4Chan once again used their nearly infinite power to juke the stats and promote Pedobear to the #1 spot in a contest to find Miley Cyrus' biggest fan. Kudos anonymous.

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1. More on Pedobear
2. 4Chan Vs. AT&T
3. 4Chan Vs. Time Magazine

Media that that DOES something to your brain?? Also, a game.

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“Look mommy, just like the man that comes over when daddy is out of town.”

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It's all about perception.

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TECH BUZZ: 4Chan's /b/ board discovers fake account creation, and suddenly a random Australian epidemiologist has 130,000 followers and counting. Their simple goal? Get Basementdad more followers than CNN or Ashton Kutcher. Godspeed, b.

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1. Cache of the 4Chan Twitter Account Creation Method (Possibly NSFW)
2. Tips on Basement Dad
3. Dr. Joseph Frieschel (basementdad) on Twitter
4. Ashton Kutcher on Twitter
5. Via Waxy.org
6. CNN Breaking News on Twitter

The names of the 21 leaders of the Time Top 100 most influential people are an acrostic for “Marble Cake Also the Game”. It seems like getting their fearless leader moot to the top spot on the list wasn't 4chan 's only agenda in this sinister piece of manipulation. Marble Cake was also the game. WTF is ” marble cake “? And why does 4chan CONTROL OUR LIVES!?

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1. 4chan’s moot on the Time 100?
2. 4chan
3. moot
4. Kumoi Yamamoto Marble Cake
5. Time 100 (see for yourself)
6. Marble Cake Recipe

Looks like the 4chan army is out and at the polls for Dear Leader over at Time's “World's Most Influential” voting site. moot was at #1 earlier today, but by the time I got the screenshot he was holding it down at #4 with an average rating of 73 and a whopping 248,718 votes. Update : He's back on top! Go moot go!

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1. Vote For The Time100
2. moot’s Entry
3. Christopher Poole aka moot on BuzzFeed

TECH BUZZ: Fimoculous and the Washington Post both have interviews with the enigmatic creator of 4chan, the 21-year-old Chris Poole.

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1. Here He Is, Looking Adorable, Holding Up a MEH Sign!!
2. More Hot Christopher Poole Links
3. Here He is Looking a Tad More Fratty But Still REALLY CUTE
4. 4chan Home
5. The Master Of Memes
6. Christopher Poole is the Secretive Internet Celeb Who Still Lives With Mom
7. Macroanonymous Is The New Microfamous - An Interview With The Founder of 4chan

Those fun-loving pranksters over at 4Chan have been busy today. In addition to (allegedly) getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to rise to the top of Google Trends, they managed to take over the live feed for the MacRumors live-blog coverage of today's Macworld keynote address. After announcing that Steve Jobs had died, they moved on with lightning speed to an endless string of penis jokes (which may have undermined their credibility somewhat).

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1. When Livestreams Go Wrong: MacRumors Gets Hijacked
2. Today, We Are All MacRumors
3. MacRumors’ Unprotected Admin Interface
4. Hackers Hit MacRumors Keynote Coverage
5. More From the Hacked Feed

CULTURE BUZZ: Commenters on 4Chan, eBaum's world and other sites rile up the internet by getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to the top of the Google Trends page. So okay, this only affects the infinitesimally small number of people that know/care what Google Trends is — but you may be one of them! But you probably also won't be offended.

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1. 4Chan: Go To Google, Search For ✈ ▌▌, Bring It To The Top Of The List
2. Google Trends: ✈ ▌▌
3. The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11
4. Unpleasant Google Trends Subversion

TECH BUZZ: Great piece on web trolls in New York Times Magazine. I bet this article gets turned into a book or movie - who can resist the human drama, the shady subculture, and the cast of interesting, smart, amoral characters? Nice reporting Mr. Mattathias Schwartz!

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1. “Malwebolence” - NYT Mag Article on Trolls
2. The Trolls Respond To The NYT Article
3. Discussion On Metafilter of NYT Troll Piece
4. Christopher Poole aka moot - the Man Behind 4Chan.org

TECH BUZZ: The creators of I Can Has Cheezburger? have launched their sixth comedy site where readers juxtapose celebrity faces with their unlikely doppelgängers. Oh, those LOLcat guys really know how to help you waste more time at work.

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1. LOLCat Creators Just Want Their Projects to Be FUN
2. Totally Looks Like - The Site
3. Christopher Poole (Creator of LOLcat) - Featured on BuzzFeed
4. My Favorite Pics from the Site
5. Cheez, President of I Can Haz Cheezburger, To Attend ROFLThings! (He Looks Like an Asian Man)

TECH BUZZ: Mischievous geeks are manipulating Google Trends to make offensive words appear to be hot search trends. First the number one result was a swastika symbol. Then the words “fuck you google” flipped backwards to get past the spam filters. Some say the 4chan bulletin is causing the problem by picking offensive words and getting the whole community to search for them — thereby creating a self-fulfilling Google trend. Personally we would never do anything like that because we think sʞɔoɹ spuǝɹʇ ǝlƃooƃ .

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1. Google Trends Hacked Again!
2. Blogger On Google Trends Hack
3. Please Don’t Click This Link!!!
4. Google Trends Site (Trends In Real Time Plus The Occasional Hack)
5. Flip Text Here (How They Created The Flipped Text)
6. “Google Bombing” Is A Classic Hack Focused On Search Engine, Not Trends

TECH BUZZ: The man who started the internet meme-machine and creator of LOLcat, 4chan , at age 15 was profiled in the Wall Street Journal . He's a mystery wrapped in an enigma. In researching him, I feel like I've delved into the seedy internet underground of teenage boydom.

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1. Moot is Time’s Most Influential Person!!!
2. A Virtual Unknown Meet ‘Moot,’ the Secretive Internet Celeb Who Still Lives With Mom
3. 4Chan Creator Christopher Poole Interviewed by Rex Sorgatz
4. OMG is That a Photo of Christopher Poole? (he’s Hot!)
5. WSJ Article: “Modest Web Site Is Behind a Bevy of Memes”
6. The Master Of Memes - Christopher Poole Profiled in “Time”
7. 4chan.org Website Is Shockingly Ghetto
8. Traditional Media All of a Sudden Obsessed with “Memes”
9. 4chan on Wikipedia
10. What is 4chan? - a Forum Discussion
11. 5% Chance That Christopher Poole is in Fact Real But Just Some Incredibly Filthy 4chan Inside Joke
12. Did Christopher Poole Write This Mother’s Day Poem?