Runner-up: Also from 2012: a poor man misjudged his perspective during a simple "holding the sun between his fingers" photograph and asked the internet to correct it.
It places people in difficult positions: they must forfeit their personal convictions and desires in order to appease society or choose to defy the status quo and unrepentantly be themselves at the risk of being misjudged and even mistreated.
The whole thing has such an unmistakeable air of murder-suicide about it – at one point the younger rabbit even says "Goodnight, nobody", which is easily the most upsetting thing I've ever seen written in any book – that the whole thing seems like an intensely misjudged novelisation of Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent.
Aside from signing on with such a shoddy team behind him in the first place and also lashing out so publicly in recent times, the greatest mistake on Malthouse's part is that he so badly misjudged the strength of Carlton's playing list at the end of 2012.
It also holed the credibility of the League's TV deal-meister, Richard Scudamore, who misjudged the response to an initiative that was bound to be seen as English expansionism and arrogance.
Lawn admits he and the co-chairman, Julian Rhodes, misjudged demand for the tie after allowing season ticket holders as many seats as they wanted.
I quickly realise that I have misjudged the situation: no, I am told.
The England bowler clarified that clumsy attempt at social commentary, saying his tweet was "genuinely innocent" and conceding he had "misjudged" the hashtag "a bit".
It could have been one of the most catastrophically misjudged steps in musical history, yet under Kanye's guidance it was hard to deny that it sounded fantastic.
Is it another case of false economy, misjudged priorities or grandiose ambition?
Last year's triumphant winner of the Carbuncle Cup, awarded for the ugliest building of the year, was another staggeringly misjudged student housing scheme, where a 350-room complex was built behind the teetering frontage of a 19th-century warehouse on -London's Caledonian Road.
