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Pipiskin
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The first Russian virtual politician. He appeared in 2007, on September, 13, after a mistake made by a journalist of one of Russian Web News Agencies Fyodor Ponomaryov , who failed to recall the name of the proposed prime-minister and replaced the name Viktor Zubkov with Viktor Pipiskin (a surname origined from the word "pipiska", a slang for "genitals"). The article was deleted after 30 seconds after uploading to the News Website, but it was too late, because RSS-channels copied the news to many other sites. The journalist was fired but the new virtual politician became even more popular then the real politicians in Runet (Russian Internet area). Many people became real Pipiskin's fans and create Pipiskin communities in LiveJournal and even created an "official site of Victor Pipiskin". This website took the 22-nd position in Top 30 of Russian Political Websites. The Pipiskin phenomena was the first precedent of a really popular virtual politician. |
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