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  • Amorphous [any]
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    4 years ago

    It honestly doesn't even seem unlikely to me. Like, one of Reddit's most active power-users was an eccentric and narcissistic rich pedophile, wow, what a surprise. I would've assumed they all are.

    • T_Doug [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Reddit literally hosted one of the Internets largest forums for child pornography for years (only shutting it down after they got bad press on CNN), and even gave the man modding said forum a trophy. I couldn't be less shocked if Ghislane Maxwell really was an early power-user there.

      • lilpissbaby [any]
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        4 years ago

        and even gave the man modding said forum a trophy.

        can you elaborate on this

        • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3523434/violentacrez-michael-brutsch-apologizes-cnn

          I can't find a pic of the golden bobblehead they gave him but they 10000% did give him a physical, shiny, golden, snoo bobblehead because they liked him so much BECAUSE HE RAN A CHILD PORN SUBREDDIT.

            • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              it is notable that this is only something he ever said after he finally faced repercussions for running a child porn sub.

              also, he talked about having sex with his stepdaughter a whole fucking lot and it was very fucked up and apparently it was investigated but no charges were brought but like jesus christ this guy is fucking disgusting.

          • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            it's violentacrez and holy shit I completely forgot about the carlh thing. weird how reddit had so much overlap with child sexual abuse. very curious. complete coincidence I'm sure.

      • Amorphous [any]
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        4 years ago

        i have no idea. last i heard he had leveraged his posting skills to get a legit job as an advertising person or something like that and that was like the most interesting thing about him

        never really understood people's fascination with him tbh. he reposted things, oh no. like yeah he demonstrates some of the flaws inherent to the reddit "system" but that's not his fault lol

      • crispy_lol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        https://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web

        You might be thinking of violentacrez, who moderated and founded a bunch of awful subreddits like r/jailbait and a bunch of racist ones.

        He got exposed and fired from his job and he was like "noooo I was just trolling bro I swear"

      • SonKyousanJoui [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There was also atnorman, who got arrested for some pedo stuff I don't remember the details about. The only links I can find about it go to r/chapotraphouse