re: Taylor Swift is TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year

got me thinking about the complete list since beginning in 1927.......

Charles Lindbergh (1927)
Walter Chrysler (1928)
Owen D. Young (1929)
Mahatma Gandhi (1930)
Pierre Leval (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 Soldier (1950)
Mohammad Mosaddegh (1951)
Elizabeth II (1952)
Konrad Adenauer (1953)
John Foster Dulles (1954)
Harlow Curtice (1955)
The Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956)
Nikita Khrushchev (1957)
Charles de Gaulle (1958)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)
American Scientists (1960)
John F. Kennedy (1961)
Pope John XXIII (1962)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)
William Westmoreland (1965)
The Inheritor (1966)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1967)
The Apollo 8 Astronauts: Jim Lovell, William Anders, Frank Borman (1968)
The Middle Americans (1969)
Willy Brandt (1970)
Richard Nixon (1971)
Henry Kissinger (1972)
Richard Nixon (1972)
John Sirica (1973)
King Faisal (1974)
American Women (1975)
Jimmy Carter (1976)
Anwar Sadat (1977)
Deng Xiaoping (1978)
Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)
Ronald Reagan (1980)
Lech Walesa (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: Yitzhak Rabin, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat (1993)
Pope John Paul II (1994)
Newt Gingrich (1995)
David Ho (1996)
Andrew Grove (1997)
Bill Clinton, Ken Starr (1998)
Person of the Year: Jeff Bezos // Person of the Century: Albert Einstein (1999)
George W. Bush (2000)
Rudy Giuliani (2001)
The Whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins, Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley (2002)
The American Soldier (2003)
George W. Bush (2004)
The Good Samaritans: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Bono (2005)
You (2006)
Vladimir Putin (2007)
Barack Obama (2008)
Ben Bernanke (2009)
Mark Zuckerberg (2010)
The Protester (2011)
Barack Obama (2012)
Pope Francis (2013)
The Ebola Fighters (2014)
Angela Merkel (2015)
Donald Trump (2016)
The Silence Breakers (2017)
The Guardians and the War on Truth (2018)
Greta Thunberg (2019)
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (2020)
Elon Musk (2021)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (2022)

What could she have possibly done to be named “person of the year”?

I don’t know a single one of her songs, but I see Swifties(or whatever they’re called) everywhere. She goes to an NFL game and everyone talks about her more than the actual players. No clue if her music is any good, but she’s definitely influential right now.

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The Peacemakers: Yitzhak Rabin, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat (1993)

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That's funny

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She was given this award in exchange for her full and unwavering support of Joe Biden 2024.

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Nail on the head.

That will begin shortly.

Glad she isn’t man of year ..I guess.

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Remember when this "award" actually somewhat meant something?

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No, I don't, because it's never been an award.

It's the person who was the biggest news story or most influential person that year.

Every year with out fail, low information people have a meltdown over Time's Person of the Year, never realizing that it has never been an award for being that years best person.

What an "honor".