is booktok ruining reading?
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im so sick of people pretending libraries don't exist
We should all read more books from libraries. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARIES ‼️
Right like libraries are our human treasures. Let's treat it as such.
fr because i haven’t read some of the books i own for years, libraries are helpful for seeing if you actually like a book
i agree, although i have bought a lot of books and i see the value in owning books, i absolutely use the library way more!
Well yea but libraries around where i live have absolutely no normal/new/readable books available
Hell yeah I made it! Honestly booktok has ruined some reading! The wattpadification of Romance novels is genuinely making me cry. 😭
I could go on forever about how nightmareish romance novels these days.
EXACTLY!! it’s literally so concerning… PLUS it makes booktok seem like it’s mostly or if not ONLY about romance (i’m not trying to talk down the genre but this is the main assumption i get when it comes to booktok) when it’s just more than that.. (and don’t get me started on “dark romance”.. that topic is even worse in itself)
@@vvitch-mist20same??? the least they can do is label these horrific books correctly. 😬 or at least try to take criticism for their writing. like where the fuck are their publishers / editors
@@donnietellono ur so right. I dig romance when done right. but man, I wish there was some variety other than books filled with smut n boring plots within booktok
The books that get the biggest attention and impact are the smut books, and it’s sad cause there’s so many more books out there 😭
I really struggle to understand how only reading porn is something to be proud of. I mean, reading smut is nothing to be embarrassed about either, but could you imagine someone bragging about only watching movies with sex scenes? Thats stupid
Literally like congratulations your attention can only be held by old brain desires
IKR
RIGHT??? like people will say its not a porn addiction because its a book BUT IT IS.
Because when you're stuck in a reactionary mindset like the algorithmic internet fosters, if you're not ashamed you must be proud. No in-between.
From what I've seen, the smutty books aren't even good smut like if your gonna brag about it, at least make it good and have flavour
honestly thank you for specifying that the subsection of BookTok people have issues with shouldn't encapsulate the entire whole of BookTokkers / BookTubers
Yes! I feel like our society is already anti intellectual, and a lot of people took this as an excuse to demonize reading. I saw where someone was like "there need to books with no spice." Like have you not heard of genres?
@@breannajefferson912 i'm like yeah, i do have issue with how some books are written and there's a HUGE rise in people not wanting to engage in more "difficult content", but it's like damn.... i think we all collectively need to chill out and try recommending things without directly shaming those that ARE trying to get back into literature
book clubs / book circles genuinely do wonders for getting people to engage in reading again!
haunting adeline has been one of the worst outcomes of booktok 💀 “it’s dark romance!” “if you don’t like it don’t read it!” and it’s literally a romanticized stalker graping an innocent woman
I accidentally read this when I got my kindle ( kindle skips the warning pages) I got about 60% before I said that is enough! I thought it was a mystery… read what you want I guess but not for me. It was not a good random pick for someone who has just got into reading books that aren’t true crime. Like you said it’s romanticised. 🤮
I don’t think it should even be dismissed because of it’s dark themes. It has some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen professionally published.
I use Booktok to find some really good recommendations for books that I might be interested in reading. However, I do think that the strange obsession with spice is a bit overwhelming. I understand that people wish to explore their fantasies in a safe manner, but it's gotten to be too much in my opinion.
i understand! i think im a bit bias because i’ve managed to curate my feed to the point that i rarely see the spicy side of booktok but that wasn’t easy to do so i understand why it can get annoying to constantly try and filter them out
I feel like masked cosplayers and COD cosplayers get such a bad rep and have weird assumptions about them due to the loud minority over sexualizing it
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@@PaperLoser-gv4wb NO ITS OK LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY
@@REGRETEVATOR_YAOI_LOVER_420 if the third movie comes out, sure
wurld you should watch this one show called bojack horseman i think you’ll like it
maybe i’ll check it out some day
@@WURLDSTAR wait but the clips of bojack. Cries
i think the women who only read smut, and also romanticize alot of fucked up stuff in smut and romance books have ruined booktok. i love literature and discussing it but it's hard to consume book content when it's taken over by millennials who are porn addicts.
ENA PFP??!?!? TOYA ENJOYER?!?!? i love finding pfps of my hyperfixations in unrelated content :D
@@ItzAudreyii HAHA YES I LOVE PROSEKAI it's my biggest hyperfixation atm, i recently got my sibling obsessed with it 😭
Genuinely these people _need_ wattpad
They didn't go through their Wattpad stage as a teen and young adults. Thats why they are so deep in the genre now. What they're reading is what we all read a decade ago.
As someone who almost exclusively reads manga and danmei this is absolutely WILD to me
You mean your romance doesn't have convoluted world building and action and 46383746 chapters before the love interests even kiss????? Y'all are missing out
if the romance starts so late consider romance is actually only a sungenre and the main one is actually something else. Just saying.
@@xemi2087 girl........ I know...... Danmei is literally fantasy w/ gay romance........... 😭
I watched a girl on TikTok buy books from a thrift store and put them on her giant shelf BACKWARDS for aesthetics. I’d say that is overconsumption somewhat. Yeah it’s from a thrift store, but can’t wait for her to toss em because she decided to do something else with her shelf decor.
the only problem I have with smut being so popular is that it makes it so much harder to find books without smut. I am someone who doesn’t enjoy smut at all and prefers small doses of romance. fantasy is one of my favorite genres and finding new recommendations for good fantasy WITHOUT smut or romance is near impossible anymore, it COMSUMES the genre. it makes it difficult for me to trust any recommendations because some people will only say “omg its so good you HAVE to read it! best book Ive ever read!” or even “oh, you like fantasy? you’ll love this!” or something along those lines. then they’ll fail to mention that theres smut or heavy amounts of romance that smothers the plot, world building, and character development. when I read fantasy I want FANTASY. not romance with a sprinkle of fantasy. its infuriating.
Try PJO
@@katgreer6113 what is that?
@@ronniebennet9413percy jackson and the Olympians, I believe
I relate to this so much. I really like fantasy and dark fantasy too, but I'm really not a fan of smut. And with everyone advocating for these books it was hard to find those without it.
Mine is now proceed to write dystopia time travel adventure where it features DnD style adventures across four timelines, and romance subplot (and slow burn). And has two versions (one version is for YA + NA and no smut).
Even though I aware there will be a demand on this, there is no way publishing company want to get my story published because in my home country, crappy novels with smut becomes a trend in bookstores (including in my native language!)
The book that got me back into reading was “I’m glad my mom died” lmfao.
Maybe people associate all of booktok with the romance or "spicy" booktokers because they literally introduce themselves as THE "booktok girls" in the comments. Like they will fr say something like "the booktok girlies have been summoned😈" in the comment section of a cringy thirst trap video. I think their engagement with other parts of TikTok contribute to how loud they are too. And don't forget that one spicy booktok lady that called her the "Queen of Booktok"🥴. I'm joking but those comments have gotten so far to the point were they are calling them the "booktok gooners"
Exactly!! If youre someone who isnt on booktok, you only see very loud porn addicts calling themselves booktok under random videos. Thats why ppl mean them when they say booktok, bc thats what those people were introduced to them as
You make me feel more comfortable in my Twenty One Pilots obsession
they shamed us for too long, someone has to stand up for our rights
this and my bojack obsession
i remember seeing a video of a girl showing a comment she got on a video of her showing books she read and the comment asked if White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a smut… LIKE ITS DOSTOYEVSKY
Why are they looking for spice in Dostoevsky pls 😭
I DO NOT ACCEPT DOSTOEVSKY CRITICISM
Tbh just here to flex that I NEVER touched Coleen Hoover's books, the youtube videos are enough 🙃. At the end of the day, you read what you wanna read, we are all gonna die one day so, go crazy✨️✨️ (you're still wired)
I unfortunately read Verity. Never again. 😭
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Same!
I’m somebody who is writing a book.
As of May 2024, this is my fourth year working on it (yipppeee!🎉). And watching the trends on TikTok from a distance, and *refusing politely* to read a single book from that collection (unknowingly, I read *The Song of Achilles*, and actually enjoyed it, I admit…), it’s obvious that there’s been a negative change in how these stories are written.
I have a super close bestie of mine who reads *only* TikTok-starred books. And great heavens almighty, I picked five of them up and it was all smut, smut, sex, lemons, no lime, bang-bang missionary type shit- oh, look, an interlude of some sort of sweeter moment!- **SEX.**
I’m… joking but I’m not. Like, are they fueling a P-addiction here? Hello?
The fact that books have become solely page-turners and have a lack of true depth to them sometimes makes me sad. How these tropes are impacting the originality of many said page-turners, the fact that only these books might be advertised and the fucking ***colleen hoover books stand in barnes n noble*** makes me worry that all books will be are merely trends and words for people to consume, and not *stories*. The girlies I know who never read a lick before now consume this fiery waste, and that’s all there is! At least people are reading, but *this???* While it isn’t every book in the Tok, it still is many, and many problematic ones.
… Anyways, I’m writing a book. And no, there will not be smut in it.
heyy!! im writing a book too! And i agree SO HARD. It definitely feels like they're fueling porn addictions.
the reason i think these books aren't really good most of the time is because... Theyre just made for smut n nothing else. so the characters and everything are so flat and poorly written because their only purpose is to be in a spice scene and make money.
im not against spicey scenes at all, but goodness. its getting exhausting that so many romantical stories (and stories in general) that end up getting successful are boring sex books or ... 😬 the other ones. It doesn't feel like a lot of authors are doing it for genuine passion or love. Just to cash off.
im not saying all books of course! but the most being talked about and getting exposure are just - spice. makes me feel like my story wont get any attention because there's no spice in it! along with romance.
@@eldritchmonsters THIS!!!
Also, a fellow lad of my told me that an author they loved from TikTok was creating a book solely on tropes provided to her, and I’m just like………. Errrr sooo you mean just bdsm and dark fantasy?? 😅
But yessssir, definitely for the cash crab. Let’s give some teenagers some addiction
(was so tempted to call it Hoover Horniness I’m so sorry)
Also someone who is working on a book (a year and a half now) and yes. Absolutely yes to everything you just said.
as someone who is also working on a book…I one hundred percent agree. (I feel like i’m supposed to write a whole essay, but that’s all i have to say 😂) Though, I’ve read two recommendations from BookTok because of my ELA teachers, but they were PHENOMENAL. (Six of Crows and If He Had Been With Me)
Idk why people don’t just realise that once you find a few good booktok ears or booktubers who give good recs, you don’t really need to surf the internet as much for fresh recs.
the only bit of booktok that i have ever interacted with on tiktok has been weird (typically contemporary) horror book recs and i eat it up every time
perks of being a wallflower is my favorite book too!!
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@@oliverzwatermelongum YEESS ANOTHER ROTTMNT FAN
As someone who read the Cruel Prince and it’s two sequels within one month I remember a huge gripe I had with Booktok about it was how it was advertised as enemies to lovers and purely romance when the politics of the world take more of a center stage. Because of this a bunch of romance booktok dnf’ed it or rated it really poorly based off of a criteria it wasn’t even supposed to fit into nor advertised as by the author when it came out. They also complained about lack of spice which like…c’mon. Like guys it’s YA, YA isn’t known to have tons of spice either. It is one of my favorites though and definitely one of the better YA series out there
The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels of all time and it drives me crazy that, because of an intentional misquote courtesy of Hemingway and a supposed Fitzgerald historian that F. Scott Fitzgerald's family had to fight for years because he was extremely inaccurate and each time they tried to correct his lies, he would try to drown them out, people misread the book and take away the opposite of what the actual point was...
It's not a celebration of wealth in the slightest. It's a reminder that both love and the upper class can destroy you in an instant. 🤷🏻♀️
Captain underpants and dog man are my favorites childhood books, they're just so fun and goofy
What ur guy's favorite books from when you were a kid?
@@monoduck The How to Train your Dragon books
@@monoduck i love captain underpants as well, i only had one book and i remember reading it over and over 😭 my favorite were the geronimo stilton books tho, that rat was my man fr
Captain Underpants is my favorite children's book series even above Diary of A Wimpy Kid
Ironically booktok got me back into libraries. I started going there out of spite for the over consumption lol
As someone who goes to Barnes ans Noble like at least once a week honestly the books most prominent are like business and pop psychology books. But then again that mught be because I live in a big city and usually shop by my job which is located in the Business District
I found this one wlw YA book in my school library once and I spent like 2 weeks reading it. I forgot the name entirely but it had me hooked.
I like books filled to the brim with… uh yeah I don’t really read.
Hearing you recommending a Donna Tartt book makes me wanna give The Goldfinch another shot. I was reading it then switched to a webtoon because the writing was mushing my brain, and then forgot to go back
i have a copy of the goldfinch but have yet to read it so i can’t speak on it but hopefully it’s just as good as the secret history!!
The Goldfinch was pretty bad imo, too long, kinda racist too. That white woman did NOT need to be writing the N slur in the year of 2013
@@starbittenpixieboy When I tell you my jaw dropped
Haven't watched this. But A Court of Thorns and Roses got me to read for the first time like 8-10 years. I read the first two books in under 2 weeks. I never imagined that in a million years
i understand your feelings , i love acotar and no , its not because of the smug parts . i loved the world building, the characters personality. i can feel connected to them. but a lot of people read it bc its a little spicy. my favorite part is seeing the characters development like feyre that grow up from a simple girl to a very strong high lady.
I LOVE THE GRAPHIC NOVEL VERSION OF A WRINKLE IN TIME!! I remember checking it out from the library so often and when my family gave me an Amazon gift card, I finally bought it for myself. It’s one of my favorites! 😌❤️
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“There’s some merit to that,”
You could say it’s not..
*Without Merit*
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I hate that bok sm
This comment made me scream like I'm reading the book, don't do that again.
It's simple:
- Wurld uploads a new hit youtube video
- we watch Wurlds video
I'm so sad that they 're considering Song of Achilles like. bad booktok genre. because it's the best adaptation of the story by a modern author I've seen! I am now terrified people will it's cringe.
madeline miller is such a great author
so many books are having a ruined reputation bc there’s this hivemind that all of booktok books are bad and full of smut smh
this just made my day i swear i jumped for joy when i saw the notification
audibly said “yippee!”
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all is well when wurld uploads
trees was a violent callback to the past that i wasn’t expecting
Booktok is seriously scary…
When I say I love booktok, I'm talking about queer booktok. Absolutely love those people.
(Genuinely though, if you can't get through a book without smut, you have a porn addiction)
I’ve already watched 4 videos like this but I like listening to Wurld talk
I personally love romance books even if its cliche, it makes me happy and single
Yes! Contemporary Romance is a palette cleanser!
i’d actually love if you made a video talking about the perks of being wallflower because i eat up any content mentioning that book 🙈
It sucks that what pops up organically on a new booktok account is all the white girls reading Coleen Hoover! I finally have got my algo how I want it and there’s so many amazing bipoc creators having amazing discussions. But of course that’s not what’s pushed out
I’ve been nervous to start a booktube account bc I don’t have a pretty background and a huge bookshelf, I read only on my kindle to not over consume and will only buy my favorite books that I think I will re read one day and want to have in a collection (but I don’t yet) but I’m starting to think it’s important to have a pov that isn’t all surrounding over consumption
Never touching coho and SJM books lmaoooo
I just love the Bojack intros
ty for posting this i ran out of stuff to watch while crocheting
Great upload, thank you for the recs 🙏
thank you for the mystery incorporated shoutout😭 that show is so underrated it’s crazy
All fantasy books now have so much smut lol, I don't really mind it, but one particular book I read, every single time the characters would have an emotional scene talking about their trauma, it would end in sex, every time, happened at least 4 times.
You are such a funny human! I think this is such a great video, it’s funny and interesting to discuss the topic of booktok and how it is quite generalized!
i’ll be the first to admit that i’m pertinacious about books and how much i hate the overload of the cartoon book cover cookie cutter romance books my annoying ass keeps it TO MYSELF let people enjoy things ! lol
Off topic but this hair style looks so good on you!! ❤
thank you! :D
I hate the overconsumption of books, makes people think they need 100+ books on their tbr. Not saying I don’t bulk buy books, which I do. But I also don’t go to the book store often and I also don’t order online either. I also do use my library as well which I never see nobody talking about much.
YES. I typically only buy books I’ve first checked out at the library more than four times, or books I’ve reread as PDFs so I can have a physical copy, or books I receive as gifts. I do order online occasionally because I live in the middle of nowhere where there’s only small book stores/sales run by churches and schools
I adore your opinions on books! Thank you for being so honest, funny, and respectful ❤
I forgot about the wrinkle and time and i watched the movie when i was younger, and thank you so much for reminding me 😢😢
Hmmmm. The idea of men having read Haunting Adeline is actually more terrifying than how much the women liked it…
a girl in my class had a colleen hoover book and now I keep seeing colleen.
i love when you talk about books!!!!
i love a wrinkle in time and i love the great gatsby ughhh i love themmmm
i love your pfp!
thank you! :]
When you said "This is a dumb" I smiled and cocked my head like I was being advertised
Tbh I love Booktok for getting me back into reading as you said I started with Acotar and followed up with Babel and stuck to alternate between Romantacy and Literary Fiction its great
4:59 me who's been getting back into reading by reading fantasy adventure series from the 90s. Feeling like spider-man who's got both his parents alive lmao. Have yet to read a Colleen Hoover book since I'm not big on romance books and don't use tiktok lol.
No shade to anyone who reads well anything. I think more people reading is always a good thing as long as everyone is nice that's all I care about lol. I read a lot of silly adventure novels because it makes me happy.
Dude, same, I decided to try reading again and googled the most popular books for my age group (aka, really really horny enemies to lovers romantasy). I expected myself to find the covers interesting when I went to a bookstore, but I was surprisingly drawn to the mystery and thriller sections.
I think people are quick to say booktok has ruined reading, because a good handful of books right now are trying to be commercial. But everyone has the power to scroll through Kindle and find the genres they like 😭 Some people are choosing to read what's popular, but there is still a vaaaast array of literature ready for readers to enjoy. You just have to dig a little.
At the end of the day, it's great that young people are reading, and if tiktok is allowing this artform to stay popular, that's great! I'd rather a world where sex sells than a world where books don't sell
HAHAHA I just finished listening to A Wrinkle In Time on audio and there are certain aspects of the writing I just cannot stand like how the kids talk and interact. I love the story and concept but the characters just feel off to me. Been feeling the same way since I first read it in childhood
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Such a good show
That opening killed me omg lmao
Yes, because the majority of books being promoted on booktok have zero plot, are probably written by nepobabies and are just shite writing..Don't get me wrong, there's good books on booktok, but the majority that I've seen are shite and should never have been published. *cough* Colleen Hoover *cough*
This made me think of the movie American Fiction, which is really great! Definitely a good watch about the publishing industry.
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I have to say I am someone who loves smutty books! I’m 25 years old and have been reading for fun since I was 8! I love these books for the romances and the wild rides these books take me on! Haunting Adeline is what I’m currently reading and I’m loving it so much! But I just hate when people judge what other people like to read! I know that reading is subjective and it’s fine if this particular book genre is not for everyone, but some people just tear this genre down! It’s something that women mainly enjoy and it feels like misogyny!
Something I'm routinely upset by is the normalisation of SA. Ergo, The Cruel Prince by Holly Black.
In the first act, the main live interest uses magic to essentially SA the protagonist, making her take off her clothes and perform degrading, sexually charged acts she'd never otherwise do. It's never called that in the book. Just bullying.
But what frustrates me is the community constantly refuses to acknowledge it for what it is. I even had someone irl call it hot.
This is an SA in the book motivated by bigotry and fetishism. It's a book about Fae and humans are treated in the book like poc who are usually enslaved.
I have had neo Nazis throw objects at me and one gave me a note with an SA threat. They'd do Hitler salutes and remark about Auschwitz. All because I'm ethnically Jewish on my dad's side.
This isn't hot. This is a real thing many women go through. And the Booktok community justifies it because they say Jude, the protagonist, is also a terrible person. When everything she does is reactionary or in self defense.
They say they're Fae, and Fae do that, when most of the old Fae stories I've read, at least from my culture, tend to paint humans as the instigators or have a moral about women getting revenge or reclaiming autonomy. You could rewrite this story about vampires or aliens and the only thing that would change is the lying thing. They are not that immersed in the themes and culture of Fae literature.
It's just torture porn where the protagonist fixes the guy who hatecrimes her because he was abused.
And this is a book aimed at 12-18 year olds. A very impressionable age group. And they're normalising SA. It's disgusting.
Booktok isn't that bad! We're just talking about Romantasy booktook. THAT one deserves the hate. (I'm mainly joking but I'm sorry y'all have terrible taste). And when it bleeds over into regular Fantasy ugh.
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I personally HATED the romance between Jude and Cardan. I don't think that Holly Black can write romance tbh. It didn't hit the mark for me and I don't know what she was thinking when she wrote them together.
Yay I love book talk with you
honestly im so glad i never got into booktok because if i did i never would have found what i might consider my favourite book i own
8:24 that exact same thing happens to me so much when reading big novels and it freaks me out sometimes because ill read for 4 hours straight and then i won’t recognize my reflection in the mirror
honestly booktok has made reading trendy so at least more kids and teens are getting into reading again :')
I read a that vampire queen book and it scared me to the point where I wanted to go back to YA 😂 I wasn’t ready but I’m a “romantasy” girl but romance is optional
I have... Very Strong Opinions about the romance I read and one of those is that Cheaters get the bin, so I will hard pass on romance recs since we seem to have very opposed tastes BUT "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" WAS a beautiful book even if it left me crying like a fountain, it felt also like. Cathartic
the entirety of booktok vs a sentence from No Longer Human
yeah i feel like reading books is an escape from me from the mundanity of life and i borrow like 99% of my books from my local library cuz i don’t got money like that (hence the escapism) so the overconsumption thing doesn’t make anyyyy sense to me 😭
7:25 THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS SUPREMACYYYYY
I use my critical thinking skills with Booktok. 😂 I'm so glad you recommended Cruel Prince. I'm going to be reading it soon! But first, i have to read Holly Black's first novels, because i loved them when they came out.
beware the cruel prince can be "intense" for some ppl there's bullying and stuff like that. talk of "drug" withdrawal in the 2nd book. personally it wasn't that intense but some ppl said they needed trigger warnings appratenly. im reading holly black's first fae book tithe and...it's definitely something. I'm actually enjoying it but I can tell that she was a newer author. her writing in later work is much better.
@@katgreer6113 thanks for letting me know! I read Tithe when it first came out, and i want to read it again before i start Folk of the Air. I'll keep those themes in mind when the time comes.
I was book hunting in B&N, and found a book with an illustrated cover of 2 ppl holding hands, but their hands were backwards, and while I don't mind illustrated cover, that HURT my soul, like NOBODY noticed??! It wasn't even close to the booktok table, mind you.
backwards? how exactly
Most like you might have encountered a book with cover art designed using AI.
I honestly get what you're saying. It's just uncomfortable seeing people who made fun of you for reading as a kid instead of understanding pop culture, make it 'trendy' to pretend to be interested in reading. And I'm not trying to be 'not like other girls' or anything like that but I don't like watching people be able to enjoy something that they made me and other people feel so uncomfortable about enjoying in the past.
(this is also coming from my experience of working in a bookstore for almost 2 years and this isn't limited to only those who are only interested in romance.)
However, booktok does help authors advertise their books and increases sales and I guess it's better for people to be interested in buying books over harmful things😭😭😭
Thiiissss
Unrelated but I think you'd like Kimberly Lemmings books. The title alone will get you interested. She has a series called Mead Mishaps. The first book is literally called "The Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
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I don't follow booktok, and I enjoy my reading greatly, so I'd say it probably isn't ruining reading as a whole.
I agree like can't people just fucking read, ruining other people's hobby or job because you don't like what they read is crazy and immature
One thing to always keep in mind is that the crazy people of an online space will grab the most attention and create most people's first impressions. It's just the nature of human perception.
Also, even though I dislike more about booktok than I like, I need to draw a fine line when criticizing it. There is a lot of vitriol towards things that appeal strongly to young women and I'm very weary of it after the excessive backlash towards things like Twilight and the denigration of women that read 50 Shades (awful books but the way people talked about women that enjoyed erotica was disgusting). Men's trash doesn't receive nearly as much hate and it's a blatant double standard.
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Awesome video, love your insights all the time, your energy rocks. 16:28 gotta be honest I was one of those people LMAO, Ghost on top /jkjk
I don't use Tiktok much anyway, much less booktok. Anyway, if I did use that app, I would just block topics/accounts and curate my feed, which i do for IG. I just want to see what I like. Anyway, I got back into reading coz of a webtoon, so at least I missed out on Colleen Hoover.
Some of the best recommendations I get are from Facebook groups!!