THE internet troll behind an online message board where users post sexual photographs of unsuspecting teenage girls has been revealed as a cat-loving grandfather from Texas.

Michael Brutsch, who uses the Reddit name 'Violentacrez', was the main moderator for the social network's 'Creepshot' forum which sparked outrage last month for encouraging the vile pictures, The Daily Mail reports.

Now, after years posting offensive messages across the internet and earning the moniker of the 'biggest troll on the web', Brutsch has been found working as a computer programmer for a financial services company in Arlington, Texas by Gawker.

The 49-year-old lives with his wife, who suffers from diabetes and is also an avid Reddit user, a son, two dogs and seven cats. Brutsch, who has a granddaughter, also has a son in the Marines, according to social networking sites.

"My wife is disabled,' he pleaded with Gawker's Adrian Chen. 'I got a home and a mortgage, and if this hits the fan, I believe this will affect negatively on my employment.

"I do my job, go home watch TV, and go on the internet. I just like riling people up in my spare time."

But, even though he has become a massive internet troll after setting up a number of sickening Reddit forums, including 'Rapebait', 'incest' and 'misogyny', he refused to apologise.

"I would stand by exactly what I've done,' he added.

Brutsch also would create Reddit forums on topics such as incest, Hitler, and some whose titles are difficult to even read—not necessarily because he himself was interested in the content, but to provoke a reaction from other Reddit users.

Outraged users would complain about the content, thus getting it more attention—sometimes even on the website's front page.

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, Gawker reports.

Reddit is a a social news website where users submit content and vote for or against it to determine its position on the front page.

Users can discuss any subject, and the site is regularly used by celebrities for interviews, including Barack Obama, who recently took part in an 'ask me anything' debate.

Read more on Michael Brutsch's outing at The Daily Mail and Gawker

