being a huge nerd means i care SO DEEPLY. about how people read books. but more importantly, i care about having access to those books. regardless of your stance on booktok books, you should be fighting against book bans. every day is an opportunity to think critically about literature, even now. especially now. analysis rocks! love u all!
Usually videos about whatever the hell "booktok" is are trash, but this one is pretty cool. The only thing I wonder about is, the average Amerikkkan has long had appalling taste in books, right? Big bestsellers have been popularly viewed as slop and yet hugely popular since probably like, the 1980s, right? This is not new, just the social platform? I hear about "the trope-ification of media" and I think back to 'bodice rippers' and stuff.
Easily the wildest application of the term "manufactured consent" I have ever seen however 
You can tell the average amerikkkan's taste in books is appalling because Stephen King is a bestselling author
Extremely valid. Dan Brown only has a handful of dogshit bestsellers unlike Stephen King's dozens and dozens though, right?
Me trying to read It and being in the same scene 50 pages later
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I thought had the book got some high moments it was definitely too long
Easily the wildest application of the term "manufactured consent" I have ever seen however
What, you mean how the publishers decide what books to publish?
Yeah and then justify it, which that's not usually the context I think of the consent manufacturing machine in tbh.
Sounds about right, that's sort-of the idea this video I linked tries to get at. Good comment!!
Lol lmao @ that murder incident and the Newgate novel. But this confirms my theory that while it's now more concentrated and has an online platform, this sort of dumbing down of fiction has been dumbed for ages and ages. Just seen so much alarmist commentary about THE DEATH OF BOOKS and such.
Ever heard of Sturgeon's Law? Some journalist in the 50's asked sf author Theodore Sturgeon why 90% of sf was crap and his response, coining the law, was that 90% of everything is crap.
I've seen several long form youtube videos about this Colleen Hoover and her breeding kink and its centrality to her books
I like that channel she also has a good vid about how Kirk/Spock is totally canon actually
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Stephen King's success is a crime tbh
