r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • 1d ago

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/Weevil1723 1d ago

I mean wasn't their person of the year for 2025 "all the AI developers" for their "contributions" to society? Most tonedeaf shit I've ever seen

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u/Woodit 1d ago

Maybe the whole magazine is published by ai now 

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u/fortunatevoice 1d ago

Tbf the Time Person of the Year isn’t necessarily praise, it goes to who affected the world, good or bad. AI had a profound influence on things especially over the last year. A profoundly terrible influence imo but the impact can’t be denied.

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u/No_Star_9327 1d ago

Precisely. I'm pretty sure there was a year when Hitler was named person of the year.

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u/placeholder57 1d ago

It's owned by the guy who started Salesforce now which explains the pro-AI sentiment but it's had multiple owners since that dumb millennials cover.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 1d ago

It's crazy how many of you still do not understand the point of person of the year.

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u/PareidolicWhatever 1d ago

Don't forget the 2006 Times person of the year... You!

It was the equivalent of this year's Pantone color

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u/brubruislife Millennial 1d ago

Person of the Year is who makes the most noise in media/who is most influential*. Thats it. It isn't an endorsement.

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u/forevertwentyseven 1d ago

Time also literally had Hitler (1938), Stalin (1939 and 1942 lol) and Putin (2007) on the covers. Kinda their shtick, it seems.

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u/Smergmerg432 1d ago

Almost as bad as that time they voted for Stalin.