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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 1:55 am Post subject: Holy s#1t! Rain won Time magazine's Most Influential Person! |
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100walkup/article/0,28804,1611030_1612457,00.html
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| TIME asked who you thought should be on the list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Over 200 candidates were given a rating of 1 to 100. And your #1 choice? Let it Rain! The Korean R&B phenom had almost half a million votes, over 100,000 more than runner-up Stephen Colbert. At #16, blogger Perez Hilton did better than his namesake Paris � the socialite finished last with a limp score of 19. |
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Chillin' Villain
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: Goo Row
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| Hahaha... That's pretty effed up. I have no problem with it at all; actually, I think it's pretty funny how a major magazine like time got internetted like that. Kind of like when that "Vote for Rory" campaign almost got the lunchpailer Rory Fitzpatrick into the NHL All-Star game. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 3:41 am Post subject: Re: Holy s#1t! Rain won Time magazine's Most Influential Per |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| The Korean R&B phenom had almost half a million votes... |
...all from Korean netizens with no life but to vote 500 times a night. Exactly WHAT has Rain done that is in any way influential? Other than fail horribly in trying to rip off Usher. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| He isn't even the most influential *Korean* of 2006. 97% of Time readers are thinking "Who??" |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 3:51 am Post subject: |
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Ouch. I hope Steven Colbert totally ignores him.
This won't make him person of the year, will it? |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
Ouch. I hope Steven Colbert totally ignores him.
This won't make him person of the year, will it? |
I hope Colbert makes fun of him and the fact that nobody in the US knows who he is. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| Most people in the world probably don't know who 9 of the top 10 are anyways. |
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MCSM
Joined: 20 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:23 am Post subject: |
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Beyond the obvious netizenry aspect of this sordid tale, we have to remind ourselves what a shyte-producing gazette for the status quo Time is. About Stephen Colbert:
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| CON: His performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association dinner stirred controversy, raising concerns over the biased nature of his satire. |
You have got to be kidding. That performance was a con? A con? |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Not far from the deep end.
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| It has little to do with actual influence and as Dr. Frankenstein said, it has more to do with Netizen manipulation and mean-spirited mudslinging and some relatively lame finagling of a few sorry saps who have too much time on their hands. The Party Pooper blog has been observing these behavior patterns for some time now in this article. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
Ouch. I hope Steven Colbert totally ignores him.
This won't make him person of the year, will it? |
I hope Colbert makes fun of him and the fact that nobody in the US knows who he is. |
Colbert will then find himself added to the list of American comedians Koreans HATE. (I guess Jay Leno is the sole person on that list so far.) And Comedy Central better be prepared to have their servers crashed... |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
Ouch. I hope Steven Colbert totally ignores him.
This won't make him person of the year, will it? |
I hope Colbert makes fun of him and the fact that nobody in the US knows who he is. |
They don't know who he is. I hope he stays that way. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
Ouch. I hope Steven Colbert totally ignores him.
This won't make him person of the year, will it? |
I hope Colbert makes fun of him and the fact that nobody in the US knows who he is. |
Colbert will then find himself added to the list of American comedians Koreans HATE. (I guess Jay Leno is the sole person on that list so far.) And Comedy Central better be prepared to have their servers crashed... |
I don't think a lot of Koreans would dig Margaret Cho. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Let's not forget the Korean netizens' performance after the last World Cup. We have seen their tenacity! Their brazen! Their blind ambition!!
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| CON: His performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association dinner stirred controversy, raising concerns over the biased nature of his satire. |
You have got to be kidding. That performance was a con? A con? |
Yeah, no kidding, wow.. shyte-producing gazette for rizza.. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Anyone notice # 5? And they say there are no netizens in Canada  |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| He isn't even the most influential *Korean* of 2006. 97% of Time readers are thinking "Who??" |
97%? Try 99.99% |
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