TIME’s Most Influential People of 2009: moot of 4chan?

Con: 4chan is the butthole of the internet.
Pro: Buttholes are where farts come from and those are pretty funny.

I won’t deny on that 4chan has had some influence over the years, but I think that in the non-4chan world it’s been pretty irrelevant thus far this year.

well, that is certainly strange… even if most of these iternet memes started on 2chan

I just think that moot used the thousands of 4channers to vote for him, look at the votes difference

You think that Time would learn about online voting. When Time did a Man of the Century poll, the top 2 vote-getters were Hank the Angry Drunk Dwarf and Ric Flair.

4chan has a lot of traffic. Users often make “campaigns” inside the boards to do mass votings in polls such as these. I doubt that the people who voted for moot even think he’s influential – they just wanted a prank.

Considering how much LOLcats have become an internet meme, I’m not surprised to hear this.

Seriously, moot doesn’t self-promote. He rarely even posts to his own boards. I can’t blame him. If hell lived in cyberspace, it would be /b/.

Personally, I like to watch 4chan work its way into other websites. They frequently “raid” other message boards, often with hilarious (if childish and sadistic) results. After someone from 4chan broke Sarah Palin’s email password, Greta Van Susteren from Fox News did a poll on her website asking if it was a harmless prank, or a dirty political attack by the left (in reality, it was neither). Needless to say, before 4chan found it, it was something like 95% for dirty political attack. By the end of her show, it was about 80% for harmless prank. I believe she declared that her website had been hacked on national TV. As raids go, that one was harmless. I’ve seen them get much worse.

4chan is where I go to destroy my soul. Neatorama is where I go to get it back.

@Thomas, very well put sir.

Moot had nothing to do with the voters, they’re voting on their own accord, and they wont stop voting until moot is #1. Moot doesnt ever tell his fans what to do, he basically just sits back and watches everthing happen and doesnt pay attention to what his anonymous legion is up to. If your somewhat familiar with /b/’s history you’ll know theyre famous for their “raids”. (also for being the root of almost all internet meme’s: shoopdawhoop, lolcat, motivationals, etc.) Someone will flood the channels with something and everyone will see it and mass-whatever it is. In this case its votes. When the voting first started it was just a few simple anon’s voting fairly, but then anon-talk (4chans rival) decided to raid /b/’s raid by downvoting moot and upvoting random people it just pissed /b/ off. Then time started to cheat their polls by lowering moots rank and deleting thousands of votes. So /b/’s hackers/programmers starting creating auto-voters for moot. So basically /b/ is never going to stop voting for moot, you gotta face it hes gonna be Times #1.

Moot is influential. More so than Obama? of course not.

But 4chan is just brilliant and idiotic at the same time.

Too bad this breaks rules 1 and 2 though.

it’s m00t

i just HOPE that this is changed before printing because its quite an embarrassment. 4chan.org is like, kiddy porn CENTRAL. wtf?

The Game

wow David D. Davidson your post was great. I read the breaking rules 1 and 2, looked at your named and lol’d hard. +1 internets to you sir.

Moot has been very influential, as has been many 4chan users. I believe though that we would all hand Moot the credit for making the website however. Anyways, for better or for worse, 4chan has changed my life, it has changed the world in some ways. Some of our members have hacked foreign governments and sold secrets to the United States. Some of us have completely, irreverably changed the world. Some of us are responsible for creating some of the strongest Anti-Viral and some of the Strongest Firewalls ever created. I remember when I joined 4chan. A team of about 20 hackers had hit the Chinese government and gotten a lot of intel sold to the US government. I remember seeing the second half of the Tiananmen Square video. 4chan has opened my eyes to the REAL world and what really goes on around me. For that, I am ever grateful. 4chan has at the very least irreversibly changed my life and outlook on life in general.