"Right before"?
Nobody was rigging anything, we worked on the MANdy shit for a few weeks. It was released on the 14th, a full 2 weeks before Julays. My only part in the post was image/optics shit which was a funny callback to my retarded tripod sperging.
The name phonebook (same as Razorfist's) was found in late November. It took us quite a while to gather all of MANdy's posts and photos from a massive LOCALS archive bot, and then more wrangling to find the whore he stole his thirst trap photos from.
Should anyone honestly be surprised that the guy whose lolcow status was officiated in 2023, falling from streaming to over 100k people and having big names like Rittenhouse on, won the entire thing? He didn't win by a few percentage points, the addition of 2nd and 3rd was less than 2% more than his.
Rigging would be to hold onto this until voting started. It wasn't just MANdy, we were also able to definitively prove that he went to Hedonism II, he started to follow many whores on his Instagram, including escorts and drug dealers.
2022's winner was Luke right from the get-go. The site got taken down and users scattered to other websites (namely poa.st) where all they could talk about was why the site's down and which fat Italian transvestite was behind it.
You had a faggot previously friendly with the site (he used us as his trollshield) now going after the site. On some level, he's basically Keffals. He defended us from Luke's cabal by taking the baton from him.
It's just a funny poll, stop taking it so seriously. Skelly winning in no way makes BMJ less interesting to follow. You want to know what's not interesting for either threads? Constantly bringing this up.