The ‘poll stuff’ is media companies, looking for clickbait, create popularity polls that pit popular ‘ships’ against one another and create unreal levels of cattiness amongst fandoms.  Considering how many of these ships are canon or ‘fanon’ f/f or m/m relationships, it’s arguable they are queerbait as well.  There is no real prize, nothing but the satisfaction of making (young) people quibble and quarrel over trivia while they rake in the cash.  

This time around, three f/f fandoms decided to support one another when it looked like there might be cheating.  I support them working together, but wish they’d ignore these ‘polls’ and do something that actually pushes the industry to make changes in its discriminatory practices in minority writing/representation.