You know what I love? The internet. I love it because it allows me to find things like Time’s 100 most influential people of 2008 list. Go ahead and take a peek, I’ll wait. Oh, what’s that–you don’t know who “moot” is? Well if you click on the(ir?) name, you’ll be treated to this little gem of information:
AGE: Unknown
OCCUPATION: 4chan.org founder
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
They go on to explain that as the ‘person’ accountable for Rickrolling, LOLcats, and Anonymous they clearly are one of the most influential people ever. To be honest, I don’t think there’s any article TIME has published that I can recall offhand that makes them sound so clueless.
First of all, the person that created the 4chan site did not create all the memes (those would be the things like LOLcats, Rickrolling) found on the site. Those were created courtesy of the infinite weird users trolling this site at the wee hours. Next, all users of the chans are “Anonymous”. The fact that they migrated into making an example out of Scientology–while truly fantastic to observe–does not change the fact that Anonymous also performed “raids” on varying other sites. Oh, except 4chan doesn’t really encourage that. Now for the real kicker–4chan isn’t the first site like this. Chan sites originated overseas, 4chan is just one of the most popularized of the English-based chan sites.
Also, I seriously did find myself laughing aloud at “CON: Thanks to 4chan’s oft-obscene content, the reclusive moot has had trouble luring advertisers.” Were they too skurred to come straight out and mention anything specific pertaining to the questionable content often found there?
I said “chan” __ times in this blog. I feel like I need a hot shower with Pedobear now.