Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born 28 October 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.
He is the man widely credited for popularizing Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and countless other products, though in later years is well known for his philanthropy and advocacies towards things such as climate change mitigation, mass vaccination and the like, something which earned him a mixed reputation due to actions like his public attempts to eliminate non-insect meat consumption backed by his mass purchases of American farmland (of which he is now the biggest owner of in the US).
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- Assimilation Plot: Was accused, with a reasonable degree of reason, for wanting to do this in the computing world, explicitly regarding the antitrust suit brought against Microsoft Windows' founding company. The chief complaints were about how Microsoft tried to destroy all competition by forcing all users to use Microsoft products regardless of the operating system.
- In the more modern day, even though the above item has been eased off (especially since Gates is no longer in charge of Microsoft), he's been accused of wanting to do this via his philanthropic and political causes. While some reasons veer fairly hard into Conspiracy Theorist territory (most especially in the context of his push for mass vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the 90s when what was a series of trollish chain letters alleging Gates to be the Antichrist were taken seriously by some), some have varying degrees of plausibility.
- Everyone Is Satan in Hell: Particularly with the "Hall of Tortured Souls" chain emails as mentioned above, where a widely-circulated shitpost spuriously calculated the phrase "BILL GATES III" to their ASCII code equivalents; while the calculation for "BILL GATES" is indeed correct, it all fails flat on the "III" part which the original author of the emails incorrectly equated the uppercase I to 1 (the actual ASCII code for it is 73). Unfortunately, some news outlets picked up on this and took the rumours seriously, leading to even further distrust of Microsoft from religious groups most especially of the fundamentalist sort.