4Chan Founder Leads TIME's Top 100
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: 4Chan, Time, Influential, people, poll | Themes: The Internet
Today the media is buzzing about TIME magazine’s most influential person of the year, 4Chan founder Christopher Poole (AKA moot).
The 21-year-old college student topped Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Kobe Bryant, the co-founders of Twitter, Vladimir Putin and 94 other influential figures with 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100).
TIME was surprisingly frank about the whole thing. The publication admitted that the polling might not be entirely accurate and even went as far as to say people were supposed to doubt the results. That said, the article announcing Poole’s win did endeavor to highlight the student’s influence on the internet.
“Since moot launched 4chan.org in 2003, the site has given birth to Internet memes as diverse as Lolcats and Rickrolling. 4chan averages 13 million page views a day and 5.6 million visitors a month; by some estimates it is the second largest bulletin board in the world.”
TIME goes on to point out, rigged results or not, Poole definitely has some sway online.
“For proof of Moot's influence on the web, one need look no further than the TIME 100 poll results. While Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao got a larger vote total (20,391,818), the runner-up for the title of world's most influential person, Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, received a mere 47 on the influence scale.”
According to TIME, Poole “denies knowing about any concerted plan by his followers to influence the poll,” however, TIME did mention that its technical team did “detect and extinguish” several attempts to hack the vote.
Interesting. What’s even more interesting is this article which purports to explain exactly how the 4Chan crew hacked the vote, including how they got around TIME’s attempts to put a stop to their trickery. It makes for a pretty good read so be sure to check it out.
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DAT PRESS
ITT cancer
tbh, i didn't know about 4chan until last year when 5-9 of my friends called me weird for now knowing what it was -_-
I SPEND ALL DAY ON THE INTERNET lol
Maybe if the pulls were designed correctly......
It sure did, Jane. Thanks for the link.
It sure did, Jane. Thanks for the link.
No problem, dude.
Mmmm trolls!
It's a little late for April Fool's Jokes isn't it? This is by far the best one.
Plz it was online voting lol ofc 4chan won control of that.
I saw huge amounts of thread about that, TIME reset the vote quite a few times after moot got millions of votes.
DUDE! RULES 1 & 2!!! GODDAMN TIME NEWFAGS >:3
I saw this coming the second I found out Time was running an internet poll for its person of the year. Poll bombing is one of the many 'arts' of 4chan.
Oh come on... if some /b/tards are bombing the votes doesn't mean moot is really influential. They're just doing it for the lulz.
HACKERS ON STEROIDS!!!!111
"They're just doing it for the lulz"
...i'd go so far as to say this earned them some epic lulz.
i reckon /b/ is rather entertaining at times....when they're not telling people to go kill themselves or looking at CP.
you laugh you lose threads entertain me for hours!
No way.
"They're just doing it for the lulz"...i'd go so far as to say this earned them some epic lulz.i reckon /b/ is rather entertaining at times....when they're not telling people to go kill themselves or looking at CP.you laugh you lose threads entertain me for hours!
....You are cancer.
All this does is attract more newfags that are going to spam with old meme. Delete your /b/ folder and think up something new.
true that. all i'm saying is i get the occasional lol out of something i've missed here or there - granted there is nothing quite like the original thing and you're pretty much scum if you post shit repeatedly. still, i guess i'm really only there to cause trouble because i'm too much of a lazy bugger to go out and do something with myself.
sounds like a plan.
i'm too much of a lazy bugger to go out and do something with myself.
Well then, at least repeat something that's only been done recently.
For example, I posted a school map with the information blurred out and some random information about the times it would take to move along hallways, and where I could find "storage", with a mention that a broken bench could be used to block an auditorium door.
I then wrote some angst ridden bull about how I would give back all the pain that had been given to me.
Lulz ensued.
More popular than Barack Obama?I never knew about this guy till today,hell ive never been to 4chan,just read about it in articles,and from what i gather people who are easily offended and swear frequently reside there.
More popular than Barack Obama?I never knew about this guy till today,hell ive never been to 4chan,just read about it in articles,and from what i gather people who are easily offended and swear frequently reside there.
Read my post right above yours. I pretended I was going to pull off a school shooting and most of the replies were "Do it faggot". I'd say people are easily offensive frequently reside there.
Because everyone is anonymous, /b/ (the board 4chan is famous for) has some pretty outrageous, disgusting, and vile images and ideas.
4chan can be described as the shitty dumpster of the Internet, out of which occasionally something good crawls out... 'good' being subjective here.
Read some www.encyclopediadramatica.com to get a faint idea of what the *chan sub-culture is. But 99% of you will be better off just forgetting about this and moving on to other things. Unless you're the kind of person who enjoys shitty-dumpster-diving.
Outrageous, disgusting and vile - thats basically the point of /b/.
the freaks of the world go to the internet, the freaks of the internet go to /b/.
raid posts are much fun - nothing beats going to random porn chat sites and making bitches cry....and put shoe on head....
'Surprisingly frank'. Really?
Like you said, they claim they extinguished hacking attempts. Absolutely no mention of the fact that the whole poll was so utterly rigged that the names of the top candidates spell "mARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME".