The popular and rowdy message board 4Chan (very NSFW) has struck again. Best known as a fertile breeding ground for internet memes, a collective based around the site has hacked Time Magazine’s annual “World’s Most Influential Person” poll to place 4Chan founder moot at the top of the list. Time claims no significant foul play was involved, but looking at the results makes it very clear that something is amiss. Music Machinery does a good job of explaining the technical details behind this hack, which involved auto-voting programs and breaking a captcha system.
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You know, it may not be far off. When you consider that the vast majority of all internet memes/culture starts on either 4chan or Something Awful…
April 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Aaron – I had that same thought. Or maybe 4Chan should be #1? Crowd dynamics / memetic control..hmmm.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:44 am
hahah captcha penis
April 28th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I think you’re missing the true achievement here. The most impressive part is not that moot got placed on top, but that the first letters of the top 10 names spell out MARBLECAKE. Think about the logistics of that for a second.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:57 am