4.28.2009

Moot Tops 2009 TIME 100 Poll

The father of Internet Meme is "people's choice" for the Most Influential Person! w00t! He's founder of the site 4chan.org that saves a lot of office workers from boredom.

From: TIME
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.

BTW, Filipino Boxer Manny Pacquiao got a whopping 20,391,818 and ended up at no.22! Not bad absulutli

Check out the rest of the poll here.

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