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Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web

Oct 13, 2012 13:19

Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat, that I had uncovered his identity as the notorious internet troll Violentacrez (pronounced Violent-Acres ( Read more... )

*trigger warning: sexism, men suck, *trigger warning: sexual assault, oh shit the internet is here, *trigger warning: racism, **trigger warning, *trigger warning: child abuse / csa

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angry_chick October 13 2012, 17:24:29 UTC

I hope his livelihood is smashed.

People need to learn accountability for what they say online.

angry_chick October 13 2012, 17:39:31 UTC

I also suggest to people to read some of the comments on that entry. While there are a sprinkling of comments that suck, in general, the comments on that entry are Fucking-A AWESOME.

skizzylizard October 13 2012, 22:58:56 UTC

Seconding this

crossfire October 15 2012, 19:54:04 UTC

Holy SHIT some of those are brilliant.

I never thought of trolling as an exercise in privilege before. That's...revelatory.

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lizrocks October 13 2012, 17:29:06 UTC

I skimmed the post b/c I didn't really want to read about all the awful stuff he's done but... did she out him to his employers?

back_track October 13 2012, 17:37:01 UTC

adrien chen wrote an article about him which makes him think that his employment might be in danger if they find out but as far as I know that's all he did, he didn't go to his employers personally

mingemonster October 13 2012, 18:17:44 UTC

Even if the author didn't, I'm sure others have already made sure the employer knows

cuterabbit33 October 13 2012, 17:29:50 UTC

They would say he was a child pornographer, when all he had done was spearhead the distribution of thousands of legal photos of underage girls.

... That's what child pornography IS. What the fuck do they think it is otherwise?

He offered to act as a mole for me, to be my "sockpuppet" on Reddit.

I hope all of his supporters read this part.

A lot of this article - in that what reddit consists of and what this guy has done - made me go AGHHHH AGHHH UNREAD UNREAD FOR THE LOVE OF GOD UNREAD

maladaptive October 13 2012, 18:12:00 UTC

That's what I was wondering-- how the fuck can you have legal photos of underage girls? They're by default illegal.

Unless they're non-pornographic/not somehow "titillating,"* but from the context I don't think that's the case...?

*I used that word because you can have non-pornographic images that're still explicit/racy/naughty but none of those words (not even titillating, tbh) belong with children.

cuterabbit33 October 13 2012, 18:15:53 UTC

Well I imagine he wouldn't post them unless they were "appealing" to look at (oh that felt so gross to type), since he put so much effort into making sure none of the girls in the pictures were of legal age - even says so in the article. So... geez, I really don't even know, the more I think about it the more nauseated I get.

mangosorbet007 October 13 2012, 18:26:05 UTC

Because said underage girls post the pictures on FB. One person's holiday photos are another person's porn.
It's in very bad taste, possibly, but very far from illegal.

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fauxparadiso October 13 2012, 17:32:25 UTC

Yet again I'm glad I've never stepped foot into that website.

sankaku_atama October 13 2012, 17:36:30 UTC

What a degenerate ass. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone more deserving of being outed - maybe with a giant picture and a list of what he's done on the screens and marquees in Times Square.

angry_chick October 13 2012, 17:50:57 UTC

I hope, that for the rest of his life, that he's known at the old man who likes to fuck with underaged girls, and that it keeps him from living any sort of decent life.

The fucking chickens are coming home to roost.