Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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Also - WTF is with the 12 grand in income from Relay FM? I thought the listeners for John's shows were in the single digits.

I'm surprised about Frank only making 175K too, by the way - I think most of us were assuming much more. It may be that the Wus are, in the words of one John Walker Flynt, "sand nigger rich".
 
Hmm it's pretty much like we figured.

Frank holds every penny and doles out what Johhny wants moment to moment.

That makes sense to me, Frank's been burned before by a divorce and he's not letting it happen again.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Also - WTF is with the 12 grand in income from Relay FM? I thought the listeners for John's shows were in the single digits.

I'm surprised about Frank only making 175K too, by the way - I think most of us were assuming much more. It may be that the Wus are, in the words of one John Walker Flynt, "sand nigger rich".
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175k a year is still an awful lot of money.

Imagine that, you have a steady income of 175k a year, but the vampiric ghoul you need to feed, costs you so much, it forces you to live in some oversized garden shed.
 
Von Clausewitz said:
175k a year is still an awful lot of money.

Imagine that, you have a steady income of 175k a year, but the vampiric ghoul you need to feed, costs you so much, it forces you to live in some oversized garden shed.
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175k is a lot of dough if we're talking about 1 person in their 30's. Two people with an average age of like 45 and an income less than 200k is pretty sad. You gotta imagine frank has to pay at least one of his ex wives alimony in addition to everything else.
 
John, my god, let's take it easy on the whole "stealing" thing.
Also you have no friends.

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Four-Wheeled Fedora said:
175k is a lot of dough if we're talking about 1 person in their 30's. Two people with an average age of like 45 and an income less than 200k is pretty sad.
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It's a decent amount of money, but it's not really "Start your own vanity company and collect sports cars" rich.
To put it in perspective just how much of an albatross around Frank's neck John is, look at it this way. They've known each other for about 10 years now. In that time, let's be generous and say Frank made about $150K the whole time, or $1.5 million in total. After taxes he probably took home a million of that. And out of that million, we know about $400K went down the toilet for Revolution 60. Add in the SRS surgery, the obsessive pay-to-win mobile gaming, the fast food/delivery food, and the iPhones John goes through like toilet paper, and Frank has probably incinerated more than half of the money he ever took home, on a pyre named "John Walker Flynt".
 
They may not be yachts and sports cars rich, but Frank still makes a handsome salary and Wu's patreon e-begging ought to at least cover her yearly expenses and toy budget. Why is it that they're still living in a ratty rented house as if they're 20-year-olds barely making a living? Why does Frank have so little in retirement savings from nearly a lifetime of continuous employment?

There's something distinctly odd about the way the Wus live. Even considering the financial black hole that is Brianna, there's money going somewhere that isn't either saving for retirement or maintaining a lifestyle. Does Frank spend all his money on coke and hookers or something? I wouldn't blame him.
 
Kosher Dill said:
It's a decent amount of money, but it's not really "Start your own vanity company and collect sports cars" rich.
To put it in perspective just how much of an albatross around Frank's neck John is, look at it this way. They've known each other for about 10 years now. In that time, let's be generous and say Frank made about $150K the whole time, or $1.5 million in total. After taxes he probably took home a million of that. And out of that million, we know about $400K went down the toilet for Revolution 60. Add in the SRS surgery, the obsessive pay-to-win mobile gaming, the fast food/delivery food, and the iPhones John goes through like toilet paper, and Frank has probably incinerated more than half of the money he ever took home, on a pyre named "John Walker Flynt".
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No wonder he looks like he's screaming in agony in every picture taken of him.
 
I dropped a more detailed breakdown of these financials in the War Room, but there's just one more thing I want to point out, or rather, the absence of one more thing.
There's no income from Steam!
Either Frank forgot to include this, or more likely, Rev60 PC made less than the reporting threshold of $200 last year :story: Assuming a 70/30 revenue split on Steam, that would mean fewer than 29 people bought the game - and a good fraction of those were people who just bought it to livestream and mock :lol:
 
Kosher Dill said:
I dropped a more detailed breakdown of these financials in the War Room, but there's just one more thing I want to point out, or rather, the absence of one more thing.
There's no income from Steam!
Either Frank forgot to include this, or more likely, Rev60 PC made less than the reporting threshold of $200 last year :story: Assuming a 70/30 revenue split on Steam, that would mean fewer than 29 people bought the game - and a good fraction of those were people who just bought it to livestream and mock :lol:
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No money from Blue Apron either, I definitely thought they were sponsoring her pathetic little shill posts. Maybe they were just giving her free meals or they didn't meet the threshold either.
 
Yellow Yam Scam said:
No money from Blue Apron either, I definitely thought they were sponsoring her pathetic little shill posts. Maybe they were just giving her free meals or they didn't meet the threshold either.
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More likely they just thought they were really cool with their delivered food and wanted to show off to the plebs who still have to grocery shop.
 
Darndirty said:
More likely they just thought they were really cool with their delivered food and wanted to show off to the plebs who still have to grocery shop.
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I'm sure this is also true, she just seemed to do it with a regularity and so uninterestingly that I thought the posts couldn't have been made purely for her own entertainment.
 
Yellow Yam Scam said:
Ah, there it is. Just makes you wonder where the other $11,000 or whatever of the relay money is coming from.
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Well, let's do a little more back-of-the-envelope math here. Here are the best guesses I could find online for podcast ad pricing for someone good enough to be on a network but not any kind of star:
Short ad at the beginning ("pre-roll"): $18 per 1000 listeners (CPM)
Long ad in the middle ("mid-roll"): $25 CPM
Revenue split between the podcast company and the creator(s): 50/50

I checked the latest Rocket episode and they have one pre-roll and one mid-roll ad, so let's say the network is grossing $43 per 1000 listeners on that show. Disruption has just one sponsor which I'm going to assume is mid-roll, so let's say that's another $25 per 1000. Let's average that out to $34 per 1000 over all episodes of all shows in the year, for Relay.

Assuming John is on an equal footing with his 3 co-hosts, him getting ~12K means the total revenue going to the creators is about $48K, meaning the total ad revenue coming into Relay would be $96K. Divide out the $34 per 1000 listens, and you get about 2.8 million total listens in the year, for all episodes of all shows.

Rocket had 49 episodes in 2016, and Disruption had 37. So these 86 episodes had to have averaged about 32800 listeners, every time, for the numbers to work out. Now, someone should check my math on this, but that sounds like bullshit. Either the Wu Crew is getting an insanely good CPM via cronyism, or there's something else going on.
 
The financial disclosure is interesting. Shows that Brianna has no assets and zero income from her award-winning video game.

Couple of notes:

1) The Fidelity account is likely Frank's 401k since it's marked as tax-deferred. At his age with the kind of jobs he has worked, it's kind of low. Makes me think they had to pull from it a bunch over the years.

2) They are living paycheck to paycheck. They list no savings accounts or property in their assets. They are also renting as no mortgage appears under liabilities.

3) The loan against the 401k came last year in February. Wonder if it was needed to pay for someone to finish up Rev60.

4) Frank's income takes a rather big jump this year so far (on pace to make over $200k). I wonder if a chunk of that is coming from him selling off shares in the company he has accrued. He may not be making $175k a year in income. It could be him making $125k and him selling the shares that have fully vested each year to cover expenses.

Biggest takeaway is that Frank has been making big money and has almost nothing to show for it. The 401k is tiny for a couple that will be retiring in 15-20 years. Especially a couple that has no equity in a home. Also Brianna is living off e-welfare and a few side bucks from a podcast. The game on PC sold almost no copies.
 
I wonder if one day Frank will just murder John with a pillow in his sleep. "Just...just think about Holiday, John..."

Alternatively, Frank leaves for work one day...and never comes home.
 
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