The 2022 Fish Tank Awards (event)

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**The 2022 Fish Tank Awards**, informally referred to as the "**Fishies**," were the 2022 iteration of the annual VC event in which members of the Fish Tank come together to collectively celebrate / denounce the best / worst moments and individuals of the past year. The 2022 Awards ceremony has been equally renowned for its celebrity involvement and technological prowess, and marred by controversies.

## Advertising Campaign

In order to encourage members of the Fish Tank to further debase themselves for his entertainment, Lore created the channel #ads-2021 (despite the event not taking place in said year), wherein those hoping to win an award at the event could post increasingly nonsensical and disturbed adverts regarding the categories they believed they had a slim chance at securing. Though initially used for this purpose (and to great effect), as the night went on, the aforementioned channel became a location for disillusioned members of Fish Tank to vent their frustrations towards Liam A for his failure to satisfy their demands.

## Delays and Technical Difficulties

The presentation of the awards was subject to significant delay, arriving several hours later than initially planned. This was largely due to the fact that the ceremony was contingent on Liam editing together the separate segments and sending Zane the finished product, which he had not done at the scheduled time. Suffice to say, the eager and ravenous members of the Fish Tank were nothing short of furious at Liam, sending various death threats and calls for his banning from the server. Matthew remarked that "Maybe he’s having a family energency [sic]," a comment that, whilst savagely mocked at the time of its utterance, would prove eerily prophetic as the night wore on.

Eventually, Lore heard back from Liam, who bore tragic news - the death of his grandfather had been the apparent reason for his failure to edit the video in time. At this point, no doubt much of the Fish Tank were regretting their ill-conceived insults and transgressions towards a preoccupied and grief-stricken fellow member. Some hours later, Zane was finally able to stream the fully-edited video presentation, to much fanfare.

## Winners

* Most Circle Jerked Movie - One From The Heart (1982)
* Most Circle Jerked Director - John Ford
* Most Circle Jerked Artist - Ye (Formerly Known As Kanye West)
* Best Fish Tank Moment - Death of Aldy
* Best Movie Taste - iksvecjart
* Best Music Taste - Lore
* Best Server Identity - The Flavstation
* Best Profile Picture - Christian
* Best Emote - :horror:
* Best #hall-of-fame Post - Fatthew N
* Best .gif - Cubes
* Best Pet - Maxie
* Best Fit - Kyle
* Best Review - Faye
* Best Reviewer - Puffin
* Friendliest Member - Noah
* Biggest Bruh Moment - Alex Debates
* Funniest Member - Christian
* Best IRL - Some Muslims :peepoBaba:
* Worst Take - Faye's Taste in Women
* Best Fishy Segment - Bozzle and Karsten Runquist
* Rip Bozo - Frank2
* Worst Member - Amy
* The FilmEnthusiast3 Lifetime Achievement Award - Elliott
* Best New Member - Luca
* Best Member with an Exclamation Mark in Their Name - Andrew
* Best Member - Lore

## Notable Special Guests

* Sherlock
* Robin Richards
* Zane's Mother
* The Boss Baby
* Frank the Monkey

## Critical Reception

The 2022 Awards ceremony was widely celebrated as the greatest yet - as of August 2022, it holds an average rating of 4.2/5 on Letterboxd. The user bentroll remarked that "This film had everything: humour, horror, celebrity cameos, music, movie man. What more could a person possibly ask for? See you 2023 o7."

## Controversies

### #GOOSEROBBED

One of the most highly-contested awards up for grabs was the category of Best Pet, with many members of the Fish Tank strongly campaigning for their own pets. Whilst little animosity was directed towards the eventual winner of the award - the beloved Maxie - a large subset of the community believed that Sonny's pet dog Goose was the rightful winner of the award. This perceived miscarriage of justice led to the hashtag #GOOSEROBBED being sported by many members in their display names and spamming it in otherwise unrelated channels. Despite these protests, the official winner is yet unchanged.

### Liam's Grandfather

Over a month after the 2022 Fish Tank Awards ceremony took place, in February 2022, a shocking revelation was made. Despite his initial claims of an appalling personal tragedy being the reason for the aforementioned several-hours delay, Liam suddenly detailed to Lore how, in his words, "the grandpa did not die, your first assumption of me accidentally falling asleep and sleeping in was entirely accurate. i was legitimately half asleep when i told you, i thought it would come across as a joke." He later clarified, "in my defense he did die, just three years ago."

Whilst this betrayal was met with righteous anger by some upon its discovery, the general consensus was that, despite Liam's obvious sociopathy, the initial lie was so long ago at this point that very few could muster up any strong emotions regarding the matter.

## "The Mann Cut"

Due to the difficult and disruptive circumstances surrounding the editing of the official video presentation, there have remained rumours and rumblings of another cut existing, or rather in the process of being created, of said presentation. To date, there has been no evidence of this, and all efforts to complete this version have likely been abandoned.