Before media attention forced reddit to ban /r/jailbait and his other subreddits like r/picsofdeadkids, Violentacrez was a generic celebrity like Wil Wheaton. I lived in Dallas at the time and he'd show up to meetups with a sticker on his chest giving his username. The most prolific paedophile on the internet, a man who groomed his own stepdaughter, was accepted as "just a guy" by the other redditors there. Watched a world cup match at the same pub with him while he talked about the accounting business in his name that he freely linked to the username. That destroyed him in the end.

To think I'd be horrified of my relatives discovering my old myspace profile if they googled my name.