Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

[j.peikko]

Also, the woman bitching 24/7 about sexism and masculine-derived violence in videogames who developed a game about bratz dolls-like abominations winning the day through violence. Her hypocrisy pattern is so depressingly predictable it's becoming less fun to point it out day after day

more and more obvious that she's just another troll that has been embraced by the SJWs due to the cock and balls removal

 

[Nexus_Polaris]

more and more obvious that she's just another troll that has been embraced by the SJWs due to the cock and balls removal

Not sure about that, I'm willing to think she actually believes everything she says, despite her obvious self contraddictions.
After all, if I have to pick one defining trait for SJWs as a whole, my choice would be "obfuscating ego". Most of the people fitting the label just want the entire world consider them a special, unique snowflake, just for not conforming some social/gender/whatever conformity (oh, the irony). You don't achieve the praise you OBVIOUSLY deserve? Oppression, misogny homophobia, transfobhia, shittydeveloperphobia, everything that can preserve your delusions without actually having to do anything to deserve some recognition

Trolling involves a grade of consciousness (and self-consciousness) I would't credit Wu with

 

[Francis York Morgan]

Wu is just a loudmouthed demagogue and it shows, and in the long term I don't see this buying Wu any long term stability, fiscally or in any other professional way.

To build on this and also to somewhat give Brianna credit where it's due, she is a hell of a lot better at hiding her insane tranny power level than her contemporaries like Laurelai or Chloe. To the most casual observer, she might seem a bit off but she appears to keep it together in public (the Ralph triggering episode being the exception). It's when you start really paying attention to her that it all kind of falls apart. She's going to be able to keep getting these one-shot conference appearances or con panels but I have a feeling that's all it will be for her because she adds nothing of value to these events.

She can't talk about transgender issues (the closest thing she might have to an informed opinion) because she would sooner delete her Twitter than acknowledge she's anything less than 100% woman and she knows her views would lead to her getting destroyed by the transgender community. She can't provide a perspective on being a woman in the tech industry because she has no work experience, no education background to speak of, and just about every time she does try to talk about technology she reveals just how little she knows. The only subject Brianna has any real interest in talking about is Brianna Wu and that is a subject with very limited appeal.

 

[Dork Of Ages]

Brianna is doing another segment at AltConference today, with two other people called Jean MacDonald and Aleen Simms.

It's called ''Lessons of GamerGate'' 3:15 pm PDT at realm.io/altconf/#

I hope she learned her lesson to not fuck with Commander Stryker

 

[Dork Of Ages]

Happening pretty soon. Since she won't be alone, I want to know how she will deal with sharing the mic with these other people.

 

[Four-Wheeled Fedora]

Wu's rocking those headphones again so there's still a shot we'll get that dj set.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

She can't talk about transgender issues (the closest thing she might have to an informed opinion) because she would sooner delete her Twitter than acknowledge she's anything less than 100% woman and she knows her views would lead to her getting destroyed by the transgender community. She can't provide a perspective on being a woman in the tech industry because she has no work experience, no education background to speak of, and just about every time she does try to talk about technology she reveals just how little she knows. The only subject Brianna has any real interest in talking about is Brianna Wu and that is a subject with very limited appeal.

And you know what, I am planting my DANG MALE ass firmly on this train until it ends up as a mushroom cloud in the horizon.

 

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Goodness, just look at that turnout.

 

[CWCissey]

Goodness, just look at that turnout.

I wonder if this is another case of Dobbie's Patreon? (They're all Gamergaters or people that despise Wu)

 

[namazuros]

Goodness, just look at that turnout.

I'll be amazed if she can stay off twitter for the whole thing.

 

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I'll be amazed if she can stay off twitter for the whole thing.

Although it would be hilarious if she started looking at her phone and started freaking out and running around trying to find a very bored looking security guard in an nearly empty hall to protect her from all the hot, steamy Pepe sexism.

 

[Iamthatis]

Goodness, just look at that turnout.

Look at all the computer monitors. I bet there is a lot of tranny porn going on there.

 

[José Mourinho]

1. lol

2. lel

3. Wu responds to the announcement of nuking r/fatpeoplehate

4. kek

 

[MayMay]

Well to be fair, I don't think liking Wu's """work""" is a sign of brainwashing.

But as much as I usually don't like to rag on people for liking stuff I don't, if you enjoyed R60 unironically there is something wrong with you.

 

[CWCissey]

Well to be fair, I don't think liking Wu's """work""" is a sign of brainwashing.

But as much as I usually don't like to rag on people for liking stuff I don't, if you enjoyed R60 unironically there is something wrong with you.

Nah it's not a sign of brainwashing. It's a sign of a lobotomy.

 

[Delicious Stickmeat]

She can't talk about transgender issues (the closest thing she might have to an informed opinion) because she would sooner delete her Twitter than acknowledge she's anything less than 100% woman and she knows her views would lead to her getting destroyed by the transgender community. She can't provide a perspective on being a woman in the tech industry because she has no work experience, no education background to speak of, and just about every time she does try to talk about technology she reveals just how little she knows. The only subject Brianna has any real interest in talking about is Brianna Wu and that is a subject with very limited appeal.

Wu's ALREADY been ran out of the transgender community on a rail. It's a pretty small group overall, and after getting chased out of Susan's Place (one of the larger trans communities) due to her annoying dramamongery, word about her spread quite quickly.

I think that's one reason she goes to great pains to disconnect herself and hide being trans. The second Brianna Wu the Game Dev got linked to Bri the insane forum mod who had to be fired to save a community, she'd lose all her "cred" as a victim. Sadly, the trans community isn't too big on making waves, so it never really got put out there.

 

[Jaimas]

I had some amazing conversations with a few Kiwis over the last few days about Wu, who have given me some pretty impressive insights.

By far there is one aspect of Wu that we really have yet to cover and is easily the least defensible of all her myriad actions - more so than the self-victimization, more so than the attempts to claim that threats to her life from what were very clearly and acknowledgedly third-party trolls were legitimate threats, and more so even than her insane demands for a personal security detail at places where she has speaking arrangements. It is this aspect that ascends Wu from lolcowery to honest-to-god, Vade-esque villainy:

An ongoing campaign to sabotage, if not ruin the careers, of anyone whose political opine strays too far from her own in "the industry" - and on this, Wu is being enabled by several well-known Anti-GGers.

There's been reports of this sort of thing for months floating around, some of the most well-known including the reports from her own employees, but the darkest and most disturbing aspects of our dear Brianna have yet to really be dug up. It's not an understatement to say that whilst we mock her, she is a close friend of Leigh Alexander - an individual who likewise has made herself well-known for her opinion that she should be able to destroy the careers of others without consequence - so it's quite possible that others are fucking terrified of her. With this in mind, one cannot exactly discount the possibility that Wu may have similar actions in her background just waiting to be dug up. It'd certainly contextualize the words of her various former employees.

I am working on seeing if I can get outreach to some of them, and get their stories and insights for the ongoing Brianna Wu article. I'll keep you all posted, of course.

 

[Super Collie]

If Brianna Wu is so paranoid about being "found out" as trans... how come John Flynt doesn't just pop his goofy ass Weird Al-lookalike face in somewhere? It would be as simple as that, but that's never going to happen because even Helen fucking Keller would be able to notice Brianna passes horribly.

I guess we'll just have to wait for a, uh, "wardrobe malfunction"...

 

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If Brianna Wu is so paranoid about being "found out" as trans... how come John Flynt doesn't just pop his goofy ass Weird Al-lookalike face in somewhere? It would be as simple as that, but that's never going to happen because even Helen fucking Keller would be able to notice Brianna passes horribly.

I guess we'll just have to wait for a, uh, "wardrobe malfunction"...

Spoiler: Brianna looking like Weird Al? I have no idea what you mean...

Anyway, I doubt Brianna would ever be able to pull off a Mrs. Doubtfire or anything. The main issue is this: she is in between a rock and a hard place. Everyone with the ability to make simple deductions like fire is hot can tell Brianna is John by the amount of evidence gathered (the old comics, the timeline, the few bits of information she has admitted to). However, Brianna has built up a fanbase that is willing to deny the painfully obvious to fit in with their narrative that Brianna has been 100% all this time.

Now keep in mind, I don't care in the slightest if Brianna calls herself a woman, a trans, or a quad-sexual giraffe otherkin... but her little camp are notoriously unable to adapt and will flay her alive if she admits to having been a rich white boy for nearly three decades before deciding to become a woman. So she is perpetually stuck having to say "I am a woman" which is what her entire 15 minutes is about and she has to continue denying her past.

 

[Jaimas]

Spoiler: Brianna looking like Weird Al? I have no idea what you mean...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M

Anyway, I doubt Brianna would ever be able to pull off a Mrs. Doubtfire or anything. The main issue is this: she is in between a rock and a hard place. Everyone with the ability to make simple deductions like fire is hot can tell Brianna is John by the amount of evidence gathered (the old comics, the timeline, the few bits of information she has admitted to). However, Brianna has built up a fanbase that is willing to deny the painfully obvious to fit in with their narrative that Brianna has been 100% all this time.

Now keep in mind, I don't care in the slightest if Brianna calls herself a woman, a trans, or a quad-sexual giraffe otherkin... but her little camp are notoriously unable to adapt and will flay her alive if she admits to having been a rich white boy for nearly three decades before deciding to become a woman. So she is perpetually stuck having to say "I am a woman" which is what her entire 15 minutes is about and she has to continue denying her past.

There is another aspect of that, which is that Wu almost 100% certainly has honest-to-god dysphoria. Like, seriously. Frank Wu and her have been married for years, her transitioning is well-documented, and we literally have all the information about it we need. Wu clearly went through a lot to go through her transitioning, and even her old classmates said she passed acceptably enough. And in that regard, she's fine not recognizing that part of her background. You will never see Wu call someone "Truscum" or engage any of Tumblr's usual malapropisms in regard to gender. Ever. The closest you will ever come is when she talks about privilege and inclusion and trans rights. And those are fine, even if Wu is heavy-handed and about as subtle as a tactical nuclear device. There's the prospect that she doesn't acknowledge it for the aforementioned TERF reasons, but Wu also belongs to a distinctly rare class in the Anti-GG community in which she's trans and has kept, by and large, that shit to herself. Compare her, for example, to any of the honest-to-god nutters in Anti-GG: Chloe Sagal, Sarah Nyberg, Sophia Banks, et al.

Brianna fucking never brings up her trans status to win an argument.

For the others? It's the fucking first thing they reach for if they get into an internet fight.

I genuinely feel like Wu's trans status is less important to the conversation than literally everything else about her. There are four areas, in particular, that the upcoming Wu article will focus upon:

1. Wu's willingness to actively provoke opposition in order to use it to claim how threatened she is.
This is exemplified in attempts to attack DICE Europe ltd (Gamerfruit Incident), obviously mis-represent games she's playing (FFVI, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse), and say shit she knows is inflammatory to provoke response.

2. Wu's willingness to manufacture outrage entirely out of whole cloth in order to portray herself as the greatest victim on the planet.
Exemplified by the Street Race Incident, PAX Threats, Wu claiming the SA threats were real ages after they were debunked, and her tendency to self-victimize.

3. Wu's Willingness to attack, threaten, and brigade her opposition, beyond any level of acceptability.
Sophia Banks (AKA Transexual Jay, AKA Gender-Swapped Geordie Tait) did not emerge from a vacuum. She emerged because Wu tried to get her opposition silenced on Twitter. Similarly, the various accusations Wu faces as an employer did not come, as we say, from nowhere. There is evidence that Wu shares a thread with Leigh Alexander in that she will go out of her way to ruin anyone that openly defies her, and if there is evidence of this out there, I will uncover it.

4. Wu being openly corrupt.
Wu didn't get her huge number of positive responses from Polygon and Kotaku and its userbase out of nowhere: She got them because she's in bed with them. Whether it's the iMore award she covets so, or the huge number of times she openly violated Steam's user agreement by up-voting her own game via sockpuppets on Steam Greenlight, to being allowed to edit her own user and gamepages due to SJW-friendly mods, Wu is openly, provably corrupt.