Whatever this says about society is to be determined, but the Internet has spoken and believes that rapper Lil' Wayne is more influential than both Nintendo visionary Shigeru Miyamoto and game designer Will Wright.
This coming from TIME's reveal of "The World's Most Influential People of 2009" as voted by the Internet. It is, of course, completely accurate. Lil' Wayne ranks among the top 100, sitting pretty at number 12; Miyamoto breaks the top 100 at 42, with Wright failing to make the cut at 107. Topping the list is 4chan founder, moot.
Miyamoto and Wright were the only two videogame industry folks to appear on the list.
To put this list into perspective, The View -- an American daytime talk show, and not even a person -- is at number 47. Think about that for a second. Also, think about this.
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5:00 PM on 04.27.2009
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Popularity contests suck, says the nerd!
But the marblecake, also the game part made it lol worthy.
Where'd you learn how to spell alSo?
(Note: you've been in the red since '05)
rofl.
This is absolutely hilarious, and that's what happens when you let the Internet vote on these things.
And I just lost the game.
And then that person wins, and people commit suicide because that person won.
...screw you 4chan.
Moot won with 16,794,368 votes, while 2nd place got 2,316,378 votes.
I want to kill myself, but I can't.
The FBI will look back on this comment a few years from now, wondering why nobody listened to the warning signs. Fear these people with far too much time on their hands!