Some context might help here. GameFAQs runs this exact poll at the end of every year. People got tired of the predictable wins by Link and Mario and Sephiroth. L block wins by dint of being unconventional. GameFAQs holds this contest annually and Link pretty much always wins by a landslide. That year everyone got tired of Link winning and voted L-block as a sort of protest. The L-block won by virtue of fan exhaustion over a predictable outcome of an annual vote. Usually link takes it home, easy-peasy, but not this time! Most people don’t realize that normally it would be won by Link without much effort, but that year many voted for the L block to see something different. As people grew tired of a predictable outcome, they chose to rustle some feathers and went with the complete opposite of the core values sought after in a videogame’s hero. The only reason L-Block “won” was because everyone was so bored of the annual awarding of Link as the best character. So as a sort of quasi-nihilist protest, many people voted for L-Block. The thing is, this is actually an annual contest. Most years, it’s actually Link who wins – he is a video game character as well, but not featured in Tetris. The fact that L-Block succeeded in garnering the most votes this particular year has two separate, but related, causes: people not voting because they were tired of the result always being the same, and people voting for L-Block as a protest against the Link Hegemony. It’s important to note, that Link normally always wins this too. So the voters just wanting someone different to win, heavily propelled the L block into first. It was unique to find that in 2007, the L block from Tetris won by a landslide. Not only was this unconventional for the time, but also disseminated the angst of many gamers around the world by virtue of protest vote. Link was the expected winner, owing to his strong performance in the preceding few Best Character contests. In 2007, however, there was an upset: the L-block won. Scholars maintain that this was a reaction to the typical block of winners and reflected fans’ desire to see someone new win. L-Block won ironically, while the usual winner, Link, lost, because people were sick and tired of him regularly winning that contest which occurs every year. Link usually wins this GameFAQ yearly contest, but in 2007 bored fans voted in the L-Block from Tetris. 2007 was different in that sense. I mean, Link always won the GameFAQ yearly contest, but this time was something else. People were too bored of that. That’s why they voted for L-Block, ended up winning. L