archive (and often outright cause and/or get heavily involved in), and hand out some fabby virtual badges and prizes along the way for all of your hard work?

So how this works is as follows. This will be split into two parts, a nominations thread (this one!) and a later final vote thread. In the comments of this post, there'll be a stickied root comment for each category where you can nominate a relevant user, post, event etc. for an award (only one nomination per comment or else it won't count!). After 3 days, the top 4 upmarseyd nominations in each category will qualify for the finals, where the ultimate winners will be decided via a poll. I'll also be providing an initial set of nominations for most categories, for both obvious candidates and also potentially underrated picks that may have been forgotten about in the scattered tide of autism but deserve to be celebrated as a worthy dramapilled contribution nonetheless.

Oh, and make sure you don't nominate someone/something that's been nominated already for that award like an r-slur.

Best Dramatic Happening

What was the dramatic moment which defined the year for you? Was it the failed mass strike of the army of Reddit janitors, the TERF wizard game vs breadtube and /r/gamingcirclejerk, or something really funny which I completely forgot to include at all? (probably this one tbh)

Regardless, I've included these top 8 most defining moments of the year in my opinion, but if none of these fit your fancy then feel free to throw your own nomination into the ring!

My nominations:

The Reddit Jannypocalypse

Hogwarts Legacy: Rowling's Revenge

Orange Daddy Gets Arrested

Null's Total R-slur War

The Plsnope Saga

Sand Wars

Harvard President outed as Fake and straight

The Bud Light Boycott

Dramatard of the Year

$50,000 mbux + Profile Badge

This one operates similarly to TIME's Person of the Year award where you can nominate your fellow dramatards (or yourself!) as the most notable individual contributor to the site, for either good reasons or bad. Any user who isn't currently permabanned/shadowbanned is eligible for this award!

Just like last year, I'm not going to add my own nominations for this one because it's more fun to leave it fully open and let all of you fight amongst yourselves for this particularly prestigious title. Best of luck to everyone!

Best rDrama Post

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Which carefully researched and peer reviewed effortpost particularly stood out for you amongst the sea of slop, metadrama and lazy twitterposting this year? There's a ton of great candidates this time around, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you think deserves to be crowned the sole winner and which avid wordswordswords poster gets to take home the virtual trophy.

My nominations:

The Full Timeline of the Aimee Challenor Saga, AKA How I Took Down Reddit's Shady Cult of Diaper Loving Furry Powermods

( @Marco)

I didn't realize Stable Diffusion has a folder where it saves all outputs you generate

( @Adolin113355)

From Lawtuber to Loltuber: The decline of Nick Rekieta

(@SNEEDIUM)

The story of Lowtax

(@SNEEDIUM)

Drama at the Pokemon World Championship as trainers are expected to actually catch 'em all instead of cheating

(@sincewhendoyouneedaccount)

South African Train Drama

(@Majin-Boobs)

Best rDrama Bait

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While nothing this year quite came close to last year's spectacle that was /r/Justice4Darrell (in my opinion), there was plenty of noteworthy tomfoolery abound, whether it was taking advantage of the Reddit strikes to get journos to unironically recite the janny copypasta or fool the unwashed masses of Twitter into thinking some devout vegan gave their kitty capital punishment for the crime of consuming flesh.

For bait operations where multiple users were involved in their planning and execution, the marseybux reward will be split amongst the most prominent ringleaders and contributors. My nominations:

Fake r/antiwork Propaganda

(@Antiyosemitesamitism)

Baiting Journos by Larping as Reddit Powerjannies

(@Marco, @VEGETA, @NewMoon)

Nashville Manifesto Mayhem

(@tina, @MR_SATAN_________DYNAMITE, @Will_Khitey)

Vegan Healer's Marsey Abortion

(@VeganHealer)

AI Art Theft Guide

(@Tricky)

Best rDrama Activist

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Here at rdrama.net, we support our fabby devoted users stepping away from the screen and going out to touch some grass every once in a while. That's why we're introducing this brand new award category for 2023, which separates online baiting from the neurodivergent escapades that required y'all to take that extra step, go out there and represent the rdrama community in real life!

As with the previous award, the reward gets split amongst all those primarily involved. My nominations:

Reddit HQ Pilgrimage

(@Amelia, @Dramarama)

Dramafurs against TERFs

(@Marco, @Phoenixgoldfire)

Pharoah Marsey at the Pyramids

(@A)

Best rDrama OC

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This goes to the creator and/or commissioner of the best rDrama themed original content of 2023. Art, videos, music, fanfics, you name it, it's eligible for this award! As long as it's your own work or came out of your own pocket at least, and you didn't steal my freaking original Sonic character to make it.

My nominations:

P・M・A : Marsey

(@Dramarama, @SpaceMilk)

Marsey Cursor Follower

(@KatserKitty1987)

Oops did I make a mess?

(@Dramarama)

Marsey in the Rain

(@SpaceMilk)

Marsey of the Year

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It's Marsey, the beloved iconic mascot of WPD rDrama! Now that this year everything has been neurodivergentally catalogued, any marsey emote from this list is eligible as long as it's been tagged as having been uploaded in 2023.

My nominations:

marseysurejan

(@Dramarama)

marseyslipperyslope

(@Dramarama)

marseyoperasmug

(@Red_Shill)

marseyfluffyannoyed

(@X)

marseylibations

(@degorius)

marseysmughips

(@Red_Shill)

marseywould

(@Sner)

marseyreportmaxxer2

(@N)

Lolcow of the Year (rDrama)

To be honest, I haven't followed all the metadrama shenanigans much at all this year so I'm just gonna throw out a bunch of random names I've been constantly hearing. Maybe you guys you will have some better picks.

I know half of you r-slurs could probably qualify, but whom was our biggest and most prominent lolcow this year, generously gracing us with much entertainment and joy at their own expense?

My nominations:

Mellokind

@Penny

@PlsNoCoal

@TED_SIMP

@Garry_Christmas

Lolcow of the Year (off-site)

Whoever you think has been the internet's biggest laughing stock this year, not including the users of this site. There's been plenty of celebrities and prominent figures that have been working super hard to achieve this honorary prize, but it's up to you who decides who shall be crowned the one true lolcow of the year! I also copypasted this part from last year because I got tired but don't tell anyone.

My nominations:

Jinxthinker

Biden's Suitcase Snatcher

Elon Musk

/u/AwkwardTheTurtle

/u/Merari01

Senate S*x Twink

Janitor of the Year

Last but not least... even though the choice is brazenly obvious, who is the most beloved, clever, funny and handsome janny of them all?

This award is open to any current rdrama janitor or prominent Reddit janitor.

My nominations:

@Marco

Nominations will stay up until 12th January, where the finalists of each category will be decided!