Scandal rocks the Teen Choice Awards 2014 winners; is the show rigged?
The Teen Choice Awards 2014 winners are bracing against the backlash of complaints on social media, as allegations of rigging surface, verified with supporting evidence to boot.
The producers of this year's Teen Choice Awards have some explaining to do if it wants to keep its massive followers loyal. Though the award winners for this year are quite expected, fans react to rumors of rigging with outbursts at social media.
The Awards event is voter-based, and winners are determined by votes cast by the public prior to the event. Awards categories vary across the music, TV, and movie industries, also trends online and on the social media. Ironically, the rigging controversy was sparked by a winner in one of these categories.
Cameron Dallas, a Vine video blogger, tweeted that he was informed about winning in his category, six days before the actual event. In his Twitter account, Dallas blurted, "It's funny how they told me I won the Viner award six days before the voting ended and made the runners up still vote to tweet for them." The tweet was later deleted.
Teen Choice Awards 2014 winners are allegedly notified in advance to ensure they at least attend the event, though some still choose not to. Another Vine video blogger comments: "Basically they picked the people almost six days before voting was done and used all of us for promotion."
The backlash of sentiments on social media (especially on Twitter) adopted a hashtag to further the trend. Followers used #TeensDontHaveaChoiceAwards and started a trend practically overnight, after the first rumor of rigging surfaced (smh.com.au).
Sentiments were fueled when the event's closing credits was quoted and tweeted, adding doubts as to the validity of Teen Choice Awards 2014 winners: "Votes are tabulated electronically and winners are determined based on the nominees in each category with the highest number of eligible votes. [Production company] Teenasaurus Rox reserves the right to choose the winner from the top four vote getters."
