ViolentAcrez

Michael Brutsch was born on January 19th 1963 in Texas, He joined the US Airforce at the age of 20,in 1981 and he left in 1983.
He joined the internet under the name ViolentAcrez along with his wife Notsoviolentacrez who was a moderator of r/fibromyalgia.
He is widely known as a cautionary tale to not not fuck around and find out after he was Doxxed by Gawkwer writer Adrien Chen.
ViolentAcrez was part of a small group of Reddit moderators that took care of most of the large NSFW subreddits at the time. Some of the subreddits he moderated include Jailbait, Picsofdeadkids, Nazi, Incest & Creepshots.

Michael prides himself on being the self proclaimed “biggest troll on the web” and his ability to push buttons. The feeling between reddit and Violentacrez was mutual, they created a new award just for him called “pimp daddy” and before closing jailbait, Erik Martin, the reddit general manager reached out to warn him, explaining they had no choice but to change the rules.

"We're making a policy change regarding jailbait type content. Don't really have a choice."

When the article was published it was viewed 20,000 in a 5 minutes but was banned at 30 minutes later. The reason, according to Reddit community manager David Croach (Dacvak), was because the article “contained private information about a user.”

After the article he was fired from his job as a programmer at a financial services company in Arlington, Texas. He resorted to E-begging and weak apologies. On his main account Mbrutsch he posted “I just hope I can hold out a month, My wife hasn’t been able to work for over a year, and our savings will last about 3 weeks, not considering the current lack of health insurance.”In response to this u/IAmA\_Undecided posted too r/circlejerkers “I want to post a link to a paypal account at a certain time when we can gather the troops and upvote it, I want to title it: ‘His Name Was Michael Brutsch. His Name Was Michael Brutsch. His Name Was Michael Brutsch. And We Will Buy Him A Beer.” The title is a reference to *Fight Club*, a book and film in which a character earns back his identity after being shot and killed during an act of domestic terrorism. In October 2012 he was interviewed by CNN, gaining 181k views. He rightfully gained extreme backlash online and in person after showing his face on CNN, but continuing on with little shame he made several attempts to defend himself, unfortunately some people did support him, he gained $100 from the fundraiser, atleast enough for the beer they wanted to buy him and many violentacrez support subreddits were created some now gone but a few including r/VAfanclub, r/legacyofviolentacrez & r/shitviolentacrezsays.

Nowadays he’s quiet most likely due to moving on to a new alias. He has also regained employment working at a unnamed company in Little Rock, Arkansas. On November 16th 2019, he announces on his site “Michael Brutsch, horrible person, launches site”, the description of this site is “just an old man trying to stay out of trouble”, This site seems relatively uninteresting including a puzzle and a collection of old CVS.

-CNN interview.

-The story of ViolentAcrez -The internet investigator.

-Reddits biggest troll -Internet hall of fame.

articles:

-Gawker article.

-Watch Reddits biggest troll defend himself.

-about.me

-How bad behaviour on social media can ruin a career.

-Gawker, Reddit's Violentacrez and the internet vigilantes.

-Pimp daddy trophy.

-Man behind troll who got gawker banned from reddit.

-Reddit troll violentacrez outed by gawker, when will law enforcement catch up?

-Michael Brutsch apologises on CNN.

-geekwire commentary on violentacrez doxxing.

-On naming names and calling out trolls.

-Do trolls have privacy rights?