Sunday night’s star-studded Teen Choice Awards 2014 was filled with music, fashion and maybe even… fraud? We all grew up voting for the TCAs each summer, and we couldn’t wait to see our favorite stars take home the surfboard. To everyone’s surprise, it was revealed that it isn’t necessarily the public votes that determine the winners. The terms and conditions of the voting state that “Teenasaurus Rox Inc had the right to determine the winners from among the top four vote getters of the nominees in each of the 88 categories. Ultimate choice was determined by the producers,” Cosmo reported.
Wait, so does this mean that we don’t actually have a say in which man candy takes home the Choice Male Hottie award?! Maybe we’re confused, but wouldn’t it make more sense to have an audience of young fans make the pick rather than older media reps sitting behind the curtain? Come on, FOX!
It was also discovered that some of the awards were given out before the live broadcast on FOX Sunday night. One Direction fans noticed that the video of the band accepting their award appeared to have been pre-taped from almost two weeks ago. Teens took to Twitter to retaliate against the award show by Tweeting out their frustrations using the hashtag “TeensDontHaveAChoiceAward.”
It makes sense that the producers have a large influence on the results since the winners always seem to be the ones present in the audience; maybe we should have realized this before. Many fans feel as if they wasted their time voting and are angry that it really didn’t matter whether or not they took the time to vote for their “favorite song of the summer.” TCA executives have not chosen to comment on the scandal just yet, but it seems they have some explaining to do before next year’s award show.