JOHN Paul Whearty publicly admitted on Tuesday his involvement in the online trolling site, LAD.
His role was exclusively revealed in this newspaper and he then followed it up with a somewhat bizarre performance on BBC Talk Back.
After spending four years obsessing over loyalism, and myself in particular, he went off on a rant when I sought to challenge him, and then claimed to have offered leadership to loyalism.
This exchange demonstrated the strange reality Mr Whearty inhibits.
'JP' describes himself as a comedian but the majority of what he has posted online is only funny for those who find mocking the working classes amusing.
His comedy, had it been directed at any minority group other than loyalism, would have been condemned and rightly so.
Had his brand of comedy been directed at members of the Muslim community rather than loyalists would it have been considered acceptable?
There's nothing funny about the middle classes, and those who have sailed through life in a privileged existence in the suburbs of Dublin, mocking a community that survived through the Troubles.
Those within loyalism who were traumatised through loss to be mocked by a man who by his own admission arrived in Belfast six years ago but now claims to be an expert
As someone who has willingly put themselves in the public arena, I have the upmost respect for those who challenge me.
Some of the pieces written at times utterly savage me. The difference is that these commentators have the bravery to critique and challenge using their own name.
We must draw a distinction between courageous journalists, bloggers or commentators operating in the real world and faceless cyber trolls.
However, there are also people who have no wish to put themselves in the public domain.
Private people who found themselves pilloried by the so-called satire site for, on many occasions, using less than perfect grammar or expressing a view on their own social media accounts that was the opposite of the political views of Mr Whearty.
John-Paul Whearty has stepped out of the shadow of LAD in an attempt to turn his cyber life into reality.
Some may say he is brave for finally taking that leap, others believe that Mr Whearty has simply become frustrated behind his cyber mask and wants to try his hand, and seek recognition, in the real world.
Let's see how he fares.
