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5 min read"This goes much deeper than we thought."
Asmongold and his co-host break down Annapurna Interactive, the publisher behind the controversial game Mixtape — a three-hour walking simulator that received a perfect 10 from IGN and became the highest-rated game on OpenCritic. But their focus is not the game itself. It is the money, the family, and the pattern.
The publisher was founded by Megan Ellison, the openly queer daughter of Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation — a man who briefly became the richest person on Earth in September 2025, with a net worth peaking near $400 billion. His children reportedly received $200 million trusts on their 25th birthdays. Megan Ellison founded Annapurna in 2011, the same year she turned 25, after dropping out of USC film school in under a year with no formal business education.
What followed, the hosts argue, is one of the most sustained runs of financial failure in modern entertainment history.
The film side: $200 million lost, $40 million back
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:24) **Mixtape: The Game That Exposes the Industry's Sickness** - The host frames the episode by introducing the game "Mixtape" as a symbol of what's wrong with Western gaming: a barely-interactive walking simulator with sexual content involving minors and an anti-achievement narrative.
- 2 (02:00) **Annapurna Interactive's Owner: Megan Ellison** - The host reveals the company behind Mixtape is Annapurna Interactive, founded by Megan Ellison, the openly queer daughter of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, a man who briefly became the richest person on Earth with a net worth near $400 billion.
- 3 (03:05) **A History of Catastrophic Financial Failure** - The host details Ellison's film division's track record of massive losses, including Detroit ($24 million on a $40 million budget), Vice (losing $15-20 million), and The Sisters Brothers ($40 million cost, $3 million return).
- 4 (06:05) **Ideologically Consistent Losses** - The host argues the losses weren't random incompetence but ideologically consistent: Detroit (systemic racism in policing), Vice (political takedown of Republican power), and other films built around identity politics.
- 5 (09:16) **The Financial Structure: Daddy's Money** - The host explains that the money was never supposed to come from the market but from "daddy," and these people don't care about low sales because they don't care about the media—they care about using the platform to push their ideology.
- 6 (11:39) **This Is How Business Works** - The host defends the situation as not corruption but simply how business is done, noting you don't alienate a man worth hundreds of billions over his daughter's projects if you want to keep doing business with Oracle.
- 7 (14:50) **The Gaming Division's Mutiny** - The host explains that the team running the gaming division had seen the film side's dysfunction and tried to spin off as an independent company in 2024, but Ellison entered negotiations then pulled out, triggering a mutiny where all 25 members resigned within two weeks.
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