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VoteForTheWorst.com (VFTW) was a website devoted to voting for the worst, most entertaining, most hated or quirkiest contestants on the Fox Network television series ''American Idol'' as well as the NBC Network television series ''The Voice''. Smaller campaigns have also been started on the site for CTV's ''Canadian Idol'', Fox's ''On the Lot'' and ''The Next Great American Band'', NBC's ''America's Got Talent'', and ABC's ''Dancing with the Stars''. The website was started in 2004 during the third season of ''American Idol''. Vote for the Worst also had a weekly radio show that has featured guests such as Ayla Brown, Trenyce,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VFTW Radio Presents Trenyce (American Idol 2) )〕 Leslie Hunt,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VFTW Radio Presents Leslie Hunt (American Idol 6) )〕 Steffi DiDomenicantonio,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vote for the Worst Radio Premieres THIS WEDNESDAY with Guest Steffi D! )〕 Alex Wagner-Trugman and Todrick Hall. The site closed down in June 2013.〔("Vote for the Worst Will be Shutting Down After American Idol Season 12" )〕 ==History== VFTW started at the ''Survivor Sucks'' message board〔(''Survivor Sucks Messageboard'': "'Vote The Worst' Pledge; Jasmalien!" )〕 and moved to a GeoCities website during season three of American Idol. The very first ''VFTW'' pick during Season 3 was Jennifer Hudson, dubbed "Boomquisha Santiago" or just "Boomie," during the semi-finals, but the site never picked her again as she improved in further weeks.〔(American Idol 3 | Vote for the Worst )〕 When Hudson sang "Circle of Life" during finals, the camera went to a shot of Hudson's family members, with a cousin who sat with her arms folded while the others cheered. This cousin was dubbed "Whatevia," the namesake of VFTW's annual awards. The site began to upset regular Idol viewers with their support of John Stevens and Jasmine Trias, but it was largely unknown to the general public at this time. During ''American Idol'' Season six of ''American Idol'' became a turning point for the website due to its support of candidates Antonella Barba and Sanjaya Malakar. Vote for the Worst was one of the first websites to break the story about Antonella Barba's racy online pictures. The site then made headlines by proving that the raciest pictures that appeared online (involving a Barba lookalike performing a sexual act) were not of Barba.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=February 28, 2007 Update: Antonella Barba Gets to Stay! )〕 After Barba and Sundance Head (another VFTW candidate) were voted out of the competition, Vote for the Worst selected Sanjaya Malakar as their pick. Malakar went on to last 6 more weeks in the competition, becoming a cultural phenomenon while gaining momentum along the way with support from celebrities such as Howard Stern.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Howard Stern Shoutout )〕 Entertainment Weekly called Malakar "the most popular Vote for the Worst candidate ever" and Malakar helped make Vote for the Worst a household name. Season seven of ''American Idol'' saw the site stir up some major controversies. As the season began, Vote for the Worst posted a blog that season seven was being stacked with contestants with prior music industry experience〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Truth About the Contestants of American Idol 7 )〕 and the controversy was picked up by news sources, including MTV, who decided to ask American Idol producer Ken Warwick about the issue. The site went a step further to also prove that Randy Jackson, a judge on American Idol, was the vice president of A&R at MCA Records while Carly Smithson, a season 7 contestant, recorded an album there. The second controversy started by the site was exposing contestant David Hernandez as a former gay stripper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Strip club: 'Idol' once danced here )〕 Outside all of the controversies, Vote for the Worst supported Kristy Lee Cook and Brooke White when more popular Carly Smithson was eliminated. During season eight of ''American Idol'', Vote for the Worst's longest running contestant was Megan Joy, a quirky singer from Utah who made bird noises. The site also posted pictures of popular contestant Adam Lambert kissing another man, leading the general public to question Adam's sexuality due to the fact that he had not discussed this topic on the show. Bill O'Reilly ran Vote for the Worst's pictures of Adam during a news segment, but the show cropped the pictures to eliminate the actual kiss. During season nine, Tim Urban broke the record for Vote for the Worst's longest-running American Idol pick ever, as well as tying for longest pick ever with Jaydee Bixby of ''Canadian Idol'' Season 3. He remained their pick for nine weeks: from the top 24 to the top seven. He was eliminated in 7th—the same week as Sanjaya Malakar in Season 6. Michael Lynche was originally selected for Top 5 week, but after the performances, the website switched to Casey James, marking the first time the website had changed its mind on which contestant to vote for based on performance alone. VFTW chose Lee DeWyze for the finale, and he won. This supported VFTW's theory that a female will never win the show again. According to bloggers at VFTW, the seasons have resulted in "3, white, male, brunette, soft-rockers" winners in a row. Vote for the Worst was successful during seasons ten and eleven, supporting the 4th and 5th "white guys with a guitar," Scotty McCreery and Phillip Phillips, to win the title in five years. In January 2013, the site's creator, Dave Della Terza, announced that the site would be shutting down, but not before covering one final season of ''American Idol''. The shutdown was planned for June 2013, though it was not specified whether the site would simply be discontinuing all updates and left behind as an archive, or whether it would disappear entirely.〔 As of April 2014, visiting the site results in a page indicating that the domain name has been "parked" with Go Daddy and is available for purchase. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vote for the Worst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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