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Marcelo Valle Silveira Mello (born in Brasilia on August 9, 1985), also known as Psycl0n, Psytoré, Batoré or just Psy, and many other aliases and nicknames, is a Brazilian channer and current prisoner, former hacker and former computer analyst.
Psycl0n began to gain notoriety in the now-defunct Orkut in 2005 by targeting attacks and threats on leftists, women and blacks. In 2009, he gained fame by becoming the first Brazilian to be convicted of court for racism on the Internet, but he bailed out and never went to jail. In 2012, he returned to fame alongside Emerson Eduardo Rodrigues, when both were arrested in the Operation Intolerance by the Federal Police of Brazil for creating the website Silvio Koerich, which contained extremely offensive posts against women, homosexuals, blacks, Jews, among others. This arrest caused a lifelong fight between the two, making them archrivals after their release in 2013.
During his many comings and goings from the internet, Psycl0n has been arrested, traveled abroad, and made many, many, aggressive pranks against several of his disaffections, including Emerson, Lola Aronovich, and dozens of others (some of which have a controversial past). He managed to become hated by the Brazilian chan-style imageboards at the end of 2013.
In 2018, he was arrested again for using Dogolachan, probably because of his numerous disaffections and for being considered a co-author of the Rio de Nojeira blog, which contributed to his 41-year jail sentence later that year.
Biography
Before 2005
Marcelo Valle Silveira Mello was born in Brasília, Distrito Federal, on August 9, 1985 and is the son of Rosita Moreira Valle, public servant of the Federal Data Processing Service (now removed from employment due to psychiatric illness), and Luiz Fernando Silveira Mello, who committed suicide when Marcelo was a child. He was raised by his maternal grandmother.
Marcelo would have suffered constant bullying in childhood, both for physical assaults and insults. A teacher, even, would have the nickname "Marcelo Madureira", due to its similarity with the character of Casseta & Planeta of the same name, hence one of his nicknames on the Internet.