4Chan Helps Kim Jong-un Top Time Person of the Year Poll

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has shot to the top of TIME magazine's Person of the Year poll -- thanks to some funny business by 4chan users.

In the last two days, Kim, 29, has overtaken President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi for the No. 1 spot, with 2.9 million votes.

Kim trailed Morsi by about 60,000 votes early last week after users of 4chan’s /b/ imageboard -- a random forum where people regularly post violent and sexual content -- encouraged the community to vote for the newly crowned leader. Morsi is now in second place, with 389,000 votes.

"For our Glorious Leader, Episode II: We've already voted him to the top, now lets spell something nice with the first letters of th…
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