Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson is the second most influential person in the world, according to Time magazine voters.

Persson earned 156,694 online votes for the 2013 Time 100 Poll, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He trailed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, who had 173,091 votes.

Voters, however, were also able to cast votes for who they didn't want to win, and in that race, almost 221,000 people said there is "no way" Morsi should win this year's race. Almost 19,000 were not in favor of Persson earning the top prize.

Online voting closed earlier today. The final list is selected by Time editors and will be revealed on April 18.

Minecraft founders made headlines in February when they said they didn't have any plans to take their company public. Persson is the co-founder of game maker Mojang and sole creator of Minecraft, which debuted in 2011. The developer "grew up in a relatively poor family," he said in a recent Reddit comment, but now, "all of a sudden, as a result of how modern society works, I managed to somehow earn a s**t-ton of money."

For more, check out PCMag's review of Minecraft (version 1.5).

The controversial Kim Dotcom, meanwhile, landed at third place, described by Time as an "eccentric Internet legend" who has "seen his influence rise along with his legal troubles." Dotcom, who launched his Mega bug hunt initiative in February, earned 117,283 "yes" votes and 16,288 "no" votes.

Dotcom, however, hopes that Persson emerges victorious. "He gave us the amazing world of #Minecraft & deserves to win," Dotcom tweeted.

Meanwhile, the complete list of 151 "leaders, artists, innovators, icons, and heroes" includes a handful of key players in the tech industry, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Check out a comprehensive list of tech-related candidates below.

Last year's poll was ruled not by an entrepreneur, actor, or political figure, but by the hacktivist group Anonymous, which earned the highest results in the online popular vote. Meanwhile, Erik Martin, general manager of the online community Reddit, landed at No. 2.

Neil Gaiman: Cult novelist (and BlackBerry spokesman)

Jeff Bezos: Founder and CEO of Amazon

Sergey Brin: Google co-founder

Perry Chen: CEO of Kickstarter

Jack Dorsey: Twitter creator and founder/CEO of Square

Kim Dotcom: Creator of file-sharing site Megaupload

Daniel Ek: Found and CEO of Spotify

Jony Ive: Lead designer and senior vice president of industrial design at Apple

Don Yeomans: Chief rock watcher for NASA's Near-Earth Object Program

Oh-Hyun Kwon: CEO of Samsung

Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng: Founders of Coursera, the online-education start-up

Marissa Mayer: President and CEO of Yahoo

Elon Musk: CEO and chief designer at SpaceX; co-founder of Tesla Motors and PayPal

Markus "Notch" Persson: Creator of Minecraft

Alexis Ohanian: Co-founder of Reddit

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook COO

Eric Schmidt: Executive chairman of Google

Ben Silbermann: Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest

Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski: Co-founders of Codeacademy

Tony Hsieh: CEO of Zappos

Evan Spiegel: Co-founder of Snapchat

Kevin Systrom: CEO of Instagram

Jonah Peretti: Co-founder of BuzzFeed