AmIAnnoying.com (AIA) is a

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that allows users to vote on

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based on their

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factors. It has more than 30,000 profiles of public figures and is the largest on-going celebrity polling site on the

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Overview

While most of the entries on the site consist of individuals, groups such as bands, sports teams and television series have their own entries on the site. Even AmIAnnoying.com has its own profile, where in its early years it got mostly annoying votes. AIA keeps track of the votes cast and produces two on-going lists of the 100 celebrities who have the highest and lowest annoying percentages. Each week, AIA takes the top 25 in both lists and use them to compile the year-end "most annoying of the year" and "least annoying of the year" lists. Though in years past the voting totals were not reset until the end of the year, they started to reset the polls each week in 2006. AIA has been used by several media outlets to measure the public perception of the celebrity in their articles. The poll is not scientific and there have been instances of

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despite the five-vote-per-visit rule given by AIA. Lawyers representing the Church of Scientology threatened legal action for the usage of a picture of its founder

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, forcing AIA to alter the picture. Due to a family request, AIA also removed a profile of

Matthew Shepard Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998. He was taken by rescuers to Po ...

and it no longer accepts profiles of those famous only because they were murdered. At the end of 2004, the

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'' Star'' had an issue devoted to the "Most Annoying People of 2004", with Britney Spears and

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at the top of the list. It had no affiliation with AmIAnnoying.com and it is not known if ''Star'' lifted that idea from the site or it was merely coincidental. AIA used the slogan "The Original and Interactive Annoying Celebrity Poll" after the ''Star'' issue came out. AmIAnnoying.com was featured in the 2007 documentary '' Heckler''. It was announced on April 24, 2010, that co-founder Bruce Goldman had died earlier that week.

Annual lists

Most Annoying of the Year

Least Annoying of the Year

References

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External links

Am I Annoying

CNN article on AmIAnnoying.com
Internet properties established in 2000 American entertainment websites