A MAN hiding behind a notorious and disgusting troll on a social news website has been fired from his job within 24 hours of being outed.

Michael Brutsch, 49, from Texas, was Violentacrez on social news website Reddit, who specialised in uploading images of scantily-clad women taken covertly - many of them under age girls. He was also responsible for the distribution of reams of incestuous, racist, and sexually violent material in other Reddit forums, or "subreddits" as they are known.

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Brutsch was outed by Gawker journalist Adrian Chen, and shut down his Violentacrez username but continued to use his "clean" Reddit handle, mbrutsch, to offer updates on the fallout.

"I got fired Saturday morning, by phone," he posted.

In a following post he stated: "Well, I had already told my boss about the impending article last week. He thought I was exaggerating the potential fallout. So when he called Saturday morning, I just said, 'Told you so. He said not to come in Monday, and that he'd call when he knew more. All my remote access has been disabled, my health insurance and FSA were cancelled immediately (so they had to drag someone in over the weekend to do that). At this point, if any of the dozens of death threats I've gotten were to make good on their promises, at least my wife would have the insurance."

Brutsch, a computer programmer at First Cash Financial Services, is accepting Paypal donations and a number of Reddit sections have blocked links to Gawker content over our Violentacrez article over a "serious lack of ethics and integrity".

The eighth most popular subreddit, TodayILearned, with over two million subscribers, joined the ban.

"As you may be aware, a recent article published by the Gawker network has disclosed the personal details of a long-standing user of this site," wrote a TodayILearned moderator, "an egregious violation of the Reddit rules, and an attack on the privacy of a member of the Reddit community."

Brutsch's internet activity was largely focused on sharing up-skirt images of innocent women taken without their consent.

Originally published as Outed disgusting troll sacked