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

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Not much to the report. As Kroster said, they had to stop using it as their slush fund as money got tight. Few things I noticed:

- They got rid of the office. They were paying $1049 a month for it and it's nowhere to be found this year. Think in total they spent over $6000 just so Brianna could take a couple selfies and brag on Twitter. Doesn't appear they ever used it.

- Warren is probably making well below minimum wage. $1000 for 3 months worth of work. For someone who talks about raising the minimum wage, she sure loves paying slave wages. You'd think someone who has a Porsche could afford to pay her employee more for his hard work.

- They gave nearly $4,000 to NationBuilder for that site and whatever else comes with it. The site has almost no information on it, was down for a month, and wasn't even configured to take payments till a few weeks ago. You'd think the Godzilla of Tech could just build a killer site herself.

- I'm pretty sure they screwed up something. They didn't list their expenses as "operating expenditures" but listed everything as "other disbursements". I thought "other disbursements" were for giving money to other candidates.
 
Save the Loli said:
So why didn't Wu just pay the signature gatherers from the start instead of wasting all the money and time on Warren?
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Same reason she thought she was going to get over a million bucks in donations: :optimistic::optimistic::optimistic:
She never realises that work is involved in success. She just declares that she is something and waits for the riches and acclaim to pour in. She imagined herself having a million bucks to hire a real campaign staff, then they'd manage the thousands of volunteers that flocked to her campaign and she could sit at home playing Xbox and tweeting her political wisdom.
 
We've speculated before, but I seriously can't help but wonder between having to finance Bribri's campaign, expensive cars, hipster foods, dozens of video games and microtransactions, when Frank either runs out of fucking around money or puts his foot down. Even a pretend campaign (that has to buy signatures to get on the ballot) isn't cheap, I imagine.
 
vertexwindi said:
We've speculated before, but I seriously can't help but wonder between having to finance Bribri's campaign, expensive cars, hipster foods, dozens of video games and microtransactions, when Frank either runs out of fucking around money or puts his foot down. Even a pretend campaign (that has to buy signatures to get on the ballot) isn't cheap, I imagine.
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Yeah, it's a weird dynamic and I know people have speculated ad nauseam about Frank and John's relationship and why he pays for everything like this, and who is abusing who, but it's so fascinating. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in their house and find out what goes on when they think nobody is looking.
 
I've only met them in public, and I have no reason not to believe the ex wife who says he was abusive, but Frank just seems like a really amiable guy happy to play second string and go along with what makes Brianna happy. Does he have any hobbies or interests other than acting like a giant 8 year old and playing Nerf guns? The level of support that he's shown for every one of her failed schemes shows a completely dedicated and devoted husband. The guy clearly has some kinks, and she meets them, and so he'll go along with whatever she wants in return. Maybe that's part of the kinky bit for him.
 
Norvic said:
Nope. He lives in Colorado, so he's not physically involved in the campaign. He's clearly a Bernie Bro, friend of Warren's and also chronically underemployed. If I had to guess, Wu paid him solely just to do something about her website because even driving WYSIWYG HTML authoring tools is beyond "software engineer" Wu's ken.

The signatures were all gathered by Ballot Access Management LLC.
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Are we sure he currently lives in Colorado even if he has an address there? Warren mentioned a buddy named Imran who helped get sigs in Hingham. He got like 5 and was probably given other tasks after that.

Kroster said:
I posted a while ago that I went to an event where Warren was collecting signatures. There was another man collecting signatures too, and it may have been Imran. I didn't talk to either of them, but they look similar.
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Since he mentions gathering signatures with an Imran, you are probably right.
 
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Kroster said:
I've only met them in public, and I have no reason not to believe the ex wife who says he was abusive, but Frank just seems like a really amiable guy happy to play second string and go along with what makes Brianna happy.
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Yeah it doesn't sound like that's just the image he wants people to have of him at all. Abusers would never do that.
 
vertexwindi said:
Yeah it doesn't sound like that's just the image he wants people to have of him at all. Abusers would never do that.
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Yes I agree that abusers often put on a good show of being nice in front of others, and I believe he was abusive to his ex, and it's not out of the question that he's abusive towards Brianna. But if he had to control his ex by preventing her from having a career, he seems to be doing the opposite with Brianna. He seems to be willingly paying for her "careers," and even doing much of the work himself. It doesn't seem like the same situation.
 
Kroster said:
Yes I agree that abusers often put on a good show of being nice in front of others, and I believe he was abusive to his ex, and it's not out of the question that he's abusive towards Brianna. But if he had to control his ex by preventing her from having a career, he seems to be doing the opposite with Brianna. He seems to be willingly paying for her "careers," and even doing much of the work himself. It doesn't seem like the same situation.
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Honestly, I'm willing to agree upon further reflection.

Frank's ex was actually competent, and thus was a threat if Frank gave them support. Wu is a clown shoes parody of anything resembling a threat, and Frank knows he's the man behind the throne, so it would make perfect sense to prop Wu up, knowing that at any time he can just step back in case John gets too arrogant and watch John fail gloriously.

So it is a different situation.
 
Honestly, you guys seem to try to ascribe the most machiavellian motives to a man who goes ridiculously out of his way to prop up Brianna's aspirations. He puts in way more effort than Brianna herself does to try to help Brianna achieve what she claims to want to achieve. He always seems to me, far from being a controlling manipulator, rather pathetically naive in not seeing the reality that BriBri is incapable of achieving her stated goals even with his help and that some tough love might be better than constantly trying to prop her up.

I believe Brianna lies to Frank just as much as she lies to everyone else in her life. I've seen hints that Frank believed things about her earlier in their relationship that he now knows not to be true, and it doesn't seem to affected their relationship. In other words, it seems like Frank is a bit of a doormat. Brianna gets everything she wants, including ridiculously expensive sports cars when they don't even own a house. Nothing about this adds up to Frank being the dominant personality.
 
I don't know how many more times I can say this in this thread.

Frank is a reprehensible abuser. He stays with John because he jacks off to the fact that he controls and dominates him completely. If John ever showed a modicum of independent success, you bet your ass that Frank would rein that shit in right away. Both him and us know, however, that that will never, ever happen.

Stop this meme about Frank being an unlucky goofball stuck in tragic circumstances. It's sickening. He is actively and consciously abusive.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Frank is a reprehensible abuser. He stays with John because he jacks off to the fact that he controls and dominates him completely. If John ever showed a modicum of independent success, you bet your ass that Frank would rein that shit in right away. Both him and us know, however, that that will never, ever happen.
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And in this theory of yours, Frank has spent close on a million dollars of his money on Brianna's various obsessions because... why exactly? If it was just the sex change, then I'd grant you might have a point, because that could be as much for himself as for Brianna, but everything else?

Do you think Frank has a fetish for never having any money to pursue his own happiness and that he's just itching to retire without any significant assets to his name?
 
Norvic said:
Do you think Frank has a fetish for never having any money to pursue his own happiness
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Who says he's not? He's got all kinds of sports cars lying around, he gets to dress up as Godzilla fighting Drumpf, he gets to make videos and arts and crafts, and so on. John may put himself out there as the star of the show, but the show is full of stuff Frank likes.
I think John is kind of like the "action figure" that Frank uses to insert himself into the play. It fits with his manchildism.
 
Norvic said:
And in this theory of yours, Frank has spent close on a million dollars of his money on Brianna's various obsessions because... why exactly? If it was just the sex change, then I'd grant you might have a point, because that could be as much for himself as for Brianna, but everything else?

Do you think Frank has a fetish for never having any money to pursue his own happiness and that he's just itching to retire without any significant assets to his name?
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It's the only theory brought up so far that makes sense, and considering what he was like with his ex it's not a huge stretch to believe that's what's happening, but I'll concede that even if we take that as truth that we still don't understand what's going through that guy's mind. He's a mystery wrapped inside of a rice bowl.

What's your suggestion then? I can't imagine Frank genuinely likes Bribri for his personality.
 
Norvic said:
And in this theory of yours, Frank has spent close on a million dollars of his money on Brianna's various obsessions because... why exactly?
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And do you suppose that being a lovable henpecked goof holds more water than being an obsessive control freak with regards to him dumping his cash to keep John in the house forever?

I am not advancing a theory. Frank being a silly but harmless oddball is 100% a meme. It falls apart at cursory analysis and I don't know why people are so eager to defend a man who is actively complicit in unapologetically scamming people out of thousands of dollars. It's irrelevant that he's also pissing his own money down the toilet. He knows exactly what he's doing. Those other people do not.
 
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