We’re not in this for the money, or the accolades, or the accolades that come with money (I’m looking at you MacArthur Grant-taker and climate expert Peter Gleick). We’re in it for you. And because people give us cars to drive. But mostly for you. Still, it’s an honor to be honored as an ‘Honoree’ by the Webby Awards.
The Webby Awards are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and are the “leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.” They’ve existed since 1996, and for the last 28 years, the awards have recognized the best and weirdest on the web.
Weirdest is important because we’ve been selected as a Webby Honoree in the Websites and Mobile Sites – Weird category. That fits. While we’re not up for voting because we’re not one of the top finalists, it’s still great to be recognized, especially considering that our fellow nominees include a project from Google and Mr. Beastify. Definitely go vote in the category for the website you think is the weirdest.
“Congratulations! Earning the distinction of Webby Honoree, as recognized by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences is a significant achievement,” Webby Awards President Claire Graves told me in an email letting me know about the distinction.
Are we letting this go to our heads? Yes. We’re definitely putting the honoree sticker on all our project cars going forward.
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Outstanding! When will the Autopian version of that Webby logo be available for us to covet? I’m thinking a round sticker with the Autopian A and the fuchs wheel behind the Webby logo…
My initial reaction was “there’s a category for taillight blogs?”
Not a finalist? Wow, you’re going to have to up your weird game. Is that even possible?
Scary to think what the finalists are like if this looney bin didn’t make it.
There’s gonna be a swimsuit calendar, I just know it. Swimsuits made of taillights.
With RVs, Muppets, and murder clowns.
As long as there is not a naked Torch, David, or Adrian.
Budgie smugglers all around! In neon pink, neon green, and black respectively.
There’s people that would pay to see naked Torch, David, or Adrian. I’m not one of them because I don’t swing that way, but just saying.
A swimsuit calendar with Muppet versions of the writers, posed sumptuously on and in vintage RVs at scenic locations.
And they presented you a coil spring! Although, a leaf spring or torsion bar seems more appropriate. Congrats!
I’m here for the Con-Torsion-ist.
I’ll be over at the bar.
And it’s not even rusted!
Is the trophy modeled after Torch’s hair?
To keep the Muppet content going I present this to you as a consolation prize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhT51tmUE0E
Is it just me, or does the Pic of Jason and David look like it was AI generated?(◔ૂ◔)
I think they did the YouTube thumbnail thing where you increase the size of their face by about 10%
30%! 😉
Well, they share the same body, and Jason’s neck is a blue void….. Id say they did more than blow up their heads a little.
If they didn’t blow up their heads, this award certainly will.
I think they are Matt’s body with pasted heads.
Dare I say that it looks weird!?
Award winningly weird.
Great Job! Next stop a Pulitzer nomination for extensive work in aerosolized battery lead impacts on taillight recognition from 150 yards away.
I knew this site was full of weirdos.
Welcome to the club! 😉
Congratulations guys and girls,good job.
Neato!
Damn straight you are. Nice one, guys. Congrats.
Great, kid! Now don’t get cocky…
Dammit…… Why didn’t I think of that?
The headline made me think you guys had been given an honorable mention for a literal “perfect” category. As in a Webby Award For Being Perfect.
Weird Category makes more sense but I wasn’t going to argue with perfection.
Someone go check on Torch… if this goes to his head too much, he might just have another aortic dissection.
Pretty sure it would have to go to his heart to do that.
Regardless, we as a collective do not recommend the Webby Award be ingested or implanted, even if it sort of looks like it could be used as a stint.
It would make a decent roto-tiller for clearing plaque or oil-clogged arteries. And technically speaking, that doesn’t count as implantation or ingestion.
Someone check on DT, he might go FULL Hollywood after this.
Oh no, does this mean that the subscription prices are going to go up now? 😉
Congratulations to the entire Autopian staff!
Signed, a paid subscriber and a fellow weirdo! ヽ(͡◕ ͜ʖ ͡◕)ﾉ
I’m honored to be an official reader of an official Webby-honored website.
Agreed, I think I’m becoming reputable!? Weird, but reputable.
The fact that the award looks like a coil spring someone pulled out of a junkyard and rattle canned is icing on the cake.
Why does the phrase ‘sit on this and rotate’ come to mind? I digress: congratulations! You guys are just like West Virginia, weird and wonderful. What’s that? It’s ‘wild, wonderful, West Virginia’? Whatever, it should be weird. Anyway, congrats, again.
Pretty impressive. I don’t think The Hamster Dance ever got nominated.
Keep Autopian Weird
That, I think, will not be a problem.
I believe this site exemplifies HST’s saying that,
”When the going gets weird,
the weird turn pro!”
I don’t really remember seeing anything weird over here?
Torch sounds excited, but we all know he’s just trying to conceal his immense disappointment that the Autopian got a combined zero Best-Of nominations from the American Dental Association and the American Council of Churches.
And here I assumed that he was just disappointed that he didn’t get a BBB Torch Award.
And he WON’T, not until he gets off his ass and submits the paperwork for The Church of The Holy Taillight, forever may it glow.
Congrats! Keep the weirdness flowing!
Now you need bumper stickers that say: Proud Reader Of A Webby Award Nominee that people can put next to their Honk If You’re Horny and My Other Car Is A Zamboni bumper stickers. But, people, please remember the rule of 3: If you have more than 3 bumper stickers, you are in fact a psychopath.
Am I still a psychopath if I don’t put them on the bumper and instead use them to cover the mouths of my victims?
No, that’s perfectly fine, but only if you have them listen to Huey Lewis and The News
What about Genesis?
Genesis is fine as long as it’s pre-“We Can’t Dance” That album, subsequent 79,653 different compilation albums and Phil’s solo stuff have been registered as potential war crimes.
Another psychopath? Sheesh, people want to ride their bikes everywhere.
That rule also works for cats and cars (although for cars it is PER person, so a household can have more than 3).
Edit: obviously the car rule does not apply to rich people who are able to put more than 3 cars inside a garage
3 stickers per car
Am I required to include the cat’s cars in the household tally? I’m not sure where he keeps finding these things:
https://live.staticflickr.com/4602/25005385657_3d043eb953_c.jpg
Well, I have 3 Autopian stickers right next to each other on my bumper so I’m right on the edge…I do want more stickers though…ha ha
No no, that number rule is for window stickers. If you have bumper stickers at all you are a psychopath.
Hell yeah!! Will you actually receive that statue? I’d love to know if the binary actually decodes to anything meaningful
NERD!
Okay, I may have been wondering the same thing.
“Miles and miles of files. Pretty files of your forefathers fruit, and now to suit our great computer, you’re magnetic ink.”