This has been true since before Gamergate ever happened, but it does bear repeating: Wu is a living, breathing embodiment of every single
thing Gamergate formed to combat. Someone with absolutely no skills or merit who has decided, apropos of nothing, that
they deserve to have the fucking right to say what is and is not culturally relevant because fuck you, peasant.
Wu is the fucking
definition of a
Cultural Hegemonist.
The only reason Wu's gotten any press whatsoever is because she's personally connected to, either directly (IRL/Twitter Friends) or indirectly (via Frank) people who can help her when she needs it.
All of Revolution 60's positive press came from outlets that were personal friends of hers. Her first published writing works were on websites that friends of hers (Leigh Alexander, Ben Kuchera, Maddie Meyers) worked at or that her Husband had ties to.
She was brought into the Cool Kids' club by CON in hopes they could use her connections themselves, and between
her connections to various journalists involved in causing GG in the first place, there is fucking
zero doubt that she was wrist-deep in attempts to forment her victim narrative from the start, even though GG as a whole fucking ignored her ass.
Her ability to get critics of hers permanently suspended was due to her personal friendships with Glenn Fleischman and Del Harvey. Her victimhood has been siezed on by living embodiment of every negative stereotype about Jewish people and political remora, Ari Ezra Waldman (the fucking asshole lawyer arguing we need to end anonymity online), who she is
also personal friends with, promotes constantly, and featured prominently in her TIRML segment.
From the fucking beginning of Wu's rise to something distantly approaching relevance to where we are now, she has relied on absolutely
none of her own merit and skill, and has instead risen on the backs of her fellow regressive ideologues. When you see
the angle she immediately goes for on platforms where she doesn't have any power, you quickly realize that as much of a laughingstock as Wu is,
she's also the kind of person who would be insanely dangerous if she actually got into any position of authority.