Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to the countdown.
Last time, i covered the Dishonorable mentions of 2020, since we can all agree that 2020 is the biggest Shit Show of the year with so many death reports, people being exposed for being evil that we love to hate and of course, a complete broken systems...!
So i pick 10 of some the worst moments of 2020.
For this list, im picking some moments that are either insane, stupid, offense, understandable and of course, controversial. And maybe all the above. Although im sure most of you can easily predicting the number one spot, but trust, i will talk about it in the end.
So now we got out of the way, lets get started, shall we?
Number 10: Daniel Abt's Disqualification
Since we' re forced to be in pandemic, many people like to be in E-Sport, including some racers out there. Like the fun livestream racing with F1 drivers like Charles Leclerc, Alex Albon, George Russell and even Lando Norris. Which i love watching these guys playing and messing around.
Even though we had some interesting moments of E-Sports like chaotic start of online Australian GP, Bubba Wallace's rage quit (which he lost his sponsor that i find it exaggerating) and even Charles Leclerc vs the lord of failure on F2, Mahaveer Ragunathan in Baku. But what about a racer who likes to be in the race, but ended up facing a real life consequences since Kyle Larson's racism word?
Well, it all started in ePrix Berlin of Formula E's E-Sport called "Race at Home Challenge", a German racer in Audi Sport Daniel Abt has participating the racing for the challenge. However, if we look at his webcam, we noticed that his face was covered from a microphone, resulting us highly suspicious for what's going on.
Well, after the racing (with Oliver Rowland from Nissan e.dams won the race), it was discovered that Daniel Abt wasn't playing, but rather a pro gamer named Lorenz Horzing. Meaning that if you participating on E-Sport, you have to play it, not hiring somebody to pretending its you all along, which is exactly what Abt and Horzing did.
Because of this, Lorenz Horzing was banned from challenge and Daniel Abt got fired by Audi and finishing his season with underpowered team NIO 333 for replacing the crappy driver Ma Qinghua in 6 races in Berlin, right before he disappeared in the end of 2020 of Formula E for his damaging reputation of his career from E-Sports.
Moral of lesson for all you pro-gamers or racers out there, don't hire somebody to pretending its you as i said before, otherwise you'll ended in the same effect at Daniel Abt, my friend.
Number 9: Formula 1's backstage politics and craziest season
Now before you posing death threats on me in the comment section, don't worry, im not saying 2020 is the worst, in fact, its the most rollercoaster riding season we've ever heard.
When it comes to the good things, there's the open season started with a bang, some new tracks that we appreciated like Tuscan GP and the new Portuguese GP (this time in Algarve than Estoril since 1996), some old tracks return like Nürburgring, Imola and Istanbul, a satisfying 70th Anniversary GP (which is a lot better than the godawful 1000th GP last year), Pierre Gasly from Alpha Tauri being the first French who ever won since 1996 with Olivier Panis in 2020 Italian GP, a mid-field teams had a chance to shine like Racing Point, Renault, McLaren and possibly Alpha Tauri and of course, Lewis Hamilton broke a lotta records from most victories to share the same championship record since Michael Schumacher in Ferrari.
But it doesn't mean this season has a sunshine and sparkles, there's a lot of bad things we've ever witnessed.
There's a hopeless performance of Alex Albon in Red Bull (sure, he had some podiums, but the damage was already done), Nico Hulkenberg being a last minute call for replacing Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll in Racing Point due to the virus (Don't worry, we'll get to that later on), Williams are still in struggle their weak performance with a family business came to an end, some tracks are utter boring to watch like Sochi, Barcelona-Catalunya and even the seaosn finale Abu Dhabi, Ferrari being a bunch of clowns for their failures, George Russell in Mercedes got screwed by his team in Sakhir GP and worst of all, Romain Grosjean brought us one the worst incident we've ever seen in Bahrain GP and even how to end his F1 career, though thankfully he survived from an explosion and lets hope this will never happen again.
Not to mention, this season also has a backstage politic from two teams, such Mercedes that during the pre-season before the Pandemic F1 season, it was discovered that their car has "Dual Axis Steering", its a device that when drivers pulled their steering wheel, the toe of their cars turn in order to gain more aerodynamic. Though FIA did noticed that, but they let them keep it before it will be banned at the end of the season.
But nothing can compare that one team who received a big punishment with Racing Point. Once again, during the pre-season test, numerous reports that their cars looks eerily similar to Mercedes's 2019 car, mainly for the similar body design, giving a nickname "Pink Mercedes", though this may sounds legal, but then it gets more controversial. It turns out Racing Point not only copying the body, but also recycling the Mercedes's brake ducts from the rear. So the FIA are considered their movement of copycat being "Illegal", causing the team ducting 15 points of constructors championship and fining 400k Euros. However, the pink British team, Ferrari, Renault, Williams and McLaren are trying to appeal based on Racing Point's clearing their name, but they gave up.
Overall, this season is such a chaotic story telling with numerous crazy stuff like great moments, some dramatic moments and of course, some very bad and controversial moments. So lets hope we're going back to regular basis at 2021 season of F1.
Number 8: Jaystation, the Canadian Douchebag
Now if you think im done talking about the Youtube drama? Oh boy, there's a bunch of stuff to chose one, whether is Paul Brothers kept trash talking for boxing matches, LeafyisHere got banned for no reason (even if i don't like him), Alinity being Alinity or even Dream being accused for cheating to play Minecraft, but the one that really stuck in my mind is one of the current worst Canadian Youtuber since the slutty one named Nicole Arbour, his name is Jaystation.
For those you don't know (if you're like me for never seeing those videos), Jaystation is a Canadian Youtuber for doing pranks and challenges at 3:00 AM. But he's also the most hated and controversial user based on stupid stunts, some that he got arrested and even the exploitation of dead celebrities/Youtubers like Mac Miller and Etika.
But then did something far worse in 2020, where he made several videos with his former girlfriend Alexia Marano, which although it started ok, but then, something went wrong. In January 2020, Jaystation announced that his former girlfriend was killed from the fatal car crash from drunk driving, but many people (like me) are easily to predict that he just flat out lied over Alexia's "death".
It turns that not only she's ok, but she wanted to break up on him due to the fact that she got scammed from the beginning, which resulted a police arrived to arresting him for not just abusing her, but also assault with weapons. Even if it may or may not be confirmed, but im glad to hear the police came in to punishing for how monstrous Jaystation really is to be on Youtube since The Paul Brothers. I mean, Jaystation is the Canadian version of Jake and Logan Paul. Plus, not only he got trouble from the police, but he also got demonetized by Youtube based on his merchandise and his videos are populated by minor fanboys.
As time went on, he does issued a public apology for how awful he really is, resulting him to going on hiatus before coming back in April of 2020. And as im working on my project, he's still doing a crappy 3 AM videos, his videos are nothing but no originality, no effort, worthless and waste of time to watching his videos.
In the end, im still wishing him for the worst of his Youtube career.
Number 7: Delayed Election Day
Now this is a tough choice between the Election day or the countless moments with Donald Trump, but having Trump on my list is way too easy, so i left it to Election day on my list.
It all started in the debate between Trump and Joe Biden where it went very bad, its not really a debate, its a full of argument of words between of two, where Joe Biden pointed at Trump for doing something ridiculous, while Trump being rebellious that he's doing the right thing and he knows more, making it one the worst debate we've ever seen.
However, after the debate war, its time for the election, where i kept telling everyone in America on Twitter to vote for Biden and Biden only then Trump, at first, i was worried that Trump will defending his seat, but it turns out the election is nothing but overdose of stress, raging from war between supporters and difficulty counting based on postal votes
Not mention, while we've been waiting for the counting, it had numerous protest of Trump fans kept telling to stop counting the votes and even a lawsuit against republicans. But in the end, Joe Biden is declared as the next President of USA and nearly everyone in US are so happy and relief that the Trump era is over. But sadly, we got numerous Trump fanboys trying to protesting that all the votes are full of lies, cheats and steals, even Trump believes that he's the real winner when Biden won it from the counting votes, no matter how many times we've seen plenty of Trump's sore losing trend on Twitter.
In the end, this election debacle makes it on number 7 on my list, because at least we have a happy ending with Joe Biden to bring peace in US and telling Trump to kiss our asses.
Number 6: Nintendo's Cancelling Competitions
Let me start off by saying that, even though i love Nintendo so much, but it doesn't mean Nintendo is perfect, because they made some bad moves from unfair strict rule at several third party groups to falsely violating at the community since their Youtube censorship during the era of Wii U.
But then there's one moment that got so bad that i had to put on the list before the end of 2020, which happens to be Nintendo made a double insults at the community for the supposed competition.
Around on June 2020, for the "upcoming" E-sports competition called "The Big House", a group called "Project Slippi" came in to introducing a mod for Super Smash Bros Melee to including a replay and online matchmaking system, since Nintendo Gamecube didn't have online connection than the competitors like Playstation 2 and the first Xbox. Now, you think that Nintendo will accept the mod in order to updated it for focusing on online, right?
Nope!
Instead, Nintendo went to attacking The Big House with "Cease and Desist" letter that either they demand them to take it out or canceling the competition, because putting mod in a old game is "Illegal". When i heard that, i was never believing what they did, they could've just shrugged off and let them do it, but instead, they screwing over The Big House over the mod.
As a result, everyone in the community are angry over the cancelation by going into a trending protest that modding the game is a free speech and freedom and creativity, not violation at Nintendo's property, with plenty of trends like "FreeSmash" and "SaveMelee". So you think that Nintendo will issue the public apology for their big mistake, right?
NOPE!
Nintendo proceeded to double down with giving a middle fingers at the community by canceling the competition of Splatoon at the same time. Resulting to... You guessed it, more backlash at Nintendo's movement against the E-sports.
Even though i like Nintendo, but this is something that they need to handle the free speech and of course, handling the criticism what the community wanted. Sure during the "Game Award show", they tried to stay positive to including Sephiroth in Smash Bros Ultimate, but the damage is already done for attacking the community and the E-sports.
In the words of Michael Jordan: Stop it... Get some help...
Number 5: 2019–20 Australia bushfire season
Lets face it, our world are still struggling to dealing with wildfires, especially in California in USA, which it became very common of burning forest that they need to learn the environment for save the forest. But nothing can compare from the nightmare in Australia.
The fire all started back in June of 2019 that the Queensland Fire and emergency Service are in panic warning from the lack of soil moisture, which it will causing a climate change. But unfortunately, the fire in the wild went very bad as we saw it on pictures and news reports, ranging for environment endanger, an accident, a lightning strike or even an allege arson. The fire burns not just one forest, but almost the entire country itself, with over over $103 billion of damages that it costs, 46 million acres got burned, the wildfire acres are bigger than California, 34 people died from the fire, and worst of all, the wild animals suffered as well, including Koalas, meaning they're in a verge of extinction.
It was a huge devastation of Australia's big fire that causes a huge disaster what we've witnessed, lets hope the big bushfire will never happen again, as well as saving Koalas without causing them into extinction...
Number 4: Shut downs and financial crisis
*sigh* You know, its always not easy that we wanna going out whatever we want or even for our schedule.
Even since we've seen a dangerous report about the virus (again, we'll get to that later on), numerous places are forced to shut down without any risk what so ever in the spring of 2020. Although it sounds good on paper, but it concerns many things.
These includes activities like cinema (which i was planned to do watch some movies for my review), traveling and theme park being closed, sporting events being halted (Like NASCAR, F1, Formula E, Indycar, NBA, NHL, NHF and other sports) or canceled (like Indy light) and several business are limited to be temporary opened or closed.
Sure, we did eventually re-opened, but the damage was already done, with the colors of the zone that its either ok or endangered, it made many people concerned for businesses, the ratings and the financial. In fact, i had a part time business in my homeland Canada before warning message popping in. And worst of all, several places are permanently shut down due to a combination of virus and the financial crisis.
This means losing jobs, there will be no money. without money, there will be no healthcare and forced pay rent. Without those, our lives will be doomed! I know im exaggerating, but this made me worry for many people who have jobs and the money to save their stuff.
Lets hope we're going back to regular basis in 2021 once we clean and fixing up the issues.
Number 3: Youtube's Clowny business (aka Youtube is dead!) and DMCA Felony
Oh you think im done with Youtube? Well, im not talking about the Youtubers, but Youtube itself!
Ever since they got into trouble from FTC's COPPA for stealing info without parents notice, they changed the rule that many of videos that either with kids toys, kids shows or whatever, there will be NOTHING! No comments, no putting playlist and no profits per views when you put it as a "family friendly" video, even though i've already covered it from last year's controversy.
But right now, Youtube is still going to F***ing over their systems by abusing innocent users for following the rules, we've seen plenty of users that either they got suspended for the "spam", got their video strike down for nothing and of course, banning users for no reason what so ever!
One user Belle Delphine made a music video that was uploaded on Youtube, despite she has other account called "OnlyFans". But all the sudden, her channel got terminated for quote "due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content", but in reality, she got banned for NOTHING! Causing into a backlash to defending Belle that she doesn't doing anything wrong. Though Youtube did eventually bring her channel back, but the damage was already done, due to of course, Youtube pretty much don't know what they're doing, causing Belle saying "Nope, its too little too late, Youtube, because... I Quit!" (Though she only has two videos on her channel as im working my project).
But the nightmare of broken down social media doesn't stop there, oh no! I have another one that put on the list as a tie, which happens to be a new and horrible rule of DMCA!
A senator of North Carolina named Thom Tillis decided to creating a bill rule that according to the bill, whenever we put a copyright music in the background or whatever while we're in livestream, we're committing a crime and put ourselves into jail more than three years.
WHAT?!?!
What the F*** is wrong with this mess?! This is downright abusive towards stream users and content creators, we can post whatever like to like the good'ol days, but now, Thom took a new level of abusing Fair Use by putting you into prison for using copyrighted songs when you're on livestream like Twitch, Youtube or whatever!
When i heard that, i was immediately jumping on the bandwagon of protest on Twitter in order to stop the new and horrible rule of DMCA and most importantly, we want Fair Use! Fair Use is the long lost friend of the internet, we might as well going back in the mid-late 2010 decade with the use of "WTFU" (Where's The Fair Use) because we don't deserve to be abused for nothing!
Today, we gotta act very fast that we don't want to let this happening, because we don't wanna see innocent users get swatted on livestream for using a copyrighted music in the background, otherwise, the internet will be doomed forever. That's why it concerns me that i have to put this and Youtube's broken system in tie on my list, those need to stop... NOW...!!
Number 2: George Floyd's death and overdose of protests/riots (aka the overdose of BlackLivesMatter)
*sigh* Don't you just hated that the American polices are still didn't never learn their lesson, right?
After we've seen some reports of police brutality against some innocent minority like black people, you think that we wanna let black people in peace without any abuse, right?
Nope, we're still stuck in the past.
Cause it all started back in May of 2020, where a poor jobless and innocent black person named George Floyd was killed by a police office and by putting on his knee over Floyd's neck and they brutality crossed the line for our reaction.
This resulting a worldwide protest with the use of "Black Lives Matter", meaning black people are an actual PEOPLE, not being treated as either a toy or a slavery and we definitely knew that we're sick and tired of seeing black people get killed by the police departments, George isn't the only one who died like that, there's Breonna Taylor in March and Rayshard Brooks in June.
But the drama of "Black Lives Matter" gotten too far, and i do mean too far. Not only we have a flock of protestors, but there's also a rioters for looting many places and even a fight and death threat towards police. I mean, i understand we're sick and tired of repetitive of police brutality, but that doesn't make an excuses to going on riot and attempt to destroying police department, not to mention, Trump (before he lost his seat of present of America) even sent an army to stop the protest/riot (Gee, does that sounds familiar to you?)
Look, i have some friends who happens to be black and i have a good respect to them, but this whole police brutality against them are sickening me and probably some of my black friends as well. I hope this whole police brutality against blacks has to stop, we're getting tired of those...!
And now, the number one biggest controversy of 2020 goes to....!
Number 1: COVID-19 aka the virus of "The End of the world"
You know its coming on number one, don't ya?
Out of all the controversies that we've seen, this is one is pretty obvious how it cause 2020 a major catastrophic year.
It all started back in late 2019 from the exposure of Corona-Virus breaking in at Wuhan, China from either a bat, some other wild animal or some people with the virus. At first, we figured "Ok, lets say the virus only happened in China, cause this country is F***ed up, right?". But instead, the virus started to spreading outside of China, causing a numerous reports of panic about the outbreak of the COVID-19 from Europe to America.
And remember some of previous list and honorable mentions that i talked about like shut downs, financial crisis and such?
Those are the effects from the COVID we've been suffered because of the virus! Its not just a those, but its the rules that we're forced to live with it like hand washing, wearing masks and even social distant, which i considered the latter one being impossibly unnecessary, like why can't you just change the rule to "Do not touch people", which makes it lot more sense than the stupid social distancing!! But as far as im concerned, not only it made us concerned, but it angered us as well, we just want to going back in the regular basis without the virus, but it also cause some of our lives in risk.
As im working on my project and checked in Wikipedia, there over 84 million cases where people got tested positives (including USA has 20 millions from either protest or some states have no virus rules), over 1.8 million people were killed from the virus and lastly, over 47 millions are recovered.
And of course, as right now, we're gladly heard that the vaccine is on the corner that we seriously need it to recovering our lives in order to stop the spreading virus and most importantly, going back in our regular basis without the damn virus.
With all the cancelations, the police brutalities and others out there, the outbreak of COVID-19 is easily considered as the number one biggest controversy and biggest reason why 2020 is the worst.
So this end of this countdown (Thank god...!), but got any other controversies that i mist, let me know in the comment section bellow.
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Thanks for reading, il see you at 2021 for my new projects (depending how's going right now) and im Anthony, signing out.
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