As I stated in a previous post, the issue I have seen with MTV the past several years is that when an artist irks the hire ups or their fanboys fawn over certain artists someone gets shut out that shouldn't. Whether a fan or not, Riri was clearly shut out. But aside from great performances, the Vmas have become irrelevant. They dole out noms based on who they have the hots for, whose trendy, whose record company pays the most, etc. Half the videos nominated they haven't seen because their busy with craptacular programming and force feeding the same five artists who kiss their butt. I've seen MTV go from honoring great videos like Thriller, Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, Rem's Losing My Religion, etc. to "Oh, so and so is trending on twitter. Let's nominate them." Then they wonder why the music industry is in jeopardy. And I'm not a stan but for her fans upset take heart. Most people that get heavily nominated for Vmas disappear within a couple years. With the exception of a Prince or Madonna or MJ. But look back at some previous winners from the 80s, 90s.