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15 Public Shamings That Ruined People's Lives

5. Michael Brutsch – The Reddit Nightmare

Violentacrez was a well known Reddit troll and forum moderator. He often operated in some of the darker subreddits, ones that are purposely meant to be offensive. Some of the things that he wrote about were violence against women, incest, and rape. While these things are obviously awful, let me repeat: He was a troll on Reddit; if you don’t dig him, then just don’t go there. At one point a subreddit called Jailbait that featured young girls in bikinis that violentacrez moderated ended up being featured on a news show hosted by Anderson Cooper. A reporter from Gawker tracked him down and identified him as a 49- year-old man named Michael Brutsch. He ended up trying to defend himself publicly, but it did not go well, and he was fired from his job.

 

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