Mister Splashy Pants became the subject of a TED Talk[4] by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, titled "How to make a splash in social media."

[5] The massive leap in votes for the name attracted the attention of b3ta.com,[6] 4chan's /b/ board, BoingBoing, reddit, Digg, and numerous blogs.

On the 30th, Fark posted a thread linking to the voting as well, and for a few days internet traffic on the Greenpeace server spiked to almost untenable levels.

The other top ten names, like Aiko, Libertad, Mira, Kaimana, Aurora, Shanti, Amal and Manami, received less than 1 percent each.

The added publicity, at no cost to Greenpeace, gave it enough impact to convince the Japanese government, and the plan to hunt humpback whales was abandoned in December 2007.