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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Old news is sold.
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...
>:(
>: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.