Look closely at Time magazine’s online voting results so far for the Time 100 and you will see at the top someone called moot (aka 21-year-old Christopher Poole), the founder of 4chan, the notorious online bulletin board where hackers like to hang out. Not only did moot’s followers manage to get his name to the top of the Time 100 reader’s list, they also manipulated the next 20 spots. If you take the first letter of each name, it spells out the cryptic message, “Marblecake, also the game.” (See image below). Update: According to a tip, marblecake was also the name of the chatroom “where Project Chanology was born (4chan’s war against Scientology).”
It turns out the results were hacked with an auto-voting program spread on 4chan. (For details of the hack, read this post). What does it mean? Marblecake is a sophomoric sexual reference, which is in keeping with the spirit of 4chan, which also claims to be where Rickrolling and Lolcats got their start.
As for the Time 100, the people have spoken. At least the people who hang out on 4chan.
i put them in just for starting the rick roll effect. hilarious every time i see it
Paper people should not come to net…
Don’t forget, OVER 9000?!!?
Wat?
Cryptic? Sophomoric sexual message?
Christ you are a fucking faggot. Don’t post this drivel if you don’t know what the fuck is going on.
Also, I just lost the game.
Techcrunch posts for the lulz
Productive hacking is cute. Distructive hacking can be a problem.
/b/eautiful
This type of community based hacking is the graffiti of the future. I’m just hoping it stays this juvenile and fun!
Only proves how important security is in today’s society!
Daniel
https://spideroak.com – Online Backup and Sync
All hacking is cute… Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
C’mon Nancy, quit deleting my accurate posts about Siegler’s name still on the Venturebeat Masthead.
You are such a baby. Wah! wah!
4Chan should go public. it would be worth $4 billion dollars. huge growth. recession over http://iamned.com/blog/
Moot is pretty important. So in a way they just corrected the list. 4 Chan can be pretty entertaining at times.
“What does it mean? Marblecake is a sophomoric sexual reference, which is in keeping with the spirit of 4chan, which also claims to be where Rickrolling and Lolcats got their start.”
Wrong, 100%. Marblecake was a group of people who were influential in starting the battle between Anonymous and Scientology. They made the Message to Scientology video that has a few million views on youtube. They also did this hack.
yep, we hacked the fucking planet for anarchy
or just shits and giggles
more here:
http://www.smouch.net/lol
http://encyclop...ca.com/The_game
Didn’t Time learn from People? And the whole hank the angry drunken dwarf thing in 1998 (see http://www.wire...s/2001/09/46566 ) …. those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
No wonder the publishing industry is running out of ideas….pwned twice a decade apart with the same pointless poll.
Why bother giving 4chan free publicity?
It’s Marblecake LOST the Game.
Yea, I know it doesn’t say that (because some people screwed up)… but guess what, the game? You just lost it.
It’s not meant to be “LOST” the game. Read this: http://musicmac...precision-hack/
At one point it said ‘marble cake also the game’. It dosn’t say that any more because since then the general public have been voting on it.
This also happened with the Creepychan poll fix, we had that at 100% at one point but now its fallen to 68%.
4chan and oldfags are the best
Old news is old.
rules 1 and 2 ¬¬
Old News Cat is Watching You Masterbate
Yo this is old news. I read this like 2 weeks ago.
sushi? lol
i want some sushi…lol
4chan ‘member’ here,
We did it for teh lulz.
And so everyone reading the times poll would lose the game.
ps. Can you please stop writing articles about our site, it brings in lots of what we call ‘newfags’ who make moronic posts, fall for obvious trolls and don’t understand Anon.
I dont think this article makes much of a difference over half the twats on /b/ are total newfags anywayz.
also Rules 1 + 2 have been severely broken I swear. Most of these comments are from newfags trying to act like oldfags, and pretending to know shit. If they actually knew anything they wouldnt say shit and break the 2 most important rulez
Rules 1 and 2 are for raids only
Post sauce or gtfo!
I get so excited when I scoop you losers! Sorry on the omitting the spellcheck!
please explain what you mean by ’scoop you losers’ this post makes little or no sense to me.