Literally How Award

The Literally hoW Award, formerly the Literally Who Award up until 2025, and also known as the Golden Question Mark is a special honor given to one or more characters per tournament who caused the most confusion with their qualification among anons, either due to surprise at an especially niche character managing to qualify at all and causing them to ask "literally how?", or in the most direct sense of the term, causing anons to ask "literally who?" about a character they had never heard of before. Despite the potential insulting connotations behind asking "Literally How" a character managed to qualify, the Golden Question Mark is instead meant as a genuine compliment and honor to a character who managed to overcome the odds in qualifying in spite of his or her relative obscurity.
Rather than a poll or voting forms, the Golden Question Mark is voted on by anons by replying to one of Psyanon's vocaroo posts; the award itself is presented in a Psyanon vocaroo in the quarterfinals/semi-finals based on the general consensus among anons. Multiple characters can receive the title of Ms. or Mr. Literally Who at once, and other nominees can receive special mentions as runner-ups.
The Golden Question Mark was first awarded during Ms. /co/ 2021; all characters who received the award in tournaments prior were bestowed with the honor after the fact by anons during the 2021 tournaments.
Originally, to require for the award a character had to be a first time qualifier who had never been in a tournament before and was obscure to some degree. However, as the tournaments went onward and got more and more solidified, this became rarer and rarer and eventually in both Mr. /co/ 2024 and Ms. /co/ 2025 previous attendees were given the award despite not being especially obscure and having attended prior. This prompted the renaming to Literally hoW.
Ms. /co/
- 2020:
Wendy's Mascot from Wendy's
- 2024:
Margaret Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte de Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trap Wykeham Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Disney Dolce Gabana Von Walmart II Montgomery de Volkswagen Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Burean Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Dubble Bubble Louise-Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes Zuckerberg Winthrop Winfrey Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel 6 Pornhub Fairchild Pritzker Davenport von Apple Monty Python Ellsworth Aston Martin Burns Quimby Scorpio Ziff Spongebob Hilton DuPont Kinkaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlboro Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chatsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Longbottom Bottomtooth Nottingham Burgermeister Meisterburger Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis from Family Guy
- 2025:
Callie Briggs from SWAT Kats
Mr. /co/
- 2020:
Pizza Steve from Uncle Grandpa
- 2021:
Tim Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- 2022:
Dr. Livesey from Soviet Treasure Island
- 2023:
Serial Designation N from Murder Drones and
Jack O'Lantern from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
- 2025:
Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh (Runner-up:
Farmer Jim)
Queen of /v/
- 2019:
Purple Puffle from Club Penguin
- 2023:
Ashley Graves from The Coffin of Andy and Leyley (Runner-up:
Scout's Mom)
- 2024:
Mabel Able from Animal Crossing (Runner-ups:
Renee Graves and
Saya)
- 2025:
Saiba Momoi from Blue Archive
King of /v/
- 2021:
Starwalker from Deltarune
- 2022:
John Ward and
Father Garcia from FAITH
- 2023:
Andrew Graves from The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
- 2024:
Grand Dad from 7 Grand Dad (Runner-up:
The Long Quiet)
- 2025:
Elevator Man from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream