Recap: Poppies 2021 Awards 🏆🥳💙

Hey Poppie-tropicans! We’ve just wrapped up another dazzling Poppies, our annual fan-directed Poptropica awards event.

Thank you all for joining in on the festivities throughout the month! We received over 260 votes in the polls to help determine this year’s winners and announced the awards this weekend in a livestream hosted by Sporty Boa, MaryannTheConqueror, and Slanted Fish. Catch the vid below, or scroll down to directly see the winners of the 2021 Poppies!

And the Poppies go to…

Poptropica Awards

•  Hottest Male Poptropican: Director D (runner-up: Octavian)
•  Hottest Female Poptropican: Red Riding Hood (runner-up: Black Widow)
•  Most Overrated Character: Dr. Hare (runner-up: Balloon Boy)
•  Most Picturesque Scene: Binary Bard’s Dream, Super Villain (runner-up: Heart of the Forest, Twisted Thicket)
• Cutest Creature: Merlin (runner-up: Dryad)
•  Okay-est Ad Island: SpongeBob Island (runner-up: SpongeBob Island 2: Kamp Koral)
•  Coolest Member Gift: Bunny Car (runner-up: Boba Tea)
•  Ickiest Poptropica Name: Hamburger Hamburger (runner-up: Beefy Brain)
•  Bougiest Poptropica Name: Golden Moon (runner-up: Invisible Ring)
•  Most Missed Feature: Old islands (runner-up: Costumizer)
•  Finest Piece of Merch: Time Tangled wall clock (runner-up: Shark Boy plush)

Community Awards

•  Best Dream Island: Cherryfall Island by Smart Icicle (runner-up: Opposites Island by Noisy Snowball)
•  Silliest PHB April Fools’ Prank: Poptropica Dating Sim Fan Blog, 2021 (runner-up: Omegon’s Takeover, 2015)
•  Best Fan Art of the Year: “He is a villain” comic by AdventuresNHunters (runner-up: “The Boy Nobody Wanted” by MaryannTheConqueror)
•  Coolest Clubhouse: Gamer Clubhouse by Theo’s Ghost (runner-up: Cozy Clubhouse by Slanted Fish)
•  Most Popping PHB Party: Pride Palooza (runner-up: Beev Party)
•  Fan Favorite Video: “#TBT POPTROPICA FAIRY TALE ISLAND!! | Road to Captain Thinknoodles” by Thinknoodles (runner-up: “The Poptropica Timeline (one year later)” by Dimension Bros)

Congratulations to all the winners!! To see the percentages in votes for the top 3 of each category, check out the beautiful slideshow created by Fierce Flyer in the archived livestream above.

We also had fun hanging out with everyone in Poptropica’s Arcade and on our PHC Discord server! Shout-out to the Dimension Bros, who were nominated for two fan videos (and one clubhouse), for tuning into the Poppies live on their TV and giving us this intense reaction video:

“Best Fan Art” Nominee Gallery

This year we had so many contenders for the “Best Fan Art” award that we went with a whopping ten nominees to choose from! Feast your eyes:

From nominating to voting to partying, thanks for joining us another awesome awards act! By the way, this Monday, July 26 marks our 13th anniversary — the PHB’s a teen now. Happy blog birthday!

Keep on poppin’ on,

— the Poppies Help Blog —