Shocking case of fat shaming !

[fishfoodie]

I like to put on a bit of extra insulation around this time of year myself, & am disgusted with people shaming others doing the same

Fat Bear Week winner crowned after cheating scandal

After a six-day battle and vast amounts of salmon, Fat Bear Week has a winner.

Brown bear 747, tipping the scales at an estimated 1,400lbs (635kg), won 68,105 votes, beating Bear 901 with 56,876 votes.

The result marks an end to Fat Bear Week 2022, which saw people from around the world vote for the fattest bruin at Alaska's Katmai National Park.

The chow-down spotlights the park's famous brown bears as they feed in preparation for winter hibernation.

"Ultimately, 747 ripped apart the salmon - and the competition - to seize his 2nd crown as the 2022 Champion," the park tweeted after Tuesday's vote.

But Bear 747 nearly didn't make it to the final because of an unprecedented case of voter fraud in the semi-finals that was quickly corrected by officials.

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To prepare for winter hibernation, each bear consumes around 500lbs of salmon from the park's Brooks River during the summer.

Some get rather chunky in that time frame, becoming nearly unrecognisable from when they first emerged out of last season's hibernatio

Here's Bear 901 at her svelte Spring weight



and with a little conditioning to prepare for a long winter.

[Niegs]

What was the 'voter fraud'? A group kept voting for a certain bear over and over?

If so, this always happens with fan votes. We even had a national contest where sports orgs and municipalities pitched for a big food brand to fund their project. There was no limit on voting, so groups asked members to vote dozens of times a day.

That was for 10s of thousands of $$$. This is for chubby bears, ffs.