The Shitblog Awards - A Brief History

Folks,

For those of you who have been reading the Evil Atheist only recently, here is a short history of the Shitblog Awards.

The Shitblog Awards were started in 2004 with an express purpose of pissing a few people off. The first Shitblog award was targetted at female bloggers who for some odd reason saw it fit to tell us about every tiny detail of their lives, regardless of whether you gave a shit whether they lived or they died. Now normally I would just look at them with an indulgent eye and comment a bit on the general stupidity of it all, but I decided to take it a step further. This was helped by the fact that a friend suggested a couple of blogs that just screamed 'I am an attention hungry pseudo-angsty, rich cunt who thinks that my pathetic little problems are of any importance to anyone else but me'.

How could I resist? And the Shitblog Awards was born. The idea was to put up a collection of some of the worst blogs I have ever had the displeasure of encountering. It started off with annoying female bloggers in 2004, and resulted in the winner threatening to report my site to the police. Not a bad start eh? Furthermore, both the winner and the runnerup took their sites off general circulation, thus sparing the rest of the world their pernicious influence.

Last year featured the first male entry (who has since put a password onto his site thus ensuring that the general public is safe from his vapid outpourings) and also the first non-Singaporean entry (which simply has to be seen to be believed). The winner and a couple of the runners-up have taken their site off.

As you can see, there are millions of blogs (50 million at the last count) and three or four is a mere drop in the ocean. But it's better than nothing and who knows? Maybe in the coming years, the fear of being nominated for a Shitblog just might dissuade some of these self-important fucksticks from flooding the web with their mindless drivel. Who knows? Stranger things have happened.

Of course since I don't go about looking for this stuff, I request that you all send me some blogs for me to consider. To make it more interesting, preferably recommend one or two of people you know but simply can't stand. I have already received one such nomination and am hoping for many more.