Why the Kids Choice Awards isn’t Worth Taken Seriously

Why the Kids Choice Awards isn’t Worth Taken Seriously?

       Finally, after two journals of reviewing Nick shows year to year, I’m back to writing normal journals. This is written in preparing for this year’s KCA’s. We know what the Kids Choice Awards are about - it’s an awards show dedicated for kids, usually held in March. Winners receive a kaleidoscopic orange blimp. The stuff Nickelodeon nominates are usually kid friendly, but occasionally nominates adult content, which isn’t noticed by the moral guardians that much, other than people who mock at the idea of giving rappers, TV-14 shows, PG-13 movies a blimp. It wasn’t always called Kids Choice Awards, though. In 1987, it was previously known as The Big Ballot and it wasn’t recorded live. Every year, one of the celebrities get slimed and there’s a theme such as 1999 having a mini-golf gimmick.

       But, that’s not what I’m here to describe the Kids Choice Awards. The reason why I’m writing this journal is to notice the amount of salt adults have towards the awards, despite having the word kids in its title. There may be kids voting for the ballot, but most of the people discussing it are young adults (who were previously in the target demographic many years ago). What adults don't get is that this is what kids voted for, so whoever wins a category is not the adults' choice. In shorter words, they take a freaking awards show for kids so seriously. Let's get this out of this way - the favorite cartoon is one of the most notorious category in all of award shows. Why is that, you ask? Because in the 25 years it’s been around, ONLY 5 shows have won that category. To make matters worse, all of them are Nicktoons, except for the Simpsons, which won a blimp in 2002. So, in a way, it has always been biased towards Nicktoons, even before the sponge’s reign of terror. Every year since 2003, the category has exclusively went to SpongeBob (other than 2008, when Avatar The Last Airbender miraculously won). And thus, it has gained a lot of fandom rivalry all because of one orange blimp. Especially if your name is Phineas and Ferb, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, or The Loud House. This gets to the point that the cartoon community will always discuss the KCA’s for that category alone and nothing else. So they don’t bother watching it for the host or the slime or their favorite celebrities. They only came to discuss just to throw a fit over one worthless category. You know, it’s already bad enough that Nickelodeon gets the worse reception out of the main big 3 kids channels, but having to hear the same gripes over and over again get old really fast. The Favorite Video Game category is also rigged as fuck, but no one bat an eye about it because most of the voters are fans of pop musicians and that’s what Just Dance (longtime winner of that category) thrive on. Though, nowadays, Minecraft winning that category also felt rigged because there’s bunch of Minecraft YouTubers with a lot of stans who always trend on Twitter for the littlest thing. Kids deserved better tastes - they need to pick Nintendo since they’re more kiddy than Minecraft. Other categories can pick the same person (like Ariana Grande - and I’m pretty sure her victories are solely due to the fact that she’s a former Nick star. Same thing goes to JoJo Siwa, for 4 years.) to be the winner and it can lead to endless argument on whether it’s rigged and their faves deserved to win.

       My next point is Nick nominating certain things out of sympathy due to their snubbed status on other award shows. This year’s ceremony was a perfect example of this - especially the movie categories. Sponge on the Run and Paw Patrol Movie were nominated simply because they’re produced by Nick and the Oscars didn’t noticed them due to their bias on Disney films. That’s not all - the voice acting category was dominated by SOTR. You were expecting Nick cheating their way to win another blimp for the sponge? Luckily, Encanto and Scarlett Johansson (for her role on Sing 2) won. The latest Spider-Man movie No Way Home also got nominated for a few KCA’s. Spoiler alert - they all won. Maybe this was Nick’s way of taking pity on movies getting snubbed at the Oscars? And I heard people say that the KCA’s respect animation better, but that’s a big fat lie considering Nick’s respect for animation is just as bad as the Academy Awards. The TV category is more fair since it’s a balance of Nick shows and other networks shows. As for music, BTS seems to be a favorite considering how much they get snubbed at the Grammys. This of course delight the K-Pop stans who think the Grammys are rigged. I don’t know if there’s an award show for social media stars, but Nick including categories for them is just a way of kissing ass on Internet stars. I understand YouTubers since they started this trend, but TikTok stars? They’re unworthy of awards, period. They’re just wasting their time on filming short videos of themselves. Whoever wins a blimp for the sports category is fair game, but it still comes out as rigged if athletes like Tom Brady win because of their popularity. Nick did used to have a sports version of the KCA’s but it got discontinued because no one was going to waste their time watching an award show that belongs on ESPN.

       In conclusion, it doesn’t matter who own the Kids Choice Awards, but if Disney Channel or Cartoon Network were to host it, they would rig their own shows, stars, and especially movies in Disney or WarnerBros’ case in their favor. While Nick does rig their own shows and stars to win a blimp, they’re always generous enough to give blimps to their rivals, especially if it’s from Disney. Just like any other award shows, it’s not worth your time getting pissed that your favorite show/movie/actor/athlete didn’t won. Just be glad that they got honored at all. This is just a friendly reminder to everyone, especially the cartoon fans.