His speciality is distributing images of scantily-clad underage girls, but as Violentacrez he also issued an unending fountain of racism, porn, gore, misogyny, incest, and exotic abominations yet unnamed, all on the sprawling online community Reddit. If you are capable of being offended, Brutsch has almost certainly done something that would offend you, then did his best to rub your face in it. Judging from his internet footprint, Brutsch, 49, has a lot to sweat over. 'It's amazing how much you can sweat in a 60 degree office,' he said with a nervous laugh. I had just told him, on Gchat, that I had uncovered his identity as the notorious internet troll Violentacrez (pronounced Violent-Acres). He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch.
