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The 2025 Peely Awards for the Worst in Pop Culture, Round II Part II

…And we’re back! This is the second part of the second round of the Peely’s, where we judge and mock the doofiest pop culture of the year. Here’s the first part.

Here are the twenty comments this thread revolves around:

  • The Gourmet, Gourmand, Goofus Award for Most Exhaustively Omnipresent Food Trend or Poor Culinary Innovation of 2025 (Spice Weasel, Eagle Hand Laundry)
  • The Most “This Doesn’t Exist” Pop Culture that at Best Nobody Asked for and at Worst Many People Asked to Not Happen (Kim Cardassian, MacCrocodile)
  • No, It’s the Children Who Are Wrong… No Seriously. They Actually ARE Wrong, I’m not Joking Award for Unpopular Pop Culture Item of 2025 That Deserves Better (Tigercat919)
  • Pluribus Award for Best TV Series on a Streaming Service You Don’t Have (LoveWaffle)
  • Most Painful, Premature, and Gosh Darnit, Straight-Up Unfair Cancellation of a Serialized Work in 2025 (LoveWaffle, Wasp)
  • The Two Jakes Award for Most Unnecessary Sequel (Glinda the Wicked)
  • The “Please Touch Grass” Award for Worst Fan Behavior (Glinda the Wicked, Pachylad)
  • “The Torment Nexus Hit the Goddamn Pentagon!!” Award for Worst and Weirdest Analysis, Take, or Active Misrepresentation of a Piece of Media Across the Grand Miasma of Cultural Discourse (Glinda the Wicked, Pershing 48)
  • The “Are you Fucking Kidding me?” Award for the Most Bad-Faith, Brainworms-y, or Otherwise Most Viscerally Nonsensical Argument or Discourse that did not Originate from the Trump White House (Lilburne, Katie)
  • The Chuck Klosterman Memorial Award for Worst Thinkpiece (Merve)
  • Best Moment That’s Just Deeply Satisfying to the Primordial Lizard Part of Our Brains
  • Worst Pre-2025 Pop Culture that You Experienced for the First Time This Year
  • Worst Pop Culture Object of 2024 that Wasn’t a Winner or Runner-Up in Last Year’s Peely’s (Wolfman Jew)
  • Silliest Title for a Pop Culture Work Released in 2025, Non-Eric Roberts Division (Wolfman Jew)
  • Silliest Title for an Eric Roberts Work Released in 2025
  • Worst Video Game of 2025
  • Worst Song or Album of 2025
  • Worst Television Season or Miniseries of 2025
  • Worst Book of 2025
  • Worst Film of 2025

Again, the process here is pretty simple. I’ve got a comment for every category—please abstain from voting until they’re all up—and it’s up to you to make nominations and to vote on the ones that have been put down. At January 2nd, we’ll reveal the winners. And remember: we want you to vote as much as possible! Be generous with upvotes and generous with spirit, and I guarantee you’ll have a great time.