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04-27-2009, 01:07 PM
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#1 | | Worthless Weeaboo Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3,780 Location: Massachusetts | The worlds most influential person is...
The World's Most Influential Person Is... - TIME Quote:
In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll, and new owner of the title world's most influential person, is Moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it's worth noting that everyone Moot beat out actually has a job.
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. (See the TIME 100 Finalists.)
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. (See the full results here.) Moot denies knowing about any concerted plan by his followers to influence the poll, though TIME.com's technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote. (See the full results here.)
Undoubtedly, many people will question Moot's worthiness of the title world's most influential person. TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says that Moot is no less deserving than previous title-holders Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (2007) and Korean pop star Rain (2006). "I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll. Doubting the results is kind of the point."
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04-27-2009, 01:09 PM
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#2 | | Blah Blah Blah Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,108 Location: Inside Michael Bay's Head Collection Count: Why would i collect Transformers | what? 
The action that you were trying to perform has failed. | |
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04-27-2009, 01:20 PM
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#3 | | Dirge121 = awesome <3 Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3,195 Location: Boise, ID | This is just another reason why /b/ is dead to me. DEAD.  Click my Digimon or ELSE. | |
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04-27-2009, 01:28 PM
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#4 | | Constructicon Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 776 Location: Hants, UK News Credits: 2 | Big surprise - the owner of a site where people like to use autovoter programs got the most votes...I wonder how that happened. | |
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04-27-2009, 01:35 PM
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#5 | | Insecticon Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 961 Location: Lynnwood, Wa | That just goes to show how retarded people are.
Wants: ROTF HA Mudflap. Masterpiece prime gun. Cybertron Primus
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04-27-2009, 01:47 PM
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#6 | | Heroic Decepticon Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,184 Location: Compton, CA : Home of NWA Collection Count: Phi * pi * e * 10 | What is considered influential?
These days, then most influential person is the one with the strongest will within a large crowd. (Herd Theory). | |
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04-27-2009, 01:58 PM
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#7 | | plays guitar/not a virgin Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 4,744 Location: St. Paul, MN Collection Count: 340+ | Colbert got robbed.
I saw a Boxing commercial and it said "It's a fight to the finish" Thats a good place to end.
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04-27-2009, 02:05 PM
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#8 | | Cuteformer Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 7,529 Location: The Pocky Factory Collection Count: 400 News Credits: 5 | Oh that wacky EbaumsWorld. 
Wanted To Buy: Sealed Actionmasters | |
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04-27-2009, 02:12 PM
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#9 | | Is Not Jim... Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 8,933 Location: Philadelphia | What's funny is that Time puts up a poll asking people to vote who is most influential, and then comes out and says the results are meaningless. then why have the poll in the first place? If they're putting no stock into the results of a poll they created, then why bother in the first place. Not that Time magazine is relevant anymore.  | |
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04-27-2009, 02:15 PM
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#10 | | is scary
Sig Killer
Machiavellian Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 19,542 Location: If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP! Collection Count: Lost count but there a whole load of minicons in there News Credits: 4 | Who? 
Quote: Chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man.
Henry Brooks Adams, American Historian (1838 - 1918) | | |
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