The hackers didn't just rig the top result, or the top 10. They arranged the top 21 winners so that the first letters of their names spelled out "MARBLECAKE, ALSO THE GAME." Result No. 1 was "moot," the pseudonym of , operator of the not-at-all-safe-for-work imageboard .

Lamere says his pseudonymous contacts within the 4chan community said "the hack is the work of a dozen or so, backed by an army of a thousand who downloaded and ran the autovoters and also backed by an untold number of others that unwittingly fell prey to the spam url autovoters."