AmIAnnoying.com
Type of site | Entertainment |
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Available in | English |
URL | amiannoying |
Launched | 2000 |
AmIAnnoying.com (AIA) is a website that allows users to vote on celebrities based on their annoyance factors. It has more than 30,000 profiles of public figures and is the largest on-going celebrity polling site on the internet.
Overview[]
While most of the entries on the site consist of individuals, groups such as bands, sports teams and television series have their own entries on the site. Even AmIAnnoying.com has its own profile, where in its early years it got mostly annoying votes.[citation needed]
AIA keeps track of the votes cast and produces two on-going lists of the 100 celebrities who have the highest and lowest annoying percentages. Each week, AIA takes the top 25 in both lists and use them to compile the year-end "most annoying of the year" and "least annoying of the year" lists. Though in years past the voting totals were not reset until the end of the year, they started to reset the polls each week in 2006. AIA has been used by several media outlets to measure the public perception of the celebrity in their articles. The poll is not scientific and there have been instances of ballot stuffing despite the five-vote-per-visit rule given by AIA.[citation needed]
Lawyers representing the Church of Scientology threatened legal action for the usage of a picture of its founder L. Ron Hubbard, forcing AIA to alter the picture. Due to a family request, AIA also removed a profile of Matthew Shepard and it no longer accepts profiles of those famous only because they were murdered.[citation needed]
At the end of 2004, the tabloid magazine Star had an issue devoted to the "Most Annoying People of 2004", with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton at the top of the list. It had no affiliation with AmIAnnoying.com and it is not known if Star lifted that idea from the site or it was merely coincidental. AIA used the slogan "The Original and Interactive Annoying Celebrity Poll" after the Star issue came out.[citation needed]
AmIAnnoying.com was featured in the 2007 documentary Heckler.[citation needed]
It was announced on April 24, 2010 that co-founder Bruce Goldman had died earlier that week.[1]
Annual lists[]
Most Annoying of the Year[]
Year | Most Annoying | Top Ten | Ref. |
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2001 | Jesse Jackson |
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[2] |
2002 | Martha Stewart |
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[3] |
2003 | Al-Qaeda |
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[4] |
2004 | Justin Timberlake |
|
[5] |
2005 | Tom Cruise |
|
[6] |
2006 (celebrities) |
Star Jones |
|
[7][8] |
2006 (public figures) |
Osama bin Laden |
|
[9] |
2007 (celebrities) |
Lindsay Lohan |
|
[10] |
2007 (public figures) |
Osama bin Laden |
|
[11] |
2008 | Tila Tequila |
|
[12] |
2009 | Katie Couric |
|
[13] |
2010 | Osama bin Laden |
|
[14] |
2011 | Jay Leno |
|
[15] |
2012 | Jay Leno |
|
[16] |
2013 | Stacy Keibler |
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[17] |
2014 | Rachel Maddow |
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[18] |
2015 | Roger Goodell |
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[19] |
2016 | Good Morning America |
|
[20] |
2017 | Tom Brady |
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[21] |
2018 | Caitlyn Jenner |
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[22] |
2019 | Roger Goodell |
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[23] |
2020 | Harvey Weinstein |
|
[24] |
Least Annoying of the Year[]
Year | Least Annoying | Top Ten | Ref. |
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2001 | Laika |
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[2] |
2002 | Mischa Barton |
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[3] |
2003 | Salma Hayek |
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[4] |
2004 | Renée Zellweger |
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[5] |
2005 | Gene Hackman |
|
[6] |
2006 (celebrities) |
Beyoncé |
|
[7] |
2006 (public figures) |
Jesus Christ |
|
[9] |
2007 (celebrities) |
Kylie Minogue |
|
[10] |
2007 (public figures) |
Barack Obama |
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[11] |
2008 | Angelina Jolie |
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[12] |
2009 | Alyssa Milano |
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[13] |
2010 | Meryl Streep |
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[14] |
2011 | Kristy McNichol |
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[15] |
2012 | Hayley Atwell |
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[16] |
2013 | Hayley Atwell |
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[17] |
2014 | Colin Firth |
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[18] |
2015 | God |
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[19] |
2016 | Paul Rudd |
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[20] |
2017 | Pope Francis |
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[21] |
2018 | Martin Luther King Jr. |
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[22] |
2019 | Hayley Atwell |
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[23] |
2020 | Cleo King |
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[24] |
References[]
- ^ "Bruce". The Annoyatorium. Archived from the original on September 22, 2010. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2001 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2001. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2002 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2002. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2003 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2003. Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2004 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2004. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2005 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2005. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2006 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2006. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Simmons, Christopher (January 3, 2007). "Star Jones Voted Most Annoying Celebrity of 2006 by AmIAnnoying.com". Publication of Neotrope News Network. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2006 Most and Least Annoying Public Figures". AmIAnnoying.com. 2006. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2007 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2007. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2007 Most and Least Annoying Public Figures". AmIAnnoying.com. 2007. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2008 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2008. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2009 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2009. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2010 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2011 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2012 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2013 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2014 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2015 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2016 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2017 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2018 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2019 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2019. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2020 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
External links[]
- Internet properties established in 2000
- American entertainment websites