People en Español

Noelia

• Eligibility: It covers people en español. And also in English, which is so meta.
• Claim To Fame: As of 2007, it is the Spanish-language magazine of largest readership in the United States, but really it’s famous for naming Beyoncé as the most beautiful Latina of this year.
• Why They Are Embarrassing: People en Español burst onto the scene in 1996 with all the cultural relevance you’d expect from Time Warner. Legend has it the idea for the magazine came after a 1995 issue of the original People was distributed with the cast of “Friends” on some covers and a dead Selena on others. The Selena cover sold out while the Wonderbread cover did not and a magazine for clichéd Latinos was born. After eleven years of top sales, earlier this year, People en Español realized a lot of Latinos in America don’t speak Spanish, so the periodical began publishing an English version of the Spanish version of the original publication. Go, identity.

• Eligibility: Puerto Rican from San Juan
• Claim To Fame: : Noelia’s a “singer,” but around here, we bow to her chocha which single-chochadly put Guanabee on the map.
• Why She Is Embarrassing: A sex video of Noelia and a well-proportioned male member engaging in the pleasures of backroom love made it onto the internet this summer making her one of the most Googled women in the world. Which is not really embarrassing so much as it is a sad commentary on the world we Google in.