{"id":"wife-guys","name":"Wife Guys","summary":"Wife Guys are men online who build a public persona around their wives, posting about them so devotedly or dramatically that observers turn each new example into a joke. The archetype crystallized on Twitter in the late 2010s after Robbie Tripp's Curvy Wife post, the ProJared scandal, and Shonduras' Cliff Wife video.","tags":["wife guys","wife guy meme","curvy wife guy","cliff wife guy","robbie tripp","shonduras","projared elf wife","borat my wife","weird twitter","markusj email"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":8,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/wife-guys-wife-guys-illustration.webp","caption":"Illustration accompanying commentary on the 'Wife Guys' phenomenon, depicting a husband publicly performing devotion to his wife.","width":1061,"height":609,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/wife-guys-keifer-hozier-my-wife-tweet.webp","caption":"A late-2017 tweet applying the 'Borat voice: my wife' format to Hozier lyrics, part of the ironic wife-guy meme lineage.","width":680,"height":434,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/wife-guys-dont-email-my-wife-garage.webp","caption":"Vandalism on Cliff Nichols's home referencing the 'Don't email my wife' Cliff Wife Guy saga, one of the notable wife-guy scandals.","width":680,"height":453,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/wife-guys-buzzfeed-wife-curves-reaction.webp","caption":"A viral 2017 reaction tweet mocking the low bar celebrated in the original 'Robbie Tripp' wife-guy BuzzFeed article.","width":680,"height":456,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/wife-guys-bar-lowered-wife-attractive-tweet.webp","caption":"A widely shared 2017 tweet reacting to the Robbie Tripp wife-guy BuzzFeed piece that helped codify the wife-guy critique.","width":680,"height":629,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/wife-guys-elle-oh-hell-confession-thread.webp","caption":"Opening of the Elle Oh Hell thread in which a man confessed he had been running a popular female-presenting Twitter account using his wife's likeness.","width":554,"height":1199,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/wife-guys-elle-oh-hell-avatar-reveal.webp","caption":"The pivotal reveal tweet from the Elle Oh Hell wife-guy incident admitting the account owner was a man using his wife's photo.","width":554,"height":1199,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/wife-guys-elle-oh-hell-apology-tweets.webp","caption":"Later tweets from the Elle Oh Hell apology thread, a defining moment in the wife-guy discourse of 2019.","width":554,"height":1199,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/wife-guys/history.md","related":["karen","josie","internet-tough-guy","manic-pixie-dream-girl","mary-sue","the-four-humors","bobo-the-bear","hello-kitty-girl","ninjas","superheroes","bitcoin-enthusiast","wojak-bloomer"],"popularityRank":2057,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}