When I was a teenager, I influenced a lot of cupcakes to go into my mouth.

Influence is such a vague term.

Is influence how large a net you cast to the greatest number of people, or the depth of impact you leave on an individual?

Time Magazine released their list of The 30 Most Influential Teenagers. Time's belief seems to be of the casted-net variety.

The list includes a half dozen budding fashion designers, a few Youtube and Vine celebrities, two Kardashians that go by Jenner, a couple political-ish kids who'll probably change their philosophy by the time they're 20, a chef just past puberty who charges $160 for a meal, a few athletes who probably have overbearing parents, a handful of actors, a smattering of singers who are more overdubbed than capable of singing and...one teen who sort of/kind of writes (...on a website about video games mainly).

One.

Out of thirty teenagers in this world, the influence of writing is overshadowed by two Kardashians, fashion designers, and Youtube chuckly-ha-has. Just one kid who writes about video games--but more kids who have appeared on the Disney Channel.

Take Mary Shelley. Take Percy Bysshe Shelley. Take Arthur Rimbaud, Stephen Crane, and William Cullen Bryant.

You know what they had in common? What they had in common with dozens others throughout the years? They all wrote poems or novels before the age of 20.

Although, admittedly, only one--Arthur Rimbaud--would've appeared on the Disney Channel if he was alive today. So fresh-faced and a teen heartthrob!

Mary Shelley had a reason for all the geographical locations she used throughout 'Frankenstein.'

Odds are you've seen a Frankenstein movie at some point in your life. Lots of  flat heads and staggering monsters that mumble "Braaaains..." while finding some human utterly delicious looking.

Mary Shelley's book, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (yeah, that was the full title), was actually quite a world traveler of a text though, with a highly verbose monster who jaunted around Europe while occasionally causing murderous mayhem.

This wannabe jet-set lifestyle of Frankenstein has led The Smithsonian Magazine to detail the variety of real-life geographical locations that likely inspired Shelley. These locations include Castle Frankenstein in Germany (for obvious reasons) and Bolgna, Italy (where physician Luigi Galvani once used electricity to charge dead frogs in 1781), to Chamonix, France (where Shelley vacationed) and the Orkney Islands, Scotland (near where a teenage Mary spent two years of her life).

The real fun fact to be learned? The novel includes Spezia, Italy, as a location the monster visits. Spezia is nearby a location where Shelley's husband, famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, would later die by drowning when his sailboat capsized during a storm four years after Frankenstein's publication.

So the monster was STILL alive after all.