• Hexagons [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    This is a partial answer, with possibly some misinformation. Should I just shut my mouth and hope that someone who actually knows what’s happening will answer you? Yes. Yes I should. But I’m a bit drunk, so you’re just going to have to read my incomplete (and possibly wrong) explanation.

    Brianna Wu got famous from gamergate. She got harassed by gamers. I don’t remember what for, possibly they thought she slept with someone for good reviews on a game? That or she criticized a game that maybe an ex had worked on. Shit, I dunno, I’m actually absolutely making stuff up. Well, I’ve come this far, let’s keep going! TERFs are certain she’s trans, I’m not certain she’s trans, but maybe she is? I’m unsure. Not that it matters, she was a woman that gamergate targeted, of that I am certain. She’s now just the most annoying lib of all time, but keeps trying to draw on progressive cred from being harassed by gamers during the gamergate era. I suspect she’s going to do a “why I left the left” situation, but maybe you don’t even have to do that to be a grifter these days.

    Long story short, she was harassed during gamergate, she’s extremely, unfortunately lib, and it’s better if you pay no attention to her twitter takes.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t remember what for, possibly they thought she slept with someone for good reviews on a game?

      That was Zoe Quinn, who was the #1 target for G*merGate harassment. Wu also got harassed, which makes it hilarious to me if she’s now trying to garner favor from fascists, to them she’ll always be an SJW who tried to f*ck with g*mers.

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          Yeah, it was all bs. Her creepy asshole ex put out an honest to go multi-page manifesto about how she was a (collection of misogynist slurs) mostly centering on how she had sex during a period when they were not together, but really just an absolute tirade of jilted dangerous ex boyfriend shit. That got picked up by the protofash and become “the lore”

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      4 months ago

      she is trans, she’s been doing the whole “i’m the reasonable trans person and i hate most trans people too” thing