{"id":18217,"date":"2012-12-17T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18217"},"modified":"2013-04-06T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:20:56","slug":"kim-jong-un-is-time-man-of-the-year-with-help-from-4chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/kim-jong-un-is-time-man-of-the-year-with-help-from-4chan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-Un is <em>Time<\/em> man of the year (with help from 4chan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20121213\/16473921382\/hivemind-elects-dictator-4chan-pushes-kim-jong-un-to-top-time-person-year-poll.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Cushing<\/a> on 4chan&#8217;s latest use of <em>Time<\/em> as a comedic sidekick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>4chan<\/em> has returned to the limelight once again to torment reluctant sidekick <em>TIME<\/em> by voting early and often in its own particular idiom (read: bots, prolly) for Person of the Year. And the winner is none other than North Korean dictator and poster boy for evil, nepotism and ill-fitting grey smocks, Kim Jong-un. Here&#8217;s a portion of <em>Time<\/em>&#8216;s statement on the poll results, which is good naturedly resigned, much in the way parents raising child 7+ are more concerned with keeping the cleaning products, bandages and fire extinguisher close at hand than preventing the feat of daredevilry that is currently being performed using Sharpies, a purloined Zippo and the second floor bannister.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Kim Jong Un is having a good year. After taking over the leadership of North Korea from his late father Kim Jong Il, at the end of 2011, he&#8217;s solidified his control over the country, appeared on <strong>TIME<\/strong>&#8216;s cover and he was even named &#8220;Sexiest Man Alive.&#8221; (OK, that honor was actually bestowed as a spoof in the satirical newspaper, <b>The Onion<\/b>, but a Chinese news service mistook the <b>Onion<\/b> piece for real news and the story went global.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now, he&#8217;s gotten the most votes in <b>TIME<\/b>&#8216;s completely unscientific reader Person of the Year Poll with 5.6 million votes. Not bad for a man who didn&#8217;t make an official public appearance until 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Cushing on 4chan&#8217;s latest use of Time as a comedic sidekick: 4chan has returned to the limelight once again to torment reluctant sidekick TIME by voting early and often in its own particular idiom (read: bots, prolly) for Person of the Year. And the winner is none other than North Korean dictator and poster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,57,28],"tags":[58,896,279,477,289],"class_list":["post-18217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-humour","category-media","tag-internet","tag-kimjongun","tag-korea","tag-magazines","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4JP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18217"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19747,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions\/19747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}