The Downfall Parody Awards is an award ceremony by notoriousrob01 held on a yearly basis to award the best of parodies produced over a 12 month period. The first event was held in 2012 and covers the parodies of 2011. Though the amount of categories overwhelmes the nominators, a handful of nominations do get through, and the results were uploaded on the 7th of January 2012.
Beginning January 2012 notoriousrob01 changed the award to a monthly format to give equal opportunity to parodies across the year to be nominated, rather than letting parodies produced early in the year be forgotten, as the case in the annual format. However, the award system has become hindered by neglect due to the months of inactivity by notoriousrob01 in maintaining the contest.
Nominations
During the annual awards, anyone would nominate a maximum of two parodies for each category.
Nomination policies for the monthly format was never very clear, but it was formerly best to contact notoriousrob01 personally for nominations.
2012 Awards Recipients
Major Categories
Title | Recipient |
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Downfall Parody of the Year Any parody can be nominated. |
Magda, The Bunker & Sex by coreqek |
Unterganger of the Year | |
Best Newcomer/Rookie of the Year The person/account must have started on or after 1st January of the year |
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Downfall Mini Movie Award For parodies that combine multiple Downfall scenes into one single video |
Hitler and Friends Play Risk by PortoParodyPotty |
Scene Category Awards
Title | Recipient |
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Downfall Classic Award Containing footage of the original 3:59 clip |
Hitler Plays The Scary Maze Game by Staedty86 |
Dinner Scene Award Containing footage from the dinner scene |
Cooking with the Fuhrer! by FegeleinTheLostTapes |
Hitler Phones Scene Award | Hitler has phone sex with Fegelein by cyberpolice9000 |
Hitler Plans Scene Award |
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Hitler Wants Himmler To... Award/Hitler Is Informed By Himmler Award |
Hitler wants Himmler to do nothing by hitlerrantsparodies |
Downfall Voice Over Award Can contain any scene/picture in which the Downfall characters voices are played over a scene, e.g Hitler Is Trapped In.... or Hitler Plays MW3 etc. |
Hitler Is Trapped on a roller Coaster by Echoes1224 (aka Fegelland) |
Hitler Is Informed (Well, this is the one with Günsche informing, not the one about Göring's letter) |
Hitler meets the Fegelein's little sister by Shiga95 |
Pros & Cons Scene | Pros and Cons with Adolf Hitler: Platonic Friends by thetruemagicalnegro |
Best Fegelein Coming Back To Life Award How Fegelein inexplainably comes back to life after being killed, lol. |
Hitler Launches Fegelein Into Space by hitlerrantsparodies |
Goebbels Rants Parody Either the rant to the generals or the rant to Mohnke |
Goebbels Rants About Rebecca Black 'Friday' by Goebbelsrantsparodies |
Best Intro/Outro | Jesse2282's outro |
Best Use of Another Meme In A Downfall Parody | Hitler and the singing Burgdorf incident by hitlerrantsparodies |
Best Special Effects Parody Award |
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Best Music Parody Award | Music Video Reviews with Adolf Hitler: Friday by Rebecca Blackby Echoes1224 |
Best Fegelein Prank Idea Award | Viva La Fegel by FegeleinTheLostTapes |
Best Series Award (e.g. Pencil of Doom) |
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Best Comeback Award Parody maker who had retired/was on sabbatical and has returned |
Shomronon (channel) |
Best Bunker Jokes Award Parody containing the scene with a very drunk Fritz |
Krebs Jokes: Without Map by Mabus Parodies |
In total, the following Untergangers grossed multiple awards:
- Hitler Rants Parodies (5)
- Staedty86 (3)
- RBC56 (2)
- FegeleintheLostTapes (2)
- Echoes1224 (2)
Monthly Awards Recipients
January 2012
Title | Recipient |
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Parody of the Month |
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Unterganger of the Month |
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Downfall Classic Award |
Hitler Finds it Difficult to Download Porn - hoopsgators |
Downfall Voice Over Award |
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Best Music Parody Award |
Dolfes Bunkerley - Crazy - mfaizsyahmi (also for BurgdorfVEVO) |
Hitler Is Informed Scene |
Hitler is informed about Ibrione's new girlfriend - Ibrione |
Best Fegelein Comes Back To Life Award |
Hitler uses the Death Star to kill Fegelein - hitlerrantsparodies |
Pros & Cons Scene |
Pros and Cons with Adolf Hitler: 2011 - TheMatt1002 |
Hitler Plans Scene Award |
Jodl is not objecting - Gogar88 |
Untergangers grossing multiple awards:
- Hitler Rants Parodies - 2
- The controversial Tom Harris (tomharrismp) - 2
February 2012
February was a particularly difficult month for Untergangers, due to a brief round of video blockings and takedowns by Constantin Film and a number of plagiarized videos that make its way online. This month's awards introduces a few new award titles, partly because it's February. It's also the month with the most recipients sharing an award so far.
Title | Recipient |
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Unterganger Of The Month |
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Hitler Is Informed Scene | |
Best Voiceover Award |
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Best Downfall Mini Movie |
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Best Generals Argument | If Valve didn't exist by mfaizsyahmi |
Downfall Classic Award |
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Best Valentine's Day Parody |
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Best Special Effects Parody |
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Bunker Jokes |
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Hitler Phones Scene | Hitler Phones God by nietzscheprime |
Untergangers of parodies grossing multiple awards (includes multiple parodies receiving the same award):
- Smell of the Ice - 5
- nietzscheprime - 3
- FinalFantasyHQ - 2
- PiretBCN - 2
March 2012
March has been a good and a bad month for the Untergangers. Though reduced, the banning of videos continues. False claim cases begin to show up in increasing numbers. The month also saw newcomers, retirements, reemergence of Untergangers of yore and a ban to our PiretBCN. And yeah, she is the Unterganger of The Month for yet another month.
Even more parodies share awards this month.
April 2012
Results were delayed... There have been cases where parodies in final nomination phase disappeared from YouTube.
This month is also significant for the April Fools Day and the month where the majority of events in Downfall took place. Therefore a few special awards were given for the occasion.
May 2012
May saw Untergangers leaving the field for good, as well as those who come from retirement. The UotM sockpuppetry scandal was also mentioned by notoriousrob01.
PiretBCN started to win the UotM title again... Let's see for how many successive months she will keep the title!
June 2012
June's results came out late... partly because FegalTube who was to receive two awards committed suicide, forcing notoriousrob01 to amend the announcement video. June's also the month of the passing of Eduard Khil, thus a few awards were handed out in tribute of him.
Criticism and controversy
The Downfall Parody Awards have increasingly come under fire from many untergangers for a variety of reasons. Criticism has ranged from Notoriousrob01's lack of any democratic voting outlet through which he can give his viewers a chance to have a say (unlike the Unterganger of the Month and Parody of the Month awards), to his perceived susceptibility to favouritism in giving out awards. This can particularly be seen by the fact that many untergangers have become increasingly disillusioned by the fact that notoriousrob constantly awards the Unterganger of the Month category to PiretBCN for months at a time, without her seemingly earning it on any sort of merit (her parodies and views are often criticised for being racist, biased and offering little innovative or funny content).
Untergangers have also complained about the fact that the Downfall Parody Awards have become increasingly behind schedule as well as responding to all of his messages excluding the ones related to the said DPA. For example, as of the 12th September 2012, the Downfall Parody awards for July and August have still not been released, despite Notoriousrob's constant activity on his channel.
This has led Benadd361 and Master Studios to seriously consider taking action to salvage the awards (see below).
Potential new management
The future of the award system is uncertain, due to the halt in the production of the announcement videos and the inactivity of notoriousrob01 in maintaining the system (via award video uploads and so on). Untergangers Benad361, Trapped Antics and others have repeatedly tried to contact notoriousrob about the awards, but had no replies. This has notably been the norm since serious complaints arose about his conduct in the management of the awards. It appears that he has, in the words of Benad361, gone into a 'sulk' and stopped maintaining the awards and adressing any issues related to them since coming under criticism.
Since September 3rd 2012, Benad361 and Master Studios have been discussing their proposed takeover of the award system with other untergangers and amongst themselves in messages. Benad361 proposed this motion to notoriousrob, who failed to reply to any of the messages despite much activity on his channel. This temporarily left the two uncertain as to how to proceed. However Benad361 proposed (as of the 12th September) waiting for some time to see if he replies. If not, they will announce their takeover of the awards. They plan to reform the award system and make it much less undemocratic (giving viewers a chance to vote), much less prone to favouritism (judges will not be allowed to hand-pick winners), and much more efficiently maintained. An official announcement is predicted to take place in the coming days.