An anonymous Internet vigilante is making waves after "curating" (read: outright uploading without attribution) a new book by controversial Instagram star Josh Ostrovsky, also known as "The Fat Jew."
Ostrovsky has been widely criticized recently for uploading jokes written by Twitter and Instagram users without attribution.
The user, @updog7, uploaded full-color scans of Ostrovsky's book, Money Pizza Respect, to Twitter, adding "I wrote a book!" While that triumphant tweet was taken down, due to a complaint from the copyright holder, many of Ostrovsky's book pages remain on the Twitter user's page.
pic.twitter.com/W7zT5fx3iM— Sealfan78 (@updog7) November 5, 2015
pic.twitter.com/3ejmyCSFFN— Sealfan78 (@updog7) November 5, 2015
The Twitter user also uploaded the book as a PDF on Google Drive.
While it's possible that this anonymous user is a comedian who's been scorned by Ostrovsky's shady practices in the past, some critics have theorized that the whole ordeal is a marketing stunt by Ostrovsky or his team. The avatar attached to the @updog7 account is the same image tied to an account called @uptowndogfunk, which some believe to be a shell account that Ostrovsky uses to plagiarize tweets.
so @fatjew posts stolen tweets to a dummy twitter so he can say he's attributing (without crediting the real authors) pic.twitter.com/CnBJBc4Qpq— Cohen is a ghost (@skullmandible) August 15, 2015
For anyone as confused as this writer was by the evidence thief account @uptowndogfunk is @fatjew, a reader explains: pic.twitter.com/6xMPotOi7D— Plagiarism Is Bad (@PlagiarismBad) August 17, 2015
Ostrovsky has 6.5 million Instagram followers and 256,000 Twitter followers.
Mashable reached out for comment from @updog7 and Ostrovsky's representative, but neither immediately responded.
Saba Hamedy contributed to this report.
H/T: Death and Taxes