1. Joseph Anderson Direct Showcase End of Year Awards 2023 Results

  2. JADSEYA 2023 Results

    Welcome to the results for this year's event! A total of 4839 ballots were submitted over the thirty awards and questions.

    If you'd like to reveal the results one-by-one, then toggle off .

    You can scroll or use the buttons to progress, or jump directly to an award:

    You can also check out your personalised results.

  3. Creamiest Stream Series

    The best streams of the year.

    1. #1
      AI: The Somnium Files 993
    2. #2
      Half-Life 2 952
      (-41)
    3. #3
      Deadly Premonition 946
      (-6)
    4. #4
      Hypnospace Outlaw 592
      (-354)
    5. #5
      Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 580
      (-12)
    6. #6
      13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim 351
      (-229)
    7. #7
      Starfield 206
      (-145)

    Creamiest stream ends up being a surprisingly tight three-way race at the top, but AI wins out in the end, edging out HL2 and Deadly Premonition.

    The first award is clinched by the weebs here: if we look at only people who said “No” to being a weeb, then AI would have actually come in third place, with HL2 taking it, followed extremely closely by Deadly Premonition.

    Half Life 2’s support is spearheaded by voters who also voted for Trolley-related options later—she no doubt boosted the popularity of these streams significantly.

    Eric has an inauspicious start with a swing and a very wide miss on Starfield, which sits at the bottom of the results by a wide margin (although not the worst result of the event).

  4. Best Game Streamed

    The best game streamed this year.

    1. #1
      Alan Wake 2 993
    2. #2
      Lies of P 981
      (-12)
    3. #3
      Hypnospace Outlaw 720
      (-261)
    4. #4
      13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim 706
      (-14)
    5. #5
      Hi-Fi Rush 630
      (-76)
    6. #6
      Resident Evil 4 Remake 268
      (-362)
    7. #7
      Half Life 2: Episode 2 260
      (-8)

    We have our closest result of the event, only 12 votes separating Alan Wake 2 and Lies of P when the results came in. Lies of P got a late boost from Joe’s video and almost managed to dethrone Alan Wake, but didn't quite manage it in the end.

  5. Best Game Released In 2023

    The best game released this year.

    1. #1
      Baldur's Gate 3 2207
    2. #2
      Alan Wake 2 692
      (-1515)
    3. #3
      Lies of P 645
      (-47)
    4. #4
      Hi-Fi Rush 538
      (-107)
    5. #5
      The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 291
      (-247)
    6. #6
      Octopath Traveler 2 129
      (-162)
    7. #7
      Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 25
      (-104)

    Right after the closest result, we have one of the biggest (but not the biggest) blowout for the year, with an unsurprising massive margin of 1515 votes for BG3.

    More people (312) didn't vote for this award in their ballot than voted for Tears of the Kingdom, Octopath Traveler 2, or Jedi: Survivor—which gets the dubious honour of having the smallest number of votes of any candidate during the event, with only 25 votes in this award.

  6. Most Requested Non-Voted List Game

    The most requested game not already voted or locked in.

    1. #1
      Pathologic Series 1026
    2. #2
      Another Xenoblade Chronicles Game 795
      (-231)
    3. #3
      The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles 654
      (-141)
    4. #4
      Kingdom Hearts 560
      (-94)
    5. #5
      Fear & Hunger 538
      (-22)
    6. #6
      Rain World 503
      (-35)
    7. #7
      The Talos Principle 248
      (-255)
    8. #8
      CrossCode 206
      (-42)
    9. #9
      Silent Hill 3-4 174
      (-32)

    We come to the most hotly contested award, with the fewest people (135) who didn't vote for it in their ballot. It was also the award that had the biggest shifts and swings over the course of the event, with heavy propaganda.

    Pathologic takes the lead with 1026 voters, a sizeable 231 vote lead over Xenoblade in the end, and no doubt several of them have even played the game.

    Despite a lot of propaganda, Rain World only managed to struggle into 6th place, more of a “The Outer Worlds like experience” (mid). So, was the propaganda a waste of time? Let's take a look at the results normalised against the initial voting results before propaganda:

    We can see that Rain World had the largest increase in votes over the initial results, so the propaganda seems to have worked, just not enough to close the overwhelming gap.

  7. The Steins;Gate Award For The Mistaké Stream Game

    The worst game streamed this year, regardless of how fun the streams were.

    1. #1
      The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 1855
    2. #2
      12 Minutes 970
      (-885)
    3. #3
      Hunt Down the Freeman 561
      (-409)
    4. #4
      Starfield 417
      (-144)
    5. #5
      Final Fantasy XVI 344
      (-73)
    6. #6
      Gravity Rush 2 301
      (-43)
    7. #7
      The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 200
      (-101)

    Also an extremely highly voted for award with only 191 non-voters—Joe's audience truly can't resist some criticism—this one was more of a blow-out, Gollum almost doubling 12 Minutes’ vote count, which is saying something given the state of that game.

  8. Best Game OST Of 2023

    The best soundtrack to a game released this year.

    1. #1
      Hi-Fi Rush 1371
    2. #2
      Pizza Tower 742
      (-629)
    3. #3
      Alan Wake 2 690
      (-52)
    4. #4
      Final Fantasy XVI 647
      (-43)
    5. #5
      Baldur's Gate 3 646
      (-1)
    6. #6
      Honkai Star Rail 354
      (-292)

    Hi-Fi Rush takes it by a wide margin, despite a lot of strong contenders for the category.

    In a shocking twist, BG3 doing badly in an award, literally one vote behind FF16.

  9. Best Indie Game Released In 2023

    The best indie game released this year

    1. #1
      Slay the Princess 1621
    2. #2
      Pizza Tower 1082
      (-539)
    3. #3
      Sea of Stars 560
      (-522)
    4. #4
      Dredge 520
      (-40)
    5. #5
      Chants of Sennaar 403
      (-117)
    6. #6
      Brotato 188
      (-215)

    Slay the Princess taking a comfortable victory, some will claim a recency bias here, but given the margins in play it seems like people really enjoyed it.

  10. The Before The Storm Award For Worst Stream

    The worst stream this year, regardless of how good the game is.

    1. #1
      Life is Strange: True Colors 916
    2. #2
      Gravity Rush 2 886
      (-30)
    3. #3
      Final Fantasy XVI 544
      (-342)
    4. #4
      Rabi-Ribi 499
      (-45)
    5. #5
      Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon 474
      (-25)
    6. #6
      Pizza Tower 424
      (-50)
    7. #7
      The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 377
      (-47)
    8. #8
      Gravity Rush 232
      (-145)

    In a surprisingly tight category, the first stream of the year takes it, True Colors only 30 votes over Gravity Rush 2, before a pretty steep drop-off.

    Here we have how people voted in mistake stream and then worst game, surprisingly, there did not seem to be a particularly bigger than average flow of Gollum → Gollum voters.

  11. Best Character Introduced In 2023

    The best character introduced in a game streamed this year.

    1. #1
      York 1711
    2. #2
      Date 1568
      (-143)
    3. #3
      Mickey 349
      (-1219)
    4. #4
      zane_rocks_14 303
      (-46)
    5. #5
      Saga 250
      (-53)
    6. #6
      Sarah 228
      (-22)
    7. #7
      Gollum 219
      (-9)

    A real two-horse race, York and Date fighting it out far ahead of everyone else for best character, they traded places a few times over the course of the event, but York ends up taking it with a widened margin of 143 votes in the end.

  12. Best Writing In A Streamed Game

    The best writing in a game streamed this year.

    1. #1
      Alan Wake 2 1322
    2. #2
      13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim 715
      (-607)
    3. #3
      Hypnospace Outlaw 674
      (-41)
    4. #4
      Slay the Princess 670
      (-4)
    5. #5
      Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 539
      (-131)
    6. #6
      Deadly Premonition 307
      (-232)
    7. #7
      Dujanah 277
      (-30)

    Alan Wake 2 coming in with a very comfortable lead, its voting pool turned out to be more of an ocean.

  13. Best Twitch Clip

    The best twitch clip of the year.

    1. #1
      Bye bye Joe, you're not coming to space today 1011
    2. #2
      SPIT TAKE 737
      (-274)
    3. #3
      AM I A WEEB MAGIC ORB? 625
      (-112)
    4. #4
      Kazoo DMCA 602
      (-23)
    5. #5
      USELESS!? 318
      (-284)
    6. #6
      "I don't believe you" 278
      (-40)
    7. #7
      Joe has come again 263
      (-15)
    8. #8
      Joe finds a dev note 256
      (-7)
    9. #9
      QUEST COMPLETE 161
      (-95)
    10. #10
      Groan 116
      (-45)

    As we move into the moments category, we have the award with the most candidates, but the result won’t come as a surprise given the winner sits handily at the top of Joe’s clips on twitch.

  14. Best Stream Moment

    The best stream moment of the year.

    1. #1
      Trolley has powers 1609
    2. #2
      Unban Request 899
      (-710)
    3. #3
      CrudeOil’s Hypnospace Site 760
      (-139)
    4. #4
      Confronting 444
      (-316)
    5. #5
      Bee Attack 307
      (-137)
    6. #6
      Starfield Slow Mo 304
      (-3)

    The first victory for Trolley-chan as the best moment goes to her clip.

  15. Best Joe Sound

    The best sound Joe made this year.

    1. #1
      Chicken Noise (original) 1472
    2. #2
      Chicken Noise (recreation) 846
      (-626)
    3. #3
      UwU 664
      (-182)
    4. #4
      Joms 526
      (-138)
    5. #5
      Owl Noise 429
      (-97)
    6. #6
      You didn’t ask for confirmation 342
      (-87)

    It turns out to be a cock fight for the best Joe sound, but the original recipe handily beats out the new one, something we hope all the developers remaking games constantly take note of.

  16. Best Streamed Glitch

    The best glitch streamed this year.

    1. #1
      Trolley chan 1285
    2. #2
      Falling out of ship 862
      (-423)
    3. #3
      Jerry Skip 679
      (-183)
    4. #4
      Gender swap gun 582
      (-97)
    5. #5
      Dev Note 406
      (-176)
    6. #6
      Joe ship breaking in half 328
      (-78)
    7. #7
      No spacesuit required 205
      (-123)

    Another handy victory for Trolley-chan, but this time half the margin for a closer but still not close fight, leaving the best-clip winner “Falling out of ship” unable to collect a second victory.

    We can see that the Jedi: Survivor clip voters did not particularly hold their support into best glitch.

  17. Best Joe/Moncton Anecdote

    The best story from Joe this year.

    1. #1
      Grocery Store lady 1104
    2. #2
      BurgerKing 952
      (-152)
    3. #3
      Famous Dog 776
      (-176)
    4. #4
      I’m having fun with my saw 510
      (-266)
    5. #5
      World Government ladies 433
      (-77)
    6. #6
      Dogshit lady 329
      (-104)

    We come to the least voted-on award in the event, with 735 people leaving the award blank in their ballots (meaning not voting would have come in fourth place if listed). Despite this, the grocery store lady wins by a decent 150 vote margin, although if everyone who didn’t vote voted for another option, they could make any option except last place win.

    This is probably down to not being able to embed the moments in the vote, which meant people didn't necessarily remember them well. Sorry! The moments have been clipped on YouTube so do give them a watch if you haven't!

  18. Best Lili Cameo

    The best moment of Lili on stream this year.

    1. #1
      Lili Jumpscare 1453
    2. #2
      Lili & Bee 935
      (-518)
    3. #3
      It did make a good clip 752
      (-183)
    4. #4
      Ketchup Chips 522
      (-230)
    5. #5
      Lili Gollum 487
      (-35)

    The jumpscare takes it by a wide 518 vote margin, probably helped by the animation of the moment being widely known. Bee-chan once again not managing to secure a victory.

  19. Best Joe Gaming Moment

    The best Joe did as a gamer this year.

    1. #1
      Half Life 2 Trolley-chan Tech 1354
    2. #2
      Jedi Survivor ball puzzle 1044
      (-310)
    3. #3
      Inscryption - First Run 870
      (-174)
    4. #4
      Lies of P final boss 675
      (-195)
    5. #5
      Rabi Ribi - Water Boss 337
      (-338)

    In what is becoming a trend, Trolley-chan takes another award, although again with a smaller margin this time. Joe discovering new tech clinches it.

  20. Best Joe Laughing Moment

    The best laugh from Joe this year.

    1. #1
      Spit Take 1172
    2. #2
      Magic orb 1072
      (-100)
    3. #3
      What’s cooking boss 661
      (-411)
    4. #4
      Rules of nature kazoo 594
      (-67)
    5. #5
      Falling out of space Jedi Survivor 408
      (-186)
    6. #6
      Jerry air dash 383
      (-25)

    A tight and contested race that only widened up to an exactly 100 vote gap right at the end, the spit take takes it over the orb.

  21. Most… Memorable Joe Voice Acting Moment

    The best voice acting from Joe this year.

    1. #1
      Talking to Zach 1351
    2. #2
      French Nagito 796
      (-555)
    3. #3
      Cookie Monster 748
      (-48)
    4. #4
      Gollum 602
      (-146)
    5. #5
      Cabanela 597
      (-5)
    6. #6
      Night Springs 127
      (-470)

    “Talking to Zach” with a wide 555 vote margin, but one that still could have been flipped by the 618 people who didn't vote on their ballot for this award.

  22. The FAITOW Award

    The best faffing around moment this year.

    1. #1
      Unban Requests 1284
    2. #2
      Reading anime plot summaries 967
      (-317)
    3. #3
      Forspoken Sub Hostage Situation 866
      (-101)
    4. #4
      Wheel Spinning (Spintroduction) 637
      (-229)
    5. #5
      Sudoku side tracks 279
      (-358)
    6. #6
      Joe cleaning keyboard 175
      (-104)

    We all know that FAITOW-chan would want every quest, but the unban requests end up taking it.

  23. Best Chat Banter

    The best chat banter this year.

    1. #1
      Pisscourse 1626
    2. #2
      Faptop 682
      (-944)
    3. #3
      French Fry 675
      (-7)
    4. #4
      Rogue Mod 527
      (-148)
    5. #5
      Expanse Haters Vs. Joe 362
      (-165)
    6. #6
      DE vs AC6 289
      (-73)

    Yes, Piss wins, Joe's fans just love piss by a 944 vote margin, he can take some comfort in that otherwise the Faptop would have won.

  24. Best New Stream Meme

    The best new stream meme this year.

    1. #1
      3 more reasons 1360
    2. #2
      Elephant Sax 880
      (-480)
    3. #3
      6 mins in somnium 726
      (-154)
    4. #4
      ALAN 657
      (-69)
    5. #5
      LOCK. IT. IN. 562
      (-95)
    6. #6
      TRUE colors 105
      (-457)

    As we enter the culture category, we run into potentially the most controversial winner, as “3 more reasons” became popular this year despite being first seen last yeah, however, a 480 vote margin puts it firmly in place.

  25. Best Fan Art

    The best fan art of the year.

    1. #1
      Hypnospace Site 1842
    2. #2
      Joseph Anderson video game Analysis 657
      (-1185)
    3. #3
      TopTrolley Comic 627
      (-30)
    4. #4
      That True Anderson Stare 329
      (-298)
    5. #5
      Faitow 297
      (-32)
    6. #6
      Lies of Painting 228
      (-69)
    7. #7
      Robocar Poli Comic 181
      (-47)
    8. #8
      Chicken Wing Contact Lens 143
      (-38)

    There is so much amazing fan art, and this award has so many amazing candidates, it's doubly impressive that CrudeOil’s Hypnospace Site wins by a wide margin. Slotting in after best game for the third biggest vote lead of the event.

    This also marks the first loss by a Trolley-chan related entry, after three successive victories.

    Of course, making websites is objectively the best form of fan art, as this entirely unbiased observer making the website you are reading can attest to.

  26. Best New Chan

    The best new chan envisioned this year.

    1. #1
      Trolley-chan 2873
    2. #2
      Piss-chan 506
      (-2367)
    3. #3
      Anne French Fry 289
      (-217)
    4. #4
      Carpenter Bee-chan 216
      (-73)
    5. #5
      Sleeping Pill-chan 165
      (-51)
    6. #6
      White Line-chan 163
      (-2)
    7. #7
      FIAEQ-chan 81
      (-82)

    Trolley-chan comes back swinging with the widest margin in the event, an astounding 2367 vote lead over Piss-chan, who looses the mirror match-up after winning best chat banter.

    Even if every other candidate combined, and people with no vote on their ballot pooled for another entry, Trolley-chan would still win, and with a margin of over eight hundred votes, more than the second place entry.

    It is hard to describe it as anything other than complete domination.

  27. Best Of All Time Chan

    A chan to rise to and claim the prestigious BOAT title.

    1. #1
      Trolley-chan 1249
    2. #2
      Eric 1064
      (-185)
    3. #3
      Faitow-chan 732
      (-332)
    4. #4
      Quantum Moon-chan 538
      (-194)
    5. #5
      Breaker-chan 307
      (-231)
    6. #6
      Florence 235
      (-72)
    7. #7
      Bomb-chan 149
      (-86)

    It probably shouldn't be surprising after the results of Best New Chan, but Trolley-chan continues her sweep for the fifth first place result for a trolley related entry this event.

    Eric pulling out a second place in a big upset, pushing FAITOW-chan down to third place, and pulling off by far the best result for an Eric’s choice candidate.

    We can see, however, that Trolley-chan shed a lot of support and BOAT is a much more heavily contested category when compared to Best New Chan. Also notable is a well above-average flow of Piss-chan voters voting for Eric, showing the Piss to Eric pipeline.

  28. Most Anticipated Anime Marble

    The anime marble you most want to see.

    1. #1
      Steins;Gate 950
    2. #2
      Neon Genesis Evangelion 922
      (-28)
    3. #3
      Mob Psycho 100 762
      (-160)
    4. #4
      Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 534
      (-228)
    5. #5
      JoJo's Bizzarre Adventure 5 & 6 487
      (-47)
    6. #6
      SpyxFamily 347
      (-140)
    7. #7
      Hunter x Hunter 292
      (-55)

    Now we come to one of the most intensely contested awards, and Steins;Gate manages to edge out Evangelion by a mere 28 votes, something that shifted many times during the final hours of the event.

    This also marks the second-best Eric’s Choice candidate after Eric himself, with a 5th place for JoJo's.

  29. Most Feared Anime Marble

    The anime marble you least want to see.

    1. #1
      My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute 1786
    2. #2
      Nothing 1072
      (-714)
    3. #3
      Steins;Gate 451
      (-621)
    4. #4
      Neon Genesis Evangelion 360
      (-91)
    5. #5
      Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan 345
      (-15)
    6. #6
      Food Wars 235
      (-110)
    7. #7
      OddTaxi 73
      (-162)

    And for most feared, OreImo sweeps with the (entirely correct) fears of the community with a wide 714 vote margin, and Nothing taking a comfortable second place.

    While there was a fair amount of voting for Steins;Gate and Evangelion in both awards, it didn't raise either up. This also marks Eric’s worst choice with OddTaxi, an excellent show, not being feared at all and gathering the second least votes of the event with only 73.

  30. Are you a weeb?

    Do you identify as a weeb, an Anime fan?

    1. #1
      Yes 2596
    2. #2
      No 1878
      (-718)

    As expected, Joe’s audience is overwhelmingly weeb, but some are still in denial.

    With that said, we can see that users mostly didn’t lie: yes voters were more likely to vote for anime than no voters, although you can see there are some users in denial right up there despite voting no. Users who didn't vote ended up roughly in the middle.

  31. Which weapon?

    If you had to use one, which would it be?

    1. #1
      Bat 2509
    2. #2
      Knife 1962
      (-547)

    Bat winds by a surprisingly wide 547 vote margin, with the community deciding that ease of use, reach, and bashing are more important than lethality.

  32. Pick a number.

    Don’t worry, it won’t be important.

    1. #1
      7 937
    2. #2
      9 551
      (-386)
    3. #3
      8 483
      (-68)
    4. #4
      4 469
      (-14)
    5. #5
      3 424
      (-45)
    6. #6
      6 378
      (-46)
    7. #7
      0 358
      (-20)
    8. #8
      5 349
      (-9)
    9. #9
      2 307
      (-42)
    10. #10
      1 225
      (-82)

    And finally, for the most important vote of the whole event, the number. This is one of the most impactful and meaningful votes, and a lot rested on it, the community showing a staggering preference for 7.

    Exactly 358 people did not put a vote on their ballot for this most important of awards, the exact same number of people who voted for 0. Clearly null in any form has the same draw.

    Meanwhile, it appears 1 is indeed the loneliest number, with a mere 225 people voting for it.

  33. Alignment

    How does the community align after all of that? Select groups to look at (you'll need to select at least one from each category to see people).

  34. Joe

    How did people's votes line up with Joe's preferences?

    Unsurprisingly, the community has strong skew towards favouring what Joe favours, although no one gave exactly Joe's answers.

  35. Chaos

    How much did people pick Eric's choices?

    Overall, Eric did very badly this time around, except for his own award, no one came close to picking every Eric’s choice.

  36. Coin Flips

    How lucky were we?

    Each candidate was assigned a random coin flip at the start of the event. The skew in the results comes from the way those flips happened: a more of the tails results ended up within single awards as they were not distributed evenly but truly randomly, meaning that people picked heads more than average.

    This means if you got a high tails result, you were in the minority.

  37. Your Results

    That's the end of the overall results for the event! If you took part, you can now also check out your personalised results, and see how your results compare and fit in!

    Thanks for checking out JADSEYA 2023, and as for next year, we'll...

    JADSEEYA there!