TIME: 4chan Founder Moot World’s Most Influential Person
- Categories: International, News
- Date: May 6, 2009 10:00 JST
- Tags: 4chan, Bizarre, Hacking, Internet, Mass Media, Rankings, Sites
TIME Magazine has announced the most influential person in the world in 2009 to be 4chan founder Moot, or Christopher Poole as he is sometimes known.
Moot received 16,794,368 votes and an influence rating which saw him beat such insignificant figures as Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.
4chan itself likely needs no introduction, being long since reviled as a major vector of memetic contagion, each of its users a willing plague bacillus.
Moot himself can occasionally be seen trying to take credit for the tumourous development of the site, but is otherwise an insignificant figure scorned by his irreverent followers.
Moot for his part denies manipulating the drone like masses who inhabit 4chan into mindlessly voting for him in the same way the queen of a hive might influence the actions of her brood, but Time did report several foiled attempts to hack the vote’s outcome.
The results themselves were decided exclusively by a process of online voting, likely explaining the result.
Time.com’s overseer is embarrassed: “I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll. Doubting the results is kind of the point.”
Via Time. Thanks to Geerie for the tip.
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Basically he is the most influential, if you truly think about it.
this board is the new /b/
Don't people at 4chan hate moot because he banned Uncle Anon and some other crap? Cuz the name Christopher sounds familiar or am I mistaken for someone else?
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yay pedo bear and yotsuba-chan :3
201 post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
4chan is for pervert
so are u
I think you mean Sankakucomplex ;3
Despite the reputation 4chan has developed due to /b/ and their antics, I still vastly prefer it over most "legitimate" websites. It's just a shame that /b/ has so overwhelmingly soured people's opinions regarding the entirety of 4chan.
nah, /b/ IS the majority of 4chan, which is why I won't go there unless I have to
/b/ is the most highly trafficked of all the boards, but every other board suffers because of the association.
Not much to talk about either for teh other boards
Never heard of him, nor Putin. But if he started the cesspool of hitler and otaku semen known as 4chan he should be shot on sight.
your gay
You like taking two up the ass... :)
marblecake, also the game
the marblecake is a lie!
moot who?
ALL HAIL MOOT
ALL HAIL 4CHAN
nothing is sacred...
Artefact, I also want to point out to you that some of the memes that you use were started from the very site you like to posture yourself against. 4chan is a shithole, I agree, but it's now part of the Internet, whether you like it or not. If you want to refer to them as "drones", then you should stop making articles that use half of the memes that were spawned from there - once you do that, you have the right to posture yourself against them.
Just be respectful of the fact that despite how fucked up that place is, it *is* popular, and it *is* responsible for a lot of the current Internet culture, as much as a lot of us hate to admit it.
moot is a faggot.
So what is "Marblecake also the game" referring to?
Marblecake is, apparently, the channel where the Anonymous "message to Scientology" video was put together.
As for The Game: http://www.losethegame.com/
behold, the power of the internet.
i'm not upset about the results at all, i just see this as a grand prank pulled over on one of the most serious publications in all of the USA. well done, moot.
btw stop with this Obama vs. McCain shit, the election's long over. i love Obama and you don't see me bawwing over the fact that he was only #37 on the list. i find him more inspiring than influential anyway. just take the results as they are and move on.
cool story bro
dude moot didnt have to ask, anon did so out of its love for moot. i was there for those threads. this anon knows.
253GET.
LOL!!!
I see nothing wrong with this. Time.com shouldn't felt embarrassed, instead they should accept it, embrace it, and attempt to explain why.
If they don't, then they should felt embarrassed.
Sure, some can simply dismiss it as a prank. However, if that's the case, then why it can be driven so far?
EPICNESS WIN!
moot claims his place as the rightful Queen of the internet.
If the poll wasn't tampered with the result is clear. Moot is the most Influential person in the Internet, even if his followers are nasty and unruly, it's safe to assume He can spread ideas far wider than any person in the "English speaking" world.
Congrats .... i guess.....
ALL HAIL BRITTANIA.
This reminds me of the day on 2ch...
When comedian Masashi Tashiro was nominated for Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2001, 2-channelers hacked the voting system and placed multiple votes that propelled him to the No. 1 position over Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, and crashed Time.com’s server. Tashiro — who is infamous for his blatant sexual harassment and belligerent public behavior — was removed from the list.
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/news2chplus/imgs/c/0/c0124d2a.jpg
People, people, be glad that 4chan existed in the first place. Without 4chan, the lowest common denominator would had plagued all the other sites by now. And Sankaku would be overwhelmed with them.
"Would be?"
I believe that this is a sign of the Apocalypse.
The real winner is the internet, that made all of this possible.
That's the smartest comment on the whole thread.
wut
Would you guys stop writing moot's name with capital letter?
Would you stop supporting yet further degradation of the English language thanks to that site? Proper nouns are capitalised in English.
>>Proper nouns are capitalised in English.
Not all of them. It's a cultural convention, not a demand of the language itself.
Also: Languages evolve, and you're just being a fucktard prescriptivist.
Try that in your next academic text... Write all the nouns without capitalization...
I'm doing as I please. I'm not copying every bizarre choice of capitalisation people come up, it is unsightly. TIME is bad enough...
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>:O
lol
ITT:
Every commenter whose pseudonym starts with a small case letter (anon is welcome too).
We capitalise Anonymous here.
Proper nouns, yes, but pseudonyms, no.
Y hello thar.
God how I hate that shitho;e. Every retard hears "memes come from there" so they tryt o turn what they like into a meme be it shitty MS paint of a guy yelling fuck or slipknot as a new Rick Astley.
It's pure cancer and needs to be burned down.
Longcat is no longer long
it was good 3 yrs ago.
4chan was never good.
^^You can thank the jews for this.^^
Not this SHIiTe again. *facepalm*
All those racist rednecks and crazy WNs (the ones who blame jews for everything) added much insult to the injury. We should be careful as to not let these types here in Sankaku.
How hardcore hacked it was has been known for a while.
Now if Time had really wanted to save this, they could've ganked the poll entirely and put up a "We apologize, but due to frivolous hackers the poll is no longer valid. We have an archived version for those who wish to view."
And then moved into a story about how they'd been, you know, hacked? Smear campaigns are a great way to grab mobs.
f that can they just make Anonymous the most influential person in the world
Surely he is most influential person, because 4chan is his personal army.
Also, presidents suck cocks.
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You guys are idiots it wasn't hacked its just everyone gathered and used a bypass voter to keep on voting. Its not their fault TIME magazine has crap security and tech staff. Also the fact people went out to do this shows how influential moot is.
It was initially hacked, THEN it was bypassed manually. Get your facts straight before being aggressive.
derp no
Don't really care so much about moot. Could have had Robert Mugabe...was going strong for some time to, then he got downvoted. Fuck.
I don't see the big deal. Only an idiot would take internet polls seriously anyway.
Still, quite funny to see the prostate of the internet overtake people who actually are influential, Time should just stick to the realm of tangibles, and stay the fuck off of the internet.
... and the soft power wins another battle u_u
Huh?? More than Barrack Obama?
Then maybe he should be president..
You might wanna rethink that, do you really want 4chan to be the leader of america...
God save the queen and everyone other fucking person D:
True this.
Most (Not all!) 4channers I've met have horrible self esteem and treat people horribly in person-to-person interactions, online and IRL.
We'd get nuked before the month was out.
i lol'd
G_G
internet win?!
My thoughts exactly.
he's the only person with votes surpassing 10M!!
i also see stephen colbert...lol
Who's Stephen Colbert...?
Watch some Comedy Central plz.
He's a guy who has his own ice cream flavor called Americone Dream.
Full of flavor and variety and deliciousness and hopelessness. Yum.
Oh my god.
I'm vaguely in awe.
He surpassed Obama. That's ... That's not right.
He placed 37, Moot didn't take the victory from the man's hands. Even taking moot out of the equation he still wouldn't have been in the top 30.
Also, I think that someone who created the website much of the memes and jokes we enjoy (or fear) today were created on is more influential than a charismatic politician that knows exactly how to wrap the public around his finger, anyway.
u do noe that the first 21 ppl's names are all manipulated to form "marblecake also the game" right XD
Obama isn't someone to be proud of, so I'm glad Moot surpassed him.
A pile of shit would surpass Obama and I'd be cheering.
Obama's great.
4chan's so popular because it's so lowest common denominator, stop acting like it's some overwhelming achievement.
LOL @ Obama's great
He's a piece of shit.
LOL, but he's the new Jesus, didn't you hear!?
So I guess moot winning isn't all so bad...
FALCON PUNCH!
Oh God, massive Obama discussion.
Just because I don't like Obama, doesn't mean I'm pro McCain. I'm an overall Democratic voter, but I think Ron Paul as a Republican was better. And Deniis as a Democrat was MUCH better than anyone else. I voted third party.
And I don't really dislike Obama. I'm just getting real tired of Obamatards. And I certainly don't want another victory for them on Time magazine.
Online vote I presume Solace
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/b/S/2/obama-combo-breaker.jpg that is all..
Thank you Icy-nee-san. I needed something to wake me up after accidentally starting to read all that rubbish.
NOE YOU
Go be uneducated somewhere else, dumbfuck.
I didn't know so many Garvey retards existed here.
>> I voted McCain and so did the rest of my family, and I’m only 19.
And you are not embarrassed by that sentence? It's like saying I am Christian because my family told me so...
Also where exactly is the explanation part?
So I'm a redneck, hick, and KKK member because I didn't vote Obama?
Wow.
Shows the average amount of brain cells a democrat has, that Jira guy does.
What a dumbass.
So I’m a redneck, hick, and KKK member because I didn’t vote Obama?
No, not voting Obama doesnt make you a racist, being a racist makes you not vote for Obama. My own brother voted Mccain, and actually had a logical reason for doing so which he was able to explain. Your just acting like UNICEF, ya fuckin' bitch.
You guys can always vote for the Libertarian party, or don't vote at all. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Um, what? Lol, I'm just saying that there's reasonable people out there.
I shouldn't say "the rest of my family", because my sister voted Obama. :P
My family (I really don't like them) Didn't influence my vote at all...all of the stupid Obamazombies and every black person in my neighborhood/school did.
And Obama himself, may I mention.
Quick question, at what point in time did this comment train of thought get so derailed O_o ??
Just wondering... *cough cough*
Aye, which is it 43 white guys, including Leslie Lynch King, before him.
Because life was better back then. This day and age we're getting the uneducated ghetto trash that're voting.
You sir are fucking stupid. Must be a redneck or a hick. Possible KKK member too...
Good day to you.
Personally, I really hate Obama, and McCain's the only other choice.
There is my explaination.
I voted McCain and so did the rest of my family, and I'm only 19.
Hell, now that he's elected, demoncrats are asking for a refund because Obama's backpeddling and they were dumb enough to vote for him in the first place.
Shows any black person can get into office.
I'm very happy Moot won, because then the Obamazombies can't go "OMFG I KNEW IT! HE'S SO AWESOME! DEMOCRATIC HIGH-FIVE!"
Do you all really prefer McCain? (I guess it's safe to assume you like the opposite of Obama)
I'm not American, but I guess it would make no sense for loli-lovers, less religious/moralistic conservative people (aka Sankaku Complex visitors/users) to prefer McCain. Most young people (we) generally don't care more about economic side rather than the social ideology of politicians.
So, if you all could provide me an explanation...
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
Wow, one anon here that actually writes something intelligent and is not obamafied (read: stupified).
Not that I live anywhere close to the US though, so unfortunately I could not vote for McCain. Not that I am too fond of him, but much better than the alternative.
I believe I speak for many people in the world when I curse Obama and his family to Hell. :)
NO U
No u r.
Amen.
your gay
Thank God someone else does.
I got misunderstood completely.
Note that I'm not an Obamafag. It's just that many supports him because he's the first black President of the U.S.
Funny how that can be a reason to support a person. Maybe prejudiced, but it's still what I call Inspiration.
Though, I said this because Obama may be a huge influence for the whole nation. But Moot surpassed such a person and I'm completely in awe about it.
Obama is Black? No one told me... not that it matters of course but well done him.
He probally lost by giving up all the Zune votes
Acutally, he's half-and-half. So, by many ppl's logic, ur a racist for not voting for him, but yet ur not. Still, mARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME.
I think that is an incredible thing, a real testament to the American people, and so forth, and so forth, but he is quite overhyped.
Sure he and Aso have magical glowing penises according to scanilations from this manga: http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/03/12/president-obama-rozen-asos-ero-manga-debut/
But I think a time will come when people wake up after the party is over and realize the mess that has to be cleaned up then.