This situation does seem a little fishy.
On June 15th, Super Junior was nominated for Artist Saga on Italian MTV Awards in Florence. The boys were up against many strong candidates including One Direction and Italian artist Marco Mengoni. However, at the end of the voting period, ELF’s efforts were not enough to pull to the top, as Marco Mengoni took the winning spot. However, many Super Junior fans are angry at this outcome. Not because of the fact that Super Junior lost to another artist, but because fans believe there was some foul play involved.
During the voting process that led up until the final round, fans were informed that they could vote up to 10 times a day. However, an Italian ELF had found evidence of fraudulent voting, as a fan of Marco Mengoni posted a picture of her voting 650 times. Many fans were shocked at this and even started an Event page in order to stand united against MTV Italia.
The fact that a group who has millions of fans on Facebook and Twitter were not able to dominate against an artist who is only mostly known throughout Italy, was hard for most fans to understand. Comments such as this were left on the MTV Italia Facebook Page.
“MTV con tutto il rispetto ma è impossibile che due fandom internazionali che contano milioni di fan stanno perdendo contro deglii artisti conosciuti solo in Italia poco più. Con tutto rispetto per i nostri artisti italiani. Io essendo una ELF vedo quante pagine con milioni di fan hanno pubblicizzato questo evento, persino uno dei Super Junior lo ha fatto. Quindi statisticamente è impossibile la percentuale attuale dei voti, anche perché esistono metodi per dare più dei 10 voti giornalieri. Quindi perché non aprite una nuova votazione dove i voti non sono limitati ai 10, ma illimitati, dove lasciate in gara i 4 artisti rimasti ( Amoroso, 1D, SUJU e Mengoni ) così saremo liberi di votare quanto vogliamo, vincerà l’artista che ovviamente è stato più sostenuto dai suoi fan.”
GOOGLE TRANSLATION: “MTV with all due respect but it is impossible that two international fandom that count millions of fans are losing against deglii artists known only in Italy a little more. With all due respect for our Italian artists. I being an ELF see how many pages with millions of fans have advertised this event, even one of the Super Junior did it. So statistically it is impossible to present the percentage of the vote, because there are ways to give more of the 10 votes per day. So why not open a new vote where the votes are not limited to 10, but unlimited, where the race left in the 4 remaining artists (Amoroso, 1D, SUJU and Mengoni) so we will be free to vote as we want, which of course will win the artist was more supported by his fans. “
To most, this was an unbelievable event. However, a cheat was found on Marco Mengoni fandom accounts that allowed manipulation to votes, leading many fans to understand how it was possible. Fans discovered a website that was able to cheat the voting process and award multiple votes past the max amount. This would explain why there were instances of 99,999 votes awarded.
Not only were votes found to be manipulated, many fan votes were not even counted. During the voting through the Social Tracker, which was used to count Twitter tweets, many tweets were being posted, but the number of votes for Super Junior stayed the same. This can be seen in a video recording posted by a Super Junior fan.
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At this time, there has not been a statement from MTV Italia on the matter, but fans still have hope. They have created a Facebook page to gather together, in the hopes of getting an answer and apology for what has occurred during the 2013 Italian Music Awards.
SOURCE: MTV Italy Official Website, imageshack, Lavika, & DarkyChan93
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