It’s easy for the participants to look bad by complaining during the process itself, it’s not necessarily just drama, but could be seen as trying to influence the results of the vote, which should in a fair system be impartial. 
I just don’t see the point of cheesing it when I am my own harshest critic, like I imagine other artists can relate to (cloudchamp notwithstanding). People should accept the vote count based on what active players actually want to see. My art is for me and whoever actually might like it, if people don’t feel like it’s loading screen material then I accept that, I’ll continue to try new things and try to improve to see what works and doesn’t.
The most important thing for me being on the smaller server of course is to help encourage other people from Klaipeda to vote for their favorites, not just the name or server name attached to the picture, so it felt particularly bad this time around since there wasn’t a single winner from Klai.