And you know, when two years ago, when all of this was at its height, the audience was appreciative and supportive of the sort of gallows humor that I put out there."īrutsch is a grown-ass man who has made his own choices, choices that creatures with opposable thumbs would generally find repugnant. Since then, I have come to understand that there are situations where things are inappropriate … I am to some degree apologizing for what I did … I was playing to an audience of college kids. Nobody on Reddit really had anything to say about it at all. I have made mistakes," he said, before adding, "Reddit encouraged and enabled this sort of behavior, and I shouldn't have been a part of it. I would be very mad at you." Brutsch's face at that moment was priceless, briefly flickering with the understanding that those drooled over girls in their underwear he posted all over Reddit are somebody's daughters. The self-described "creepy uncle of Reddit," who was dismissed from his job after his online alter ego was revealed, seemed embarrassed yet only marginally self-aware in his conversation with Drew Griffin as he humble-bragged, "There are hot-button topics that you can make a comment about and just enrage people … Apparently I have a gift for pushing buttons."Īt one point in the conversation, Griffin faced Brutsch and said of his behavior, "I'm a father. In other words, he's one of the grossest examples of our species we've currently got going. The "Violentacrez character," as Brutsch refers to himself, was also behind such provocative subreddits as Rapebait, Chokeabitch and Picsofdeadkids, and claimed he had sex with his stepdaughter. On Thursday, Michael Brutsch, the 49-year-old Texan whom Gawker's Adrien Chen exposed last week as notorious Reddit troll Violentacrez, gave his first television interview on Anderson Cooper's "360." As Violentacrez, Brutsch was behind the (thankfully now defunct) subreddit Jailbait and had until recently been moderating his new pet Reddit project, Creepshots, a gallery of leering, surreptitiously shot photos of women. Great to know we live in a country where families are more worried about the imaginary risk of their daughters' sexual behavior than the real one of viruses and cancer.Īnd then we've had those unavoidable, headline-grabbing creeps. 1 concern parents have about Gardasil, the vaccine against the HPV virus that can lead to cervical cancer. That's got to be some form of possible advancement for female health, because "promiscuity risk" is still the No. On the bright side, though, there was also the cheery news that vaccinations won't turn 11- and 12-year-old girls into dirty whores.
There's been the sickening story of the death of Amanda Todd, whose odyssey of bullying and shaming began when she was a curious seventh-grader who responded to a webcam user's request for a "flash" of her young breasts. It's been an alarmingly terrible week for girls. Behold the scariest, most dangerous creature in America: the 12-year-old girl.
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