Last year, it published a lurid account of an alleged one-night-stand with Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell-that man had his anonymity protected.
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Elsewhere on the site, it reproduces scores of non-consensually-grabbed photos-and links to other sites that show the full nude upskirt or naked pictures. Gawker has a whole “ Upskirt” page, devoted to Lindsay Lohan. In 2009, the blog linked to “creepshots” of their own: naked pictures of tween icon Vanessa Hudgens, taken when she was just 17 years old.
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If Reddit privacy canon is meant to protect free speech, blocking a website is a two-faced move on the part of many of the site’s moderators.īut there’s far more hypocrisy to Gawker’s position. Chen fired back with a counter-ban, threatening “to file a DMCA takedown” “if I see reddit link to one of my blog posts.” Most would agree that a young woman’s right not to be photographed and ogled without her consent supersedes Brutsch’s right not to be outed as Violentacrez-and most netizens have taken Gawker’s side. And so, scores of users and moderators started banning the Gawker domain entirely. Number three: “don’t post personal information.” To Redditors, revealing another user’s real-world self is something of a mortal sin. Violentacrez had built a reputation as one of Reddit’s most notorious moderators and trolls, who not only uploaded voyeuristic photos of teens, but helped build a community, or subreddit, around them. Last week, Gawker’s Adrian Chen outed the first man as the second-the Wizard of a depraved online Oz. First, Michael Brutsch, a Texas grandpa, veteran, and computer programmer second, Violentacrez, the influential, porn-loving paragon of Reddit’s weirdo-filled fringe. At face, the websites are at war over one man-or two, really. In the other, there’s Reddit: the chipper, multimillion-user-strong “front page” of the Internet. What happens on Reddit doesn't stay on Reddit-no matter how powerful the Redditor.Do you know there’s a war on? In one cybertrench, there’s Gawker: a gossip blog that’s great at wading through the mud. Though, as Chen's reporting shows, power on Reddit only goes so far. He also helmed a number of subreddits dedicated to providing guidance and camaraderie for other moderators, including the essential modhelp. He created the first FAQ for Reddit's rather unintuitive moderator interface. Violentacrez further solidified his reach by becoming a mentor to other moderators. His stable at times included hundreds of popular mainstream subreddits, like Funny and WTF, that reach audiences of millions. But Violentacrez was also seen to be, as Chris Slowe put it to me, "a trustworthy and be a positive member of the community." He moderated more than 400 subreddits and had many high-profile friends, amassed over many years. Sure, he was responsible for the absolute worst stuff on Reddit, and by extension, some of the worst stuff on the internet. This is how Violentacrez, the Reddit's creepiest user, also became its most powerful.
Chen writes, "Violentacrez and his fellow moderators worked hard to make sure every girl on jailbait was underage, diligently deleting any photos of whose subjects seemed older than 16 or 17." At the same time, Brutsch was caring for his disabled wife and paying his mortgage.Įven with Violentacrez's connection to what Chen calls "the absolute worst stuff on Reddit," he had a surprising amount of support from the Reddit community, which created the separate subreddit r/bangawker, where moderators and other Redditors pronounced their distaste for Chen and Gawker.
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Today, Chen followed through with his plans, detailing Brutsch's on and offline life after a phone call between the two in which Brutsch admitted he was indeed Violentacrez. Chen had originally sought out Violentacrez because of his connection to the jailbait scandal last year, and wanted to further interview him because of a new photo scandal brewing over CreepShots, which we explained yesterday. Īfter getting the entire Gawker network banned from nearly 70 subreddit sections, Gawker's Adrian Chen has followed through with what got him kicked off in the first place-unmasking a Reddit user he called the "biggest troll on the Web," known as Violentacrez, in a lengthy post on . Chen's threat to reveal this man, whose real name is Michael Brutsch, this week incited a Reddit moderator campaign to block all Gawker sites in an attempt to show solidarity and protect the identity of Brutsch, as well as to defend an assumed right to anonymity on such threads.
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