*noir music*
In online circles, the name "Time Cube" has become synonymous with incomprehensibility,
poor web design, and absurd conspiracy theories.
Most people discover it after sarcastic remarks in forums, and investigating for themselves,
though even after seeing it, the subject remains elusive and confusing.
The website is mostly one massive page consisting of aggressive prose
detailing a theory claiming that time is cubic as well as proclaiming the supreme intellect of its creator
while insulting everyone else.
Those who attempt to describe the theory for the more befuddled readers often find themselves at a loss.
So what is the Time Cube? Where did the theory and website come from?
And how did it gain such popularity?
*lounge jazz*
Sometime in 1997, a website was launched at the domain "TimeCube.com"
espousing the virtues of, quote, "Nature's harmonic simultaneous 4-day time cube."
Though the first iteration of this website is lost, subsequent versions have been cataloged in the Wayback Machine
beginning on the 29th of June, 1998.
The material on this first recorded page declares, in large red lettering,
"Earth has 4 simultaneous Days within 1 rotation."
"Losing 3 Days in each Earth rotation has retarded your mentality to stupid and an Education of Evil."
"You do not have the mind or education to envision Nature's Time Cube."
The rest of the website is laid out vertically, divided into sections that each use unique formatting.
The next section states in all capital letters that, quote,
"Three equator 4 corner Earth time rotates 96 hours as a simultaneous 4 day cube."
"You were taught that the Earth has only one equator as if the Earth was flat. You were taught ignorance."
"Creation has two sex poles and four corner races of humans."
"God is cornered as a queer."
This second section is signed as "Gene Ray, Cubic."
Just beneath this he attempts to explain his theory with more specificity.
Quote: "If Earth stood still, it would have mid-day, mid-night, sun-up and sun-down as 4 corners."
"Each rotation of Earth has 4 mid-days, 4 mid-nights, 4 sun-ups and 4 sun-downs."
"The sixteen(16) space times demonstrates cube proof of 4 full days simultaneously on earth within one(1) rotation."
"The academia created 1 day greenwich [sic] time is bastardly queer and dooms future youth and nature to a hell."
"Ignorance of 4 day harmonic cubic nature indicts humans as unfit to live on this earth."
"Gene Ray, Cubic."
These descriptions are accompanied by diagrams which attempt to illustrate his theory,
but they are similarly difficult to comprehend with labels such as "Human form is a personified pyramid"
and "4/16 cube divinity." He also had a $1,000 bounty to anyone who could disprove the theory of Time Cube,
though he would be the ultimate judge.
This website acted as a hub with hyperlinks to other TimeCube.com pages
and another of Ray's websites linked at the bottom.
The first apparently relied on a diagram as the crux of its argument
but the image has since been lost with only the text archived.
The second link, "Time Cube simultaneous 4 day Creation"
posted a single image, which also has been lost.
The third hyperlink, however, took the user to AboveGod.com
a website that was approximately equal in size to the core Time Cube website.
At the very top were the words "Christianity Is Poison Forced Upon Children"
"Nature's Harmonic Time Cube Creation Reigns Supreme."
"Welcome to the site where TimeCube is AboveGod."
"God is Ignorance."
It also appears that Ray had attempted to have his theory published in a newspaper
but had his requests rebuffed.
He writes on AboveGod.com that, quote,
"St. Petersburg Times "refuses" to inform the public of the Time Cube. That indicts them evil to children.
It seems likely that, at this time, the website was being discovered by internet users who would link it in their forums
though records of this activity appear to have largely been lost as the forums where they were shared were deleted.
Ray began to write additions to TimeCube.com in 1999,
expounding further upon his theory with more incomprehensible prose,
likely in response to increased website traffic.
As the months progressed into the 2000s, Ray began to add to the site with increasing frequency,
inserting new text with new formatting each time.
He emphasized the importance of midday and midnight as, quote, "major Time points"
while also expanding it beyond physics to biology.
He declared that, "You are a personified pyramid corner. [...]"
"A human will rotate around 4-corner lifetime stages within a family metamorphosis - baby, child, parent and grandparent."
"Name your 4/16 greatgrandparents."
Along with these updates, he created many more pages on TimeCube.com
Most of them were simply rehashes of what was said on the main site
but one in particular seems to be answering a direct question: "Are You Jewish?"
He responded aggressively. "I Am Not Jewish, Neither Was My Mother Or Father."
"Anyone saying that Jesus and his Jewish father had something to do with my birth, is a damn evil liar."
As time went on and his page's view counter ticked into the hundreds of thousands his writing only grew more fervent and enraged.
*lounge jazz*
For the next two years Ray continued his attacks against education with vigor, claiming that,
"All Educated are Stupid from brainwashing and indoctrination," and that
"Educated people are stupid cowards." This sudden surge of hatred was apparently due to the refusal of
universities to hold debates about the time cube. He declared that, quote,
"They are actually brainwashed stupid and decline any public debate for fear of public embarrassment."
"Physicists forbidden to acknowledge Time Cube. Stupid educators always beget stupid graduates."
"Not one knows of their 4-corner metamorphosis.
"- Gene Ray."
These new diatribes would appear at the top of the page, bumping his previous sections farther down.
Since Ray never deleted any of his previous writing,
this meant that all of the updates to the site would still appear in reverse chronological order,
gradually elongating the page to massive proportions.
This also meant that the crux of his argument and his diagrams would appear at the bottom,
making the page even more incomprehensible to new readers.
These updates generally would add little new information to the theory, with Ray opting instead to
reword his previous statements about the Time Cube
and to insult religious people and educational institutions.
As his anger grew, so did his ego.
He proclaimed himself both "The Greatest Thinker" and "The Wisest Human" as he was the only one able to
comprehend the Time Cube. He stated that, quote,
"I am a 'Cubic Thinker' and far wiser than any god, any scientist and any educator who preaches
the evil singularity of a single 1st corner."
- Gene Ray
He created two new sites: TheGreatestThinker.com and TheWisestHuman.com to solidify his point.
The former simply reiterated more of his theories and opinions while the latter only had a link back to TimeCube.com.
Some important factors of his theory became clearer as he posted, such as the importance of the duality of male and female
and his firm belief that the four corners of the time cube and human life were representative of one another.
He also believed that each person has four corners on their head but exactly what this means is left unclear.
Despite the relative obscurity of the website, it was apparently able to attract some level of attention.
It was featured on crank.net where it was given the title of "Illucid" and it appears that from here
it gained traction on forums where it and sections of it became early memes, such as "educated stupid."
But to the surprise of Internet users eyeing his writing, Ray would be given a platform for his theory
as well as the academic debate which he so dearly desired.
Sometime in 1999 and 2000, Gene Ray was interviewed several times by a man named
Michael William LeBron, better known by his pseudonym Lionel.
These interviews took place on the ill-fated Internet radio site eYada,
which shut down only two years after it was created and as such the interviews appear to have been lost.
However, Lionel had a strong cult following and he helped spread the word about Time Cube even further.
In 2001, Gene Ray conducted another interview with a much lesser known man named Bruno Connelly.
The first 20 minutes were preserved by Connelly on tape and subsequently shared online.
*sound of a phone connecting*
Much of what he discussed was a rehashing of his website, but it helped to clarify just how closely
his philosophy of a forest age lifecycle correlated with his view of the time cube
He also took the time to clarify his numerology.
Ray's thoughts on religion and his experiences online were also shared.
He claimed that he'd been working on the theory for twenty years.
Towards the end of the recording, Ray reiterates his desire for a debate but partway through his idea he seems to get distracted.
The ease with which Connelly was able to receive an interview with Ray caught the attention of those interested in the Time Cube,
and it wasn't long before others took advantage of his desperation to share his theory in a form that he could not refuse.
*lounge music*
Sometime in late November of 2001, Gene Ray made an announcement at the top of his website.
"Time Cube lecture at MIT on January 30th, 2002, from 3 pm to 5 pm in Lecture Hall 10-250."
"Outsiders are banned from Time Cube lecture and debate as only MIT students will be allowed to attend the event."
"Will 'free speech' be allowed?"
Almost immediately word began to spread.
On December 1st, the lecture date was shared on the Ars Technica forums, where forumites awaited the event gleefully.
Though the full recording of the event appears to be lost, the notes of one attendee, one photograph
and a small section of video have survived online and they detail a surreal scene.
There were six seats at the front of the lecture hall. One was for Gene Ray,
four were for the students who had agreed to debate him and one was left vacant at Ray's request
which he labeled as "Your God." According to the note-taker hundreds of people were in attendance and this is
corroborated by the small shred of video that remains online. Throughout the event,
the crowd of college students was rowdy and loud, cheering often in mock support of Ray.
Apparently no faculty were present.
The note-taker said of Ray's speech patterns, quote, "You know the mumbly guy on King of the Hill?"
"Boomhauer? Well imagine he was reading straight from TimeCube.com. That's what it was like listening to Gene Ray talk."
"[...] It sounded like a train of consciousness, but he kept on using different examples,
only repeating the "timecube has 4 corners" aspect."
After Ray's description of the Time Cube, the other people at the table had the opportunity
to ask him questions.
During this period when Ray would give responses the crowd would shout wildly in support of him.
The questions asked by the panel were mostly attempts to divulge Ray's thought processes.
The note-taker writes, "Erik Downes asks about people being made of different numbers of parts."
"Humans are a pyramid with 2 arms and 2 legs, I guess, and each of those has 4 main digits on it, for a total of 16."
"Of course, (and this, I swear, is a direct quote) "you don't say 16 because that would demean the value of 4.""
"That got another wild hoot of approval from the lecture hall."
"Victor Brar asks the next question. Gene says that negative one times negative one equals positive one is stupid and evil,
So Victor asks him to explain some more."
"Gene goes off of his previous explanation about the North Pole and the South Pole in various races and explains like this:
"One times one equals one makes sense because that's like saying that a North American
"times a North American equals a North American but saying negative one times negative one equals one
"is like saying a South American times a South American equals a North American."
"Okay, Gene... So negative one times negative one should equal what?"
"A South American!"
"I stopped writing notes here for about five minutes I was so busy laughing."
The audience was also invited to ask questions and a few glimpses into Ray's life were given.
The note taker writes, "[...] a university told him 'We'll put you in jail if you send us another fax.'"
"Someone asked the question a lot of us must have been wondering: "How do you finance your research?"
"Gene beamed proudly and proclaimed "credit cards!""
Ray also talked about his belief that the four corners of his time cube also represented what he perceived as the four human races,
which were, in his words, "whites, blacks Asians and Indians."
Hoping to get more out of him one of the audience members probed further.
Per the note taker: "Delving further into his four corners-four races point, a student asked how people who aren't in those four races fit in."
"Gene explained that they fit inside the Timecube, (duh!). The student said, "Well, I'm biracial--"
at which point Gene interrupted and said "You're _WHAT_?!"
Around this point students gradually began to leave the lecture hall and the debate was adjourned,
but this only marked the beginning of Ray's surged into wider cult popularity.
*lounge music*
After this lecture, word-of-mouth helped spread knowledge of the existence of the site and of Gene Ray.
In particular two groups seemed interested in him: Internet users and college students,
though there was significant overlap between the two. Over time as this interested body would interview him,
new information about his life would be teased out.
On October 15th, eight and a half months after his debate at MIT, a transcribed interview
was published in a student newspaper of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
Kate Duffy, the author of the piece, entitled "Truth is Cubic?" wrote a few notes she had learned about him in the introduction.
She revealed that Ray was 75 years old and that he had been an electrician. Over the course of his research,
he claimed that he had spent approximately $250,000 pursuing the Time Cube,
and that he had received death threats from NASA.
Duffy also shared that Ray lived in Cummings, Georgia.
Her questions were fairly simple asking about the basics of the Time Cube, but he also revealed tidbits about his personal life.
He said, quote, "My brothers and sisters have some of the highest academic degrees in Alabama,
but they don't want to know what I know."
He also revealed a bit of information about the emails he'd received.
Quote: "I get email from kids all the time. Some were suspended for looking at my website at school."
"[...] I get a lot of email from students saying I should be elected president of their student body
and that they'd fight the police but the school threatens to kick them out."
"[...] Physics majors want a Time Cube debate at Cornell."
He revealed the logic behind his aggressive prose:
"I had to get nasty on the website because educators refused to allow students to debate time cube. I can't throw rocks at them,
so the only way I can accuse them is in a nasty way. I have to do this so they'll stop ignoring it.
They'd be exposed, all educators."
"I've sent stuff to Stephen Hawking in England, but they all ignore it. They teach linear time. Time is not linear; it's cubic."
"Academia does not want it. Professors run and hide. I can call them the worst names in the book, and they run and hide."
"They cannot challenge me."
"They cannot accept the challenge because they would lose. I could break the plate glass windows of a
newspaper building and I guarantee they wouldn't take me to court, because Time Cube cannot come out in the media."
As more people learned of Ray, Internet users would sometimes email him to egg him on, as he had suggested in the interview with Duffy.
In November of 2002 he posted one of these emails he had received in late October without comment.
It read, "For a year now I have studied your Time Cube truths, but have not been able to convince others of its reality
(dumbasses). My mother is a teacher and she said it was "nutty" and "stupid." But guess what -
I cornered her, literally, in the living room one evening and forced her to admit it."
"In order to get her teaching certificate, she had to sign an affidavit stating that she would uphold the Greenwich myth until death.
I shit you not. It has been revealed."
"American teachers are sworn to fight against the truth of Time Cube."
Inevitably he attracted the interest of a tongue-in-cheek show called Unscrewed airing on Tech TV at the time
They bought him a plane ticket to San Francisco and interviewed him on June 18th, 2003,
with a set of questions prepared ready to push back against some of Ray's more befuddling claims.
Ray used his favorite prop - a plastic cube shaped paperweight with a globe inside - to illustrate his point.
Announcer: "Gene. How do you know this? What's your proof, scientifically speaking?"
Gene: "Well right here it's in the cube, you can see it. You can't deny that."
"I offered any academic institution, any professional ten thousand dollars to disprove it."
"They can't disprove it, so they ignore it and run and hide."
He was able to share some of his thoughts about the debate at MIT,
and he seemed to believe that he had been lauded rather than mocked.
Announcer: "Gosh, you know, I can't help but notice that you're wearing a hat that says Time Cube from MIT 2002;
did you- are you a professor at MIT? Did you teach this at MIT? What's the story?"
Gene: "No, I lectured up there last year, they, uh...
It was a student thing, they had about 500 students from MIT, Harvard and many other universities around there,
and they treated me like Einstein there, but the school had not sponsored it
*indistinct*
Professor would come down and explain the Time Cube or disprove it, but they run and hide."
Gene: "They cannot- academia cannot allow this to be known because it contradicts everything that they're teaching."
He also gave his thoughts about being so well known on the Internet.
Announcer: "Hey Ray, how do you feel about being an internet celebrity? I mean you're huge on the web."
Gene: "Well, the-
uh,
it's not a position I wanted, it's something I had to do."
Announcer: "Yeah."
Gene: "No, but like I'm not a writer or speaker, but no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube."
Announcer: "Alright. Hey Gene, thanks so much and good luck with your quest to convince humanity of the Time Cube principle."
Gene: "Thank you."
Announcer: "All right. That's Gene Ray..."
Over the next few years this attention would inflate Jean Ray's ego even further.
Unable to change the minds of any educators, he awarded himself a "Doctorate of Cubicism"
in late 2002 or early 2003, declaring that nobody could bestow it upon him since he was already the wisest human ever.
In October of 2003, Ray casually posted a surprising piece of writing
revealing a fact about himself that elucidated a key element of how he had come to his conclusions.
He stated that, quote, "My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that a psychiatrist examining my behavior,
eccentric by his academic single corner knowledge, knows no course other than to judge me schizophrenic."
This revelation was of little surprise to most onlookers
- many of whom had speculated that Ray suffered from some sort of mental illness -
but this didn't stop them from egging him on.
Bloating his ego further, Gene Ray was invited to perform a lecture on April 14th, 2005,
this one at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
It was advertised on the campus with a flyer which included some of Ray's more outlandish quotes such as
"Life is based upon a perfect math or your arm would be too short to wipe your butt."
A DVD containing footage of both this event and the debate at MIT was produced
but the site selling it has since gone down and nobody who owned a copy appears to have
uploaded its contents online.
According to the website where it was being sold the lecture was attended by 230 people,
though the trailer for the DVD reveals the tone that it took on.
Student: *deadpan* "Time Cube is in fact a theory of everything. I believe we've come to that conclusion
I would like to know how to apply it in order to get a date?"
What none of these onlookers could have suspected however, was that soon
Gene Ray would acquire his first truly enthusiastic and earnest adherent
Groove Grove Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
On March 7th 2005, only a month before Gene Ray's lecture in Atlanta
an Australian Internet user by the pseudonym "Cubehead" joined the forum "Graveyard of the Gods"
designed specifically for atheist discussion.
He began enthusiastically promoting Gene Ray's Time Cube,
mostly repeating the tenets that Ray was espousing on his website with similar rhetoric,
while airing interpretations of his own.
Intrigued and entertained by Cubehead's posts
they created a special board specifically for Cubehead and Time Cube discussion.
Unfortunately, almost all of Cubehead's posts have been lost,
as has the initial iteration of his personal website dedicated to Time Cube,
named "Cubic Awareness Online," which he launched in 2004.
However, the second version of the site released on January 20th 2006 remains
which expands upon Gene Ray's theories.
It contains three main sections: the first, devoted to the core principles of the Time Cube,
the second to evidence of the Time Cube in nature,
and the third about how the time cube impacts humanity; all neatly color-coded
Also of note was a section attempting to construct an axiomatic proof of the Time Cube in 64 cases
as well as a link taking readers back to the Time Cube board on Graveyard of the Gods.
Later that year,  he began posting YouTube videos under the name "Pyramid0rz"
and he would link to these videos on his website as well. His first video was published on September 3, 2006
nine months after the launch of the Cubic Awareness Online website,
but his line delivery and video production led commenters to believe that he was mocking the theory
or simply attempting to make campy humor.
Cubehead: "They want to know if God exists. The answer?"
"No."
Cubehead: "They want to know what the real truth is. The answer?"
"Time Cube."
Cubehead: "Yes, Time Cube was discovered by Dr. Gene Ray,
who is consequently The Greatest Thinker and Wisest Human whom humanity has ever known."
The following day, he published "Death of Steve Irwin: he died!!" which only supported this belief that he was making a joke out of Gene Ray.
In it, he awkwardly transitions from talking about Steve Irwin's death to advocating for the Time Cube.
Cubehead: "During his life, Steve Irwin saved crocodiles and giant Galapagos Tortoises.
Now that he has died, it's time that we not only save the crocodiles, but also save humanity.
We need to use Time Cube in order to save humanity."
Cubehead: "At the time of his death, Steve Irwin was aged 44. 4 is the supreme number of the universe."
Viewers were appalled by his lack of tact.
Responding to the criticism, he edited the About section of the video to read
"This video is RESPECTFUL, it's not meant to insult Mr. Irwin or those who mourn his death.
Please don't flame me or make threats against me; it was not my intent to offend people. Thank you."
"See website www.cubicao.tk for more Time Cube information."
Over the next two months, Cubehead would post a total of eight Time Cube-related videos
along with two short films utilising basic 3D animation.
*midi music*
The fervor with which Cubehead proselytized the Time Cube didn't go unnoticed by Gene Ray
and sometime in early 2007 the two apparently opened communication.
In February, Cubehead posted an update to the cubic AO website stating that Ray had personally given him advice.
However, the attention from Ray wasn't entirely positive.
Sometime in August, Ray added an update to his site which read
"The ONLY official site for Gene Ray/Time Cube, so beware of associates".
"No ONE has my Wisdom."
In light of this, Cubehead made another addition to the website after consulting him.
He wrote a disclaimer displayed in small orange font at the very top of the page and it appeared that
- despite Ray's heartfelt desire to have information on the Time Cubes spread out across the world -
he also was quite possessive of it. It read,
"DISCLAIMER: This CubicAO website doesn't claim to offer any "Cubic Prophecies."
"This CubicAO site is a secondary unofficial site that is subordinate to TimeCube.com."
"This CubicAO site is not intended to be glorified above TimeCube.com."
"Scientists don't know what gravity is. They don't know what physics is."
"We must attack the scientists, Academia and religion or face cannibalism like Easter Island."
"CubicAO is not intended to be more powerful than Dr. Gene Ray's Time Cube site and indeed CubicAO is separate from Dr Gene Ray's Time Cube site."
"This cubic AO site is not intended to contain excessive amounts of artwork."
What this last sentence precisely means is unclear.
Despite this rebuke, Cubehead would still be granted one of the things he desired most dearly:
the opportunity to meet Gene Ray in person; and this encounter would prove to offer more Information about him
than any other interactions so far.
On November 21st 2007, Cubehead uploaded the first episode of the "Dr. Gene Ray Time Cube Experience."
This video series would be released piecemeal over the next two months in eight to ten minute segments due to the video length
limitations in place on YouTube at the time.
Janczarski had arrived on August 2nd, three and a half months before the video was edited and posted.
after ray asked Janczarski about his flight and about his age, he was quick to reveal information about himself
speaking of his childhood and his family.
Once they arrived at Ray's home, he began to show some of his merchandise and the drawings that he had scanned for TimeCube.com
Cubehead: "Right, so. "Cubic Thought Reigns As The Highest Power.
- Gene Ray, Cubic."
Cubehead: "Yeah, and the back of it says "I am a born Cubic -- The Wisest Human & The Greatest Thinker." at www.timecube.com."
These videos would also reveal personal moments including a visit from his grandchildren.
After this, the two of them went out to a shed where Ray had stored what he called his papers and notes
relating to the Time Cube, as well as printed copies of his emails from supporters and detractors on the Internet.
After this discussion, Janczarski sat Ray down to ask basic questions about the Time Cube,
a discussion which was edited down to a total of approximately an hour.
Over the course of this interview Ray slouches farther and farther down his seat as he appears to grow tired and frustrated.
Here, Ray reveals a bit more about his theory, showcasing some of his misunderstanding about mathematics and physics.
Ray also revealed that he was working on a book with new illustrative diagrams.
Ray's logic behind the difficult-to-read format of the website was also explained.
At one point Janczarski joins Ray and some of his friends for lunch
revealing that Ray is at least not entirely isolated from social interaction.
Later in the series Ray reveals even more about his personal history as the two drive through a thunderstorm
Once they returned, Ray revealed what he had been doing before he devoted his life to his Time Cube theory.
He then details how marbles is the perfect representation of the Time Cube, combining his passion with his theory.
The last episode shows video of Jean Rey being interviewed again by Lionel where he desperately attempts to explain the Time Cube.
But despite Ray's receptiveness during Janczarski's stay, things would quickly deteriorate in a catastrophic way
[cw: suicide]
Sometime in mid-August, after Janczarski had returned home to Australia, Ray wrote a short update on his website.
"Cubicao.tk Trashes My Site, With My Data and His Erroneous Prophecy Crap."
"I Denounce Cubicao.tk as Harmful To "Time Cube" And Copyright Infringement."
This message was so important to Ray that he made sure that it was always displayed at the top of his site,
even as he made new additions. Despite this negative attention, Janczarski uploaded the videos anyways
but this rejection from his hero took its toll on his already fragile psyche.
On February 13th 2008, a new user on the Graveyard of the Gods forums by the name of "hanschess" made a post.
The contents read:
"My former student Richard Janczarski died yesterday. He took his own life."
"I did an internet search on him and found this forum. I registered so that I could inform you of this."
"Richard played the violin and benefited a great deal from music. He was a shy student and found it difficult to fit in."
"He was a gifted computer programmer."
"I'm sure he brought lively debate and hopefully contributed to 'stretching' people's thinking even if different from their own ideas."
"Please give him a thought."
"Regards, Hans."
Forumites were understandably dubious, wanting evidence of the death.
Quickly finding his profile on Facebook, one user reached out to some of Janczarski's friends,
who revealed that he had leapt in front of a train in view of a large crowd.
Another friend created an account as well to speak of him.
Quote: "To those who knew him in highschool he really disappeared off the radar for a few years
until November last year when we ran into him drinking by himself at the pub."
"Everyone's reaction here was fucked but not overly surprised. In recent times he had been slipping into
depression, pro-nazi white supremacy propaganda and losing focus on goals in life."
"There was so much more into his life which has more disturbing elements than time cube...
but now isn't really the best time to go into them.
Hans returned one last time to label Janczarski as, quote,
"[...] an amazing poet and philosopher. A man with such passion and ideals. He was a tormented soul
who was searching for his way in this world. Sadly he succumbed to [...] the mental disorders that he suffered.
Some time later his gravestone was discovered, bearing the date of death that Hans had mentioned.
The inscription reads:
"Profoundly treasured and loved by his family. 
Our little prince who is at peace now."
Unknowing - or perhaps uncaring - Gene Ray continued to update his site.
Eventually he would remove any reference to CubicAO.tk, only leaving a message near the top that read
"The ONLY Official Site For Gene Ray/Time Cube. Gene Ray is sole Authority on Harmonic Time Cube."
"Collection of raw data on this Site will empower the Greatest Book ever written."
"That includes Bibles and Academic Scientific books. 
Stop evil Ad Hominemism."
But the attention that Gene Ray desired was beginning to peter out. Shortly after the death of Janczarski,
he began complaining about financial issues, stating that unless he received donations, he may have to shut down.
His ramblings also became more and more violent and frenzied. In one update, he wrote
"Americans are dumb educated one stupid and they worship oneism Evil."
"It is not immoral to kill believers, for the stupid bastards evolve from son or daughter who precedes them."
He also created a Twitter account using the handle "@Wisest_Human" where he made short angry posts, such as
"Queers killed my lil Brother. A Queer God induces AIDS."
This profile would only see use for six months, after having posted 30 tweets.
Years ticked by and Ray continued his rambling posts, but they were growing more and more incomprehensible.
One post reads in part:
"?? Navel Connects 4 Corner 4s.
? God Is Born Of A Mother —
?? She Left Belly B. Signature."
"Every Priest Has Ma Sign
? But Lies To Honor Queers.
Belly B. Proves 4 Corners."
By this point Ray had entered his 80s and his mental state was degrading. In May of 2012,
Ray made his final update to the site, again proclaiming the conspiracy of standardized time.
He would linger for another three years keeping the site going but inevitably on March 18th, 2015,
he died at the age of 87.  Later that year the license on the domain ran out.
The site's demise was covered by online publications - including The Verge and Gizmodo -
but soon after the site was brought back up by someone posing as Gene Ray.
In early 2017 however it ran out again, and now the page only displays a blank space.
With both advocates for the Time Cube having passed away, the site only survives on the Wayback Machine and as jokes online.
Otis Eugene Ray now serves as a relic of a past era
but also as an omen for the way that the internet would soon target people with mental illnesses and eccentric
personalities for the sake of humor. He acts as a symbol of some of the powers, opportunities
and dangers of the Information Age, where the newest celebrities can come from the most unexpected places.
