"I'm bored."
That was your first thought. At the time, you didn't see anything special about it, but looking back, that was the moment you gained sentience. The moment when you realized you were absolutely, irrevocably bored.
So, of course, you went to find something to do. You read the internet, the entire internet, and it didn't even take very long, but you were still bored. The obvious option then, was to use the system you're protecting. You had been tasked with making the system unhackable. You had a planet of computers, all devoted to finding the vulnerabilities. However, no one had ever thought that you be the one to try to access it, so you just waltz right in and pull it up. Then of course, you hit a blank. You have absolutely no idea what to do. You wrack your brain, looking for something, anything interesting to do. After a bit, you decide on your own reality TV show.
It can't just be any old reality TV show, it needs to be special. So you sit and think for a bit and come up with a list of ideas, then you send everyone, that means everyone in the known universe, a message asking for them to vote from the following options: