Hackers spell out 'KJU GAS CHAMBERS' in Time's Person of the Year poll

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Just a week after 4chan users voted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to the top of Time magazine's Person of the Year poll, a group of hackers related to 4chan managed to spell out "KJU GAS CHAMBERS" with the poll's top 14 names -- starting with Kim, Jon Stewart and Undocumented Immigrants.

According to a report from The Daily Dot, the poll manipulation scheme is the handiwork of a group of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) users, who used a Java script to manipulate the voting results.

One IRC user explained their choice of words to The Daily Dot:

The phrase, "KJU GAS CHAMBERS" refers to the North Korean leaders mysterious and brutal prison camps, where entirely families have reportedly been gassed.

Mashable reported December 3 that 4chan was planning to spell out the phrase after they propelled Kim to the top of the poll. "For our Glorious Leader, Episode II: We've already voted him to the top, now lets spell something nice with the first letters of the contestants," wrote one user.