In what some might consider the most visible Internet-based prank to date, frequenters of the 4chan image-based bulletin board site’s “\/b\/ – Random” imageboard claim to have rigged Time Magazine’s Top 100 online poll, so as to render 4chan’s founder, “moot,” the winner. And even though some fairly convincing circumstantial evidence points to a hack of epic proportions, Time Magazine is accepting the poll’s results as official, and has declared moot as the “new owner of the title World’s Most Influential Person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In what some might consider the most visible Internet-based prank to date, frequenters of the 4chan image-based bulletin board site’s “\/b\/ – Random” imageboard claim to have rigged Time Magazine’s Top 100 online poll, so as to render 4chan’s founder, “moot,” the winner. And even though some fairly convincing circumstantial evidence points to a hack of epic proportions, Time Magazine is accepting the poll’s results as official, and has declared moot as the “new owner of the title World’s Most Influential Person.” Continue reading