May 22, 2017 | The Biz

The Grabbies shut out BananaGuide -- again

Dear Mr. Grabby,

We don't know what we have done to deserve this.

Year after year, the Grabby Award nominations are made. With bated breath, we browse through the categories, trying to look beyond the bleak, circa 1990's web design. We page down, page down, page down, past the other 28 categories, some with over 30 nominations.

Passing the time as we page down, random thoughts occur: Why are there no links to websites or scenes that are nominated? Why are there no pictures of nominated models? Just black background with white serif font.

Finally, we arrive at Best Porn Blog. We scan the nominations. Could this be the year?

BananaGuide is not there. We are heartbroken, crushed really.

Why, Mr. Grabby, why?

It's not that we don't think that most of the sites that are on your Best Porn Blog list are deserving of recognition. As we manually enter the website addresses into our browser (because there are no links), we find that most are fine porn blogs, indeed.

But there are a couple we have to ask about.

The first is JRL.com, which goes to a Page Not Found. There is no JRL.com. After a few minutes of searching we find there is something called JRLCharts.com, which must be the site you are talking about.

The next is LucasBlog.com. There is no LucasBlog.com. There is a LucasEntertainment.com, which is a great membership site. And while LucasEntertainment.com does have a blog, you have to click "Extras" and then "Blog" to get to it. And we're not sure we agree that a blog which serves as a promotional tool for one membership site should qualify for this award.

In past years we found other sites on the Grabby porn blog list that had stopped updating long before the nominations were announced. Like the 2016 nominee GayXXXBlog.com, which had not updated since January of 2015.

Lastly, there is the exclusion of Str8UpGayPorn, certainly one of the big players in the gay porn blog world. We suspect this is one reason for the creation of the Str8UpGayPorn Awards, premiering this June. Hell hath no fury like a blogger spurned.

What did we ever do to you, Mr. Grabby, to be ignored like this? We have been online for 17 years, and updating daily for over a decade. Yet we get no love from you.

Maybe you just don't care. Maybe we shouldn't either. Or maybe we will just have to start the BananaGuide Awards. Hell hath no fury ...

 

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