People's Cube
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Type of site | Political Satire forum, art collective |
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| Available in | English |
| Created by | Oleg Atbashian |
| Website | www |
| Registration | Required to post articles or comments |
| Launched | April 1, 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
The People's Cube (TPC) is a U.S.-based satirical and conservative website that was launched April 1, 2005 as a spinoff of Communists for Kerry. The site has visitors and writers from the USA, Canada and Europe..[1].
History[edit]
[[File:The-Peoples-Cube.jpg||thumb|right|Namesake of the website.]]
The People's Cube (TPC) was launched in 2005 by Oleg Atbashian, a Soviet immigrant to the United States. He was spurred to political activism by the September 11 attacks, saying that those who blamed the United States in the wake of the attacks "enraged" him.[2]
TPC became a conservative right-wing political satire forum and discussion board with emphasis on re-creating the visual athmosphere of soviet agitprop to mock socialist or communist ideas and organisations. Its members often write in a style parodying Communists, Marxists, or the former Soviet Union, pretending to be "commissars of the party".
The People's Cube is named after its webstore's flagship product, which is based on the Rubik's Cube. However, unlike the Rubik's Cube, which has a different color on each side, the People's Cube is red on all 6 sides with a small gold-colored logo in the center of each side.
Reception[edit]
The People's Cube has received attention from various media sources, most of them conservative or right-wing.
Some TPC articles and artworks have been reprinted (with Atbashian's permission) in more mainstream magazines, newspapers and books (e.g. the newspaper New York Post[3], the cultural magazine Advertising Age[4], the Chicago-based literary magazine The Point [5], the British philosophy magazine Philosophy Now [6]
In the popular science book The Pluto Files by Neil DeGrasse Tyson)., the author describes a TPC article about Pluto as "mirror[ing] prevailing political and cultural sentiments in America...not simply parodies of news, but mirrors to the mores of modern America."[7]
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has described The People's Cube as "A Stalinist version of The Onion."[8] in a live phone interview with Atbashian (this quote is displayed in the sidebar of the website). A TPC parody of an anti-Trump Boston Globe article was described and highly recommended on his live radio show. [9]Michelle Malkin, former journalist for the Los Angeles Daily News, Seattle Times, and senior editor of the Conservative Review[10], wrote positively of TPC on her blog[11].Thomas Lifson, editor-in-chief of conservative website American Thinker referred to TPC as "one of the funniest satirical websites".[12] The conservative news outlet Breitbart has published cartoons by Atbashian and referred to the TPC website. [13]
- International references
The Russian magazine Snob wrote an article[14] about the TPC website as an example of successful projects started by former Soviet citizens in Western countries, and some articles have been translated into Russian and published on the website of a Russian news outlet [15]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Thepeoplescube.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
- ↑ "America Awakes: Reflections on 9/12 (Part II)". PJ Media. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ↑ Neocons Imprison Mick Jagger Without Trial by Oleg Atbashian (reprint of this People's Cube article) New York Post, - New York, NY - August 27, 2005 - Page 15
- ↑ At the corner of Madison & Baghdad by Ken Wheaton, Advertising Age - New York, NY - June 27, 2005 - Page 56
- ↑ The Point (Chicago), issue 5, spring 2012: A Lack of Audacity? p 65
- ↑ Philosophy Now, (London), 2014, 2nd issue, ISS: 0961-5970, p. 44
- ↑ The Pluto Files by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Published September 2nd 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN13: 9780393350364, p 122-126
- ↑ "Mega Dittos from the Motherland | Rush". Rushlimbaugh.com. 2007-08-03. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
- ↑ "Trump Derangement Reaches New Heights with Boston Globe Parody - Rush".
- ↑ "About". Michelle Malkin. 2011-04-11. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
- ↑ Malkin, Michelle (2007-10-04). "I have The People's Cube". Michelle Malkin. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
- ↑ Lifson, Thomas. "Blog: The People's Cube freed from Twitter Gulag". Americanthinker.com. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
- ↑ "Here's to you, Big Sis!". Breitbart News. 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ↑ "Сноб – Russian Made – Июнь 2009 – Журнал". Snob.ru. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
- ↑ Политика за рубежом (2014-08-03). "Памятник бесплатному сыру » RLN.FM | консервативная правая радиостанция". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
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