L.A.’s best meme account is asking Angelenos to crown the city’s worst intersection

It’s the worst intersection in Los Angeles: Three major streets converge, the traffic light takes forever and nobody on the road seems to know what they’re doing. We’re obviously talking about… one of any dozen junctions around the city?

Every Angeleno thinks that a certain intersection is the worst, whether it’s the six-way stop sign in Beverly Hills or a number of tourist-clogged messes in Hollywood, but if you pitted them all against each other in a March Madness–style bracket, only one could wear the inglorious crown. And that’s exactly what L.A.’s best meme account is trying to find out: Americana at Brand Memes is mounting a monthlong voting campaign to determine, one by one, which intersection is truly L.A.’s worst.

Starting March 1, each day around 11am voting will open on Americana at Brand Memes’ Instagram stories to choose between a pair of particularly rotten intersections. The runoff-style voting will continue throughout the month until the worst intersection is chosen on April 1.

The L.A. Times recently ranked the worst intersections in the city based on traffic volume and accident data (Highland and Sunset came out the winner/loser). But Americana at Brand Memes’ poll taps more into how these irrational, confusing and aggravating intersections unite Angelenos in their frustration.

“I mean, obviously, L.A. is unfortunately a car-reliant city, more than any other city probably,” the anonymous author behind the account tells us. “As a result, we all have to deal with these intersections on a daily basis. And each intersection is badly unique.”

(By the way, if you’re unfamiliar with Americana at Brand Memes, consider this your cue to start following. I can’t think of another account that can so quickly adapt major pop culture moments, niche social media trends and out-of-the-ordinary weather events into super-specific, in-the-know commentary about what makes living in L.A. so wonderfully absurd.)

The account’s bracket-style competitions were born about five years ago on pre-X Twitter, starting with the best movie theater (the Vista won) and the best thing to do at the Americana (the fountain). Then in 2025, the competition was reborn on Instagram, this time for the worst parking lot or garage (the entirety of Koreatown topped that one).

“That was a lot of fun, so I decided to do it again,” Americana at Brand Memes says. “Doing the ‘worst intersection’ competition felt like a worthy follow-up since there are so many more bad intersections than parking lots.” (Best billboard and worst freeway ramp were also in the running, but intersections ultimately seemed more exciting.)

Each of the four regional brackets leaves room for a wild card that may have been left off the initial list, which folks can suggest via Americana at Brand Memes’ Instagram post: Simply leave a comment that starts with “WILDCARD:” and the most-liked intersections will be added to the bracket. (One caveat: They can’t be freeway intersections.)

Though the bracket is already a pretty comprehensive survey of awfulness, we turned to our own Time Out L.A. staff to see what wild card suggestions we’d submit. As a former and still occasional Downtown commuter, I’d certainly make a claim for a DTLA intersection—except it’s more of an everything is mildly-to-moderately bad place than just one terrible intersection. So my actual left-off-the-list suggestion might end up being Five Points in Lincoln Heights, where Pasadena Avenue, Avenue 26 and Daly Street collide in a star-shaped pattern and nobody seems to be sure which overflowing turning lane leads to which intersection-blocking road.

As for our things to do editor Gillian Glover, she says: Though I definitely feel like I’m taking my life in my hands whenever I cross the Beverly Hills six-way stop, as a Valley girl, I feel a responsibility to represent the SFV. I’m going to go with the intersection of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards, which is a nightmare for morning commuters. It’s backed up in every direction with people either bailing on the 405, queuing up for one of two nearby 405 entrances or—my preference—trying to pass it all and sail up the hill to cross over into the Westside. When even that stretch isn’t moving, I give up and go home.

Americana at Brand Memes says they “truly have no idea” which intersection might be crowned the worst. “Obviously, there are some titans (Beverly Hills six-way stop, Virgil/Sunset/Hollywood, Lankershim/Vineland/Camarillo), but I could see them getting beat!”