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"It's been hilarious watching them try to deny it, and call anyone accusing them of porn addiction a misogynist. You know all the 'girlies' who have to ask 'Is it spicy?' with every book recommendation they get, or absolutely cannot read any book unless there's 'spice' in it. They're literally admitt"
"It'd be one thing if the goon-posting was paired with substantive discourse, but it's evident that whatever leftist affectivity exists in the recent contributors here has been completely sublimated into and neutered by a bizarre, #BookTok-tier goonfest"
"R.F. Kuang is one of the top bestselling authors at the moment and she's known for churning out novels that blow up on "booktok"."
"despite their booktok obsession they've never cracked open a Brontë or Dostoevsky lmfao like… how???"
"stanley cups, labubus, mini miu, pop mart blind boxes, rhode, cyklar, jane birkinify'ing your bag, louise carmen notebooks, sephora hauls, hygiene wars, pilates, booktok, constantly bombarded with trend cycles and specific aesthetics hence the loss of personal style."
"Not erotica but just one of those "booktok" slop porn-for-women books. Average looking, white, skinny, upper middle class as well. Society is falling"
"she ended up checking it out and thanked me for the rec. a young mind hopefully saved from the horrors of booktok."
"There were some authors signing their booktok smut books and I could hear people in line talking about how they love so-and-so guy from whatever book and how hot and caring they were and what their favorite kinks and tropes are."
"It its very sad and yall are gonna shit on me for it, but i think the more-salvageable readers of this generation are gonna end up being the ya/fantasy crowd (NOT the booktok girls who only read those weird 'romance' pornographic books for sexually repressed middle aged aunts, althought i dont actua"
"Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn't even say 'murder is bad' at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can't believe you condone murder, I can't believe you're pro-murder, oh my fucking God don't talk to me when you literally kill people, fr"