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⌈ Secret Post #6364 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But why is this a bad thing or so controversial?

[(Anonymous)]

Because they have bad taste, because they have very tropey romance novel-y taste, and because they're mostly young women.

[(Anonymous)]

So it's Oprah's Book Club for Zoomers.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the sexism aspect is there, but I wonder how overplayed it is. Having bad taste and liking certain tropey themes that aren't well executed is more than enough reason for me to be wary of booktok recs. Most of my book recs come from female sources, just not women who love those tropes over plot, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

More they're mostly female wannabe influencers and that's just a very annoying breed of people in any genre.

[(Anonymous)]

It's always a little more vicious and intense when it's directed at young women.

[(Anonymous)]

Because they lack critical thinking skills and wouldn't recognize quality writing if it flew right into their face.

[(Anonymous)]

In addition to what the two people above already said, I think it's also that because of how tiktok functions as a platform, it's easy for communities to become echo chambers passing around the same over-hyped recs and hyping up the same basic types of books, with decreasingly little variety in content or opinion.

The very fact that you can describe something as a "booktok book" and people are able to infer things about the book from that descriptor is part of what people who dislike booktok are critical of.