Robek World (also known as Robek Dirstein, sometimes credited as rwx) is a digital artist, cartoonist, writer, and NFT collector who created Cards #21–#23 in the Curio Cards collection. He was the first community artist to join the project, having discovered it through the federated social network GNU Social before nagging the founders into letting him contribute. His bio for The Avatar Project satirically claims "Robek World invented NFTs in 1998" — a reference to the binder of anime art he assembled as a child, not unlike a modern NFT wallet.
Robek's roots as an artist and collector go back to childhood. Enamored with Japanese anime, he scoured early dial-up internet for images — 56kb files that took an entire day to download — and organized them into translucent binder sheets. This binder was his first "gallery": a curated collection he brought to school to share with friends. In today's terms, as the Curio DAO profile noted, it was not unlike "acquiring JPEGs on OpenSea and storing them in your wallet collection."