The World's Most Influential Person Is...

[That-Is-Bull]

...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.

[...]

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. 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.

Pretty much the best article ever IMO.

 

[Sky Blue]

That is bull.

 

[iParis]

That is bull.

Yep. It's true though. I can't believe /b/ actually went through with it.
If you read the entire article, you can tell TIME is pissed about this.

Undoubtedly, many people will question moot's worthiness of the title World's Most Influential Person. TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says moot is no less deserving than previous title holders like 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," he says. "Doubting the results is kind of the point."

 

[Mr. Giver '94]

Hahaha.....you know our country is screwed up the butt when Moot wins most inspirational person..........

 

[iParis]

Hahaha.....you know our country is screwed up the butt when Moot wins most inspirational person..........

It's mainly because 4chan raided them and like every member of 4chan voted for him multiple time a day.

 

[Mr. Giver '94]

It's mainly because 4chan raided them and like every member of 4chan voted for him multiple time a day.

Ya I know but still...............

 

[sammich]

Oh god...I discovered /b/. This is going to cost me a few afternoons.

 

[Don't panic]

never heard about moot or 4chan.
so much about influence.

 

[Consultant]

The voting is hacked, as 4chan made an automated voting script awhile ago to vote for Rick Roll in one of the online polls.

 

[hexonxonx]

never heard about moot or 4chan.
so much about influence.

I only heard about the 4chan site about a month ago after someone mentioned it on a post somewhere on this site. I have never visited the site. Never heard of Moot.

 

[XnavxeMiyyep]

To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it's worth noting that everyone moot beat out actually has a job.

I don't see why running a website doesn't count as a job. moot does have advertisements on 4chan; I'm not sure how financially successful he is though.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1883644_1886141,00.html
If you look at the first letters of the names of the other top finalists, they are ordered so it says: mARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME

 

[Consultant]

I don't see why running a website doesn't count as a job. moot does have advertisements on 4chan; I'm not sure how financially successful he is though.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1883644_1886141,00.html
If you look at the first letters of the names of the other top finalists, they are ordered so it says: mARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME

Good find. Quick search results in more info:
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/

 

[iParis]

Oh god...I discovered /b/. This is going to cost me a few afternoons.

Be careful. Once you start going on /b/, your life will never be the same.

I don't see why running a website doesn't count as a job. moot does have advertisements on 4chan; I'm not sure how financially successful he is though.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1883644_1886141,00.html
If you look at the first letters of the names of the other top finalists, they are ordered so it says: mARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME

Those advertisements are mainly to run the site..

And 4chan didn't do "mARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME." That was 7chan.

 

[brad.c]

It would be Stephen Colbert if they weren't still running off the high of the Name-the-NASA ISS node contest win.

 

[dextertangocci]

I think we should hack into 4chan and teach them a lesson

 

[iParis]

I think we should hack into 4chan and teach them a lesson

Hahaha. Good luck with that. The best we could do is raid them.

 

[iPhoneNYC]

I think it's a moot point.

 

[Mr. lax]

Wow, some terrible jokes popping up on this thread

 

[Dmac77]

You have got to be kidding me. Someone seriously needs to shut this 4chan BS down. It's such a waste of bandwidth.

Don

 

[ceezy3000]

haha wtf? no way ive never even heard of this guy

 

[NT1440]

You have got to be kidding me. Someone seriously needs to shut this 4chan BS down. It's such a waste of bandwidth.

Don

Why?

Just because you dont like it doesnt mean it should be shut down.

 

[Dmac77]

Why?

Just because you dont like it doesnt mean it should be shut down.

4chan is a group of @hole hackers. Nothing on that site is useful, it's just a bunch of garbage. There's no point to it. It's basically a way for hackers to organize and collaborate from what I can tell.

Don

 

[SilentPanda]

I think we should hack into 4chan and teach them a lesson

Don't even kid about that. They're a temperamental bunch and it's not worth upsetting them.

You have got to be kidding me. Someone seriously needs to shut this 4chan BS down. It's such a waste of bandwidth.

Don

But then they might come here!

 

[Dmac77]

Don't even kid about that. They're a temperamental bunch and it's not worth upsetting them.

But then they might come here!

Like they did during MacWorld?

Don

 

[NT1440]

4chan is a group of @hole hackers. Nothing on that site is useful, it's just a bunch of garbage. There's no point to it. It's basically a way for hackers to organize and collaborate from what I can tell.

Don

Funny, seeing as 90% of them dont know stick of RAM from a GPU, but go ahead keep labelling people and grouping them in with the bad apples, its a great way to go through life.