Parasite Eve came out in 1998. Brianna would have been 18 at the time if we are to believe her age. I don't see a lot of people, especially people around the age Wu was when she was active on Susans, describing their late teenage years in such a fashion. It's like she has to be misleading about everything in her life. Why do people trust her again?
Money.
More often than not that's what it's always boiled down to.
Wu is still somehow fucking loaded despite what I recall being evidence that their parents disowned them after blowing all the money meant for some animation startup on trans-related procedures (maybe the surgery, for some reason I keep thinking that's more recent but I need to fix my timeline of Wu anyway), still getting a shitload of cash for GiantSpacekat somehow while begging for more to this day on patreon before spending that money
not on actually improving R60 but on a fucking ugly bike
based on the fucking ugly bike in that game, and probably in an almost hillarious mirror of Issac Clarke's own mother (at least according to his dialogue at one point in
Dead Space 2) simply bought her way into a high position in this corrupt hierarchy -
before even releasing a single game. SJWism is the only way Wu has strong reasons to be involved before R60, as that is the only game she has with her as a "developer."
And then there was that hippster money catfight where I think Randi Harper and Wu argued because the former's money stream was in jepoardy and asked/psuedo-demanded the great Wu lend her some cash or something.
Big news media? Wouldn't surprise me if under-the-table money was exchanged.
All Wu has done is attempt to use her apparently endless money to replace being a decent person who produces things people actually like in order to make it "big" in society, and it's all crumbling down when it should be lifting her up.