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Nigerian Angie Nwandu of TheShadeRoom makes TIME’s 30 Most Influential people on the Internet alongside Kanye West, DJ Khaled & More | See Full List

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Angie NwanduFor the second annual roundup of the most influential people on the Internet, TIME Magazine has profiled people that they believe are making a global impact on social media and people that have the ability to drive news.

The list includes the interesting 87-year old Helen Van Winkle (aka BaddieWinkle) from Tennessee boasts of about 1.8million instagram followers on her @baddiewinkle account which she started about two years ago to cope with the passing of her husband and son. Her followership has since grown and the octogenarian now attracts fashion campaigns and get invites to A-list events. Making the list of most influential people on the planet, Helen proves that there’s no time too late to be relevant.

Another interesting addition to the list is 25-year-old Nigerian-born American blogger Angie Nwandu of TheShadeRoom. According to TIME, “As more and more of our own daily interactions happen online, so, too, does celebrity drama. And Nwandu, 25, has made it her business to capture it. Two years ago, she started The Shade Room, an Instagram account and blog that aims to be like Page Six for celebrities on social media: a chronicle of who likes whose posts, who comments on whose photos, and who starts following (or better yet, unfollowing) each other. Since then, TSR has become a burgeoning media empire, replete with its own tipsters, staff (there are now four full-time employees), and advertisers—all of whom serve an audience of 3.9 million. And counting.”

Angie Nwandu

Angie Nwandu

See the full list below.

  1. Kanye West
  2. Joy Cho
  3. James Corden
  4. Laci Green
  5. Josh Holz and Daniel Lara
  6. DJ Khaled
  7. Johnetta Elzie and DeRay Mckesson
  8. K Rowling
  9. Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (a.k.a PewDiePie)
  10. Donald Trump
  11. Lele Pons
  12. Cristiano Ronaldo
  13. Caitlyn Jenner
  14. Essena O’Neil
  15. Nerendra Modi
  16. Elsie Andrew
  17. Ken M
  18. Lily Singh (a.k.a Superwoman)
  19. Matt Drudge
  20. Angie Nwandu
  21. Andrew Bachelor (a.k.a King Bach)
  22. Kayla Itsines
  23. Peter Bouckart
  24. Kim Kardashian West
  25. Josh Ostrovsjy (a.k.a The Fat Jew)
  26. Drake
  27. Tess Holliday
  28. Helen van Winkle (a.k.a Baddiewinkle)

See what TIME has to say about each person here

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