Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

[Cynical]

Bit long, be warned:

 

[zedkissed60]

... says a noted hothead.

 

[Andy27]

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"Scientifically" = "In my opinion"

At least she is admitting that ignoring the trolls is the best strategy. Funny, when other people suggest the same thing they are muhsoggykneests and mansplainers.

 

[MehicTUH_92]

She's about as scientific as Westboro

 

[Cynical]

"Scientifically" = "In my opinion"

At least she is admitting that ignoring the trolls is the best strategy. Funny, when other people suggest the same thing they are muhsoggykneests and mansplainers.

Then why does John make such a big to do about this stuff instead keeping his mouth shut, making quiet reports to Twitter, and moving on with his life?

 

[CWCissey]

Then why does John make such a big to do about this stuff instead keeping his mouth shut, making quiet reports to Twitter, and moving on with his life?

Because that doesn't bring in the PityBux.

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Then why does John make such a big to do about this stuff instead keeping his mouth shut, making quiet reports to Twitter, and moving on with his life?

Drama.

Attention.

Patreon bucks.

 

[Cubanodun]

I'll give my expertise here, mostly because I also discussed this with @c-no earlier. Wu claims to have been a gamer since the 1980s, but her responses to various games that have been out a decade or longer indicates that, contrary to anything she says, she was not an oldschooler. There's just no evidence. Being an oldschool gamer meant being exposed to certain cultural elements and certain ideas in gaming at the time, ones that color one's responses. Wu doesn't show any of that. She parrots the same modern-looking back refrain that gaming has always been misogynistic, and that just doesn't hold water when we have tons of games with female protagonists dating back to the fucking Atari 2600.

Any NES veteran can reference some old campy shit from those days - whether it's some old engrish like Metal Gear's "TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE" or something silly like all the early Dragon Quest games using olde english in the west (FYI I really liked this). Whether it's something as basic as "princess in another castle" to something as insane as making an oblique reference to some game people probably haven't ever heard of. It's not just the NES, either - people with any console during this day who were really active gamers could pull that off. Whether it's Spoony talking about fighting the Floor in Ultima III, my friend MercenaryCobra1 talking about old Commodore 64 games, even the likes of James Rolfe. Gaming was a cauldron of new ideas and it appealed to many. Fuck, even my mom played vidya (though she's one of the rare few who suffers eye troubles if she plays too long), and her favorite arcade game was Joust.

Thing is, Wu doesn't show any real history like that. In fact, Wu's kind of unfortunate; due to PSN and her own activities, we can make an educated guess when she got into gaming in the first place - around 2005. Wu had a PSP, has a Vita, and had a PS3 (currently PS4). Election Eve, for example, which openly steals Parasite Eve's font and title graphic, Wu started putting together after playing the original on her newer systems. Wu is someone who loves flash-in-the pan (as evidenced by her love of iDevices she buys year after year), and is one of those rare few that thinks that flash can trump substance. This is why her primary games of choice include shit by Quantic Dream and story-driven or shiny games rather than ones with deep gameplay. She's also a fan of the Persona series, but again, she's mostly played titles after-the-fact. Her choices of playing Destiny or Mass Effect are genuinely outliers here. Her favored platform, by a landslide, is IOS, and shes played almost every Final Fantasy game via that. All of this, paired with Wu's dislike of shooters in general and games marketed towards the hardcore audience, suggest that Wu herself is someone who likes games primarily for the spectacle. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's more than a little disingenuous for Wu to claim she's always been a gamer but simultaneously claim that gaming has always been biased.

All evidence suggests that almost all of her game history and insight has been retroactive. There's nothing wrong with this, either, but it becomes extremely evident when watching how Wu broadcasts the same tiresome garbage the likes of Jack Thompson has been spewing for years. Shockingly few people who grew up a gaming hobbyist during the 80s - which Wu likes to claim - who lived the bullshit that was repeatedly being scapegoated every time there was a violent incident (hello, Columbine) and who lived through the saga of Jack Thompson would take the side of Anita and friends, no matter what assholes like MovieBob like to say. Hell, even MovieBob stood up against Thompson, and he's a completely disingenuous shit.

I'm just saying, no one who played FF6 in the 1990s would make a statement about Rape Culture in Final Fantasy VI that completely misinterprets the entire scene. There's not a single legitimate fan of Parasite Eve who played through either of the first two games who would agree that The Third Birthday, which eviscerated the series' characterization and world, was "the best one." Wu's very behavior indicates she is, despite her age, a late comer to the party of video gaming and that she's only claiming otherwise to appeal to the masses.

is not that he came late, he was not here to begin with, the Third birthday commentary was the proof i needed to see that he doesnt give a damn about games, he never mention other titles with STRONK WUMUMS like Dino Crisis,Fear Effect or Eternal Darkness, what about Perfect Dark? nope, he mentions the ones THAT ARE IN PSN CLASSICS/Wii virtual thingy because are the most accesibles and he always choose the most easy ones, i have never see him sperging about Valkyrie Profile even when it has a remaster for PSP, if you see Wu talking about a classic go check the digital store of the platform he is playing right now, 100 bucks that he is playing a CLASSIC/remaster edition

also now that Rare is going to make a pack of their old games expect him chimping about perfect dark

if you need another proof of Wu scrub level, he was complaining about how POC are almost never in a videogame... and he has like 30 or so games with POC as protagonist in his Steam including Shadowman

 

[AnOminous]

Then why does John make such a big to do about this stuff instead keeping his mouth shut, making quiet reports to Twitter, and moving on with his life?

Do a Google Trends search on Brianna Wu. The name literally doesn't exist before Wu came out of nowhere claiming to be a "victim" of it.

 

[Jaimas]

Do a Google Trends search on Brianna Wu. The name literally doesn't exist before Wu came out of nowhere claiming to be a "victim" of it.

That is going in the fucking Wiki.

 

[Cynical]

Wise decision.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Wise decision.

Translation: He and Frank are sitting on the couch in their underwear watching MommyWars and not speaking to each other.

 

[Andy27]

Then why does John make such a big to do about this stuff instead keeping his mouth shut, making quiet reports to Twitter, and moving on with his life?

That wouldn't satisfy her attention-whore syndrome. Wu has no problem with hypocrisy anyway, she has shown that much plenty of times.

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

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Wise decision.

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Wu is showing Dobson levels of self-reflection.

Point out exactly what's wrong with her then commit to doing the exact same offenses again.

Maybe Dobson does have a chance of being noticed?

 

[Cynical]

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Oh dear, Wu's disguise has been revoked.

Now she might actually have to go out in public.

 

[zedkissed60]

That is going in the fucking Wiki.

John joined Twitter on November 8, 2008.

His first (non-deleted) tweet - with a misspelled word, of course - was on July 25, 2009.

Three and a half years later (January 18, 2013), he had only 69 followers and almost 500 tweets. Five hundred tweets is about 5 days of tweeting by John now. Because "professionalism".

About a year after that (January 22, 2014), he had clawed himself up to 652 followers after 2,532 tweets. A couple months later (March 14, 2014), he was up another 140 followers to 792 after the "effort" of over 1,300 more tweets.

Over the next four months, his Twitter addiction really took hold. As of July 8, 2014 (about just a year ago), John had 2,849 followers. He had more than tripled his number of tweets to 12,235 in under 4 months.

By the last archive (September 12, 2014) prior to his and Frank's doxxing and death threat hoax, he had 7,602 followers and 22,300 tweets. John had spent that summer trolling the chans, because again, "professionalism" and "victimization".

As AnOminous pointed out, he was utterly unknown prior to his first hoax for publicity. Google Trends shows insufficient search volume to graph as of September 2014 and only had sufficient search volume after the first hoax.



To give further context to how irrelevant and non-famous John is, compare him to Justine Sacco (right - who is Justine Sacco) and John's fellow scammer Anita Sarkeesian over the past two years and past year. Ms. Sacco's little Twitter moment in late 2013 had more than 10x the interest that John got from his peak due to his publicity stunt hoax. Even Sarkeesian had twice the interest compared to John during John's own publicity stunt.

Even when John got a dead cat bounce from Milo's takedown of him in February, people still had equal interest in him and Anita. Plus, insult to injury, Ms. Sacco pulled in almost 3x more interest than John that week, as some major media did some "What happened to the racist tweet woman?" coverage more than a year after the "event".

More pathetically, Ms. Sacco still has twice the search volume that John has right now.



To give a broader context, John has no measurable interest relative to a person whose claim to "fame" is being the 18-year-old daughter of another tranny.



What little interest anyone has in John is limited to North America and somewhat in the UK.



Edit: For time reference, Revolution 60 was first released on July 12, 2014 - when John had about 3,000 Twitter followers. Three months later, after the game had clearly flopped, and John had spent three months furiously trolling gamergaters on the chans and Twitter (instead of, you know, doing his supposed job like an actual professional), came the "doxxing" and "death threats". According to AppAnnie data, Revolution 60 ranked just #1,322 for iPhone game downloads on July 24 (less than 2 weeks after first release) and has never cracked the top 1,500 since. It also peaked its gross revenue then, coming in at #840 among all iPhone games. On October 11, right after the "doxxing" and "death threats", its grossing rank reappeared at #1,005, dropped to #1,318 two days later, and has never been in the top 1,500 since. Thank goodness for Patreon - which John totally takes not even a dime from.

 

[Jaimas]

John joined Twitter on November 8, 2008.

His first (non-deleted) tweet - with a misspelled word, of course - was on July 25, 2009.

Three and a half years later (January 18, 2013), he had only 69 followers and almost 500 tweets. Five hundred tweets is about 5 days of tweeting by John now. Because "professionalism".

About a year after that (January 22, 2014), he had clawed himself up to 652 followers after 2,532 tweets. A couple months later (March 14, 2014), he was up another 140 followers to 792 after the "effort" of over 1,300 more tweets.

Over the next four months, his Twitter addiction really took hold. As of July 8, 2014 (about just a year ago), John had 2,849 followers. He had more than tripled his number of tweets to 12,235 in under 4 months.

By the last archive (September 12, 2014) prior to his and Frank's doxxing and death threat hoax, he had 7,602 followers and 22,300 tweets. John had spent that summer trolling the chans, because again, "professionalism" and "victimization".

As AnOminous pointed out, he was utterly unknown prior to his first hoax for publicity. Google Trends shows insufficient search volume to graph as of September 2014 and only had sufficient search volume after the first hoax.

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To give further context to how irrelevant and non-famous John is, compare him to Justine Sacco (right - who is Justine Sacco) and John's fellow scammer Anita Sarkeesian over the past two years and past year. Ms. Sacco's little Twitter moment in late 2013 had more than 10x the interest that John got from his peak due to his publicity stunt hoax. Even Sarkeesian had twice the interest compared to John during John's own publicity stunt.

Even when John got a dead cat bounce from Milo's takedown of him in February, people still had equal interest in him and Anita. Plus, insult to injury, Ms. Sacco pulled in almost 3x more interest than John that week, as some major media did some "What happened to the racist tweet woman?" coverage more than a year after the "event".

More pathetically, Ms. Sacco still has twice the search volume that John has right now.

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To give a broader context, John has no measurable interest relative to a person whose claim to "fame" is being the 18-year-old daughter of another tranny.

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What little interest anyone has in John is limited to North America and somewhat in the UK.

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I am crediting you for this when it goes up.

 

[zedkissed60]

I am crediting you for this when it goes up.

No need to, but thanks.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

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Maybe you could go as Gary Busey. Video makes you look like you've had a poorly treated stroke, or had botched plastic surgery that had a comparable effect.