Actually - and this is absolutely not a criticism of the show or, um, some of the fans - a year or so ago, TV Guide ran a contest to determine which of four shows would be on their cover, sort of a 'most popular show' thing. SPN won by an absolute landside, to the point that people began realizing that the sheer number of votes was impossible in the time allotted, at least by humans.
I don't remember all the details, but it came out later that some SPN fans wrote a program of some kind that would use bots to vote. They could sleep or go about their day confident that the program was voting SPN for them every few seconds.
I was sort of amused/puzzled by the whole thing, because from a fan-dedication thing, you could make the argument that yes, SPN definitely has super-dedicated fans, in that they're willing to go to that much trouble. But the backlash is that even if it wins a contest now (or has done so), no one would know.
I still seem comments (including from TV critics who like or even love the show) laughing about SPN's contest wins.
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Date: 2012-01-15 12:55 am (UTC)I don't remember all the details, but it came out later that some SPN fans wrote a program of some kind that would use bots to vote. They could sleep or go about their day confident that the program was voting SPN for them every few seconds.
I was sort of amused/puzzled by the whole thing, because from a fan-dedication thing, you could make the argument that yes, SPN definitely has super-dedicated fans, in that they're willing to go to that much trouble. But the backlash is that even if it wins a contest now (or has done so), no one would know.
I still seem comments (including from TV critics who like or even love the show) laughing about SPN's contest wins.