It’s that time of year. The time when Time allows us time to elect the 100 most influential people of our time (or at least the past year). In times past (I’m looking back in time at last year’s Time), Time showed nowhere near a ti(m)e as time and time again, Koreans completely decimate any online polls. Perhaps they have a lot of time on their hands, or maybe the patience to vote, time after time after time.

Alright, that’s it. I was trying to see how often I could use the word “time” in this story (if you hadn’t guessed that already) but now after writing the above paragraph, it’s too irritating. Even to me. I’ll start over.

Once again, Time magazine has opened the floodgates by allowing the Internet to vote for the top 100 most influential people of the year. I don’t know who’s idea it was to allow the Internet to vote on such matters, since (as I mentioned above, if you were able to understand that) it’s looking like the Koreans have bombed the poll (as they did last year, resulting in a landslide victory) up-voting their pop-sensation Rain. I’ve never heard of this guy, but I guess he’s huge in Korea.

Once again, Miyamoto has made the list, and it looks like there are quite a few diehard Nintendo fans trying to beat Rain, up-voting Miyamoto and down-voting Rain. As of this moment, Rain has the number one spot, but followed closely by Miyamoto in second place. Stephen Colbert is currently in third, but who knows what could happen as far as his place is concerned, what with his millions of loyal followers (myself included, but Miyamoto bests him in my personal list) and what they’re capable of.

As you can guess, this isn’t really a contest in the most influential people of the year. It may be advertised as such, but it’s actually a contest of who has the most fans willing to repeatedly up-vote them, and down-vote the competition.

Vote if you like, I’ve already voted a few dozen times myself, and hopefully we can show up the Koreans and the Colbert Nation how Nintendo fans do things.

Time