VFTW Screwing

Vote For The Worst what have you done? Dumb Dumb Dumb. I like the site, I do. I started keeping up with it during the Carrie Underwood season. For those who aren't familiar VFTW is the group that tries to pick the "worst" contestant on American Idol and drums up as much support as they can for them. It is kind of funny when you know about it and other people don't and they are like," Why is that sucky person still on the show, they couldn't carry a tune in a bucket." Ahh why indeed. But that is the funny thing about VFTW. They can get someone into the top 6 from the top 12, but that is about it. Unless they blow it somehow... like by going on David Letterman and bragging about. It is like watching someone's head grow larger and larger until their body collapses under the enormous weight. "Hey we are screwing American Idol, look at us." Now I know it sounds like a good idea to go after the publicity and maybe drum up a little business for the old web site in the process (you know have some people click on the old ads, nothing wrong with that), but wait until you actually accomplish something. See the thing that bothers me about VFTW is that they think they pick the winner in the end, but that is only after their real guy was eliminated six weeks earlier. Once the first choice is eliminated in kind of makes the site irrelevant, although professor Chan's weekly deal on grading the idols is always a good read. See if you take the top 5 plus the 12th place person in the top six there is a good bit of difference between talent level. But once that 12th place person is finally eliminated, your just picking between who America thought was the real top 5. If you follow AI and VFTW you know that once the lesser talent is gone VFTW just kind of leeches on to the next lowest person, which still goes pretty quick, then someone else and so on and so on. Until you get to a legit final two between Bo and Carrie and then you pick the "worst" out of those two. Common, they are too talented at that point to say VFTW had any real influence on the show. It's like saying that a Ferrari is worse than that Lamborghini, yeah maybe so but it is still a hell of lot better than a Prius. Anyway, when VFTW came out saying how it would be great if Sanjaya won on David Letterman, it rubbed people the wrong way. He had a good shot of making it far on that show maybe top 4, but ultimately they screwed him and themselves. You see when you have this inside joke that people don't know about and then you let everyone in, the joke is over. VFTW operated on the premise that they were screwing AI, but you can't just throw that in peoples faces. That is like telling everyone you are trying to fix the World Series, peoples is gonna get mad at you. That is precisely what happened here, people got mad at VFTW and then they started there own little inside joke to screw VFTW and pretty much vote off whoever VFTW was supporting. So even though Sanjaya had never been in the bottom 3 and Phil Stacey had been for like the last 6 weeks, old Sanjaya went home. There were so many more votes than there ever had been so it was pretty obvious that they really struck a nerve. But hey look on the bright side, maybe it will work next year because more people will be in on the "joke". Either that or there will be another website called www.screwVFTW.com and they will try to get people to vote for anyone, but who VFTW does and that site will work until you know, someone from that site goes on Letterman and starts the whole cycle over.