I dunno. KSI landing a £5,000 a month flat for essentially shouting whilst he opens Ultimate Team packs is effectively organised crime.

There are a few of youtubers worth taking seriously, they are just microscopic diamonds in the largest rough ever known. Extra Credits does a fantastic job at addressing issues in games without being mean or hostile in any way.

Any list that has Jeff Gerstaman and PewDiePie on the same tier is broken from the beginning.

P.S. Also you have to vote by using Facebook or Twitter to basically promote their show, so, yeah, fuck this whole thing.

Done. He's gonna have a hard time beating Pewdiepie, but I wanna see Jeff begrudgingly accept this award so hard.

It's all pretty gross but I guess it's in high demand.

@hammondoftexas said:

There is no way in hell PewDiePie won't walk away with this. Millions of screaming teenage fans won't let him lose.

Total Biscuit will win and that's a fucking travesty with how far he's gone of the deep end lately.

So......he's a games journalist then?

That picture...that is amazing I like TB as well but come on lets make Jeff "trendy" Blgh.

Edit: Wow I didn't know there was so much TB hate, I haven't really watched him for that long but shit had no idea there was so much controversy with him.

Do you really have to vote using Twitter or Facebook? Fuck that shit.

Maybe next year the Trending Gamer will be all of us, kind of like Time Person of the Year a while back. We just vote for a mirror.

Well it sucks either way really. If whatevers in first is more visible on the page then it makes it more likely to stay in first. Hell, the names of #4 and #5 are actually cut off unless you click on them.

The moment PewDiePie puts out a video about the award, he's won it (unfortunately)

Eh you can construct the tweet to just not include the website link but just leave the hashtag...I think. That's what I did.

No, they are. Or at least in this case better than Total Biscuit, noted 155 IQ haver. He's seems to consistently come off as a massive shithead. No one should take him seriously. The only reason someone should vote for him is for the fact that his asshole was bleeding for a year before he went to the doctor.

To take it one step further I don't really understand how anyone really watches any YouTuber, but that's me.

Ugh, Pewdiepie?

Wait, are WE the trending gamers???!???

TB will probably end up taking this out, but man I really REALLY want to see Jeff accept this "award" so bad.

@shindig: KSI is a misogynistic prick though so...

I don't know man Pew has like 20+ Million hits on Every video if he really wanted to rile up his fanbase there would be no stopping that.

If @jeff asks Dr Tracksuit to accept the award on his behalf we may have a chance.

Quite possibly the shittiest voting system I've ever seen.

I hope Jeff wins and goes mad with power. Burns down the whole earth or something.

Fuck! Id hate to see Jeff lose to TB or Pewdy pie but there's no way im starting a facebook for this...

If Jeff win, I hope they use that picture for the award.

Wow. I knew TotalBiscuit was a huge jerk and that he came off like a really awkward and pathetic dude on the SA forums, but that thread is a really fast way to demonstrate that he has the biggest ego and the biggest chip on his shoulder of any video game-related Internet personality in the world.

I hope he wins so fucking much! This is so fucking stupid!

Hoping Jeff wins, but more so that TB looses.

I'd say I hope anyone other than TotalBiscuit wins, but this award is so dumb it doesn't even matter. Besides, even if Jeff doesn't technically win, you can't beat 100%.

Totalbiscuit is a hero of mine. He has an iron will that I really respect. The industry is a thousand times better with him in it.

@spraynardtatum: That's some good sarcasm, man. I can dig it.

I would've voted for Totalbiscuit.. 1-2 months ago. He kinda lost me when he joined the #GamerGate , but dropped the # off just as quickly, but still appealing to that "certain crowd" by his statements. E.g. dismissing that death threat against Anta or whatever her name was doing a talk in a Uni. lecture hall. Also arguing that white privilege isn't a thing by presenting it as just a class struggle and diminishing the nuance that racism plays in dynamics of society and the surrounding institutions. Funny that he uses his experience as a Northerner for his argument, but completely tunnel visioning out institutional racism in some UK police forces and the rise of populist-nationalist parties against dem brownies.

Nevertheless, he is still arguably the best guy to go for PC gaming in youtube. So yeah. C'est la vie.

Not sarcasm.

It'll be daylight robbery if Jeff somehow is not able to take the title of this year's Trending Gamer! In fact if he doesn't win, it'll be some...

Did anyone notice how there were no women in the 5 choices? With GamerGate being so prevelant you'd think Zoe or Brianna would be nominated. Or do they not count because they're devs? Still Anita should probably qualify.

This is really fucking dumb

@cornbredx said:

This. They could've just authenticated with FB/Twitter, but it looks like I actually have to make a FB/Twitter post with the appropriate hashtag for the vote to count. Nope, fuck that.

I do love that of all the possible pictures, that's the one they chose for Jeff.

@themasterds: Fair point, it's a weird category considering does anyone actually know what the criterion are?

It's weird, but I did it. Also it doesn't seem like he's going to be able to pull ahead of that annoying guy.

@themasterds said:

There are no women on the advisory panel either, and only, like, 2 among the jury pool. Seems a bit out of touch.

I don't think there's anything that even resembles a reasonable argument that Anita Sarkeesian has not "trended" more than any other "gamer" this year.

Except for, "This is some dumb ass shit anyway who even cares" but that would be too logical to have any place in this discussion.

Ohhh...well... ahhh...huh.

@themasterds: I guess they're trying to avoid threats of violence.

Who are Stampy Long Head and Evan "Vanoss" Fong?

and WTF is a "Trending" Gamer?

I genuinely want to like TB, but he seems to be a part of the crowd that takes the whole "pcmasterrace" thing waaaaay too seriously. Like, fine whatever you don't have to like consoles, but you don't have to be annoying about it either. I play and enjoy games on all platforms by the way, but I'm just sayin it irks me how far gaming has come yet we still have to deal with all this asinine fanboy bullshit.

But whatever, I digress. I hope Jeff wins because I feel like that would make for a nice laugh, but I expect PDP or TB to win.

Yep I noticed that same with the esports sections as well....

This is the worst idea ever.

PDP is basically Lady Gaga/Miley/One Effin D rolled into one so I cannot see how our little Jeffy overtakes him. Also, can someone explain to me the significance of this "award" so I don't have to look it up? What is 'trending gamer,' is this like some teen choice bullshit?