Unmasking the Internet's Biggest Troll
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:44 am
Last Wednesday afternoon I called Abdul Abdi. He was at the office of a Columbus, Ohio hotel where he works as a valet and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat, that I had uncovered his identity as the notorious internet troll MenacetoSociety.
It's amazing how much you can sweat in a 60 degree office," he said with a nervous laugh.
Judging from his internet footprint, Abdi, 23, has a lot to sweat over. If you are capable of being offended, Abdi has almost certainly done something that would offend you, then did his best to rub your face in it. His specialty is distributing images of scantily-clad underage girls, but as MenacetoSociety he also issued an unending fountain of racism, porn, gore, misogyny, incest, and exotic abominations yet unnamed, all on the sprawling online community Reddit. At the time I called Abdi, his latest project was moderating a new section of Reddit where users posted covert photos they had taken of women in public, usually close-ups of their asses or breasts, for a voyeuristic sexual thrill. It was called "Creepshots." Now Abdi was the one feeling exposed and it didn't suit him very well.
Abdi is also notorious for what he calls his 'solemn national obligation of liberating young Somali women'. To that end, he has traveled all over the country, once embarking on a 17 hour drive to Montana
Full story over at Gawker: http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-red ... on-the-web