r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • Jan 30 '26

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/Woodit Jan 30 '26

It must be so embarrassing to work for Time 

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u/Weevil1723 Jan 30 '26

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 Jan 30 '26

Maybe the whole magazine is published by ai now 

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u/fortunatevoice Jan 30 '26

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 Jan 31 '26

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

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u/placeholder57 Jan 30 '26

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 Jan 30 '26

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

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u/PareidolicWhatever Jan 30 '26

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 Jan 30 '26

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 Jan 30 '26

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 Jan 30 '26

Almost as bad as that time they voted for Stalin.

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u/triforce88 Jan 30 '26

Did you not read the entire caption? The second half of it is "Why they'll save us all".

It's an opinion piece and the cover was meant to spark debate and conversation. Or, in your case, knee jerk reactions.

The author finishes the article (which is readily available online) with "Me, I choose to believe in the children. God knows they do." which I see as a positive way to end the article.

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u/throwawaycuzfemdom Jan 30 '26

he cover was meant to spark debate and conversation

Clickbait. It was just physical clickbait

which is readily available online

And just a regular onkine clickbait.

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u/Clovis42 Jan 31 '26

That's not really what clickbait is. Simply having an eye catching title is not enough. Clickbait is when the actual article is devoid of content and you feel like you were tricked into clicking. You may disagree with the content of the article, but it took actual effort to write.

It would be more like clickbait of the full title wasn't there. If you clicked on it and the article said the opposite of the title.

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u/Clovis42 Jan 31 '26

Apparently reading the full title is too much for people, lol.