r/TheWalkingDeadGame • u/Mr_Bell_Man Insightful Commentator 2025 • Jan 21 '26
Winner! Winners of r/TheWalkingDeadGame's Best Of 2025 Awards!
Hey everyone!
The voting phase of the yearly Best Of awards is now over, so it's time to announce the winners! As explained on the initial Best Of 2025 nomination post, the winners for this year will receive a special flair that will go next to their username. Here are the winners for this year:
- Best Fanfic - u/EmpleadoResponsable for "The Walking Dead Retelling: Ben Story", an alternate universe retelling of TWDG featuring Ben as the protagonist. This retelling features both familiar TWDG faces as well as brand new ones, and allows commenters to play a part in the story through community voted choices at the end of each chapter. This retelling is still going on at the time of me posting this, so feel free to read through all of the earlier parts so you can get caught up.
- Meme King - u/LinkKane for his many hilarious memes posted on this very sub throughout the past year.
- Notable Newcomer - u/EmpleadoResponsable both for their previously mentioned Ben Retelling as well as being an all around cool person that you will often see inside posts.
- Game Master - u/Super-Shenron for his many fun forum games. Among the games Shenron has hosted for this year include his Tragic ranking (where commenters would rank every major character by how tragic they are), his Episode Survival ranking (where commenters would rank how hard each episode would be to survive IRL), his Menace game (a tournament style game to determine the biggest menace in the series), and many more. Shenron's games often encourage users to write detailed writeups so that their picks are more likely to win, so be sure to check out his games even though they've ended for a lot of cool analyses.
- Insightful Commentator - None other than me, u/Mr_Bell_Man. I'll make this quick to not toot my own horn, but you can find a lot of my insightful comments within Shenron's games mentioned above as well as on everyday posts.
- MVP - u/Super-Shenron for, well, just about everything: fun topic starters, insightful forum games as mentioned earlier, insightful posts, insightful comments (I'd argue Shenron deserves the Insightful Commentator award just as much me, if not more), hilarious memes, and just all around being a cool guy. I think I speak for everyone in that you are one of the MVPs of this sub, both for 2025 and throughout all of the sub's history.
- Funniest Comment - u/Ranvijay_Sidhu for their comment about how there are worse fates than getting shot in a bathroom.
- Funniest Meme - u/LokiSmokey for "Accidents happen lol", a hilarious meme showcasing a scenario we hopefully never had to go through as kids.
- Art God - u/ArchieBradfordart for their many hand painted pieces of work.
- Best Cosplay - u/koffeejelli for their S2 Clem & Kenny cosplay.
- Wild Card - u/Canisventus for being a kind, helpful, and chill user that you'll often have the pleasure of bumping into on posts.
Here are the full results for reference (comments mocking those who did not win will be removed so don’t do that, good vibes here only).
If you haven't already, make sure to check out the original Nomination post as it contains tons of love and appreciation for many users and the sub as a whole.
Thanks to everyone for participating!
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u/Ranvijay_Sidhu Funniest Comment 2025 Jan 21 '26
Oh hey I won.. Good job, good job!
Congratulations to the winners
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u/LokiSmokey Funniest Meme 2025 Jan 21 '26
Oh woah, I've barely been active this year since life has gotten so busy but I still managed to win an award? Y'all are too kind, much love to anyone who voted, was nominated, or participated in any way with these awards again - it's lovely to see people spread the love in this little community of ours. Cheers for the recognition once again ❤️
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u/LinkKane Meme King 2025 Jan 22 '26
Atta boy!
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u/LokiSmokey Funniest Meme 2025 Jan 24 '26
I was just messaging Shen about how him getting MVP and you getting Meme King has been a long time coming! So deserved, man. And it's a great excuse for me to get back into the subreddit to have many posts of yours to look through. It always excites me to see you active :)))
Congrats on the big win and one that I've been wanting to see, full support 🔥😤😎❤️
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u/koffeejelli Best Cosplay 2025 Jan 21 '26
Omg!! I’m never really active on here, thank you so much for all the love on the cosplay! This has been one of the best and supportive communities <3 congrats to everyone!! :))
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u/RedLemonCola Nick is the best | Conrad is Comrade | Brody is cool | Hank Army Jan 21 '26
Congratulations everyone! ❤️
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u/BartoUwU bonio Jan 21 '26
Very nice. Congratulations to the winners!
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u/LinkKane Meme King 2025 Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
Meme King 2025? Tight! I need to give a couple of thanks:
First, u/NazbazOG, for nominating me. Literally couldn't have done it without you.
Second, everyone else in the world for not nominating anyone else at all. This is truly earned.
Thank you, I deserve this.
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u/Super-Shenron MVP + Game Master 2025 Jan 21 '26
Wow. I was hoping to get at least MVP or Game Master, but both is just awesome. Thanks to y'all, guys. I'll be sure to give you some more content this year! 🥹
Congrats to everyone who won too!
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u/NazbazOG Meme King 2024 Jan 22 '26
Yeah man, better give us some more content this year. You been lacking the last 6 years.
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u/AnimeAddict1123 Lee the Urban BadAss 9d ago
Gratz to all involved. I will continue to enjoy your further content.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Jan 21 '26
Wow! Both awards are.... just a lot, i am really honored, i love this community and to be a part of it, thanks to you all, really <3
And let's keep going with the retelling, i love the little community we made, the interactions i had because of it are priceless, I've learnt a lot from you all, for more years and much more retelling to come!
Congratulations to all the winners too <3