We get it: everyone loves Stephen Colbert. Now the New York Times gets it, too. It interviewed the 16-year-old who started the Facebook group “1,000,000 For Stephen T Colbert,” and boy oh boy did the kid have tons of insight.

What amazed me the most was how [Barack] Obama’s 1 Million Strong Group took more than 8 months to get about 380,000 members, but Colbert’s 1 Million Strong Group took less than a week to get 750,000 members

Except, of course, that Barack Obama is a real presidential candidate; Colbert is a comedian.

The group’s raw stats are impressive enough: nearly 1.2 million members, tremendous discussion topics like “Why American Fascism Works” and “Is hitting women really that wrong?”, and a strange looking fat man posting dozens of pictures of himself in the group.

Political participation, now even easier than voting.

The Colbert Nation Quickly Colonizes Facebook [New York Times]