[Recap] Clexa Fandom Winning Polls: The Last Day Of E!Online

I end up losing the last day of voting and I had to check Clexa Brasil account to see what happened. This was supposed to be just a recap with the best tweets, but end up being a "why we care about polls". Enjoy.

general info

Clexa Fans just won 9 of 10* E!Online polls, with more than 2.176.920 votes in just one of the categories. The fandom alone got together to the point they made 20.000 votes at every 20 minutes. So here are some prints of the last hours of voting.

It was just to remember this moment in Clexa History™, but now we can think about why we vote in polls.

* There were more categorias, like Best Shocker, but Lexa's death wasn't a shocking plot twist, it was the perpetuation of an old pattern of killing LGBT+ characters for drama, that had a traumatic impact on real lives. Our lives aren't here for shock value.

* Also, it's interesting that we won the Best Fandom category (Clexa Fandom), but

The loo lost the category of social media in the same page. Why? Because we won't vote for this either, they used it to queerbait us.

* It's interesting to note that not only on E!Online polls, but in others around internet, LGBT ships always win. The biggest fights here were between Clexa x Shoot (POI - f/f) x Malec (Shadowhunters - m/m). This basically says "starving for representation" and "there's a big public wanting to watch more LGBT couples".

* Both Clexa and Shoot were part of the Bury Your Gays trope. Good luck, Malec. (But I guess they have more chance because they're men)

So, the last day started and things weren't so easy. We were winning in 7 of 10 polls, and already abandoned the Best Kiss and Best Fandom categories.

Why? Fandom World War. Basically, chinese fans of Shoot voted like hell while the big part of clexa fans were sleeping, taking over our 100.000 votes of advantage. We needed everybody voting for Best Couple, because every vote wasted with another poll would made us lose.

* This dynamic also happened over the weekend, with Clexa gaining advantage over "day" and Shoot over the "night".

* 17.7k vs. 20.1k were the votes rate at every 20 min. We started the day with a rate of 4k, at the point of the print, with Europe/Americas awake, we had more.

* Best Couple is important, because they try to get an interview. And considering that we won't see neither Clarke/Lexa and Root/Shaw ever again, seeing at least the actresses together talking about it is something big (for many reasons).

"Are you with me or not? It will be like this all day. 2 minutes of power hour. Vote!" Image: Today is to get crazier than the priest of balloons."

One of the big (and best) parts of voting, is doing it with your fandom. Making jokes. Supporting each other. Calling other people to help. Giving updates. Meeting new people. Motivating each other.

*2 clexa brasil mods

Also, a reminder that this also means taking care of each other. Voting is a big effort, so is important to have breaks and to encourage other people to do it.

One of the biggest driving forces behind the fandom is that we were brutally impacted with Lexa's death (and the majority of us share the experience of #GrowingUpGay), and when the writers and the media and people in general erase how harmful these toxic narratives are, we are the only ones here helping each other. Is beautiful, but life should be more than just surviving.

And the numbers were raising...

when you're fighting alone against many fandoms but clexa still is big af

You can be fan of more than one thing at the same time

Because of course some people still think that is just about ship war...

*just to be clear, these fandoms were voting against clexa in the Best Couple category.

and then...

The math was made, and the 20k voting rate + the effort to grow more + the time we had... we needed a new strategy. And here is when I start to like this day.

after spending 4 days voting nonstop for a category, is hard to change things...

but China wasn't going to sleep, and they called some other chinese fandoms.

The problem is...

Nobody really believed we could win Best Kiss in a few hours. We've been losing this poll for days, to the point we gave up. Our % in the Best Kiss category was even less than in the Best Couple.

But what matters isn't the difference of %, but the difference of voting rate. And our rate was the massive 20k/20min in just one category (to have an idea, 2k/20min is a big rate on a normal day, without all the fandom coming together to vote).

So... math to decide what is best to do.

And Clexa started to go up in the Best Kiss poll.

*just to be clear, this really was a collaborative effort of all the fandom, and every decision (including the math and changing categories) isn't made by just one person. We help each other. Everything here is Clexa Brasil because it's the account I used to see what happened.

*this is a big thing because for days we were fighting over 0,1% in the Best Couple. It's like a arm wrestling.

"We are winning now!! Nobody stops! Let's raise a little bit more!"

but we still had Best Fandom to win...

this is my favorite tweet.

Via Twitter: @Clexa_Brasil

and in the middle of everything you still have to deal with people that don't have nothing else to do...

Via Twitter: @Clexa_Brasil

0,1% = how much they got in the Best Couple poll. Which brings other questions like... how this same ship could win the Teen Choice nomination for chemistry, but not Clexa.... ok.

rec: read the part "why fighting... matters"

Via Twitter: @Debnamsaurus

If you're still trying to understand why straight people are privileged.

And why killing a LGBT+ character in our world ins't "treating the same".

And why lgbt people still deserve better.

and the voting goes on

I think... the rest of the world... just... did what they thought was best?

I love to see countries talking to each other.

And this just remind me of Carter Covington (Faking It showrunner) using the oppression in countries like Russia to excuse how hard is to make shows with good rep. Well, if he stopped to hear the fans and make a decent LGBT+ story for women, fucking Russia could have saved his tv show.

1 hour to end the poll! Vote for Best Fandom now!

If this fucking Best Fandom doesn't update soon Clexas will have a heart attack.

I can't type I'm trembling! It's too much emotion for clexas lol

Ok, but, imagine if being part of a fandom was treated like a sport.

we even had our own hunger games moment. together? together.

Now starts the regressive count Brasill!! You're awesome!!! 8 minutes let's go

And then it turned into fucking new year's

Clexas are fucking awesome!!!

9 categories...

Eliza Taylor is the only thing the flop still has of these after s3

Via Twitter: @Clexa_Brasil

I love when this fandom starts to thank each other and recognize what we achieved together.

Clexa Brasil even needed to make threads to thank people, and I feel like there's eveeen more.

So in the end everybody is happy and celebrating and needing to rest for the next 7 years (not really, the Clexa Fandom still has much to do. We still don't have good representation. We're still an orphan fandom.)

This is all crazy, if you think about it. And if a person outside fandom try to understand what the hell is going on, it seems like a waste of time. I didn't even care about polls, tbh. I love these actresses and I live 24/7 for Clexa, but I wouldn't spend my days voting. But when you get closer and you look what is happening... it's much more.

I see hardworking, determined and smart people. Also really resourceful people that know how to put their skills to use. I see people having fun with something they're proud of, like a sport (nobody acts like it's a waste of a time when you have a bunch of straight men screaming when they see other men running after a ball..................)

But what I like more it's how 982332 people around the world in different languages and different cultures and using different social media found a community together, and they are so organized between themselves that they can do things like in a few minutes change the focus from a category to another, or divide themselves in different groups to work in different categories. And don't fool yourself, it isn't centralized at all.

This is one of the moments I love human beings. Because even if the media and the people writing stories for them act like they're just "angry teens", they are much more.

Now, to finish, let's treat this bellow like the Shoot fandom acceptance speech for winning Best Couple. Because they deserve it. And because if this was a world where minorities receive the same treatment, this would happen in the fucking Oscar.

Twitter: @icarusdaedelus

Maybe we care so much about random online polls because minorities are ignored in the big "serious" awards, so this is one of the few ways we have to see our communities represented.