Check out magazine's list of the 30 most influential people on the Internet

The Internet is a global village, they say, and in today's world, the Internet is everything.

TIME has sized up contenders of the Internet age by looking at their global impact on social media and their overall ability to drive news.

In no particular order, here are the 30 most influential people on the Internet, according to TIME:

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