AmIAnnoying.com

AmIAnnoying.com (AIA) is a website that allows users to vote on celebrities based on their annoyance factors. It has more than 30,000 profiles of public figures and is the largest on-going celebrity polling site on the internet.

AmIAnnoying.com
Type of site
Entertainment
Available inEnglish
URLamiannoying.com
Launched2000

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 ballot stuffing 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 L. Ron Hubbard, forcing AIA to alter the picture. Due to a family request, AIA also removed a profile of Matthew Shepard and it no longer accepts profiles of those famous only because they were murdered.

At the end of 2004, the tabloid magazine Star had an issue devoted to the "Most Annoying People of 2004", with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton 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.[1]

Annual lists

Most Annoying of the Year
Most Annoying of the Year
Year Most Annoying Top Ten Ref.
2001
Jesse Jackson		 [2]
2002
Martha Stewart
[3]
2003
Al-Qaeda		 [4]
2004
Justin Timberlake		 [5]
2005
Tom Cruise		 [6]
2006
(celebrities)
Star Jones		 [7][8]
2006
(public figures)
Osama bin Laden		 [9]
2007
(celebrities)
Lindsay Lohan		 [10]
2007
(public figures)
Osama bin Laden		 [11]
2008
Tila Tequila		 [12]
2009
Katie Couric		 [13]
2010
Osama bin Laden
[14]
2011
Jay Leno		 [15]
2012
Jay Leno		 [16]
2013
Stacy Keibler		 [17]
2014
Rachel Maddow		 [18]
2015
Roger Goodell		 [19]
2016 Good Morning America [20]
2017
Tom Brady		 [21]
2018
Caitlyn Jenner		 [22]
2019
Roger Goodell		 [23]
2020
Harvey Weinstein		 [24]

Least Annoying of the Year
Least Annoying of the Year
Year Least Annoying Top Ten Ref.
2001
Laika		 [2]
2002
Mischa Barton		 [3]
2003
Salma Hayek		 [4]
2004
Renée Zellweger		 [5]
2005
Gene Hackman		 [6]
2006
(celebrities)
Beyoncé		 [7]
2006
(public figures)
Jesus Christ		 [9]
2007
(celebrities)
Kylie Minogue		 [10]
2007
(public figures)
Barack Obama		 [11]
2008
Angelina Jolie		 [12]
2009
Alyssa Milano		 [13]
2010
Meryl Streep		 [14]
2011
Kristy McNichol		 [15]
2012
Hayley Atwell		 [16]
2013
Hayley Atwell		 [17]
2014
Colin Firth		 [18]
2015 God [19]
2016
Paul Rudd		 [20]
2017
Pope Francis		 [21]
2018
Martin Luther King Jr.		 [22]
2019
Hayley Atwell		 [23]
2020
Cleo King		 [24]

References
  1. "Bruce". The Annoyatorium. Archived from the original on September 22, 2010. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
  2. "2001 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2001. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  3. "2002 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2002. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  4. "2003 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2003. Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  5. "2004 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2004. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  6. "2005 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2005. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  7. "2006 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2006. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  8. Simmons, Christopher (January 3, 2007). "Star Jones Voted Most Annoying Celebrity of 2006 by AmIAnnoying.com". Publication of Neotrope News Network. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
  9. "2006 Most and Least Annoying Public Figures". AmIAnnoying.com. 2006. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  10. "2007 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2007. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  11. "2007 Most and Least Annoying Public Figures". AmIAnnoying.com. 2007. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  12. "2008 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2008. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  13. "2009 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2009. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  14. "2010 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  15. "2011 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  16. "2012 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  17. "2013 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  18. "2014 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  19. "2015 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  20. "2016 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
  21. "2017 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  22. "2018 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  23. "2019 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2019. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  24. "2020 Most and Least Annoying". AmIAnnoying.com. 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
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