You ( Time Person of the Year ) - Wikipedia You ( Time Person of the Year ) Cover of the December 25, 2006 issue. Gray area is a reflective mirror surface. `` You '' were chosen in 2006 as Time magazine 's Person of the Year. The magazine set out to recognize the millions of people who anonymously contribute user - generated content to wikis such as Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and the multitudes of other websites featuring user contribution. While the status had been given before to inanimate objects, with the personal computer being the `` Machine of the Year '' for 1982, as well as collections of people or an abstract representative of a movement, the choice of `` You '' attracted criticism from commentators in publications such as The Atlantic for being too much of a pop culture gimmick. A New York Daily News article named the 2006 award as one of the ten most controversial `` Person of the Year '' moments in the history of Time. However, the news - magazine experienced generally successful sales. Contents 1 Background 2 Decision 3 Criticism 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Background While most earlier choices for `` Person of the Year '' have been historically important individuals, many of them infamous rather than internationally popular ( Adolf Hitler was 1938 's `` Man of the Year '', and Ayatollah Khomeini won in 1979 ), a few were inanimate. The personal computer was the `` Machine of the Year '' for 1982, while the `` Endangered Earth '' was the `` Planet of the Year '' for 1988. Collections of people as well as a symbolic representative of multiple individuals had also won the award before ; for example, `` U.S. Scientists '' were named `` Men of the Year '' in 1960. Similar media awards had already recognized the growing significance of online community and user - generated content : `` You ! '' were ranked first in Business 2.0 's list of `` 50 people who matter now '' in July 2006 ; while ABC News had listed bloggers as `` People of the Year '' for 2006. Decision In accordance with Time 's annual process, different bureaus suggested different candidates. `` You '', or `` the YouTube guys '', was floated in November as a possible winner. Readers ' opinions were canvassed online. The final decision was made by managing editor Richard Stengel. The decision was announced in Time 's December 13, 2006 issue. The cover of the magazine featured an iMac computer monitor with a reflective mylar pane appearing as the window of a YouTube - like video player, intended to reflect as online content the visage of whoever picks up the magazine. The time remaining indicator in the image indicates a total duration of `` 20 : 06, '' a visual pun connecting this ubiquitous bit of interface design to the year in which it gained ascendancy in Time 's view. Stories on the new user - driven media dynamic were provided by NBC editor Brian Williams and Time magazine editors Lev Grossman and Richard Stengel. As Grossman describes, `` It 's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes. '' Criticism The choice was criticized for being a short - sighted gimmick which ignored the existence of many prominent individuals that had shaped the events of the past year. Pundit Paul Kedrosky called it an `` incredible cop - out '', and he also speculated that the selection marked `` some sort of near - term market top for user - generated content ''. Commentator Kevin Friedl noted that the award and cover design recalled the mirror viewed by the protagonist, the Dude, of The Big Lebowski, via which the viewer 's reflection was framed as Time 's `` Man of the Year ''. In December 2012, journalist David A. Graham wrote for The Atlantic that he thought Time had shown `` a pattern of lackluster choices '' and the overall promotional nature of the process should n't be treated as news, rather simply viewed as marketing. He remarked, `` Is anyone out there not sick of people ironically listing ' Time Person of the Year, 2006 ' in Twitter bios, a reference to the gimmicky selection of ' You ' that year ? '' Additionally, the decision raised some criticism as it was described as ideological and even hypocritically political. Some weeks before the announcement, Time decided to ask the users in a poll, `` Who Should Be Person of the Year ? '' After several weeks, the poll winner by a wide margin was Hugo Chávez, the leader of Venezuela, with 35 % of the votes. The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, came in second. Time decided to ignore those results and did not mention them in the announcement of their `` Person of the Year ''. Its critics underlined that Time ignores its digital democracy among its readers. Time supporters argue that an online poll is not representative as it has no scientific value. The hyperlink to the online poll results has been removed. A 2014 New York Daily News article, which named the `` You '' naming as one of the ten most controversial `` Person of the Year '' moments in the history of Time, also remarked that `` 2006 had its fair share of newsmakers '' awhile highlighting both `` Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ''. See also Philosophy of self References ^ Jump up to : Lev Grossman ( December 13, 2006 ). `` Time 's Person of the Year : You ''. Time. Retrieved February 14, 2008. ^ Jump up to : `` Time Magazine 's 10 most controversial People of the Year ''. Daily News. New York. 10 December 2014. ^ Jump up to : `` TIME Magazine Cover : The Computer, Machine of the Year - Jan. 3, 1983 ''. Time. ^ Jump up to : `` Everyone Should Ignore Time 's Person of the Year ''. The Atlantic. 2012 - 12 - 19. Retrieved 2015 - 10 - 13. ^ Jump up to : `` Person of the Year : A Photo History ''. Time. Retrieved August 5, 2015. Jump up ^ `` TIME Magazine Cover : Endangered Earth, Planet of the Year - Jan. 2, 1989 ''. Time. Jump up ^ `` 50 people who matter now ''. Money.cnn.com. 2006 - 06 - 21. Retrieved 2012 - 04 - 03. Jump up ^ `` People of the Year : Bloggers ''. Abcnews.go.com. 2004 - 12 - 30. Retrieved 2012 - 04 - 03. ^ Jump up to : Cohn, David ( December 19, 2007 ). `` Behind Time Magazine 's Choice for Person of the Year -- An Interview with Stephen Koepp ''. Archived from the original on April 6, 2009. Jump up ^ Time Magazine Has an Award For `` You '' by David Cohn on November 15, 2006 Jump up ^ Enough About You, Brian Williams, Dec. 16, 2006 Jump up ^ Now It 's Your Turn, Richard Stengel, Dec. 16, 2006 Jump up ^ Paul Kedrosky ( 16 December 2006 ). `` I Call `` Market Top '' on `` You '' ``. Infectious Greed. Retrieved 2008 - 02 - 14. Jump up ^ Time 's Person of the Year - An Initial Response by Kevin Friedl on December 18, 2006 Jump up ^ `` Chavez wins `` Person of the Year '' poll... Time magazine ignores result ``. Hands Off Venezuela. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 2009 - 12 - 05. External links Grossman, Lev ( 13 December 2006 ). `` Time 's Person of the Year : You ''. Time. Retrieved 11 October 2009. Time Persons of the Year 1927 -- 1950 Charles Lindbergh ( 1927 ) Walter Chrysler ( 1928 ) Owen D. Young ( 1929 ) Mohandas Gandhi ( 1930 ) Pierre Laval ( 1931 ) Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1932 ) Hugh S. Johnson ( 1933 ) Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1934 ) Haile Selassie ( 1935 ) Wallis Simpson ( 1936 ) Chiang Kai - shek / Soong Mei - ling ( 1937 ) Adolf Hitler ( 1938 ) Joseph Stalin ( 1939 ) Winston Churchill ( 1940 ) Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1941 ) Joseph Stalin ( 1942 ) George Marshall ( 1943 ) Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1944 ) Harry S. Truman ( 1945 ) James F. Byrnes ( 1946 ) George Marshall ( 1947 ) Harry S. Truman ( 1948 ) Winston Churchill ( 1949 ) The American Fighting - Man ( 1950 ) 1951 -- 1975 Mohammed Mosaddeq ( 1951 ) Elizabeth II ( 1952 ) Konrad Adenauer ( 1953 ) John Foster Dulles ( 1954 ) Harlow Curtice ( 1955 ) Hungarian Freedom Fighters ( 1956 ) Nikita Khrushchev ( 1957 ) Charles de Gaulle ( 1958 ) Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1959 ) U.S. Scientists : George Beadle / Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio Segrè / William Shockley / Edward Teller / Charles Townes / James Van Allen / Robert Woodward ( 1960 ) John F. Kennedy ( 1961 ) Pope John XXIII ( 1962 ) Martin Luther King Jr. ( 1963 ) Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1964 ) William Westmoreland ( 1965 ) The Generation Twenty - Five and Under ( 1966 ) Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1967 ) The Apollo 8 Astronauts : William Anders / Frank Borman / Jim Lovell ( 1968 ) The Middle Americans ( 1969 ) Willy Brandt ( 1970 ) Richard Nixon ( 1971 ) Henry Kissinger / Richard Nixon ( 1972 ) John Sirica ( 1973 ) King Faisal ( 1974 ) American Women : Susan Brownmiller / Kathleen Byerly / Alison Cheek / Jill Conway / Betty Ford / Ella Grasso / Carla Hills / Barbara Jordan / Billie Jean King / Susie Sharp / Carol Sutton / Addie Wyatt ( 1975 ) 1976 -- 2000 Jimmy Carter ( 1976 ) Anwar Sadat ( 1977 ) Deng Xiaoping ( 1978 ) Ayatollah Khomeini ( 1979 ) Ronald Reagan ( 1980 ) Lech Wałęsa ( 1981 ) The Computer ( 1982 ) Ronald Reagan / Yuri Andropov ( 1983 ) Peter Ueberroth ( 1984 ) Deng Xiaoping ( 1985 ) Corazon Aquino ( 1986 ) Mikhail Gorbachev ( 1987 ) The Endangered Earth ( 1988 ) Mikhail Gorbachev ( 1989 ) George H.W. Bush ( 1990 ) Ted Turner ( 1991 ) Bill Clinton ( 1992 ) The Peacemakers : Yasser Arafat / F.W. de Klerk / Nelson Mandela / Yitzhak Rabin ( 1993 ) Pope John Paul II ( 1994 ) Newt Gingrich ( 1995 ) David Ho ( 1996 ) Andrew Grove ( 1997 ) Bill Clinton / Ken Starr ( 1998 ) Jeffrey P. Bezos ( 1999 ) George W. Bush ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Rudolph Giuliani ( 2001 ) The Whistleblowers : Cynthia Cooper / Coleen Rowley / Sherron Watkins ( 2002 ) The American Soldier ( 2003 ) George W. Bush ( 2004 ) The Good Samaritans : Bono / Bill Gates / Melinda Gates ( 2005 ) You ( 2006 ) Vladimir Putin ( 2007 ) Barack Obama ( 2008 ) Ben Bernanke ( 2009 ) Mark Zuckerberg ( 2010 ) The Protester ( 2011 ) Barack Obama ( 2012 ) Pope Francis ( 2013 ) Ebola Fighters : Dr. Jerry Brown / Dr. Kent Brantly / Ella Watson - Stryker / Foday Gollah / Salome Karwah ( 2014 ) Angela Merkel ( 2015 ) Donald Trump ( 2016 ) The Silence Breakers ( 2017 ) Book Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=You_(Time_Person_of_the_Year)&oldid=824015827 '' Categories : 2006 awards 2006 controversies in the United States December 2006 events Individual issues of periodicals Self Social information processing Time ( magazine ) Hidden categories : All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from November 2013 Talk Contents About Wikipedia বাংলা فارسی Français Қазақша Magyar မြန်မာဘာသာ Norsk Português Русский Suomi Svenska ไทย Українська 粵語 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 4 February 2018, at 20 : 38. 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Question: who is the time person of the year 2006
Answer: the millions of people who anonymously contribute user-generated content to wikis such as Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and the multitudes of other websites featuring user contribution