Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

[AnOminous]

That, and he probably realized it's a barely disguised way of saying "I WANT THE INTERNET TO BE A HUGBOX, TO HELL WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH!" on top of being an idiotic thing to tweet in general.

Luckily, we don't have to depend on the tender mercies of SJW fuckwads for Internet freedom. The technology itself guarantees it.

 

[Elegantisimo]

Not sure if still talking about videogames or...

 

[MiloWuCollusion]

So JJ was basically expecting questions like "What's it like to be the greatest living saint" and was instead asked shit like "what's it like being a race-baiting serial extortionist" and promptly chimped out.

Well, he is an old man using the Internet. A old man who usual MO is "complain even if they are allies or there is no genuine reason". That makes more idiotic the fact that Pao reacted the way she did if that is the reason. Like Wu, Pao seems to not have any idea in how to manage a company.

 

[Giddyup]

I just now realized that I've never seen Brianna Wu and Ann Coulter in the same place before.

Could it... could it be?

 

[Jaimas]

OK, so before I get into today's Brianna Wu Article update, I want to point out something I noticed. Wu claims to have been playing video games since she got an NES in 1985. She claims a complete lack of playable female characters, but Samus Aran was playable in 1986, and Wu never fucking mentions her. Similarly, yes, Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, and Kung Fu all had a woman you had to rescue, fact is, this was when the NES first got started! Half of the NES's early library was fucking arcade ports - Mario Bros and Duck Hunt, Joust and fucking Donkey Kong Junior, Balloon Fight and Ice Climbers (another game with a playable female).

I noticed this during research for the Wu Article, but Wu will outright claim that even in the 1980s when Video Games were young, they were inherently sexist, inherently problematic, inherently misogynistic. It's a load of fucking bullshit. Not only does Samus give that the fucking finger, but this was when your average game couldn't fit a fucking plot. Wu makes the argument that games have always been a men-only hobby, but that's a load of shit and anyone who grew up in my generation (which is also Wu's generation) knows it's a load of shit. I grew up playing vidya with my female cousins, with the girl down the street, with the kids in my afterschool program.

You all fucking know it, and you've all seen it in your own lives, whether its your gran playing Tetris or your Sister enjoying Pokemon.

Anyway. I did a massive battery of updates to the Wu Article and its corresponding Sub-Article. Check 'em out when you get a chance.

 

[Giddyup]

Also, and I realize this is late to the discussion, but I really don't get it when Wu constantly bitches about female/minority representation in the work place. The company I work for was contracted to work at a major event today, and I was one of 12 people there. Of the dozen of us:

5 are women.
7 are minorities.
3 are homosexual.

And that doesn't include another professional liaison we worked with, who is a gay black man. My BOSS is a black woman. Maybe it's the field I work in, but Wu really needs to get out more if she thinks it's impossible to get a promotion unless you're cis scum.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

I noticed this during research for the Wu Article, but Wu will outright claim that even in the 1980s when Video Games were young, they were inherently sexist, inherently problematic, inherently misogynistic.

Not too mention that the vast majority of the ultra popular arcade games in the early 80s - Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Centipede, Dig Dug, Asteroids, etc - barely even had gendered characters in them, let alone plots. And every motherfucker was playing them.

Fast forward to 1991 and you have Street Fighter II, in which Chun-Li is a playable character and is one of the most enduring female characters in video games ever.

In other words, bullshit.

 

[Cynical]

I noticed this during research for the Wu Article, but Wu will outright claim that even in the 1980s when Video Games were young, they were inherently sexist, inherently problematic, inherently misogynistic.

Not too mention that the vast majority of the ultra popular arcade games in the early 80s - Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Centipede, Dig Dug, Asteroids, etc - barely even had gendered characters in them, let alone plots. And every motherfucker was playing them.

Fast forward to 1991 and you have Street Fighter II, in which Chun-Li is a playable character and is one of the most enduring female characters in video games ever.

Some fun game trivia to further discredit Wu's argument. In the Japanese backstory for Dig Dug, his wife divorced him and had her own game where she proved she could handle herself, which I believe was called Baraduke.

Chun-li is another great example. Her entire shtick was "I am the strongest woman in the world". If was even her freaking victory quote. Also, Wu seems to have forgotten Ms. Pac-Man, who was just a capable as Pac-Man at eating dots and chomping ghosts.

 

[Cucky]

Of the dozen of us:

5 are women.
7 are minorities.
3 are homosexual.

So if that's in Murika you need one more woman, two less minorities and about 1.8 less gays. Representation!

 

[José Mourinho]

"Players"? What's that, a new term invented because how the term "Gamer" is toxic? What happens if that term is toxic as well thanks to you lol?

 

[AnOminous]

Maybe it's the field I work in, but Wu really needs to get out more if she thinks it's impossible to get a promotion unless you're cis scum.

But her entire career depends on it being true.

 

[MayMay]

"GAMERS ARE TERRORISTS"
"GAMERS ARE INHERENTLY MISOGYNISTS (also TERRORISTS)"
*backlash*
"Uh... it's not the gamers' it's... uh... *reaches up anus* Culture, that's it!"

Another day, another passive-aggressive fake-understanding post by another internet soccer-mom wannabe.

 

[MiloWuCollusion]

OK, so before I get into today's Brianna Wu Article update, I want to point out something I noticed. Wu claims to have been playing video games since she got an NES in 1985. She claims a complete lack of playable female characters, but Samus Aran was playable in 1986, and Wu never fucking mentions her. Similarly, yes, Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, and Kung Fu all had a woman you had to rescue, fact is, this was when the NES first got started! Half of the NES's early library was fucking arcade ports - Mario Bros and Duck Hunt, Joust and fucking Donkey Kong Junior, Balloon Fight and Ice Climbers (another game with a playable female).

I noticed this during research for the Wu Article, but Wu will outright claim that even in the 1980s when Video Games were young, they were inherently sexist, inherently problematic, inherently misogynistic. It's a load of fucking bullshit. Not only does Samus give that the fucking finger, but this was when your average game couldn't fit a fucking plot. Wu makes the argument that games have always been a men-only hobby, but that's a load of shit and anyone who grew up in my generation (which is also Wu's generation) knows it's a load of shit. I grew up playing vidya with my female cousins, with the girl down the street, with the kids in my afterschool program.

You all fucking know it, and you've all seen it in your own lives, whether its your gran playing Tetris or your Sister enjoying Pokemon.

Fun Story: My mother owned a Atari machine before she married and had me. I used to play with her when I was very little. One time, after we got a NES, she bought a copy of Tetris in secret because she wanted to play that game by herself.

 

[Twrx]

These were especially stupid, and now I have to address them:



.....Brianna you fucking tool, that article you linked is about people getting raped and then having evidence of their rape released on the net. That has nothing to do with fucking pornography. You intentionally worded this in a way to make it seem like it was actual porn involved here. What you discussed was blackmail and fucking control attempts by rapists, not porn, you sensationalizing hack.

You specifically worded that to make people think you were bitching about porn in which rape is a theme, which has been a theme since humans fucking wrote about sex, you zero-talent harpy. I was all prepped to make a joke about Monmusu Quest, too, and you fucking ruined it.



Brianna Wu doesn't understand Reddit. At all. Nor does she understand the blackout.

For the uninitiated, the blackout started because Victoria, the mod of /r/IAMA, allowed a question critical of Jesse Jackson to go up during an AMA. Victoria was a beloved admin by the userbase with a known history of actually getting shit done and doing proper community relations, but she was, according to the userbase, essentially shit-canned with no redress because she had become "problematic."

The Mods are pissed. They do their shit on a volunteer basis, and Reddit just fired one of the few Admins who was worth a damn. Reddit isn't listening to its userbase, and is, in fact, caving to the demands of extremists. The fact that Reddit was able to mass-purge Reddits it didn't like, often without even knowing what was going on in them, was bad enough, but this incident was the straw that broke the Redditor's back. Now the Mods are doing the one fucking thing they can to force change - use the fact that 90% of the content on Reddit is user-generated to lock down the site. As it stands, over 20% of the subreddits - including many of the biggest - are locked down.

This is a full-fledged revolt, and no amount of telling everyone to calm down and go back to the way things were is going to stop it now. When you run a company that heavily relies on a volunteer base (and Reddit does), you need to fucking listen to those volunteers and moreover, work with them. So Reddit's mods basically just have to stop doing their job, lock things down, and Reddit pays the price.

Irony is, Wu and hers are directly to fucking blame for this horse-shit, since a site prevaricated on user freedom has become synonymous with fucking safe space hugboxing and open staff corruption, leading to this incident in the first place. As we speak, Pao and friends are trying to claim that the blacking-out subreddit owners are "a vocal minority," whilst ignoring that the revolt has real consequences and the petition to have Pao permanently removed from her position is at over 63,000 signatures and counting.

July 10 is coming up as "No Reddit Day." We'll see what happens there.



You can't stop it, Wu. Pao and friends destroyed Reddit trying to "control the narrative." Now the users are in open revolt and you have two choices: Concede to their demands and actually realize you are not the fucking gods of the website whom the people working for you (who are not paid) are your mere subject, or shit your pants and do nothing as Voat continues to gobble up your fucking userbase, bit by painful bit.

That's what worries you, isn't it? You weren't able to stop 8chan, and despite everything, you haven't been able to stop Voat, either. The second that gets up to speed, you're fucked, because what happened to Digg can happen to Reddit, and you fucking know it.

Don't pretend you give a shit.

....Says the woman who can't operate outside a fucking hugbox.

I can say this as a mod of a pretty large and well known subreddit. They don't give us mods much to work with, our mod tools are out dated, at least ten years behind the curve. It's well known they don't give a shit about us, but expect us to put in all the free work to run everything.

Ellen pao has even been quoted as saying "You'll take this CEO position from my cold dead hands.". The worst thing about them purging sub reddit's like fph, and hamplanet hatred, but shit reddit says remains. They harass people both on and off site, and tried to take down voat. But it's run by social justice fucks, so it remains.

 

[Optimus Prime]

But it's run by social justice fucks, so it remains.

So like 4chan, its eventual demise is inevitable where the only people who frequent it are those looking for nothing but online hugboxes.

But still...Jesus H. Christ, it's like ever since GG broke out the SJW shit has turned into some kind of modern real-life Illuminati conspiracy where they've had their fingers in many social hub pies for years and manipulating the shit out of everything.

I would make a Scientology joke, but of course that suddenly becomes less funny since having learned fucking Neopets was in fact originally invented by those Hubbard-worshiping cultists.

Although I guess that kind of is an apt comparison: Wu is nothing more than a Hubbard wanna be, where the SJW movement is effectively Scientology only without some fake-ass alien god dictator thing that killed South Park's Chef to hide the true intentions at play.

 

[Twrx]

So like 4chan, its eventual demise is inevitable where the only people who frequent it are those looking for nothing but online hugboxes.

But still...Jesus H. Christ, it's like ever since GG broke out the SJW shit has turned into some kind of modern real-life Illuminati conspiracy where they've had their fingers in many social hub pies for years and manipulating the shit out of everything.

I would make a Scientology joke, but of course that suddenly becomes less funny since having learned fucking Neopets was in fact originally invented by those Hubbard-worshiping cultists.

Although I guess that kind of is an apt comparison: Wu is nothing more than a Hubbard wanna be, where the SJW movement is effectively Scientology only without some fake-ass alien god dictator thing that killed South Park's Chef to hide the true intentions at play.

One of the SRS mods bragged about sending false reports of child pornography being hosted on voat in an attempt to get it shut down. They can't enforce their draconian sjw rules (for the most part) in people's actual lives, so they attempt to attack people's online areas. Reddit will fall, as both Digg and 4chan did. I hate to have to do a third exodus from something again.

Luckily the sub I run is one of the few bastions of free speech on Reddit. Our biggest concerns as mods, is that Chairman Pao will have the admins come in and directly take over both the defaults, and the larger subs. But, I honestly, I can't see that happening. That means Reddit admins would actually have to do work, and be somewhat in touch with the user base.

Luckily, I can come here and not worry about some fuck taking my comments and posting them to SRS, only to have my subs brigaded.

 

[StallChaser]

So like 4chan, its eventual demise is inevitable where the only people who frequent it are those looking for nothing but online hugboxes.

But still...Jesus H. Christ, it's like ever since GG broke out the SJW shit has turned into some kind of modern real-life Illuminati conspiracy where they've had their fingers in many social hub pies for years and manipulating the shit out of everything.

I would make a Scientology joke, but of course that suddenly becomes less funny since having learned fucking Neopets was in fact originally invented by those Hubbard-worshiping cultists.

Although I guess that kind of is an apt comparison: Wu is nothing more than a Hubbard wanna be, where the SJW movement is effectively Scientology only without some fake-ass alien god dictator thing that killed South Park's Chef to hide the true intentions at play.

They don't understand that if you shit up established sites, people will just create/migrate to new ones. Just because a site is large, doesn't mean it will continue to be after it is fundamentally changed (going from free speech to "safe space", for example). It would be like Apple shifting to selling underwear (and only underwear) and expecting to stay just as profitable.

 

[A Random]

Reddit will fall, as both Digg and 4chan did.

What happened to Digg?

 

[CWCissey]

What happened to Digg?

Reddit fucked it up

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

All things fail in time, they start then grow then die.

Its just the way things are.

In time Reddit will change so much it will lose everything it was and a new site will spring up only to die in time itself.

Its rather beautiful if you think about it.