Brianna Wu

Brianna Wu
Brianna Wu, posing with a motorcycle that she may or may not actually own.
Age	38
Born	July 6th, 1977 Mississippi
Residence	Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation	Head of Giant Spacekat Studios

"The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer."

—James Woods

Main Articles: Timeline of Brianna Wu, Psychoanalysis of Brianna Wu, List of Brianna Wu's Lies

Brianna W. Wu (born John Walker Flynt on July 6th, 1977) is a 38-year-old American independent "game designer" and self-described feminist who is the head of the video game studio Giant Spacekat, a company that consisted of about five people when it was at its zenith and currently consists of about two, and whose sole claim to fame is Revolution 60, a by-all-accounts mediocre-at-best iOS-exclusive game that is currently freeware on the App Store. Wu is also noted for the absolutely enormous amount of posts she makes on Twitter - by all accounts, she has, as of May 25th, 2015, tweeted over 10,000 times since GamerGate began in August of 2014, and over 30000 tweets over the last three years. She is, simply put, the literal definition of a Twitter junkie.

Wu is better known, however, for being a notorious egomaniac who became famous by inserting herself into the GamerGate controversy and antagonizing people involved with it in an attempt to drum up hype for her game and to try to make herself out to be some kind of icon for identity politics ideologues to follow. She quite literally was a complete unknown until she did this. She sees herself as a leader and cultural icon for opposition to Gamergate, a role she fills primarily by shrieking on Twitter and other allied outlets, lionizing herself and potraying herself as, to hear her tell it, the single most oppressed individual on the entire planet.

Truly, Brianna Wu is the hero the internet needs, and she is so brave and strong for dealing with harassment on a day-to-day basis. Please donate to her Patreon, so she can continue to fight the good fight.

Unfortunately for Brianna, there's only one small problem with this: Brianna Wu is a widely-discredited, infamous pathological liar with an equally-infamous history of victimizing herself and then trying to claim oppression points on said victimization. The overpowering bulk of Wu's claims of being threatened and/or harassed are either Wu victmizing herself, Wu provoking people and then self-righteously screaming about the results, or Wu trumping up blatant false flags as if they are credible threats.

It is this last behavior that brought her to the attention of those following Jace Connors, as it led to the infamous Street Racing Incident. Wu's willingness to treat obvious false-flags and third-party trolls as credible threats has given rise to a massive number of incidents where Wu's personal victimhood has been on full display, often to her detriment.

Brianna Wu is known for even openly lying when it's not in her own interests to do so, such as when she claimed to have never heard of respected YouTube critic TotalBiscuit after he had criticized her bad behavior, mere weeks after repeatedly trying to get him to cover her game.

Wu's pattern of lying goes well beyond simple harassment claims; Wu lies about absolutely everything, from her being adopted to her being born a woman. She's gone on to lie about her qualifications for jobs, about the success of her game, and about almost everything involving her career. Wu lies so often and has done so with such frequency that this very wiki has had to be edited dozens of times just to implement minor changes to reflect newly-established facts as yet another lie Wu has told has been exposed. Despite claiming to have multiple degrees, and numerous other qualifications, Brianna Wu provably does not have the STEM field degree she nigh-constantly claims to, having dropped out of Ole Miss in 1998. She also does not have a degree in Journalism, as she dropped out of Millsaps for this in 2000.

Indeed, almost every qualification and success Brianna Wu has had has been the result of either riding someone else's coat-tails, taking advantage of someone else's work, or relying on her network of associates to bolster her own reputation and popularity. Without these critical assets in place, it is safe to say that Brianna Wu as a public figure would not exist. Huge amounts of what Brianna Wu says about her personal history and background are utterly fabricated, and most of these were proved with very simple searches into publicly-available databases. Without any hyberbole, Brianna Wu is one of the most hubristic individuals this wiki has ever chronicled, and considering some of the various other personalities this wiki has covered, that's quite an accomplishment.

Needless to say, given her tendency to bend the truth and outright lie about herself, Brianna Wu is recognized by countless other communities, journalistic outlets, and internet detectives as being one of the single biggest, if not the biggest professional victims on the entire internet. Literally no tactic is beneath Brianna Wu - she has done everything from false-flag herself via doxxing herself on 8chan, to attempting to drum up hate against her that she could use on Steam whilst forgetting she was logged into her developer account, to outright attempting to say widely-debunked hoaxes were credible threats to her life. Throughout all of these, Brianna Wu has complained about how her harassment has not been taken seriously, by both legal authorities and those on the internet. A cursory analysis, however, has shown that Brianna has, beyond her first few emails sent out, never contacted the police about any of her harassment, indicating that Brianna's ongoing campaign of bemoaning her harassment is little more than an attempt to turn her own personal victimhood into a career.

It's critical to note that what Brianna Wu considers "harassment" is not anything that other, more rational people would define as said term. Indeed, Brianna Wu has a long and glorious history of claiming virtually every interaction with her that is not sufficiently supplicative to be harassment, including stating facts she doesn't like, mentioning information she intentionally omitted, or pointing out when she's openly lying. Even people who have attempted to give her professional advice have been accused of harassing her. This becomes even more sinister when one considers that she's willing to stir controversy for the sake of drawing attention to herself, and then cynically seek to profit off said controversy.

Brianna's offenses go beyond mere professional victimhood, however. She has vicious reputation amongst her peers for being willing to utilize any method, no matter how disingenuous, hurtful, or far-reaching, to flat-out ruin the lives of those who openly defy her. Those who have faced Wu often have harrowing tales to tell as Wu will turn the full fury of her followers on those who offend her, actively get in touch with Wu-friendly media outlets to trump up charges against her opposition, and rally hosts of events or engagements to not allow voices she disagrees with. If all else fails, she will use her personal connections to get her enemies banned on Social Networking.

Outside of #GamerGate, which Brianna Wu would arguably would not have a career without, she is an advocate for "women in tech," which mostly entails boasting about her (largely fictitious) portfolio of accomplishments and complain incessantly about how victimized and marginalized women are whilst contributing exactly nothing to help the situation she alleges to champion. Brianna Wu's arguments can often be best described as incoherent; during her appearance on David Pakman Show, she was unable to make clear the distinction whether a given problem was the fault of GamerGate, so-called "toxic masculinity," or endemic problems in "the industry." Wu's arguments in this field are often, essentially, identical to her responses on GamerGate - declaring herself automatically right, dismissing critics as "hostile dudebros" and "mansplainers," and generally reacting with the good taste and maturity she shows in GamerGate-related discussion.

The tragedy of Brianna Wu is that, had she not been blinded by her own hubris, she could come across as a success story. She is a transgender game developer who struggled and fought to make her dream real, and who did her part to make her game as good as it could be, in spite of it being flawed. Had she owned up to this, and had she learned from this, Brianna Wu would be viewed in a completely different light. Worse, her reputation now, as a professional victim and pathological liar is solely due to her own actions - multiple times, she was given wise council - by friends, by neutral parties, and even by enemies - who urged her to disengage from her ongoing attempts to provoke GamerGate to further her own career, and each time, she shot it down. All attempts to try reason with her or give her advice on how to avoid trouble was invariably met with hostility as Brianna Wu believed herself to be above it all. Indeed, had she listened to advice given to her at the start of her skirmishing with GamerGate, it's very likely that this article into Wu never would have come about in the first place.

Important Notes About Brianna Wu's Trans Status and Adoption

"Things started getting bad very quickly, of course. I waited until I started seeing links to Encyclopedia Dramatica and Lolcow Wiki, sites that more or less exist to spread gossip and libel about Internet personalities. I asked that a link to a hit piece alleging over-the-top and incredibly hurtful things about a panelist—that she was a drug addict, that she’d sold her child—be removed. I asked that a link to a hit piece saying I’d called in a bomb threat be removed. I asked that a link outing the birth name of a trans person who wasn’t even on any of the panels be removed."

—Arthur Chu, inadvertently revealing more than he intended to

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This image explains it all, really.

For the sake of brevity and out of respect to Brianna herself, this Wiki will not get into theorycraft as to reasons Brianna may or may not have had for claiming to have been born a woman, her personal reasons for transitioning, et al. There are two very specific parts of Wu's past and transgendered status that this Wiki will choose to focus on: the fact that she is, in fact, transgendered, and the fact that she claims to have been born a woman. Likewise, it will not get into the reasons she may or may not have had for denying her relationship to her biological parents.

There are two critical reasons these must be addressed in this article, and by this wiki:

• The first is to establish context - Brianna Wu is an inveterate liar and has a well-known manipulative streak that is nigh-perfectly encapsulated in her background. This is the earliest-known part of what would inevitably become a pattern with Brianna Wu, and, as such, is relevant to discussion here. Wu claiming to be adopted is, likewise, a well-known lie.

• The second is the issue of Wu's claims to have always been a woman. Wu's problem is that, rather like Rachel Dolezal (the disgraced NAACP head who turned out to have actually been a white woman and completely fabricated her own past) and Andrea Smith (a similarly-disgraced American Indian scholar who has for years claimed to be Cherokee despite being white), Brianna Wu has repeatedly claimed to have had the various struggles one has as a woman - when this is patently false.

If she wishes to be considered a woman now that she has transitioned, then fair enough - Gender Dysphoria is a very real medical condition after all - but it is highly disingenuous for Brianna Wu to lie about her past, her experiences, and her identity, claiming considerable experience growing up as a woman when there is irrefutable evidence directly contradicting her claims.

Early Life, Politics, and Sexual Reassignment

Related Articles: John Flynt's Resume, Brianna Wu is John Flynt

John Walker Flynt alongside Brianna Wu.

Brianna Wu's own Wikipedia page lists her as being adopted, and indeed, as being born a woman. She's also claimed this on her own Tumblr. More than this, it's also one of her most publicly made claims, following a massive post made on Gamerghazi - an Anti-GamerGate community - where she happened to be a moderator - and deleted any post that pointed out holes in her story. She also claims to be a STEM field graduate.

Unfortunately for Brianna Wu, many are acutely aware of Brianna Wu's history. She was provably not born a woman, and she dropped out of college three times. At no point did she ever get a certification in engineering, nor a degree in anything for that matter. The overpowering majority of Brianna Wu's past - at least the way she's told it to the mainstream press - is an outright fabrication.

Humorously, Brianna Wu revealing this tidbit on Social Media would lead to the discovery of her real identity.

Prior to her transitioning, Brianna Wu was known as John Walker Flynt, named by her birth parents, Laura Flynt and Doctor Joel Flynt. Flynt was fortunate enough to have fantastically wealthy parents, and lived a life of privilege that is difficult for many people to describe, let alone comprehend. After growing up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he moved to Oxford and attended Ole Miss college's Engineering course in 1996 before transferring to Millsaps in an attempt to start up his own animation studio, Socially Unconscious Productions. By Brianna Wu's own admission, she was given about $200,000 by her parents over the course of three loans over a five-year period for this startup.

Established in a new school, and with a different course of study (Business Administration), John Walker Flynt drew comics for the Millsaps Purple and White, specifically his comic Socially Unconscious. The comic was considered disastrously unfunny and more than a little offensive due to its portrayal of women, poor art style, and reliance on a cast of drunken sorority co-eds. The comic was ultimately pulled from Millsaps and John Flynt dropped out of Millsaps in 1999.

Flynt's parents got involved with the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, and, using their connections, got Flynt work in the RNC, where he worked for some time as a political operative, having gotten tickets to Bush's Inaugural Ball after he was elected in 2000, leading to Wu working for the RNC and Segregationist Senator Trent Lott. Ultimately John Flynt failed to get any further up the ladder in politics, and eventually became disillusioned. He returned to school in 2001, once more with a focus on journalism, and was especially focused on social, political, and gaming blogging.

When Flynt returned to Ole Miss in 2001, he quickly became notorious for claiming he had acute memory loss due to being stabbed in the head during a robbery, and was noted for saying he had lost all memory of who he was, including his name. Other students described him as possibly having some kind of neurological or psychological disorder, and that Flynt had difficulty fitting in.

John Walker Flynt, after his change of political party and before transitioning.

Flynt attempted to get Socially Unconscious into Ole Miss's paper, but was denied - Ole Miss didn't want a comic in their paper. Flynt did not react to this information well and rather infamously freaked out, calling various individuals working for the paper and various school staffers a plethora of racist and homophobic epithets before being removed from the premises. The staff would then proceed to file a restraining order against him.

Roughly a year passed before Flynt would try again, having rebilled Socially Unconscious as Election Eve, a comic about a bunch of girls running for student council president and one of them having eyes on somehow using this to rule the world. Flynt's art-style had not improved and Flynt was no closer to starting up a successful animation studio. When the Daily Mississippian, Ole Miss's newspaper, moved to Bishop, Flynt believed that the restraining order no longer applied, and attempted to get Election Eve into the paper. The incident was immortalized by one editor at said paper:

The first time I met him, I was the opinion editor at The Daily Mississippian, and I turned to see this creepy fuck standing behind me. I shook his hand, and he pulled it away, saying “oowwww.” He then explained that he’d broken his wrist in a bicycle accident that had almost killed him and had given him amnesia. He explained that he wanted to be a columnist and that he had previously worked for George W. Bush in the white house but that he had since realized how retarded and evil all conservatives were. About this time my phone started ringing, and I politely ignored it while I talked to this guy. Then it rang again, and again until I answered. It was the managing editor, who had ducked behind the front desk and was whispering, “stay calm, and don’t react to this, but this guy isn’t supposed to be here. He has a restraining order. Get rid of him.”

By this point, I was concerned the guy might knife me at any moment; so I told him to write me three columns and that I’d evaluate them and get back to him on whether he could write for me. (I’m still proud of my ability to remain poised and convincingly pretend that the Daily Mississippian had any fucking standards.)

Turns out, a year prior, he’d come in wanting the Daily Mississippian to run a comic strip that he was doing. When he was told they weren’t interested, he flipped out. He called one of the workers a fat dyke, and when Dr. Husni came to her defense, he called him a “raghead” and a “sand nigger.” They got a restraining order to keep him away from Farley, but when they moved to Bishop, it no longer applied, and he was actually able to weasel back in to working for the SMC."

—Daily Mississippian Editor, on John Walker Flynt

This encounter would later be corraborated by others who were familiar with John Flynt. Flynt would drop out of Ole Miss again in 2001, this time due to an ongoing struggle with an addiction to Ambien, before returning in 2003, this time with a focus on business economics. Despite purportedly graduating with a degree in that field in 2006, later investigation by the Kiwi Farms yielded that this was not the case, and she is not on record as having graduated from either Ole Miss or Millsaps.

It is critical to note that despite claiming to have STEM field certifications constantly, Brianna Wu does not have any whatsoever, having dropped out of Ole Miss's engineering program in 1998. Multiple inquiries by the Kiwi Farms investigating the colleges that Wu is known to have attended have yielded no credible evidence that Brianna Wu has ever had such schooling. Indeed, contacting her previous schools for written transcripts has indicated that Wu never graduated any of the classes she took, calling into question virtually all of her existing qualifications. Despite this, she has claimed to be both an "Engineer" and "Journalist" hundreds of times across both Social Media and various events she's spoken at.

Comprehensive proof that Brianna Wu never graduated from Ole Miss.

Whilst there is nothing wrong with acquiring training on-the-job (indeed, many game programmers start out doing it for fun), the issue is that Brianna Wu claims constantly to have certifications she does not. Indeed, many of her most infamous complaining about "mansplaining" have occurred when Wu demonstrably doesn't know what she's talking about and gets called out on it.

It's also worth noting that, of the three times that Brianna Wu entered Ole Miss, all three were as legacy admissions and thus a case of her riding her parents' coattails. This is especially ironic for a woman who crows about privilege as much as Brianna Wu does.

Flynt began transitioning in late 2005,purportedly adopting the name "Brianna" because John had a crush on a staffer for the Daily Mississippian named Brian. Flynt wound up having SRS about 2 years later, in 2008. Brianna did not expressly say that this was SRS to her followers and associates, but rather, surgery to fix a "birth-related urinary tract defect."

Brianna would, however, discuss her transitioning in extensive detail on Transgender forums, including her laser hair removal sessions and how her penis was shrinking due to hormone changes. Later that year, she purportedly married Frank Wu, who she had been close to for quite some time. In later photos taken with Frank, she has a prominent scarring consistent with SRS on her legs, as well as scalp and throat scarring corresponding to additional surgeries. Proof of her legal name change was acquired by the Kiwi Farms on March 31st, 2016.

Sadly, Brianna was neither quiet nor particularly nice to other users in the aftermath of her transitioning. She was extremely active on a number of Transgender activist forums - most notably the Susan's Place Transgender Resource Forums, which most assuredly do not remember her fondly, despite becoming a moderator there. Indeed, true to form, Brianna remained a veritable lightning-rod for drama and personal problems, leaving a wake of angry, pissed off associates, co-workers, and forum associates in her path and quickly garnering a reputation for herself as both a shameless bully and an unrepentant, inveterate liar - reputations that, despite Wu's attempts to bury, have managed to follow her for more than half a decade.

Brianna became known for advocating that it was fine to not tell potential romantic partners that one was trans - something quite literally discouraged by every single credible trans advocacy group in the USA to avoid the Trans Panic Defense - and a viewpoint she expressed that was recorded by other people familiar with Brianna during her transitioning, who cited that the second she was "passable," Brianna seemed to enjoy flirting with males who were unaware of her transwoman status.

Brianna would furthermore go on-record as saying that the very advocacy groups pointing out the need for openness on such a topic were, in fact, unnecessary, and would become quite well-known for being openly bigoted against Southerners and Christians.

“I also think that their obsession with watching a grown man chase a ball reflects the average Southerners capacity for intellect. I also think they are willingfully [sic] ignorant of the fact that they are racists… I honestly cannot think of anything that redeems the culture.”'

—Brianna Flynt

She would later go on to call Southerners "all beyond obese and psychologically unhealthy," as well as "ignorant" and "freakish."

It didn't end there. Brianna, in a fairly openly hypocritical stance, was known to be openly dismissive of gay males and transvestites, calling the latter "fakers" and claiming that the former were enemies of feminism because, despite being gay, they were still men, and moreover, weren't as subject to Rape or Violence as women were, further demeaning them as "competition for the penis." Brianna was likewise also openly harassing and dismissive to other users, and ridiculing them openly for tiny, if not non-existent offenses. Wu was especially heartless towards individuals who lamented their transitioning - irrespective of reason. Even when not discussing politics, religion, location, or other relevant transgender issues, Brianna still managed to be a veritable self-sustaining nuclear reaction of trouble, such as when she went on a lengthy tirade claiming the southern term "Sammiches" (for sandwiches) was racist. These, plus countless other issues, caused Brianna to be sanctioned, stripped of moderatorship, and ultimately banned from the forum entirely. This is painfully similar to what would happen later when Brianna Wu was removed from moderatorship of GamerGhazi, an Anti-Gamergate community, for essentially the same offenses.

Socially Unconscious Productions

Main Article: Socially Unconscious Productions

Socially Unconscious wasn't exactly a hit with its readership.

Prior to transitioning in 2008, Brianna Wu - as John Walker Flynt - attended Ole Miss from 1996 to 1998, when he dropped out for undisclosed reasons and went to Millsaps. At Millsaps, in 1999, he put together Socially Unconscious Productions, an animation company started with a sizable amount of money, in the form of three separate loans totaling $170,194.04 plus interest, from his wealthy parents.

Socially Unconscious began with a series of comics in the campus newspaper, the Millsaps Purple and White, and was thoroughly unremarkable, at first, though the comic would quickly devolve into the drunken misadventures of a group of sorority co-eds - which happened to be the very same characters Wu would eventually place in Revolution 60, including Minuet and Holiday. The art style meshes up with Revolution 60's character design almost exactly.

The comic itself was regarded as remarkably offensive by many of the paper's readers, who complained about the simplistic art, the portrayal of the characters (who were students at said college) as liars and lecherous booze-hounds, and being surprisingly misogynistic, all in one stroke. Additionally, Flynt had a ridiculously patronizing view of his readership, claiming that he could run the same joke over and over and no one would ever notice. Suffice to say, Millsaps' newspaper pulled it, and when Flynt tried to submit it to Ole Miss, his reputation preceded him. Flynt tried to rebrand the comic as Election Eve, complete with an attempt to try to turn the comic into a Radio drama, but this, too, failed miserably and ultimately Socially Unconscious Productions went under on August 26th, 2002.

Flynt was known to embellish the accomplishments of his studio and comic heavily, for the sake of bolstering his accomplishments to associates, and often to a ridiculous degree. In addition to claiming that his comic(s) had been syndicated and that Election Eve had been successful, Flynt also claimed to hold several unique patents for animation techniques that research by Kiwi Farms operatives shows that he did not actually have. During his infamous resume wherein Flynt revealed he worked for notoriously racist Senator Trent Lott, Flynt would go on to claim his comic as work experience.

Giant SpaceKat Studios/Chessboard Holdings, LLC.

"Briana Wu [sic] is a video game developer and gaming aficionado who credits Princess Peach from “Super Mario Brothers Two” for sparking her passion for games. She says playing the female character made her realize equality was necessary in the gaming world. Since then, Briana [sic] has developed and released several hit video games, founded her own company and become the host of the weekly gaming podcast called “Isometric” podcast on Relay FM."

—CCTV America News, Neglecting to mention that Giant SpaceKat has only one game which is a critical and commercial failure

Wu's Video Game Development Company, Giant SpaceKat Studios - also known as GSX, is an unusual one, and not only for the prominence of its head; Giant SpaceKat, as it turns out, is not a legal entity of any sort. On LinkedIn she claims that it's a sole proprietorship with seems contrary to the idea that she's claimed that she partnered with Amanda Sternquist Warner to open the company, which would make it a legal partnership. This is not the case.

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Giant SpaceKat Studios shows off Brianna Wu's work ethic.

Giant SpaceKat Studios is actually the operating name for Chessboard Holdings, LLC, which is the actual company. This action is not illegal and not unheard of for small development studios who are just getting started. It is, however, anomalous for a company which spent Over $300,000 on their first project, and it's rather important for dismissing one of the more outstanding lies Wu has told - that Wu has someone who handle all her harassment tweets, and that this is where the bulk of her Patreon money goes. Why is this? Mostly because given Wu's small company size, despite her Patreon that she claims is going towards a full-time Twitter handler, is highly unlikely to actually have an Employer Identification Number (EIN). Multiple investigations have shown that Giant SpaceKat Studios, and indeed, Chessboard Holdings, LLC do not have one that is publicly disclosed.

Most businesses have no problem revealing their EIN, and given that Wu herself isn't mandated to reveal it, the fact that she hasn't isn't exactly anomalous, nor is the fact that there doesn't seem to be any record of it anywhere necessarily damning. But it is very curious that she appears to have gone to quite some lengths to obfuscate the actual company's name and that she lists Giant Spacekat as a sole proprietorship when it clearly isn't (Because it doesn't actually exist apart from being a name).

Naming Scheme

Giant SpaceKat Studios is named for Space Channel 5, a Sega Dreamcast game that Brianna Wu is a big fan of. The abbreviation for the company, GSX, is a reference to the Sony Playstation, which had an abbreviated name of PSX when it was in development (the "X" being for its prototype status) Despite the X initial no longer mattering or making sense, the PSX abbreviation for the system stuck until the Playstation 2 came out (whereupon it became known as the PS1).

Employee Feedback

Less than half of the team behind Revolution 60 still work for Giant SpaceKat.

At the moment, Giant SpaceKat claims, on its website, four employees: Brianna Wu, Frank Wu (Brianna's Husband), Amanda Warner, and Natalie O'Brien. Originally it had several more who worked at developing Revolution 60, but left the company after their contracts ran out - at which point Brianna Wu allegedly took credit for all their work and claimed she fired them.

According to Emma Clarkson, one of these employees, Brianna purportedly contributed nothing to the project and was quick to backstab them for personal gain when they outlived their usefulness. Another Employee, speaking under anonymity to Bro Team Pill, an Internet Video Game Reviewer, described Brianna Wu as "Poison."

In many ways, Wu's handling of her employees reveals several interesting facts about Giant SpaceKat that aren't immediately apparent to the casual onlooker. According to Wu herself, the bulk of her programmers were acquired via CraigsList. According to Emma Clarkson, Wu came to view many of her employees as expendable after the initial batch, and had a rotating series of secondary programmers and the like that were constantly being moved in and out when their contracts ran out.

A lot of this is shown in the schizophrenic nature of Revolution 60 and its insane marketing strategy, which included several youtube ads, a media blitz from Brianna's friends, and her husband antagonizing 4chan and 8chan as part of a failed viral marketing plan. As of Giant SpaceKat missing the October 2015 shipping window for Revolution 60, there has been no further attempt by Giant SpaceKat or the Wu family to address its failure to launch, indicating that Giant SpaceKat exists as nothing other than a novelty for Brianna Wu and something she can use to claim she's a game developer.

Accomplishments and Future Prospects

In addition to Revolution 60, Giant SpaceKat is currently also currently making Cupcake Crisis, an infamously patronizing IOS game that has been widely mocked for its percieved lack of quality. The gameplay solely seems to cover counting and color puzzles that would not go amiss in an episode of Sesame Street. Wu claims that this will help train girls to be engineers.

Giant SpaceKat has also announced a sequel to Revolution 60, called Revolution 62. Given that Revolution 60 was a critical and commercial failure, this seems somewhat unlikely.

Wu has also announced working on "a new storytelling game engine to replace twine," which would allow someone to "create a graphic novel to play on your tablet or phone." Ignoring that creation tools already exist, and ignoring Brianna Wu's longstanding history to claim she has patents she doesn't, the extremely vague mission statement, the fact that Giant SpaceKat Studios can't seem to decide if it wants to make a game or an engine, and the fact that this has persisted through multiple announcements indicates that Brianna Wu is simply trying to double down in spite of failures, a trick that Brianna herself is a big fan of.

Revolution 60

Main Article: Revolution 60

Brianna frequently claims that Revolution 60 was a success, in spite of it being anything but. Here, she's seen saying it would be one of "the biggest Indie titles of 2014."

Revolution 60 is the seminal achievement of Giant SpaceKat Studios, and, as of currently, the only game the studio has ever produced. The game itself is a labor of love, and Giant SpaceKat allegedly spent over 3 years and close to $400,000 on this project. The game itself is a narrative-driven sci-fi game featuring quick-time events, branching dialogue options, and grid-based real-time combat, and, as of currently, is only for IOS. Whilst a very ambitious game by all accounts, and with a number of great things going for it (excellent music, quality voice work, interesting character designs, and a rather interesting setting as well), but is fraught with technical and design flaws that significantly undercut how good it can be. The game did not do terribly well, however, not even breaking into the top 800 IOS games at the height of its popularity. It has earned back less than a third of the money it cost to make it, and has been widely seen as a critical and commercial failure. In spite of this, Wu is notorious for claiming it was a critical success - during the GethN7 Incident, she became enraged when GethN7, one of her critics, pointed out the simple fact that it was a failure by even the most gentle of metrics.

Revolution 60 is more notable, however, for the controversy surrounding it and the studio that created it. As of this writing, Revolution 60 has one of the most disparate aggregate review scores of any work, with a 73 critic review score - and a shockingly low 2.4 user review score. The source of these seemingly bizarrely polarized scores is very simple - and more than a little ugly. With the exception of a single review by Grab It Magazine, the positive reviews Revolution 60 has received are from people Brianna Wu personally knows - in essence, they gave her positive coverage for her game because of their relationship to her, exactly as GamerGate, which Brianna Wu has attempted to portray herself as the champion of the opposition to, has complained about. Worse, Giant SpaceKat Studios was heavily criticized by the staff as being extremely unpleasant to work for, with Brianna Wu often not contributing in any meaningful capacity, but taking full credit for the employees' work.

Frank Wu

Main Article: Frank Wu

Brianna Wu alongside her husband, Frank.

A man of many talents, Frank Wu is Brianna's husband. He is a successful patent agent and sci-fi artist. Unlike Brianna Wu, Frank Wu has what seems to be self-awareness and a sense of oblique humor that makes him seem almost oppositional to Brianna Wu's complete lack of ability to take criticism, since Frank Wu, on his own, seems to be able to laugh at himself. In addition to designing vehicles for Revolution 60, Frank Wu also does commentary and consultation for other sci-fi works. He's gotten several accolades for his campy (and clever) artwork, which tends to blend retro sci-fi kitsch with modern irreverence, the most notable of which are a series of Hugo awards (four in total). He's primarily known for making tongue-in-cheek jokes wherein Brianna Wu jokes about punishing Frank for eating her cookies, displaying his car being blown up in an attack by terrorists, or belittles him for falling into a trap she made for him in Mario Maker.

However, a darker truth lies just under the surface.

It's an act. The simple truth is that Frank Wu and Brianna Wu are very much alike. Like Brianna, Frank is just as abusive, deceitful, and aggressive as Brianna Wu herself is. The Aura to Brianna Wu's Vade, Frank manages things behind the scenes to help Brianna Wu control the narrative. He is, for example, the suspected source of some of Wu's more infamous false-flags (such as the Operation FalseFag II), and is widely considered to be the mind (and at least one voice) behind Brianna's infamous "calls from Gamergate" video. Frank also actively trolls GamerGate supporters under pseudonyms - a direct contrast to Brianna doing it openly, and has a hand in using fraudulent accounts to accost other GamerGate Opponents as well. When Brianna Wu is at a speaking engagement, Frank is always in the vanguard, keeping an eye peeled for anyone who would ask uncomfortable questions or call Brianna out on her lies.

Whilst Frank has been extremely careful, making it harder to dig up information on his activities, he is not invulnerable, and the Kiwi Farms have done considerable research into his background and involvement with Brianna Wu's online presence. Frank's involvement with Giant SpaceKat's economic strategy is particularly sinister and has everything to do with her online persona, indicating that he has substantially more involvement with Brianna's antics than most realize.

Champion of Women's Rights in Tech

Main Article: Women in Tech Co-Authorship

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"Mansplaining" is a favorite Wu-ism when she's losing an argument.

When not trying to milk her own victimhood as the most oppressed woman on the planet, she does speeches and talks at tech events, and constantly tries to champion Women in Tech, constantly declaring that "misogyny in the industry" and "unconscious bias" are industry-wide problems whilst ignoring all statistical evidence that shows the contrary. To hear Wu tell it, misogyny in tech is ever-present and unending, and keeps women away from tech. Anyone who disagrees or disparages this narrative will immediately be deemed a threat and given the same courtesy Brianna Wu shows GamerGate supporters - even if they're otherwise people Brianna Wu supports!

It's critical to note that Brianna Wu, contrary to her own claims, has no technical qualifications whatsoever (she failed out of Ole Miss when she was going for her Engineering degree) and her sole accomplishment is a software company that is a failure by any metric and a game that was a critical and commercial failure, so her own ability to actually preach about oppression is rather limited, considering she's only in the "industry" in the loosest sense of the word. Indeed, Brianna Wu never graduated and has no qualifications to be speaking about anything - which has resulted in the surreal situation of Brianna Wu claiming expertise in a field, being called out on it, and immediately accusing her opposition of harassing her.

Needless to say, most of her "speaking engagements" she gets due to her cozy connection to whom she knows, as is the case for her ability to get accounts perpetually suspended for no reason and how her failure of an IOS game got overwhelmingly positive reviews.

To those familiar with Brianna Wu, there is all-too-familiar trend on how she handles her speaking engagements on the matter and how she handles herself in the public arena therein; most of the time, her speaking engagements, in which she complains about inherent bias, are simply her saying that she's an example of a woman in the tech industry, and that GamerGate "harassing" her is somehow the fault of said tech industry, an argument she pitched at several individuals, including Josh Olin and most notably, Derek Smart, and will proceed to complain about "mansplaining" every time she receives any criticism whatsoever from males, even ones infinitely more qualified and successful than she is. If called out by a female and/or transgendered developer, she will generally treat them like intellectual inferiors. Hilariously, Wu is scraping and obedient when confronted with someone of higher authority, in the hopes of kissing up to them.

There are also countless examples of Wu using her voice to shriek over more qualified voices. In one particularly spectacular example, she accused an Apple developer of "mansplaining" for pointing out that an issue she was having was not one encountered by everyone. She is equally infamous for coining the term "Manasking," and suggesting that any male who asks her any question that dares to call into question her omnipresent narrative is automatically guilty of it. On the rare occasions Wu receives criticism from other women, her followers spring into action to attack the offender, and Brianna Wu proceeds to use it as an example of her own victimhood. This is a behavior that pre-dates her involvement in GamerGate, and has been particularly well-documented.

In April of 2016, the Kiwi Farms acquired a copy of Brianna Wu's contribution to Women in Tech by Tara Wheeler Van Vlack. Wu's segment is a shockingly inaccurate, absolutely laughable fabrication of her actual life that fails to correspond with statements she's made this year, to say nothing of established facts about her own history. Despite only contributing a minor segment to the work, Brianna Wu has nonetheless claimed to be a "co-author" of the work on twitter.

Involvement in the GamerGate Controversy

"One of the things we learned pretty early on is: "Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you. They will de-construct your spin. They will remember everything you ever say for eternity."

—Gabe Newell

Brianna Wu's involvement with the GamerGate Controversy is, by any metric, her most prominent, notable, and obvious feature - it is not an understatement to say that without GamerGate to treat as an ever-present, ever-threatening bogeyman, Brianna Wu would not have a career. Indeed, prior to the GamerGate controversy - and Brianna Wu forcing herself directly into it - she was quite literally an unknown, with hardly any presence beyond her connection to some of the big names in what would bring GamerGate about, as evidenced by simple statistic analysis via Google Trends and the like.

A simple breakdown of Wu's posting history on Twitter shows that she first joined on November 8, 2008, and that she made no tweets whatsoever for almost a year, when she made a post on July 25, 2009.

Three and a half years later - by January 13th, 2013 - Brianna Wu had less than seventy followers and just under 500 tweets.

Roughly one year after this - by January 22nd, 2014, Brianna Wu had 652 followers after 2,532 tweets. Several months later, by March 14th, 2014, she was up another 140 to 792 after roughly 1300 more tweets.

The image in this tweet is real. This actually happened.

Over the next four months, Wu's infamous Twitter addiction - and her involvement with certain individuals who would, ultimately, trigger the GamerGate controversy really began to take hold. As of July 8th, 2014, just before said Controversy broke, she had more than tripled her number of tweets to 12,235 in about four months.

By September 12, 2014, before Brianna's infamous doxxing and death threat hoaxes, she had over 7,600 followers and over 22,000 tweets. This was after Brianna Wu had spent almost four months trolling the chans to drum up support for Revolution 60.

As of one year hence, September 23rd, 2015, Brianna Wu has over 44,000 Followers and over 50,000 Tweets. This is despite shedding hundreds of them a week due to blocking any that dare criticize or question her about anything. As GamerGate came and went, Wu's been struggling, desperately, to keep herself in the public eye, despite never having accomplished anything of real note. With her only marketably useful skill being to go on shows and talk about how she's the world's biggest victim and complaining about privilege.

Ironically enough, Brianna Wu is not terribly well-liked by her fellow GamerGate opponents. She publicly had it out with Zoe Quinn in the past for claiming she had been the single most-harassed individual by GamerGate, and despite constantly talking up her fellows at talks and speaking engagements, Brianna Wu is often considered, by her own side, to be more of a hindrance than an asset, due to her duplicitous nature. She has single-handedly caused multiple people to abandon her side due to the tactics she's willing to use - since she's been willing to openly harass, threaten, and abuse people - and is widely-regarded as being the least credible prominent individual in GamerGate's opposition.

Brianna Wu's Harassment

Main Article: Brianna Wu's Harassment

As a cultural critic, vocal commentator, and someone front-and-center in the GamerGate controversy, Brianna Wu has received criticism, harassment, and threats in the past online. Though this is deplorable, Wu's willingness to scream about what a victim she is is not borne out by facts and is undermined by a great number of behaviors Wu exhibits online, all of which display that Wu cares more about cultivating her own personal victimhood for marketing purposes than she does about actually stopping said harassment. This is evidenced by her being willing to drum up discredited efforts by third-party trolls (such as the Jace Connors incident in general), manufacturing her own harassment from whole cloth (Operation FalseFag II, The Steam Incident), and not taking any steps to curtail her own harassment (such as setting her Twitter to Private, for instance, or, more critically, never actually reporting any of her alleged harassment to police after the initial Death to Brianna Tweets).

What Brianna Wu considers harassment is a pretty broad spectrum...

When it comes to claiming she is being harassed, Brianna Wu is absolutely shameless.

The existing evidence shows a clear pattern wherein Brianna Wu drums up attacks on herself with inflammatory language, fabricates her own harassment outright from whole cloth, and portrays threats by obvious third-party trolls and indeed, people who simply criticize her as actual threats to her person. She will do this knowingly, and then claim to have not been helped in any way by law enforcement, despite the fact that Brianna Wu provably never went to the police about much - if any - of her harassment, despite cyber-crime laws being in place to prevent the exact behavior Brianna bemoans.

Brianna Wu as a Harasser

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Wu accuses people giving advice of being misogynists.

Brianna Wu, despite claiming to be a victim in many of her appearances, is infamous for the odious practice of doing exactly what she decries in others. In fact, Brianna Wu's claims often show a terrifying level of projection, simply because of how often she is just as guilty of what she is accusing others of doing. She is especially well-known for the practice of rallying allies of hers to accost those she does not approve of (which should sound familiar to veterans of this wiki), as well as intentionally misconstruing data. She's likewise equally-well-known for being openly inflammatory in an attempt to provoke response, which she then tends to use as examples of her own harassment. She will often conflate harmless advise or criticism as "mansplaining," or "manasking," before turning her followers on the offender and/or blocking them. Wu's offenses do not end here; she is known and hated for her using her cozy relationship with Twitter's administrative staff to cover her and her followers when they openly violate site rules and outright attack someone in a months-long campaign of harassment.

Wu's campaigns of harassment are not a new development; she will, given the chance, use her connections to attempt to silence anyone she disagrees with. When on the Susan's Place forums, Wu tended to run the site like her own private domain and actively belittle anyone that disagreed with her, a situation that snowballed until she was banned from the site. Similar occurred when she was placed in a mod position of GamerGhazi, a GamerGate-Opposing Reddit board - when Brianna Wu attempted to milk the Jace Connors Incident for attention, she was called out for this behavior by the board's membership, who rightly pointed out that Jace was not a serious threat. Those that did were banned, eventually leading to Brianna Wu being banned from the board after using it solely for her own self-aggrandizement.

Rather like Joseph McCarthy, Brianna Wu is also big on maintaining lists of accused enemies She maintains several such lists, including people she's accused of tweeting transphobic things at her. Most of the time, this "transphobia" involves pointing out the obvious.

In addition to being a central focal point of harassment towards her political opponents, Brianna Wu is guilty of being guilty of the same sort of offenses that led to GamerGate in the first place. Wu relied on her cozy relationship with certain prominent members of the press to let her establish her own personal harassment narrative. More than two thirds of the articles covering Brianna Wu's initial harassment came from people who Brianna Wu was personal friends with or had an established working relationship with. Of the remainder, almost a third of that had indirect ties to Brianna herself resulting in close to three-quarters of the coverage of Wu's harassment coverage coming from sources that Wu knows, either on a personal level or through mutual interests.

These very same connections were used by Wu to drum up support for Revolution 60; of the highly praise-filled Metacritic scores it has gotten, over 80% have been from outlets that, again, Brianna Wu either has a direct or indirect tie to.

Tragedy Milking

Perhaps the most despicable aspect of Brianna Wu's ongoing attempt to portray herself as the most victimized thing on the Internet is her willing to cynically milk tragic events - both her own and those of others - to milk sympathy and draw attention to herself. Whether claiming that the ongoing strife in Ferguson was somehow the fault of GamerGate, the notorious incident in which she claimed her dying pet was somehow the fault of GamerGate and not her own neglect, or the even-more-odious incident in which she tried to blame a brutal murder in which the perpetrator posted the images of his attack on 4chan as being all about her and related to GamerGate, all so her victimhood narrative would not face opposition, Wu is both shameless and relentless in forcing her way into the public discussion by any means necessary. In conflating 4chan and GamerGate, Brianna Wu showed willful ignorance - as well as a desire to milk a tragedy for her own benefit - as 4chan is vehemently against GamerGate.

These have happened so often and with such chilling regularity that they are a demonstrable pattern of behavior with Brianna Wu. In another similar incident on October 1st, 2015, Brianna Wu once more conflated 4chan with GamerGate over another mass shooter who voiced his intent over 4chan first. She then proceeded to turn it into a series of posts all about her, and how important it was that the government needed to involve itself more with online activity, a position parroted by several prominent GamerGate opponents.

Throughout all of these, a lingering statement involving Brianna's actions seems to follow at all times: That everything must center around Brianna Wu. In this regard, Wu constantly shows both how solipsistic she is and how completely incapable of empathy she is. If there is any way she can force a spotlight onto her through a given vector, She will do so without a scrap of remorse or shame. Whenever a tragedy occurs, you can count on Brianna Wu to make it all about her personal victimhood.

Brianna Wu versus Brianna Wu

Main Articles: Livejournal Deletion, Brianna Wu vs Brianna Wu

One major issue that Brianna Wu has is that the internet has been able to follow her tracks quite closely. Because she loves to sensationalize - whether it's portraying widely-debunked hoaxes as legitimate threats to her person, using technobabble to cover up the fact that she has no technical qualifications whatsoever, claiming she has a history in various fields she doesn't, or simply outright attacking people, then claiming she's a victim, Brianna Wu has a long and glorious history of bending the truth, then using any method available to her to get out of any repercussions for what she says and does. Few examples are as bold as Twitter, where simply pointing out that Brianna Wu is John Flynt can get an account permanently suspended without recourse.

However, the individual who often does the most damage to Brianna Wu's credibility is none other than Brianna Wu herself. Whilst Wu tries to portray herself as a neo-progressive and ally of the oppressed, the simple fact is that Wu's adherence to such principles are triangulation and nothing more, and most can see through this, as Wu will, without fail, say whatever she feels will benefit her the most at a given moment. Wu's been caught at this more than a few times, ranging from simple political hand-wringing to claims she's "seen the light" on something and generally virtue-signaling with all the subtlety of a cluster bomb.

Wu often goes out of her way to search the internet and scrub evidence of these incidents, but unfortunately for her, her critics know full well of this tendency, and have, in essence, backed everything up she has ever said - often multiple times and with varying bits of archival software. The most common form of this has taken the form of simply deleting Tweets she's made, but she's well-known for using her connections on Tumblr and Twitter to delete content for her as well. This rarely works, as the Streisand Effect remains a thing and Wu often succeeds in bringing attention to her misdeeds through her own actions.

The most curious part of Brianna Wu's public persona is how much of it is completely fabricated; almost every position she currently claims to hold sacrosanct can be shown to be one that, at some point in the past, either recent or not, she does not actually have and, traditionally, only pays lip-service to for broad appeal. The fact that she's taken to mass deletions and other similarly extreme measures, rather than discuss it like an adult, only lends credence to the belief that Brianna Wu's claimed beliefs are discarded with great frequency. This is especially true for instances where she was outright misogynistic or homophobic, as evidenced by her tenure on Susan's Place as a Moderator.

Initial Foray

Even well before GamerGate ever occurred, Brianna Wu has had a history of being supportive of controversial figures who would essentially help kick off GamerGate when it finally occurred. She is a vocal supporter of Feminist Frequency, and has a well-known relationship with a number of people involved with the corrupt journalistic practices that GamerGate was purportedly opposing. Wu has even written for several of the most-complained-about publications involved in the scandal, including Polygon, wherein Wu tipped her hand in pushing the narrative that women were more victimized due to video games as early as July 22nd, 2014, roughly a month before the GamerGate controversy even broke - when she wrote an op-ed piece on Polygon pushing the narrative that video game fans were inherently sexist+.

Likewise, Brianna Wu is also a long-time friend of Leigh Alexander, a woman who was infamous for her involvement with a number of scandals that ultimately triggered GamerGate, as evidenced by multiple conversations between the two on Twitter and the two being friends with one another over the same. In fact, on multiple occasions, Leigh Alexander covered Brianna's work, as did her outlet, Gamasutra, which was equally involved in the onset of the GamerGate controversy, and likewise covered Wu on multiple occasions. She was also extensively covered by Polygon, another outlet heavily involved in essentially causing the Gamergate controversy, further driving home the fact that Brianna Wu was involved with those in the opposition to GamerGate long before the controversy ever started.

In short, Brianna Wu was deeply involved with the violations of journalistic ethics that GamerGate purports to be all about, even before the GamerGate Controversy really got started. Brianna Wu claims to have gotten involved because of the treatment of Samantha Allen, a feminist games critic who is notorious for her reactionary rhetoric, and rose to prominence when she criticized Giant Bomb for hiring two employees that happened to be white males. As would later become standard operating procedure for Brianna Wu, Samantha Allen likewise was accosted by third-party trolls from throwaway accounts, which Brianna Wu would go on to voice as legitimate on the David Pakman Show.

Suffice to say, when GamerGate first began in August of 2014, she immediately began to antagonize its supporters openly, often being dismissive of any of their claims, if not openly insulting, in a fairly straightforward mirror of her behavior on other forums (such as the Susan's Place forums), wherein she would openly belittle anyone she tangentially disagreed with and actively encourage her allies to post content to provoke GamerGate supporters. She likewise was quick to try to use the ongoing controversy to drum up hype for her game, Revolution 60, stating that Gamergate supporters was actively damaging her development studio.

She also went on to advocate harassing GamerGate supporters. Wu has since deleted many of these tweets, but the internet does not forget.

Wu became infamous for having it out with people propagating the GamerGate companion hashtag #NotYourShield - a hashtag designed to remind Identity Politics Ideologues that they are not allowed to speak for everyone of a given minority status. Brianna Wu, being an ideologue herself, naturally immediately took issue with this - after all, it was directly in opposition of her narrative.

She quickly became fond of claiming anyone supporting GamerGate was either a privileged white male or a sockpuppet. It wasn't until September 18th, 2014, however, that Wu graduated from simply skirmishing with GamerGate supporters to instead forcing herself directly into the controversy. Following up her earlier claims of GamerGate supporters mostly being sockpuppets, Brianna Wu made a sockpuppet account named "Drake Harper" on Twitter (Aka @BroLolz).

This account immediately posted such insightful tweets as "The death scenes in Tomb Raider give me an erection, but that doesn’t make me a misogynist," "Those #gamergate SJW BITCHES PISS ME OFF BRO. But bigger concern is systematic exclusion of women's voices in gamer media. #NOTnotyourshield ," and "Boobs are pretty, and I want to touch them, BRO," and "HAVE A FUCKING MURDERBONER about #gamergate. But, FUCK. What if women have perspective on their lives that's impossible for me to grasp?"

Naturally, Wu was immediately called to task for such actions, since she was being openly dishonest, actively attempting to anger people, and perhaps most critically, doing what she was blaming her opposition of doing. When confronted for doing the very action she herself had decried mere days before, her reaction, appropriately enough, was to declare that her opponents simply "didn't get it" and were lacking in intelligence, mirroring, again, her earlier statements and tactics on the Susan's Place forums.

This tendency of Brianna Wu's, to do the very actions she herself was complaining about, would quickly become a reoccurring theme.

Brianna Wu vs. Fredrick "Hotwheels" Brennan

Brianna Wu was big on pitching her personal victimhood narrative to any who would listen, and this was on full display with a now-notorious interview on the Huffington Post, normally a fairly hostile publication towards GamerGate. Originally, the Huffington Post had attempted to get the owner of 8chan (a 2ch-style board that essentially rose to popularity because of GamerGate), Fredrick "Hotwheels" Brennan and Zoe Quinn for a proper debate. Quinn backed out when she realized the other side would even be given a chance to speak, at which point Brianna Wu jumped at the chance to take her place.

Despite the moderator for the debate being openly hostile towards Hotwheels and Brianna herself pushing her victimhood angle, Brianna's participation in this debate was most assuredly not to her benefit.

Brianna came across as outright unhinged during the debate, and shamelessly showed some amazing capacity for doublethink, calling the response to her now-notorious Oppressed GamerGate Meme as "harassment" and "oppression." She pitched into a lengthy argument about how 8chan was responsible for attacks on her, despite possessing no proof of this, and, indeed, how we now know that the time-stamps on her own harassment indicate that Wu set this harassment up over a week in advance. During the debate itself, Brianna was visibly huffing and puffing whenever Hotwheels had the chance to speak, apparently so completely unwilling to tolerate a dissenting opinion for more than 30 seconds at a stretch.

When Brennan brought up that his website (which Wu was attempting to proclaim as "nothing but a hate site" and dedicated to her personal destruction) was protected by the Communications Decency Act, specifically Section 230, Wu launched into a completely unrelated tirade about the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and proceeded to essentially openly insult him about his knowledge of the law - despite being completely in the wrong. All in all, Wu came across as aggressively pushing an agenda, and more than a little willfully mis-informed, something that would come into full view as time went on.

Brianna Wu on the David Pakman Show

Main Article: Brianna Wu on the David Pakman Show

Brianna Wu did not take kindly to being actually questioned about things.

Brianna Wu, eager to push her ongoing harassment narrative, agreed to be interviewed by David Pakman, a respected journalist, on October 27th, 2014. During the interview, Wu clearly expected to be pitched softball questions and/or that Pakman would not ask her to elaborate on anything she said. This is not what happened and Brianna Wu wound up stumbling on her arguments, often pinballing between multiple things she was annoyed about and simultaneously blaming both GamerGate and "The Industry" for her harassment. Brianna Wu failed to give specific examples for many of her criticisms and rather notably relied on both logical fallacies and unsourced anecdotes.

The Interview was ultimately hallmarked by Pakman being more than fair to Wu, and giving her ample opportunity to expound upon her feelings and beliefs, only for Brianna Wu to accuse the journalist of formulating a "hit piece" on Brianna and that she felt that she was "on trial." The interview quickly became an overnight meme amongst Brianna's critics, and Brianna Wu responded in the way she is accustomed, taking to twitter to accuse Pakman of being openly biased in actually asking her questions. Suffice to say, Brianna's supporters quickly mobbed the unsuspecting journalist, who pilloried him, accusing him of enabling Brianna Wu's harassment for money, and later, allegedly subjected his show to a Denial of Service Attack, though it lasted only a few hours.

GamerFruit Incident

...And with this Tweet, one produce importer stepped into the realm of legend.

Perhaps one of, if not the funniest scenarios in the entire Brianna Wu saga up to this date. It occurred on October 22nd, 2014, and began when Brianna Wu began taking pot-shots at Dice Europe, a technology round-table conference specifically appealing to the upper economic stratum, and complained about the fact that the conference-members were all male and mostly white.

After working herself into a self-righteous frenzy over the issue, it was discovered that the account she was screaming at was not the Dice Europe conference, but in fact, DICE Europe LTD, a group of fresh produce importers. Suffice to say, the Fruit Importers were more than a little confused by this. DICE Europe LTD was never given an apology, or even acknoledgement that Brianna had made any error in the first place. Indeed, Wu would, after not apologizing to the fruit importer, would go on to complain about IGN and Ubisoft enabling the marginalization of women.

This, inevitably, led a random fruit importer that obstenibly had nothing to do with the GamerGate controversy whatsoever to become immediately embroiled in the GamerGate controversy. But it handled this adversity with class, immediately launching the #GamerFruit hashtag, and asking people to retweet images of a fruit next to their favorite video game platform of choice in a show of solidarity of love of both video games and fresh fruit. The hashtag became reasonably popular and has thousands of posts on Twitter to this day, beloved by the userbase as something silly and irreverent.

Ralph Retort Incident

A rather disturbing - and well-documented - incident of Brianna Wu acting completely unhinged was the now-infamous Ralph Retort Incident.

Ralph of the Ralph Retort, a well-known supporter of Gamergate, attended Brianna Wu's Panel at RavenCon. During this time, he surreptitiously took several photographs of Brianna and company setting up her panel and posted them on Twitter. As Brianna herself is a complete addict of Twitter, she discovered the image(s) posted literally within the span of about two minutes of him posting them. The result was this stunning incident of both Brianna Wu going completely off the rails and showing just how much she was willing to test whatever authority she was allowed as a panel host:

At this point, Wu storms up to Ralph (who has a friend currently recording this, hence the video) and demands to know if Ralph was the one who posted that Tweet. Ralph, having no reason to lie, said yes. For the uninitiated, the Ralph Retort has extensively covered Brianna Wu and her actions of more questionable legality in the past. Suffice to say, when Wu was now face-to-face with one of her critics, she was visibly enraged and looked like she wanted to physically harm him. At this point, Wu orders the con staff to "Get him out of here," which one older guard obliges, telling Ralph he needs to leave because "She wants you gone." Ralph was not thrown out of the convention, merely the panel, and left thereafter.

Roughly as disturbing as Brianna's response to Ralph taking photos during a panel, however, was RavenCon's response; even before Ralph had taken pictures, and, indeed, without actually doing anything other than review Brianna Wu's actions in a less-than-favorable light, RavenCon had the gall to publicly threaten the man on Twitter in an effort to dissuade him from attenting the event. Ralph would write about both RavenCon's attempt to threaten him and Brianna Wu's meltdown on his news blog later.

The Day the Narrative Fell Apart

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GethN7 takes on Arthur Chu during a discussion of panelists for an Anti-Harassment event, not once losing their cool...

After over a year of crowing about GamerGate, Brianna Wu has inflicted - almost entirely through her own actions - considerable damage on her own credibility, as this wiki's coverage of her and her history of inconvenient tendencies to do the very thing she condemns and tendency to openly push forward a narrative prevaricated largely upon lies. But no incident - not Brianna Wu's instance of declaring a man who does not exist to be a threat to her life over six months after he was revealed to be a hoax, not Brianna's being caught in the act false-flagging herself, will ever so perfectly encapsulate Brianna Wu's psychotic attempts at narrative control in the face of all logic and common sense like what is now known as the GethN7 Incident.

...Before taking him down with the elegance Geth quickly became known for.

In this incident, a Pro-GG-leaning neutral on Twitter, known as GethN7 - a user with no recorded history of attacking anyone - had the temerity to ask sites that had, without any critical analysis of Brianna Wu whatsoever, parrot her claims without any additional statements on the matter, even in areas where Brianna Wu had no credible tie to a given subject whatsoever - the trigger in this case being when Brianna Wu was interviewed by Moms Everyday, when Brianna Wu is a transwoman and has no children whatsoever. For the crime of daring to bring up holes in Wu's ongoing narrative, and doing such unfortunate things like pointing out that Wu's game was a critical and commercial failure, Brianna Wu immediately unleashed her horde of followers on GethN7. However, GethN7 never lost their temper, never attacked anyone (despite being relentlessly attacked by Brianna Wu's Twitter mob), and responded in ways that were nothing but polite.

During this time, Brianna Wu claimed she was being harassed for GethN7 bringing up publicly available information. Brianna Wu threatened him repeatedly with retaliation, and proceeded then to accuse him of harassment despite having no actual evidence of such, even though he readily conceded to her demand to no longer contact her, departing as politely as he had arrived. Immediately afterwards, Wu proceeded to go nuclear against GethN7, unleashing her personal hate-mob and calling in her friends amongst Twitter's staff to, with no reason given and no recourse, get GethN7 suspended indefinitely on Twitter. Despite being suspended - not banned - it was abundantly clear that Brianna Wu was directly responsible for attempting to silence him, since she and her allies alike both crowed about getting GethN7 banned. Calls to Twitter for mere elaboration about the cause of the suspension have thus far been met with silence, and as Wu's cozy relationship to Twitter's support staff is both well-known and well-documented, it is unlikely to ever be overturned.

Amusingly, however, Brianna Wu failed to heed that little thing called the Streisand Effect.

GethN7's story did not end with this, and he was quick to bring discussion to other locations about to host or involve Brianna Wu. GethN7's cordial-but-questioning response pattern, always going through proper channels, always responding with care and forethought, always listening to requests and always responding appropriately - managed to anger Brianna Wu immensely, especially when, every time Brianna Wu started to post more of her narrative-pushing nonsense - such as when she was invited to speak at an Anti-Harassment conference alongside known Harassment sources such as Randi Harper - Brianna began to meet resistance as Geth would, along with many others, contact the event holders and ask simple, basic questions like: "Why is this person who has a litany of questionable-at-best claims and a history of harassing people being chosen as a source?" Brianna was quick to rally allies of hers to back her up, including Arthur Chu, who might be familiar to those who read the article on Wu's appearance on the David Pakman show. Geth at all times maintained decorum and stayed true to his word to never contact Brianna Wu directly, instead focusing on sites and platforms that were hosting her events without question or criticism. Suffice to say, Brianna Wu began to lock down the comments sections of events she was going to be hosted at, ergo proving GethN7 right and getting across that Wu cared more about her narrative than she did about what she purported to.

Her attempts to permanently silence GethN7 on Twitter likewise angered and horrified a great many people - both GamerGate supporters, and indeed, her own side. To give an example of how polite GethN7 was, GethN7 actually met with and had several cordial discussions with GamerGhazi, a community that is normally exceptionally opposed towards anything remotely GamerGate-related, and even they found what Wu did to be abhorrent (which should surprise nobody familiar with Brianna's meltdown during the Street Racing Incident, where anyone on GamerGhazi who dared suggest that Jace was anything other than the greatest threat anyone on the internet had ever faced was banned by Brianna Wu and Maddy Myers).

In addition to asking Wu questions, GethN7 was quick to dispel lies being told about Anti-GG elements as well, and even defending Arthur Chu, making it very hard for opponents to claim he was simply another Pro-GG "troll," though Arthur Chu himself certainly tried (even as Geth openly disputed lies being told about Chu in the discussion thread).

GethN7 was not alone in this battle; GethN7's polite nature and struggle against someone who was, by all accounts, and even by the words of their own side, a spiteful petulant bully, got support from both GamerGate supporters, neutrals, and opponents alike, all of whom wanted to know why Brianna was so afraid of one user asking basic questions. Things came to a head when, on an open platform, Brianna Wu posted a notoriously awful set of articles, which in turn were given well-written rebuttals by GethN7, in which Geth contacted her company email and invited her to correct said articles if they were incorrect in any statement.

At this point, Brianna Wu proceeded to go absolutely insane, repeatedly accusing GethN7 of being a stalker, once again drove home the fact that she had been directly involved with GethN7's ongoing perpetual suspension from Twitter, and demanded Geth never contact her again, at which point Geth, as he always had, responded politely and agreed. After this, Brianna Wu proceeded to go on twitter and slander Geth further, continuing to say he was a "banned harasser," attempting to portray his politeness as - you guessed it - yet more harassment - because in Brianna Wu's world, "stalking" no longer means someone obsessively watching your every move and now means simply responding to publicly-available posts and comments. Wu started to get called out for her behavior from her followers, and promptly deleted everything, but the Kiwi Farms sees everything, and recorded all of it using multiple archiving services.

The entire incident remains on display as a perfect cross-section of Brianna Wu's terrible behavior online: her willingness to do anything to get someone she doesn't like permanently silenced, her willingness to ruin people who disagree with her; her willingness to try to portray harmless things as dire threats to her life and property, her attempts to frame anyone who does not suitably accept her narrative at face value as "part of the problem," and her willingness to use any power at her disposal to enforce her narrative, by force if necessary.

Trans Samus Incident

Whilst Brianna Wu's tendency to stir controversy to get attention is well known, the best-known and likewise most-infamous incident involving Brianna Wu openly exhibiting this behavior occurred on August 31st, 2015 when Brianna Wu retweeted a widely-disproven theory that Samus Aran, the female protagonist of the Metroid series, was transgendered. This particular idea stems from an infamous 1994 interview with one of the graphic artists who was involved in Metroid's development. This interview exists solely in Japanese, and stems from the graphic designer Hirofumi Matsuoka (who has a history of making risque jokes). In the interview, he jokingly says Samus is a "Newhalf," (a Japanese derogatory slang mixed-race people; fitting, as Samus is half-chozo; It's also a derogatory term for a transexual). He's made similar jokes on other occasions as well.

One of countless image macros making fun of this incident.

The theory has been widely-discredited for years, being directly opposed by both every official material Nintendo has ever released, multiple scenes in the various Metroid games, and more, but it's gained notoriety in the last five years because of claiming to be trans is trendy and in vogue now, so the theory is widely talked about on Tumblr and Twitter despite having no official legitimacy whatsoever. Indeed, Yoshio Sakamoto himself, one of the main developers of Metroid, dismissed the "Samus is Trans" thing as a joke himself in 2004.

Enter Brianna Wu, who together with long-term associate/hatchet-woman Maddy Myers of The Mary Sue, elected to put up an article claiming that this notorious bit of a bad joke gone berserk is totally true and anyone who disagrees is wrong. She then proceeded to double down on it, even as her comment section proceeded to blow up as Wu and several of her associates continued to rattle off said disproven theory as if it were accurate. The entire thing reeks of an attempt by Wu to try to force the spotlight onto herself and seem important, though one can easily point out the irony of someone who complains so much about female representation in games (see the very same things Wu bitched about above) is now doing her part to say that one of the best-known female characters in video gaming was born male. Fittingly enough, a lot of Brianna Wu's followers proceeded to get blocked by Wu when they dared to question her over this - and moreover, when she doubled down, saying that denying her Trans Samus nonsense killed transpeople. Suffice to say, Wu caught enormous flak, which she dismissed mostly by accusing everyone who disagreed with her of being transphobic, even as it became apparent she had been caught in a lie.

Things didn't end there, either. Soonafter, a barrage of attempts were made to edit Wikipedia. The edits focused extensively on adding the "Samus is Trans" angle pushed by Maddy Myers and Brianna Wu, but things became a little more interesting when, apropos of nothing, the main editor adding these updates was accused of being Brianna Wu herself. Whilst this does mesh with many accusations about Wu previously (A personal friend of Brianna Wu's, a Wikipedia Admin known as Sandstein, was the person who wrote Wu's Wikipedia article, for example. He also prevented it from being deleted for lack of relevance), thankfully, Wu most assuredly was not the one who did this. Soonafter, the mystery editor trying to add Samus being Trans to Wikipedia was banned and the article was reverted.. The actual culprit responsible for the Wikipedia updates would become visible in due time.

An enormous number of Brianna Wu's supporters, even die-hards in GamerGate opposition, wound up calling Wu to task over this incident - since the entire thing that Wu tried to claim was evidence of Samus Aran being trans was - arguably - an openly transphobic off-color joke made by a member of the Metroid team - in essence, completely undermining the entire argument. There is literally no evidence to support that Samus Aran is transgendered other than said joke. The damage this did to Wu's credibility online, amazingly, was easily among the heaviest Wu suffered so far - she lost, by all accounts, over 100 followers and blocked about four times that number, to say nothing of how many Wu pushed to have banned via her friends in Twitter's leadership. The incident caused an immediate ripple effect as well-meaning people immediately began to discuss how Wu was blocking people for being caught in a lie.

The plot only proceeded to thicken when Kadybat, the original proponent of the Trans Samus theory being added to Wikipedia, later had a complete meltdown when said theory was removed from the article and reverted, admitting openly that she cared nothing about the game, series, characters, canon, authorial intent, etc, and admitted openly that she did it solely because she wanted to "appropriate" characters and "take away from cis people." It's important to note that a number of posts Kadybat made (and subsequently deleted) indicated that she may have been the one to put the posts on Wikipedia, either herself or by putting a friend up to it, but without evidence this must be considered conjecture.

Wu entered full-fledged damage control with Myers soonafter this, because the pair had essentially systemically incensed everyone from Transgender rights activists (who called Wu and Myers both out for being openly transphobic with how she used this theory), fans of the Metroid franchise (who will fight to the death to defend the canon of their franchise, as any fandom with an established history will), GamerGate supporters (since Wu was at it again), GamerGate opponents (who correctly accused Brianna Wu of being a troll and doing this entire stunt for attention), Feminists (who were demanding to know why Brianna Wu and Maddy Myers were trying to erase the identity of one of video gaming's most beloved female characters by saying she was born male), and even several in the press, who accused Wu and Myers of sensationalizing the entire incident with their "ready to light the internet on fire?" posts. Myers heavily redacted and reworded the original article after it went up, heavily blunting how confrontational the original was in an effort to make the incident seem less like a giant fuck-up on Wu and Myers' part, but by this point the damage, as we say, was already done. In spite of all this, Wu has gone on to double down on her trying to make this the hill she'd proverbially die on, resulting in a self-sustaining nuclear reaction of madness that has been widely mocked by both Gamergate supporters and opponents alike.

Finally, to drive home the full truth of this entire ordeal, it became known soonafter that Brianna Wu knew about the Samus Trans Theory months before she did anything with it - in March of 2015 - and elected to sensationalize it later anyway, knowing well in advance that it was a reach.

Pedophile Defense Force

On September 12th, 2015, Brianna Wu voiced support for Sarah Nyberg, a prominent Gamergate opponent who had drawn considerable controversy for a long history of pedophilia and essentially making her living on pirating copyrighted works, and who has a long history of being openly racist. Brianna Wu supported this individual, as did many prominent GamerGate opponents, because she had been willing to essentially operate as an attack dog, and had done so for over a year.

Prior to this, Brianna Wu had avoided butting into the controversy, in what could be rightly seen as avoiding what had already become a PR nightmare for Gamergate opponents, but she still managed to speak up specifically because of her opposition to Milo Yiannopolous, who rather infamously was the first one to run an article on Brianna Wu's personal history after Brianna Wu had repeatedly snubbed attempts by his outlet to interview her. Many of the investigations that this wiki conducted into Brianna Wu's past specifically occurred because of that particular article on BreitBart giving Kiwi Farms investigators a place to start. Suffice to say Wu has had a long-standing dislike of the guy, one that came on full display during the Pakman Incident, and that dislike dragged her into voicing support for a self-admitted pedophile. Wu would go on to continue to defend her, even as it was becoming apparent that the parents of the child Nyberg was targetting in the logs were intending to press charges.

Tanya Cohen Incident

Not content to being outmaneuvered once, Brianna Wu immediately prior to this crowed repeatedly about an alleged GamerGate-supporting terrorist being arrested. Brianna Wu attempted to use this evidence against Milo Yiannopolous, since Milo had once encountered this user at an AMA. Unfortunately for Brianna Wu, she chose to ignore something critical - Joshua Goldberg, the very person she accused of being a pro-Gamergate terrorist, was someone she herself also interviewed, then used to attack GamerGate.

Rather unfortunately for Brianna Wu, and indeed, most of GamerGate's opposition, this very individual they're trying to paint as a "GamerGate Terrorist" happened to have direct ties to GamerGhazi and multiple prominent GamerGate opponents. The best was yet to come, however, when one of the very people that Brianna Wu used to support her Trans Samus article was one Tanya Cohen - the very same identity used by Joshua Goldberg. In short, Wu claimed he was a GamerGate-related terrorist mere days after Brianna Wu talked this same individual up as an essential defense of her Trans Samus campaign:

"He has masqueraded as a neo-Nazi blogger called "Michael Slay" on the site Daily Stormer, and as a fictional Australian left-wing anti-free speech activist called "Tanya Cohen". He's caused significant harm to anti-sexploitation campaigner Caitlin Roper by setting up a fake account in her name and then defaming transsexuals."

—The Sydney Morning Herald

Fittingly enough Wu immediately tried to deny every knowing Tanya Cohen beyond criticizing her work harshly - even though the article was still up on Feministing, and still referenced and quoted Brianna Wu directly. Suffice to say, nobody was buying it - especially when Brianna Wu refused to release a DM transcript. Wu had been caught again. Even though Feministing pulled the article soonafter, the internet never forgets.

Derek Smart Incident

Main Article: Derek Smart Incident

Derek Smart, the head of the Independent game development studio 3000AD, is an active member of the online community, and though he's relatively well-known for his eccentric personality and being responsible for one of the longest ongoing flame wars in Internet history, is also, despite his controversial nature, an intelligent man with a very strong tie to the indie gaming scene, and someone who gives life to the adage that one has to make a mistake to learn from it. Suffice to say, when he saw Brianna Wu following a career path he himself was once on, when GamerGate was first getting started, he dropped her a line and tried to give her advice based on his own experience.

On September 27th, 2015, Smart made his conversation with Wu (on Facebook) public.

The revelations were staggering, but also very much in tune with what those who are familiar with Wu might expect. In essence, showing no understanding of the law whatsoever, Brianna Wu swears she's going to "bring a GamerGate supporter to justice for libel." Smart points out the obviously insane nature of this statement, as police will not interfere in a civil matter, and the perpetrators may not even be on American soil. Further, Smart, as someone who has been on both sides of internet trolling for years, has more than a little veterancy in such matters. He also advised her to not "shit where you eat," specifically referring to the fact that as a Game Developer, she relies on people who buy and play games to sell her products.

Wu disagrees, and accuses him of Mansplaining and being aggressive. Things quickly spiral out of control from here as Smart points out that this sort of attitude is what would-be-trolls feed on, and how her attitude is only going to make matters worse until she learns to deal with it better. At this point, Brianna Wu blocks him, because because facts are not welcome in the realm of Brianna Wu if they run contrary to the narrative. After this post, Smart came under siege by her supporters, who threw everything they had at Smart for several days. This is especially ironic when one considers that Wu has no technical qualifications whatsoever whereas Smart does.

All in all, an excellent break-down of how Wu responds to professional criticism, even from people who have in no way wronged her.

Exposure

Main Article: Brianna Wu Email Correspondence

In early 2016, the Kiwi Farms had requested student records from Ole Miss and Millsaps, two schools which Wu had attended during her collegiate years. Whilst lolcow chronicleers knew from the years she went to various schools alone that she didn't graduate with many of the qualifications she said she did, what the Farms learned would turn everything we suspected about Brianna Wu's educational background on its head.

Putting it simply: Brianna Wu never graduated college from either Millsaps or Ole Miss.

Millsaps outright says that Wu never graduated.

This particular revelation is surprising, and more than a little devastating to Brianna Wu's credibility. Wu claimed repeatedly to have certifications in everything from Political Sciences to Engineering, and whilst we knew most of these claims were made falsely, even her classmates believed that Brianna Wu had gotten a degree in Business. Wu's even made this claim during podcasts

Indeed, Wu has claimed to be a STEM field graduate many times, as well as to have degrees in both Political Sciences and Journalism. Indeed, Brianna Wu has gone on to claim she has such qualifications on her own Entrepreneur Wiki page. Suffice to say, with this information, the Kiwi Farms immediately brought the information to several of Brianna Wu's long-time nemeses, including Milo Yiannopolous and absurdist game reviewer Bro Team Pill.

With the revelation that she has no actual educational qualifications making itself known, and with how much of her professional life seems to be fabricated from whole cloth, it wasn't long at all before more people began to show interest. Immediately, Wu's old nemesis, GethN7 was among the first to look into Lolcow Wiki's discovery, at which point he did his part to spread the word.

It really was only a matter of time.

Additional evidence was discovered as more and more people verified this information with Ole Miss and Millsaps. Soonafter, Ethan Ralph from the Ralph Retort commented on the matter, and it wasn't long at all before the inevitable happened and Brianna Wu blamed Lolcow Wiki's actions on GamerGate.

An entirely new angle of this chunk of the Brianna Wu College Scandal was brought to light in the wee hours of January 21st, 2016, when Kiwi Farms operatives, in an email correspondance with Brianna Wu, managed to have a fascinating discussion with Brianna Wu - in which Wu openly admitted that she never passed college.

With this revelation on-record, a large number of Brianna Wu's claims - be they on Wikipedia, Inc.com, or Twitter - that she has actual qualifications educationally - are now tacitly known to be lies. Despite not only being exposed for this, but in fact, essentially admitting it via the Brianna Wu Email Correspondence, Wu nonetheless continues to claim she has experience and qualifications in the fields of engineering, investigative journalism, and more.

Background Check Reveal

Main Article: Background Check Incident

On March 31st, 2016, the Kiwi Farms acquired Brianna Wu's voter registration information, which establishes Brianna Wu's name change from John Flynt.

The documentation also reveals that Socially Unconscious Productions is a "Corporate Affiliate" of Giant SpaceKat Studios, further establishing that Brianna Wu and John Flynt are the same people.

Brianna Wu was not pleased at this revelation, and launched into an attack post bemoaning the actions taken by Lolcow Wiki and the Kiwi Farms without mentioning them by name nor the content of the reval, lest they find this wiki page.

Brianna The Art Thief

Brianna Wu shows her artistic skills (or lack thereof).

On April 6th, 2016, Brianna Wu posted an image, on her Twitter, of Kaolinite from Sailor Moon. Whilst arguably a very attractive art piece, it quickly turned into the subject of considerable controversy as it became apparent that Brianna Wu flat-out traced an actual screengrab from the show, and discussion of it did not go remotely her way. The subject immediately spread and was discussed on both the Kiwi Farms and KotakuInAction.

After trying (and failing) to get control of the situation by claiming that what she did was an "inking pass" and that her critics had no idea what she was trying to do, Brianna Wu deleted the original image and all following Tweets, having been caught in a lie.

It didn't end here, however. Brianna Wu's long-time nemesis, GethN7, would follow this up by dropping a bombshell of an article - covering not only Brianna Wu's history of outright tracing, but establishing that many of her characters in Socially Unconscious and Revolution 60 essentially rip off existing works. It also establishes that Wu's attempt to trace Kaolinite was not an isolated occurence, and that she had, indeed, done similar previously (and claim she drew it).

Less than a day later, the source of Brianna Wu's trace was found: An animation cel of Kaolinite, that was hosted on flickr. The lines for this cel match Brianna's trace even better than the actual screengrab, indicating that Brianna Wu simply "made" the project with Live Trace from Adobe Illustrator. Wu continued to claim she had been doing it as part of an "inking pass," but such a defense only found purchase with her closest supporters, all whilst claiming to have done Illustrator work "professionally" for years.