The fearless reporters of babe dot net are under siege by the Instagram influencer known as the Curvy Wife Guy. Robbie Tripp, the man who shot to fame by uploading a horny and unsettling post about his wife ("Her shape and size won't be the one featured on the cover of Cosmopolitan but it's the one featured in my life and in my heart") is threatening legal action against us because we said his book was worse than the Unabomber Manifesto. 
 
 We will not be intimidated! We will not be silenced! We will stand up for our – and your – First Amendment rights! You, the readers of babe dot net deserve to know that in our opinion, the Curvy Wife Guy's book sucks an entire ass. 
 
 In a light-hearted, jokey article about the Curvy Wife Guy – the rich and famous Instagram celebrity – we presented passages from Create Rebellion (he calls it "an abstract manifesto for disruptive creativity") and the Unabomber Manifesto (an equally impenetrable screed that Ted Kaczynski wrote before he became America's most famous domestic terrorist), and asked readers to tell the difference. 
 
 Among others, we selected this extract of Curvy Wife Guy's book, and said in our view, it comes across as utterly unhinged – "write-a-hit-list-on-a-high-school-bathroom-wall crazy." 
 
 "Be careful and act swiftly as you operate among their spiteful hostility; their infection can quickly turn you into a diseased member of their epidemic of complacency and whoredom. These nasty symptoms of free-flowing hatred and negativity are ones that can so easily taint your own mind. Revolt against this faction's pathetic pornography and shatter their closed doors into splinters, exposing their pastime of staying on porches of criticism and enjoying lounge chairs of scorn." 
 
 The book doesn't make any sense – deny it if you want to! If the inexplicable ravings of a celebrity are your vibe, feel free to buy Create Rebellion for $7.66 on Amazon. But we reserve the right to say it's a dumb book and that read out loud, each chapter sounds like screams in the night. 
 
 Curvy Wife Guy got his lawyer involved, and wrote to us to say he was considering legal action. He identified himself as an "author" (his book is self-published on Amazon) and wrote: "I am writing to inform you that I have contacted my legal counsel concerning potential litigation for defamation, false light, and copyright violation claims against your website "Babe.net." The website has deliberately and negligently violated my copyright in multiple articles, and has exhibited a pattern of targeted harassment of me and my reputation through a series of articles written by a Mr. Harry Shukman." 
 
 "The overall tone and intent of the aforementioned articles serve no purpose other than to effectively defame me to the public at large," he added. 
 
 And then came the issue that he said amounted to "defamation and false light." We found numerous Instagram posts he made about black people from before he was famous. He posted photos of a black friend saying his skin was too dark for the camera, that everyone in his Californian college was either "black or Mexican", and that his white friend had just come back from "the hood apartment." 
 
 He also uploaded an image where he used the n-word to refer to a black friend. Since publishing that blog about his Instagram posts, he edited all six of his captions to remove references to race. 
 
 (He also edited a seventh photo we found where he called his grandpa a "stud" and said they both had "#mormon #swag".) 
 
 Tripp edited the post above, so now it says "my ninja Steve." He originally wrote "my nijja Steve," which as anyone lame enough to read Urban Dictionary knows (correct: the person lame enough is me), is another way of saying "n***a." 
 
 Here are some of the other posts he made during his less woke era: 
 
 And just while I've got you here: 
 
 Anyway: the book is bad. Good news is…. he's writing another!! 
 
 Bonus extract for your consideration 
 
 "Blitzkrieg the cowardly corporations with your open awareness of their misdeeds. You must make them understand that you are no longer a marionette that is subject to the inconsiderate movements of their wretched wrists. Become a variable, an unquantifiable figure that can't be marginalized into taking any one particular shape." 
 
 Recommended posts in the Curvy Wife Guy oeuvre 
 
 • Bet you can’t tell the difference between Curvy Wife Guy’s book and the Unabomber manifesto 
 
 • Surprise! Curvy Wife Guy is actually super racist! 
 
 • That weird ‘Curvy Wife Guy’ hates us :( 
 
 • The Curvy Wife Guy is back on his bullshit and desperate to go viral again 
 
 • Remember the thicc wife guy? He’s writing a book 
 
 @hshukman 

 The Curvy Wife Guy (you might know him as The Thicc Wife Guy, né Robbie Tripp), would have you think he's a lovable, cutesy husband who loves his partner. And viral news sites like NowThis would have you believe he's a thoughtful influencer who "spreads positive messages about self-love and confidence." 
 
 So would you think any differently about him if we told you he also said the n-word? Here's a post he made as a 22-year-old in college, before he found fame as a squeaky-clean, body-positive Instagram king. 
 
 "Turn up with my nijja Steve," he said in October 2012. 
 
 In case you weren't sure: 
 
 Before he became the brand-safe sponsored content machine that he is now, earning six figures by partnering up with McDonalds and Alaska Air and Chase Bank, he made a few other posts that in light of him calling his black friend "nijja" seem a bit… weird: 
 
 Also, while we're on the subject, this might be the only guy ever to say #mormon #swag. Lol: 
 
 #TrippSwag 
 
 UPDATE 
 
 Curvy Wife Guy edited all of these posts, so we have replaced them with screenshots! Find out more here, spoiler: he's threatening to sue us! 
 
 Recommended posts (please tell me if you've had enough of the thicc wife guy this is getting excessive) 
 
 • That weird ‘Curvy Wife Guy’ hates us :( 
 
 • The Curvy Wife Guy is back on his bullshit and desperate to go viral again 
 
 • Remember the thicc wife guy? He’s writing a book 
 
 @hshukman 

 The 21st Century's number one trickster is Robbie Tripp, aka The Curvy Wife Guy, sometimes called The Thicc Wife Guy. He's the horny weirdo who went viral with a deeply weird Instagram post about his wife: "Her shape and size won't be the one featured on the cover of Cosmopolitan but it's the one featured in my life and in my heart." 
 
 He took advantage of his newfound fame, and started earning a six figure salary through sponsored content deals with airlines, banks and hair-loss serums. Curvy Wife Guy, whose n-word posts we found last week, is the subject of enduring fascination at babe dot net not just because he hates our guts, but also because of his relentless pursuit of success. 
 
 Instagram is just one part of the Curvy Wife Guy's empire. He calls himself a "wordsmith, public speaker, and creative activist" and wrote a book called Create Rebellion, which he calls "an abstract manifesto for disruptive creativity." As Curvy Wife Guy's influence grows – he was recently praised by NowThis for spreading "positive messages about self-love and confidence" – I wanted to go through his book in detail and learn more about the mind behind the thiccness. 
 
 Create Rebellion is a three parter – a beginning about his creative process (he wakes up early and types on a laptop, that seems to be it), a middle with a few chapters of bonkers advice, and then an end with 15 blank pages (the whole book clocks in at 108 pages). 
 
 The first thing you need to know about the Curvy Wife Guy is that his book literally reads like the Unabomber Manifesto. I'm not even kidding! It's a totally incomprehensible rant, an impenetrable and frightening pamphlet that rails against his enemies and praises his own superior talent. 
 
 See if you can distinguish between these two extracts – one is from the famous Instagram influencer who loves his thicc wife, and another is from Ted Kaczynski, the bloodthirsty 90s terrorist who murdered a load of people: 
 
 Extract 1 
 
 "Be careful and act swiftly as you operate among their spiteful hostility; their infection can quickly turn you into a diseased member of their epidemic of complacency and whoredom. These nasty symptoms of free-flowing hatred and negativity are ones that can so easily taint your own mind. Revolt against this faction's pathetic pornography and shatter their closed doors into splinters, exposing their pastime of staying on porches of criticism and enjoying lounge chairs of scorn. Their path is much easier than the one you have chosen to pursue, but do not be tempted by its hollow pleasure. Common minds critique, while great minds create." 
 
 Extract 2 
 
 "It is true that primitive man is powerless against some of the things that threaten him; disease for example. But he can accept the risk of disease stoically. It is part of the nature of things, it is no one’s fault, unless it is the fault of some imaginary, impersonal demon. But threats to the modern individual tend to be MAN-MADE. They are not the results of chance but are IMPOSED on him by other persons whose decisions he, as an individual, is unable to influence. Consequently he feels frustrated, humiliated and angry." 
 
 Extract 1 was Curvy Wife Guy, Extract 2 was the Unabomber! Did you guess right? Disturbingly, a lot of Create Rebellion reads like this – an angry, right-click-synonym-heavy screed against Curvy Wife Guy's haters. His imagery is pretty clear: he sees himself as a Christ-tier genius whose veins are pumping with pure creativity, everyone else is a disease-ridden leper reeking of "complacency and whoredom" (sounds pretty metal, tbh). The haters are all into their lounge chairs and pornography, whereas he's a cool creator with honest intentions. Maybe this all makes more sense when remembering that Curvy Wife Guy is a Mormon. 
 
 There's a short moment of extreme hypocrisy in Create Rebellion. At the start of the second chapter, Curvy Wife Guy says: "Blitzkrieg the cowardly corporations with your open awareness of their misdeeds. You must make them understand that you are no longer a marionette that is subject to the inconsiderate movements of their wretched wrists." It's not an exaggeration to call this crazy as fuck — like, write-a-hit-list-on-a-high-school-bathroom-wall crazy. 
 
 If only he followed his own advice. Today he'll do anything to get in with the cowardly corporations, especially ones famous for misdeeds. He's done sponsored Instagram posts for McDonalds, Chase Bank, Alaska Air, eBay and L'Occitane, to name just a few. Look at this post and tell me he's not a marionette subjected to the inconsiderate movements of McDonalds: 
 
 This, coming from the guy who called himself an intellectual "crusader". He actually thinks he has divine right – the Curvy Wife Guy was chosen by a higher power grace us with his sponsored content: 
 
 "While many now suffer in darkness, there is hope for the select few whose synapses remain open to our intellectual vaccination…The all-knowing Cartographer did not have average things in mind for you when he handcrafted your diaphragm and then breathed into you the beginning of your journey." 
 
 Of course nobody wants to think they're a complete loser, but it takes a certain type of idiot to believe that they alone are a genius, especially when their oeuvre amounts to 1) Instagram posts about thinking your wife is hot 2) telling your followers to buy "tasty 100% fresh beef Quarter Pounders from participating McDonald's restaurants." 
 
 It's worth mentioning that this book is self-published. So when Curvy Wife Guy said: "I'm living my dream, man. I'm a published author and writer," he isn't exactly telling you the truth. He paid a self-publishing company to print Create Rebellion, which again, isn't a million miles away from an unhinged terrorist just uploading his 'Why Murder Is Good' PDF onto the internet. Create Rebellion is a waste of your money – it won't help you be more creative, unless 'terrifying howls about people the Curvy Wife Guy hates' is your jam. At least Dabiq, the magazine put out by ISIS, had better formatting. 
 
 Bonus extract 
 
 Recommended posts (please, for the love of God, tell me if you've read enough posts on the thicc wife guy and I'll stop it's getting weird now) 
 
 • Surprise! Curvy Wife Guy is actually super racist! 
 
 • That weird ‘Curvy Wife Guy’ hates us :( 
 
 • The Curvy Wife Guy is back on his bullshit and desperate to go viral again 
 
 @hshukman 

 "Robbie Tripp's first book, 'Create Rebellion' offers an antidote to those finding themselves in a creative stupor. In a stream of consciousness style, Tripp asks that you treat fear and surrounding spiritual destitution as a catalyst for your art. In poetic lucidity he tells you to "become the chaos." ...In between 'mm's, 'ah's and nods I was taken in by Create Rebellion's unique position as a chameleon text; it sits comfortably between prose, poetry and manifesto. Tripp's words would work as well in a book as it would pinned to a Literary student's dorm-room wall. You can dip in and out of 'Create Rebellion' and still appreciate the poetic language and its ability to inspire just as well as if you read in it all in one sitting. Even a slice will resonate." - The Jotter Magazine"A missive for creative minds, exhorting them to pursue their inner desires to create at all costs, to abhor conformity, to associate only with others of the same mind and to disregard those who may not agree with their lofty visions. They are also commanded to disrupt any commonplace creations. Robbie Tripp seeks to dazzle with allegorical alliteration." - The Salinas Californian"The San Francisco author discusses with creative minds in his avant-garde stream of consciousness to be disruptive, and to disregard those who don’t see the beauty of their vision." - The San Francisco Examiner"Robbie Tripp is a true wordsmith with his recent pop-manifesto 'Create Rebellion.'" - Los Angeles Downtown News"Robbie Tripp, who hosted John Steinbeck Library’s Salinas Author’s Forum and started the Salinas Writer’s Circle, has written a new book that seeks to inspire creative minds to listen to the inner desires to create, to be disruptive in their creations. James B. Golden, Salinas Poet Laureate and author of Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain calls it 'a beautifully abstract work written in Tripp’s unique stream of consciousness style that offers up genuine creative wisdom.'' - Monterey County Weekly"When I first met Robbie as an aspiring writer in the literary hub of Salinas, California, I knew it was only a matter of time before he would create something this special. Create Rebellion is a beautifully abstract work written in Tripp's unique stream of consciousness style that offers up genuine creative wisdom."- James B. Golden, Author of Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain, NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry, City of Salinas Poet Laureate"Create Rebellion is sure to inspire creatives to question their purpose, enabling them to disrupt and think beyond their orbit. Tripp's distinct voice refreshingly expresses the beauty of every artist's quest for inspiration with real panache." - Melatan Riden, Director of Design at TBWA/Chiat/Day"Creativity takes courage, and courage is a virtue. Create Rebellion inspires that courage."- Eli Reed, Professional skateboarder, Fashion designer at Eli Reed NYC 

 This is the legal battle of the century. 
 
 Robbie Tripp describes himself as an “author, public speaker, entrepreneur, and influencer.” But you probably know him as the “curvy wife guy.” View this photo on Instagram Instagram: @tripp 
 
 ICYMI, Tripp went viral last year for an Instagram post in which he said he loved his wife for being a “curvy goddess,” even though other, less woke men might not understand it. It became a meme. 
 
 Tripp is also the author of Create Rebellion, a book he describes as a “creative bible for the disruptive soul.” View this photo on Instagram Instagram: @tripp 
 
 His website bills the book as “an avant-garde stream of consciousness that seeks to inspire creative minds to listen to their inner desires to create, to be disruptive with their creations, and to disregard those who don't see the beauty of their inspired vision.” 
 
 However, it didn't get a great review from Babe.net, which has been covering Tripp in detail (they also recently revealed some old racist Instagrams he had). Writer Harry Shukman wrote a post about the book saying it “reads like the Unabomber Manifesto.” Babe 
 
 Shukman challenges readers to try to identify if a quote is from Create Rebellion, or from domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski's deranged ramblings. View this photo on Instagram Instagram: @tripp 
 
 “Disturbingly, a lot of Create Rebellion reads like this — an angry, right-click-synonym-heavy screed against Curvy Wife Guy's haters,” Shukman writes. “His imagery is pretty clear: he sees himself as a Christ-tier genius whose veins are pumping with pure creativity, everyone else is a disease-ridden leper reeking of ‘complacency and whoredom’ (sounds pretty metal, tbh).” 
 
 This apparently did not sit well with Tripp. According to Babe.net, Tripp's lawyer sent editors a letter threatening legal action over the book review. BREAKING: WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED https://t.co/4Vq2dJgTGz 
 
 According to Shukman, the letter stated that the site’s coverage of Tripp amounted to “targeted harassment.” “The overall tone and intent of the aforementioned articles serve no purpose other than to effectively defame me to the public at large,” the letter stated. 
 
 In his post, Shukman defended his right to free speech, saying “readers of babe dot net deserve to know that in our opinion, the Curvy Wife Guy's book sucks an entire ass.” View this photo on Instagram Instagram: @tripp 
 
 Babe.net provided a statement on the matter to BuzzFeed News: “Congress shall make no law preventing the trashing of a dumb book, or prohibiting the free shading thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of babe dot net to peaceably critique ‘abstract manifestos for disruptive creativity’ written by an Insta-famous weirdo obsessed with talking about his wife’s thiiiiccness.” 
 
 In an email to BuzzFeed News, Tripp said he felt Babe was infringing on his copyright. View this photo on Instagram Instagram: @tripp
– Remember the "Curvy Wife Guy," aka Robbie Tripp, who made a name for himself when his Instagram post about how much he loves his wife's "thick thighs, big booty, cute little side roll, etc." went viral (and led to unimpressed reactions)? Well, he's back in the news, threatening to sue Babe.net, the website perhaps best known for publishing the Aziz Ansari accuser's account of her date with the actor. Babe "has been covering Tripp in detail," BuzzFeed News explains, and one of its writers reviewed Tripp's book, Create Rebellion. The book bills itself as a "true manifesto" for the "disruptive soul," but Babe writer Harry Shukman said that it reads more like the "Unabomber manifesto"; Shukman pulled out excerpts from Create Rebellion as well as domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski's manifesto and dared readers to see if they could tell which one was which. Well, that didn't go over well with Tripp: In a follow-up post, Shukman revealed Tripp sent Babe a letter to warn that he has consulted his lawyer and is considering suing the site for defamation, false light, and copyright infringement. "The website has deliberately and negligently violated my copyright in multiple articles, and has exhibited a pattern of targeted harassment of me and my reputation," the letter says. Tripp told BuzzFeed that full pages of his book were photographed and published without permission. Babe assures readers it will not be silenced by Tripp; in a statement, it declares, "Congress shall make no law preventing the trashing of a dumb book ... or the right of babe dot net to peaceably critique ‘abstract manifestos for disruptive creativity’ written by an Insta-famous weirdo obsessed with talking about his wife’s thiiiiccness."