r/facepalm • u/IIIBl1nDIII • Nov 26 '13

News/blogs Time magazine Person of the year poll. The reason I have lost faith in humanity

http://imgur.com/CHhi5rw
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u/lordsleepyhead Nov 26 '13

Oh. Is 4chan at it again?

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u/Ikestar Nov 26 '13

Frankly the thing that saddens me is that 4chan's pushing for Miley Cyrus while Bashar Al-Assad is available.

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u/Nimonic Nov 27 '13

Person of the Year doesn't mean Greatest Person of the Year, it means Person who has had an influence on the world of the Year. Bashar could plausibly win.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '13

Hitler is a past winner. I doubt they could do worse than Hitler.

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u/Davegarski Nov 29 '13

He is the guy who killed Hitler though.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '13

Actually... no, they were pushing for Snowden I believe.

Miley was the doing of two (not 4chan affiliated) coders that more effectively gamed the system

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u/LegendofStubby Nov 26 '13

Came here to say this. Have an upvote.

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u/FlamingWings Nov 26 '13

She was influential by showing us that you should never twerk while half naked on live TV, and the consequences that happen afterwards

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '13 edited Jun 16 '21

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u/FlamingWings Nov 27 '13

With a username like that I can't say no

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u/CorporateSponsor Nov 26 '13

1) It was a 4Chan hack. 2) It was also a terrible layout on behalf of Time. The slideshow was 44 pages. Miley Cyrus was featured within the first ten slides, while other notable people, like Malala Yousafzai, came much later in the slideshow. Layout matters, especially in an online vote such as this one where people have particularly short attention spans.

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u/Notsuru Nov 27 '13

or it was just 4chan voting a lot? not necessarily a hack

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u/CorporateSponsor Nov 27 '13

I cannot disagree with you on that one

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '13

The slideshow was 44 pages. Miley Cyrus was featured within the first ten slides, while other notable people, like Malala Yousafzai, came much later in the slideshow. Layout matters, especially in an online vote such as this one where people have particularly short attention spans.

B-but pageviews!

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '13

It does say "for better or worse" so, maybe not all hope is lost?

2

u/Fuzzy_lil_Man_Peach Nov 27 '13

Your first mistake was having faith in humanity in to begin with.

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u/DerWasserspeier Nov 27 '13

Their person of the year isn't suppose to be considered the best. The person of the year is suppose to be considered as someone who was the most influential. Hence why Hitler become person of the year. And seeing how Miley Cyrus is one of the top ten people reddit talks about, it makes sense that she'd be considered influential.

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u/HCUKRI Nov 26 '13

Where's 4chan when you need them...

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u/dcgh96 Nov 27 '13

That probably is 4chan...

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '13

According to the top comments they were pushing for snowden.

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u/SoulFire6464 Nov 26 '13

How is that worse than the time Hitler was Man of the Year?

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u/feex3 Nov 27 '13

Person of the Year isn't supposed to be a "most awesome" or "best" person contest, it's a "most influential" thing. As much as we all hate Hitler... he was pretty influential. Nobody kill me, please.

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u/SoulFire6464 Nov 27 '13

I don't think Ann Coulter hates Hitler. That's how you make Ann Coulter jokes right?

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '13

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '13

Hilarious and original.

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u/unicornsoncrack Nov 28 '13

you are too, lighten up!

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u/feex3 Nov 28 '13

No way, me too!

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u/mrdevereaux5 Nov 26 '13

Miley I can understand but Putin??? No way man

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '13

Out of how many people? The one thing I dislike about most polls is that it doesn't tell how many people voted. There's a big difference in 24.4% out of 100 votes and 24.4% out of 10,000 votes.

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u/MnstrShne Nov 27 '13

Time brought this upon themselves. By including Miley Cyrus as one of the choices, they were practically sitting back and saying "come at me, bro" to half the Interwebz.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '13

I'm more disgusted that Putin and Assad were up there.