Kim Jong-un set to be TIME's most influential person of the year, thanks to everyone's favourite int
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[quote=HuffPost]Infamous forum 4chan is flexing its online muscles, calling on users to manipulate the outcome of Time Magazine’s prestigious Person of the Year honor by voting for Kim Jong Un.
The North Korean dictator is currently No. 1 on Time’s public voting site, beating Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Threads pushing Kim's nomination popped up almost immediately after Time opened up public voting on Monday, according to the Daily Dot. There's even a catchy nickname for the effort: "Operation: Kim Jong Un for Time’s Person of the Year."
“[L]et's go go go,” one user urged. “[A]nd you don't need vpn or anything like that, it's not ip protected so you can just use the incognito/inprivate/private feature of your browser and keep oppening new tabs with that link.”
Of course, Time editors make the final decision on who will grace the magazine's cover, but the online poll decides who is the world’s “Most Influential Person.”
This is not the first time 4chan has played Time magazine kingmaker.
In 2009, the site successfully voted co-founder Chris Poole, as the World’s Most Influential Person, beating Bernie Madoff, Oprah Winfrey and the president, BetaBeat reports.
There were also alleged attempts to “hack the vote,” the site notes.
4Chan users also hijacked the voting for a free Taylor Swift concert, urging others to send the singer to Boston’s Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Whether or not 4chan succeeds with Time's poll (voting ends Dec. 14), the big winner here is Kim, who is really having quite the year. The baby-faced leader was recently named the Sexiest Man Alive by satirical news site The Onion, a joke that was lost on China’s Communist Party newspaper, the People’s Daily, which published the news as fact. [/quote]
I thought overall it's up to the editor to decide who would be the person of the year
North Korea's gonna love this.
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;38665092]I thought overall it's up to the editor to decide who would be the person of the year[/QUOTE]
[quote]Of course, Time editors make the final decision on who will grace the magazine's cover, but the online poll decides who is the world’s “Most Influential Person.”[/quote]
I hope Malala Yousafzai is on the cover
You mean to say people aren't voting for the Dear Leader because he is the best leader?
Holy shit, he's leading by over one and a half million votes :v:
Now let's see for the brightiest side...
At least Jong-un will not bomb the world that love him so much above the mars rover. :V
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[QUOTE=TheTailor25;38665220]I helped! :v:[/QUOTE]
Yeah I voted for him too I'm sorry Jay-Z and like 80% of that list shouldn't even be there.
I was hoping that the mars rover would be the one consensus latched onto.
Send a reporter to mars for an interview.
"Undocumented Immigrants"
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;38665142]Psy has got more than Curiosity...
As a space fanatic, I can honestly say that this has deeply saddened me [img]http://www.facepunch.com//fp/emoot/smith.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
Since the "competition" is for the most influential person of the year, it does not bother me.
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;38665092]I thought overall it's up to the editor to decide who would be the person of the year[/QUOTE]
Then whats the point of a vote?
To be honest, he is very influential. He pretty much has an entire country of people who would do whatever he asked them to do without so much of a second thought.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;38665485]To be honest, he is very influential. He pretty much has an entire country of people who would do whatever he asked them to do without so much of a second thought.[/QUOTE]
And they didn't even need acts of violence to put fear into the people.
Wai-
why are colbert and stewart up there
is it because of their super-pac lampooning??
[QUOTE=Dachande;38665502]why are colbert and stewart up there
is it because of their super-pac lampooning??[/QUOTE]
That would make sense but they're in these Time things every single year.
Better than Psy
voted
[QUOTE=Cmx;38665447]Then whats the point of a vote?[/QUOTE]
Haha it's like a real election.
Seriously how the fuck is PSY supposed to be influential? He makes a macarena-tier song which everybody overplays at every available moment, and that's it.
It wasn't even intentionally supposed to enter the western market.
honest to god he's probably the most influential person on that list
Y'know, I just have to imagine though- what would the North Koreans think if the dyansty that's kept them enslaved for generations is held high on a pedestal in the West?
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];38665712']Y'know, I just have to imagine though- what would the North Koreans think if the dyansty that's kept them enslaved for generations is held high on a pedestal in the West?[/QUOTE]
They nuke themselves.
Poor Higgs Boson Particle, he worked so hard this year :(
Why are objects on a list for most influential people?
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