A sports reporter who earned the ire of the internet after calling Rihanna 'fat' — and writing a whole article about it — has been suspended after inspiring tremendous backlash.

On Tuesday, Bartstool Sports published a 350-word rant by Chris 'Spags' Spagnuolo about Rihanna's supposed weight gain, which cracked 'jokes' about her looking like she was wearing a sumo suit. In the piece, he also worried that her new look was 'dangerous' because it would inspire other 'hot girls' to follow suit.

Unsurprisingly, Spagnuolo was met with widespread criticism and accusations of misogyny — a backlash that was so intense that he has just been suspended from blogging on the website indefinitely.

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Ridiculous: Chris 'Spags' Spagnuolo, a writer at Barstool Sports, wrote an entire article calling Rihanna 'fat' based on photos from this Saturday (pictured)

Under fire: Both Spagnuolo and Barstool Sports tweeted links to the article, which claimed Rihanna looked like she weighs 180lbs, though Barstool removed its tweets following criticism

Not ashamed: Spagnuolo stands by his piece, though Barstool today decided to delete it

The piece was based on pictures of Rihanna in New York City from this past Saturday, in which one could argue that the 29-year-old singer looked heavier than usual.

The Barstool Sports writer, however, appeared to take personal offense at her supposed weight gain — and wrote an entire piece both making fun of her for it and worrying that Rihanna getting 'fat' would influence her fans to follow suit.

Ignoring his own advice? In 2014, Spagnuolo wrote another article in which he advised readers to 'take ownership on everything you do. Good things, flaws, whatever'

'Is Rihanna Going To Make Being Fat The Hot New Trend?' the piece was called.

The article was swiftly met with criticism from Twitter users and other publications, with Cosmpolitan.com calling Barstool a 'garbage sports site', and Allure magazine tweeting: 'Using misogyny & body-shaming women as a way to earn Twitter engagement is a pretty pathetic path to success.'

On Wednesday, the website's editor Dave Portnoy issued a statement admitting the piece should have been written, but did not go so far as to apologize.

Today, however, the article has been removed from the website — and Portnoy has been announced that Spagnuolo has been suspended from blogging.

'BREAKING NEWS: @ChrisSpags suspended from blogging indefinitely,' Barstool Sports's Deke Zucker tweeted this afternoon. Around the same time, the article was deleted from Barstool Sports' website.

Consequences: Today, it was announced that he will no longer be blogging for the site

Yikes! Spagnuolo then lashed out, making a rude comment about his boss

Despite being able to dish it out, though, it seems Spagnuolo can't take it. In what would seem to most people to be a career-ending move, he replied with a vulgar tweet about his boss.

'Breaking: My boss can't handle getting called out in Cosmo now that he's trying to f*** anyyone who reads Teen Vogue [sic],' he wrote.

Once again, people replied to the writer with criticism, pointing out that the tweet was a surefire way to lose a job.

'Interviewer: So why were you fired?' wrote one woman. 'You: I fat-shamed a celebrity in a poorly-written article & then cried on Twitter when it was deleted.'

'Next tweet should be your resume,' added someone else.

The suspension comes after thousands of Twitter users and internet commenters called for his head yesterday following his crude Rihanna insults.

Sad: Hundreds have taken to Twitter to call him out for being rude and chauvinistic

Ouch: ven major publishers have chimed in; Allure called it 'pathetic' that the brand was trying to earn Twitter engagement by body-shaming women and being misogynistic

In the piece, he said that it seemed that RiRi had been 'enjoying that good room service a bit too long', and even wondered if she was 'going for Ashley Graham's spot on the plus-sized hierarchy' with a tone that implied he thinks that's a bad thing.'

Deciding that she has, in fact, gained weight, he went on, 'that means it's time to worry if you're not a guy who fancies himself a chubby chaser'.

Noting that Rihanna is a big influencer, he wrote that he is worried other young women will be influenced to gain weight to look like her.

'So you see her pushing 180 and it's a tough world to stomach,' he wrote, making a dubious estimation of her current weight.

He worried that 'the hottest girls' will soon 'look like the humans in Wall-E', writing: 'A world of ladies shaped like the Hindenburg loaded into one-piece bathing suits may be on the horizon now that Rihanna is traipsing around out there looking like she's in a sumo suit.'

Not just RiRi fanatics! Men and women both called him out, pointing out that it wasn't just huge Rihanna fans who were disgusted

Straight-forward: Orange is the New Black actor Nick Stevenson called it a 'd*** move' after the writer said Rihanna looked like she was wearing a sumo suit

'It's a dangerous precedent,' he added, hyperbolically describing the future as 'dystopian'.

After the piece went up, both Spagnuolo and Barstool Sports tweeted links — immediately opening the floodgates to criticism.The Twitterverse chimed in, calling both the writer and the site out for the nasty piece.

Barstool Sports soon deleted its tweet, though it is still up proudly on Spagnuolo's personal account — where the writer continues to defend it.

'You're way out of line,' wrote one Twitter user, while hundreds left gifs of disbelief and disgust.

He has been called 'tasteless', a 'd***head', and 'dumb' by both men and women, with many calling for him to delete the post.

Even Barstool UI/UX designer Megan Carrier criticized the piece, writing on Twitter, 'when the squad finally gets the brand to not be synonymous with sexism and then someone writes this for attention.'

Staying strong: Rihanna was seen just three days later in another baggy outfit, hinting that the 'weight' was really just her clothes

Glamorous: Earlier this month, she was seen looking stunning in Cannes

Before suspending him, Barstool Sports editor Dave Portnoy tried to do damage control, issuing a statement on the matter which fell far short of an actual apology.

'To be honest I don't think the blog was as bad as many are making it out to be, but I'll tell you this. It wasn't that funny either and I could have told you with absolute certainty that feminists would hate it and use it as an example of "there goes Barstool being Barstool again,"' the statement read.

'There are just certain topics that you better nail if you're gonna write about them because you know they are hot button issues for us,' he went on, framing the problem as being not that the piece was rude or nasty, but that it wasn't funny enough.

'So if you're gonna blog about Rihanna gaining weight you better be funny as fuck and you better make it bullet proof,' he said.

Spagnuolo, meanwhile, would not back down against his critics — though he did cry 'cyberbullying'.

Waaah: Later, Spagnuolo whined on Twitter that he was being 'cyberbullied' by people who called him out for being nasty

Get it straight, guy: Several pointed out that he was conflating cyber bullying with being held accountable

Damning: This woman even dug up an old tweet in which Spagnuolo made a tasteless joke about Rihanna being beaten

'Rihanna fans did not like my blog calling her fat and now I'm being cyberbullied,' he whined.

Quite a few people responded to this tweet, too, pointing out that he is conflating being held accountable with cyberbullying.

'U called women fat & you're crying bully? You don't have ownership over a woman's body & your opinion is shame-based. Get a brain,' wrote one.

Another commenter even unearthed an old tweet that is even more damning for Spagnuolo, also talking about Rihanna.

'Jeez allegedly Rihanna's "I got beat up" photo cost TMZ $65k,' he wrote in February 2009, referring to leaked police evidence after Rihanna was struck by Chris Brown.

'I would punch Rihanna and take a Polaroid for half that,' he added, making light of domestic abuse.

Despite widespread criticism that his piece was both rude and sexist, Spagnuolo appears unwilling to admit wrongdoing.

Interestingly, in 2014 he wrote a piece for BroBible in which he advocated for the very thing he now refuses to do.

'Take ownership on everything you do. Good things, flaws, whatever. Owning your mistakes as much as you own your achievements is what makes you a guy people can count on,' he wrote at the time.