Despair Wins Emotion Of The Year, Anger Close Second, Hope Falls To Woeful Ninth

Big surprises at annual Global Emotion Awards, with “cynical” getting top five finish, while “love” lands in last place

Love ended in an improbable last place at the Global Emotion Awards, while peaceful did not even make it through the preliminary rounds of this year’s competition.

The annual Global Emotion Awards were held in Los Angeles on Saturday night and, as usual, there was plenty of drama and excitement.

Despair took this year’s top honor, with three-quarters of the world’s population feeling it.

It was clear right from the start that feelings of hope, optimism and love were just not in strong positions in this year’s competition. The judges immediately determined that the entire population of America was feeling cynical, and awarded the sleeper emotion an impressive 4th place. Cynics and pessimists everywhere felt vindicated after nearly a decade of confidence and bullish feelings refusing to let cynicism ruin a good time or sour the world’s emotional soup.

Hope has been such a strong finisher over the years, many were surprised to see the smart money betting against the positive emotion from the very start.

Anger, always in the top ten, surged to second place, with the continent of Europe, coastal pockets of the U.S., and most of the Middle…