moot voted World’s Most Influential Person of 2009?!

The most influential person of 2009? It's not Obama or Putin, but moot (Christopher Poole), the founder of 4chan, as Time Magazine found. He received 16,794,368 votes.

I'm a personal hater of 4chan, and this is utterly ridiculous. What are your thoughts?

via. Time, Sankaku

Not really an issue. I could see him--for enabling Anonymous, but other than that, I think there were too many just spamming the poll.
(I voted him 2nd)

It really makes you think that this is an unfair survey doesn't it?

*Checks if the poll is still hacked*

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Indeed it is :D

The first letters of the first 21 names on the list compose a massage "marblecake also the game" which seems to have a whole damn ideology behind it (apart from the more obvious lol meaning).

Check UD or this for more info.

i guess an unlikely influence is an influence none the less, i didnt think 4chan was THAT popular though. lol i still dont know how it could have happened, has it really 'influenced' that much? what has it influenced, the internet community? rubbish, i say.

The only thing 4chan is responsible for is those silly internet memes.

And even most of those are ripped off from 2ch lol.

I don't understand why everyone hates 4chan so much. You people have probably never even been there. Besides, /b/ is the only kind of bad part, and it isn't even all that bad. Goddamn people with their preconceived notions...

I'm more of a "random" discussion kind of human being (I've made...four?...posts outside of this board) so I (inadvertently break rules 1&2) only.

However, I understand people devaluating it. /b/ sucks. it always has, it always will, and we should just accept it.

By the same token, there is some legitimate content on...once a month or so, and it feels great when you actually meet some.

Back on topic: Yeah, hax. There is no way Anon beat Colbert's personal Army.

So true.

Lol, funny that the first 21 names were hacked... >_>

Rules 1&2 only apply to raids.

Fail newfag is fail.

EDIT: I can guarantee that you had shit to do with his winning. You are obviously a fail newfag who likes to think he's part of the big boys because it makes him feel cool. Plus, as all TRUE Anonymous know, you don't fucking say you're part of Anonymous, fucktard. I reiterate; Fail newfag is fail.

EDIT 2: Oops, I ment to neg rep you. I'll fix that later.

Quoted for truth? Lol. Anyway, if you've lurked 4chan for at least a month or two you probably know that they cheat to alter votes. And I don't mean cheating as in having everyone on the site vote for someone (that wouldn't be cheating), what I mean is they'll have others use bots and all to alter the votes, spam the polls. Pretty crazy that moot actually won...

Moot isn't all that influential, is he?

And I'm wondering why the **** time would put moot in their magazine (since 4chan is connected to him). Lol, that's.. something.

Ew, censorship

Oh thats just too funny oh 4chan you've done it again.

Lmao, don't know why but I felt an urge to censor myself.

Actually, this makes no sense at all, 4chan hates Moot, all I've seen this past couple of days was people propagating their feelings and persuading others to not vote for moot... Guess a small group had to use a lot of proxies, but most of the voters must have done it just for the heck of it, amirite.

hes certainly impacting the fakku forums! and by forums i mean this thread. ive been to 4chan before but it just seems to me like an arbitrary collection of pics and peeps to me. why reply about a single image when you can state your thoughts on an entire manga :3

and for the record, newfag is an extremely harsh term in my opinion. newb was objectifying enough but now with two powerful verbs collaborating together its like being on the end of a discriminating firing squad. lets take it easy on the posters, new or old, who make mistakes guys. it isnt very welcoming :(

While 4chan does only come up with stupid memes (and most of those are unoriginal), the site has still had a big effect. lolcats became popular because it was a site with Caturday pictures that were first posted on 4chan, and now, pictures of cats with improper grammar are all over the place. It's gone far beyond the internet.

Also, Chocolate Rain became popular a few years ago mostly because of 4chan, and Tay Zonday appeared on TV a couple of times. Not to mention that just about everyone knew who he was for a while.

It's just internet shit, but internet shit is a big thing nowadays. Something starts on 2chan, a guy from 4chan sees it and copies it, then another guy sees it and copies it on Newgrounds, and in no time, they're referencing the meme on The Daily Show or The Soup or Attack of the Show, and it's out there.

I'm not saying 4chan is perfect or good (though the boards besides /b/ can be great), but the site does deserve some recognition. Not Most Influential Shit of the Year, but something.