The Mari Kondo thing drives me up the wall (and I even took the book out on Libby to double check I was right lol) Because Mari only said she keeps her collection to 30 books. It was a personal statement. Then she shared ways she keeps what she likes about the book like journaling/handwriting quotes or using a photocopier to make a scrapbook. She always says if a large collection of any item makes you happy you should keep it. And the whole reaction to that very small section just turns me into Animal from muppets Great video as always, I stick to this community for the drama. We are all so unwell. I love that for us.
This always bothered me so much because I own a ton of books and I also love Marie Kondo. I have OCD and her framework actually helped me to NOT get rid of everything I owned.
@MG Larson I have ADHD which has some comorbidities with OCD, and I felt the same way! I feel like I have 2 modes: hoard and destroy. She helped me both let go of things I was holding onto for the wrong reasons and keep the things I really wanted to keep but had decided I 'couldn't'. I really dislike it when people misinterpret her as someone pushing for minimalism or getting rid of things.
@@leightoningstrike6971 same! I either keep everything or keep nothing! But now I’ve let go of guilt for holding onto items that were gifts about that I don’t like, and also allow myself to keep things that I do love :)
Also Japanese homes are really small. If a person has a massive collection they basically live in a cluttered mess. The putting them in a wardrobe works for very tiny spaces. Not relevant to western homes with more room. I wish people would listen to her telling people to keep what brings joy.
The "audiobooks isn't reading" is so unreasonable because sometimes there are books I want to consume but the audiobook is the only version available. For instance, for books currently out of print, the printed word copy isn't to be found anywhere, but my library or libby will still have the audiobook to check out.
💯! Decades ago, I was a snob about audiobooks. Until I found out the smartest guy at my college, winner of a prestigious science fellowship, had such severe dyslexia that he got all his textbooks on "tape" (this was the early 90s). And then I worked with a teen who had very severe cerebral palsy and could not turn pages easily, and loved all kinds of literature (you gotta love a 13 year old Dickens fan), and was very well read because of it, which saved her since even then, kids with CP often got the wrong education because special Ed was not designed well for people who need physical assistance 24/7 but are average+ cognitively & have typical-to-general-society social skills. So yeah, audiobooks must be reading, because the listeners can learn as much or more than sight readers. Most blind people I know also prefer audio to braille, which takes a much longer time to read, esp if one doesn't use it very often. I had business cards that were "brailled" and all my blind colleagues admitted they were not fluent in it 😂
I'm a person who prefers physical books, but my younger sibling has really bad dyslexia. They didn't read a lot growing up, and have recently as an adult gotten super into audiobooks and have surpassed my reading this year for the first time EVER. anyone who is snobbish about audiobooks is ignorant as hell - I'm so thrilled that they've found this love of books and that audiobooks are allowing them to consume books in a way that isn't difficult for them
I have mild dyslexia and audiobooks as well as digital books are SUCH a lifesaver for me. Between the dyslexia and ADHD, reading printed books is a painfully slow process for me. I have friends and family that can read multiple books in a week, but I’m doing really well if I can read a print book in a month. It’s just exhausting. But with digital books I can change the background and font colors (a dark background and light colored letters helps SO much) _and_ I can use fonts like OpenDyslexic and Dyslexie. And audiobooks not only help the dyslexia but also the ADHD. I can sit still and concentrate on reading for only so long. With audiobooks I can work out, do household chores, drive, knit, or work on my art all while also concentrating on the book. And instead of being able to read one book every 1-2 months (if that) I can read 2 or 3 in a month (more if I’m trying for a certain goal). It also means I can read the books my kid is reading in school and be able to discuss it with him, help him with his homework, etc. (Plus, it’s been so nice to revisit the books I read in middle school and read new middle grade books.)
It’s privilege and classism to say that audiobooks are reading. Go tell poor people around the world who never got to learn to read that, if they can listen to an audiobook, that they’re reading. It would be an insult to tell people who can’t read that listening to audiobooks is reading. YOU can read, and so take for granted the difference. My daughter’s best friend hasn’t been taught to read (ad he’s 11) because his parents think he’ll magically catch up despite not being sent to school (this is in the US too). He can listen to an audiobook, but can he read? Well, if audiobooks are reading, then yes, he can read. But hand him a book, and he’s clueless because he can’t READ. Audiobook isn’t READING, but it is consuming stories. You don’t read an audiobook. You listen to an audiobook. Reading means using your eyes or braille to put the letters and words together, and is a vital skill. I’m actually concerned by how many people think listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading. We should be glad people are consuming stories, whether they’re listening to an audiobook or reading a book. But we MUST stop saying that audiobooks are reading. It’s an insult and reeks of privilege by those who actually know how to read.
I think another layer to the Bigolas Dickolas thing is that the story was compared to a slash ship they like from Trigun, so a lot of cosplayers started lugging giant posters of the book around at cons (super wholesome). I haven't any experience with Trigun or the book in question so it's just an outsider's perspective, but they're so interlinked that the producer or director of the Trigun reboot tweeted that he bought "that book".
@@alilbitmads the best part is, because of the hype he generated about Trigun, the manga series (which is from the 90s) is getting a reprint, I believe
The handbook for mortals debacle happened even faster than you think! Less than 72 hours you say? Correct in a sense, but working together, the book community super sleuths got that title removed from the NYT bestseller list in UNDER 24 HOURS! Lani sarem thinks this is a bragging point, too. After her book was removed, all her copies afterwards had a sticker on the front that said "A new york Times best seller" (and then in small print): "for 23 hours".
Need to finish the video but I'm gonna drop this real fast, first: MARIE KONDO SAID SHE ONLY HAS 30 BOOKS. The entire philosophy behind the Marie Kondo method is to keep what sparks joy. And that’s different for every person. Marie Kondo has never and WOULD NEVER say how much of a specific item you should or shouldn't own. It's not about the "numerical amount" it's about the "emotional value". If having more than 30 books is what makes you happy then KEEP them. If not? DONATE whenever possible because someone else WILL find joy in what you pass on. That's why I, as a hhoarder, love her. The Marie Kondo method is about your happiness not getting rid of everything for the sake of minimalism. Heck, depending on the person, following the Marie Kondo Method could lead you to being a MAXIMALIST. Savy from Savy Writes Books has a few videos on Marie Kondo and her experiences with following the method and I highly recommend people watch those videos. After this one, if course! Gotta support the algorithm after all! 😉
Any time I see someone use that image of the "bimbo lady becoming a book nerd", I am reminded of someone else explaining that it was very obvious (to whom?????) comissioned fetish art of bimbofication.
I think Lindsay Ellis just attracted a lot of critics because she had the "audacity" to critique things that had big fandoms and people did that thing where they pore over every crumb of that person's online existence and Lindsay has been online for A LONG TIME being an elder millennial and was involved in some questionable content, which she had distanced herself from a LONG TIME AGO and was made to feel like she had to defend herself over things that happened at a time when she was very vulnerable. TL;DR: Lindsay make fandom cranky, fandom try to cancel Lindsay, Lindsay make video response and dipped from RUclips.
What I hate about the audiobook discussion: I have visual impairments, as have millions of other readers, and I always feel this stance of "It's not real reading!" completely disregards readers with disabilities. I mean, would they say that wheelchair dancing is not real dancing? Besides, for a 2019 study ("The Representation of Semantic Information Across Human Cerebral Cortex During Listening Versus Reading Is Invariant to Stimulus Modality"), they scanned the brains of participants while they read or listened to stories. The result? They found that it stimulated the exact same cognitive and emotional areas of the brain, and that the way we process language is pretty much independent of which senses we use for input. I may or may not have quoted the sheet out of this study over the years.
Just popping in to say Lindsay left because of the Raya debacle. I'm sure she got shit for talking about Children of Blood and Bone, too, because for some reason people just wanted to see her drown at that point, but it was specifically the Raya stuff that was the last straw and made her quit the internet.
Also, I don’t even think Children of Blood and Bones is finished? Like there’s still another book to be published, and I know when 2020 happened, I read the first book again so I could read book 2 (which was BAD) and then nothing? Like I don’t even think there’s a release date for book 3
About the save the pearls thing. I actually mentioned it to my cousin the other day because on a writing page I'm on, everyone was talking about their character's flaws. One white man said his character's flaw is that she is a slave (she's white) and falls in love with a slave owner (....his black). That's not a flaw, and that is just a horrible premise
@alilbitmads yeah. The page discourages most negativity so I just scrolled passed but damn. I did comment asking for elaboration on someone who said their character's flaw was being mute... their reply didn't dismiss the ablism vibes. Fingers crossed those two books never get published
I just recently learned about the soap thing from another booktuber, and oh boy that is a thing that happened, huh? I'm too ace to yuck anyone's yum there, but oh nooooo soap is for EXTERNAL use only please 😨
You haven’t finished the Children of Blood and Bone series because it hasn’t been finished. Book 3 has yet to be published and it looks like its becoming a Name of the Wind type situation
The Halsey & Stiefvater twitter beef was basically Stiefvater saying Halsey’s song lyric was sexual in nature & that the scene the fandom were applying it to was not & basically being like “no, just no”. I don’t think she got actually mad nor do I know if Halsey got mad, maybe upset idk. but I believe Halsey then corrected Stiefvater about her lyric - saying it wasn’t sexual - & Stiefvater is known for not being the most elegant at responding to people & it snowballed from there.
i think lindsay staying on twitter would have been really bad for her book sales because people were unearthing her past racist joke tweets that she kept deleting and they brought up some of her nostalgia chic stuff (also racist). i also think mara wilson tweeted about her being biphobic to her as well while all this was happening which turned a bunch of people on her. I dont know about the YA related drama and just think people had a good reason to dislike her. i remember she frequently made risky comments that would always thread the line of offensive but as a big ytuber she got away with a lot until people began piling everything up and im not sure if she ever tried to clear things up since I stopped following the situation I'm not trying to hate on her btw, i got her first book signed and enjoyed it and think she's a good writer and her videos are still solid
✨🥶 I loved the meme about Mari Mondo comment Mari “you shouldn’t have more than 30 books” Readers “on the nightstand?” When will people learn to stop coming for bookworms, we defend our books aggressively. Usually with lots of caffeine and cat/dog armies
Man, I HATED that meme. Because she said SHE doesn't have more than 30 books at a time. That that was what made HER happy. Marie didn't "come for bookworms", she was misquoted and people who made owning books their personality came for her. The ENTIRE philosophy of the Marie Kondo method is to KEEP what sparks joy and DONATE what doesn't if it's still in good enough condition to do so. So the meme would more accurately be something like: Marie: "I see that you you have 30 books on your nightstand. Are there more?" Reader: "Yes there are. Is that a problem?" Marie: "That depends, do they all spark joy? If they do, then that's not a problem at all!" Don't get ne wrong, I LOVE all of the books I own (WAY more than 30) but I think it's a problem that so many people TO THIS DAY still think she said that. It drives me up the wall.
I'm so glad that as a community we're getting better with the not like other girls stuff. I want my make up and my books, and more protagonists that enjoy their femininity instead of rejecting it! Great video, I never thought I'd hear the phrase "don't plagiarise the spider smut book" and yet here we are!🧊✨
I'm not normally a commenter but one thing i have to say that still kinda annoys me is that the Caleb drama was blown out of proportion. As far as i remember, he was never sh*tting on people who went to bea and got all dressed up to take pictures, he just said that he personally would never do that and that it wasnt his thing. Which is ok imo. People just jumped on him Honestly I'm a Caleb defender bc he was the subject of several dramas over the years that were mostly just people purposely misinterpreting what he said.
i agree for the most part. caleb has a very specific brand of humor that i think some people find off putting. his video wasn’t necessarily an attack on the people who like dressing up but his tone could be construed as condescending even if he wasn’t being serious. i enjoyed his content for the most part but kind of understand why people would react negatively to what he said.
Also a Caleb defender because 1) yeah, I never understood why people took everything he said at face value (like him laughing during a movie review because Bella Thorne's death scene was just over dramatic and people acted like he was laughing at a literal dying girl. Like what?), and 2) he was a literal child through out the height of his channel and the people dog piling on him were always adults which made it even more bizarre
It’s privilege and classism to say that audiobooks are reading. Go tell poor people around the world who never got to learn to read that, if they can listen to an audiobook, that they’re really reading. It would be an INSULT to tell people who can’t read that listening to audiobooks is really reading. YOU can read, and so take for granted the difference. Can you consume words without the assistance of someone to *read* it for you? Congrats. You can read. Audiobooks are a great way to CONSUME stories, but they are not reading. Period. You don’t read an audiobook. You listen to an audiobook. Reading means using your eyes or braille to put the letters and words together, and is a vital skill. I’m actually concerned by how many people think listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading. My daughter’s best friend hasn’t been taught to read (ad he’s 11) because his parents think he’ll magically catch up despite not being sent to school (this is in the US too). He can listen to an audiobook, but can he read? Well, if audiobooks are reading, then yes, he can read. But hand him a book, and he’s clueless because he can’t READ. We should be glad people are consuming stories, whether they’re listening to an audiobook or reading a book. But we MUST stop saying that audiobooks are reading. This is dismissive of literacy. It’s an insult and reeks of privilege by those who actually know how to read.
Thank you! 👏This is what I have been saying for so long. You listen to audiobook which is a different skillset to reading, stringing words together to make sense. I can make sense of written Spanish and translate sentences to English but listening to it is a totally differently ballgame other than the random words I can understand.
@a lil bit mads Kouri Richins is the author Katie was talking about. Reads with Rachel talked about the situation for her Authors Behaving Badly series of videos. There's other videos on the situation, but I've only watched Rachel's video and one from a non-booktuber by the username Atozy.
The Mari Kondo thing drives me up the wall (and I even took the book out on Libby to double check I was right lol)
Because Mari only said she keeps her collection to 30 books. It was a personal statement. Then she shared ways she keeps what she likes about the book like journaling/handwriting quotes or using a photocopier to make a scrapbook.
She always says if a large collection of any item makes you happy you should keep it.
And the whole reaction to that very small section just turns me into Animal from muppets
Great video as always, I stick to this community for the drama. We are all so unwell. I love that for us.
This always bothered me so much because I own a ton of books and I also love Marie Kondo. I have OCD and her framework actually helped me to NOT get rid of everything I owned.
@MG Larson I have ADHD which has some comorbidities with OCD, and I felt the same way! I feel like I have 2 modes: hoard and destroy. She helped me both let go of things I was holding onto for the wrong reasons and keep the things I really wanted to keep but had decided I 'couldn't'.
I really dislike it when people misinterpret her as someone pushing for minimalism or getting rid of things.
@@leightoningstrike6971 same! I either keep everything or keep nothing! But now I’ve let go of guilt for holding onto items that were gifts about that I don’t like, and also allow myself to keep things that I do love :)
Also Japanese homes are really small. If a person has a massive collection they basically live in a cluttered mess.
The putting them in a wardrobe works for very tiny spaces. Not relevant to western homes with more room.
I wish people would listen to her telling people to keep what brings joy.
The "audiobooks isn't reading" is so unreasonable because sometimes there are books I want to consume but the audiobook is the only version available. For instance, for books currently out of print, the printed word copy isn't to be found anywhere, but my library or libby will still have the audiobook to check out.
💯! Decades ago, I was a snob about audiobooks. Until I found out the smartest guy at my college, winner of a prestigious science fellowship, had such severe dyslexia that he got all his textbooks on "tape" (this was the early 90s). And then I worked with a teen who had very severe cerebral palsy and could not turn pages easily, and loved all kinds of literature (you gotta love a 13 year old Dickens fan), and was very well read because of it, which saved her since even then, kids with CP often got the wrong education because special Ed was not designed well for people who need physical assistance 24/7 but are average+ cognitively & have typical-to-general-society social skills. So yeah, audiobooks must be reading, because the listeners can learn as much or more than sight readers. Most blind people I know also prefer audio to braille, which takes a much longer time to read, esp if one doesn't use it very often. I had business cards that were "brailled" and all my blind colleagues admitted they were not fluent in it 😂
I'm a person who prefers physical books, but my younger sibling has really bad dyslexia. They didn't read a lot growing up, and have recently as an adult gotten super into audiobooks and have surpassed my reading this year for the first time EVER. anyone who is snobbish about audiobooks is ignorant as hell - I'm so thrilled that they've found this love of books and that audiobooks are allowing them to consume books in a way that isn't difficult for them
Right. And it's also a super ableist argument
I have mild dyslexia and audiobooks as well as digital books are SUCH a lifesaver for me.
Between the dyslexia and ADHD, reading printed books is a painfully slow process for me.
I have friends and family that can read multiple books in a week, but I’m doing really well if I can read a print book in a month. It’s just exhausting.
But with digital books I can change the background and font colors (a dark background and light colored letters helps SO much) _and_ I can use fonts like OpenDyslexic and Dyslexie.
And audiobooks not only help the dyslexia but also the ADHD. I can sit still and concentrate on reading for only so long. With audiobooks I can work out, do household chores, drive, knit, or work on my art all while also concentrating on the book.
And instead of being able to read one book every 1-2 months (if that) I can read 2 or 3 in a month (more if I’m trying for a certain goal).
It also means I can read the books my kid is reading in school and be able to discuss it with him, help him with his homework, etc.
(Plus, it’s been so nice to revisit the books I read in middle school and read new middle grade books.)
It’s privilege and classism to say that audiobooks are reading. Go tell poor people around the world who never got to learn to read that, if they can listen to an audiobook, that they’re reading. It would be an insult to tell people who can’t read that listening to audiobooks is reading. YOU can read, and so take for granted the difference.
My daughter’s best friend hasn’t been taught to read (ad he’s 11) because his parents think he’ll magically catch up despite not being sent to school (this is in the US too). He can listen to an audiobook, but can he read? Well, if audiobooks are reading, then yes, he can read. But hand him a book, and he’s clueless because he can’t READ.
Audiobook isn’t READING, but it is consuming stories. You don’t read an audiobook. You listen to an audiobook. Reading means using your eyes or braille to put the letters and words together, and is a vital skill. I’m actually concerned by how many people think listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading.
We should be glad people are consuming stories, whether they’re listening to an audiobook or reading a book. But we MUST stop saying that audiobooks are reading. It’s an insult and reeks of privilege by those who actually know how to read.
Can confirm Lindsay’s OmegaVerse videos are still up - just rewatched them last week :)
They're like a weird comfort watch for me, lol.
I think another layer to the Bigolas Dickolas thing is that the story was compared to a slash ship they like from Trigun, so a lot of cosplayers started lugging giant posters of the book around at cons (super wholesome). I haven't any experience with Trigun or the book in question so it's just an outsider's perspective, but they're so interlinked that the producer or director of the Trigun reboot tweeted that he bought "that book".
i love it so much!! it’s such a bizarre but wholesome situation and i really hope more things like it happen!
@@alilbitmads the best part is, because of the hype he generated about Trigun, the manga series (which is from the 90s) is getting a reprint, I believe
The handbook for mortals debacle happened even faster than you think! Less than 72 hours you say? Correct in a sense, but working together, the book community super sleuths got that title removed from the NYT bestseller list in UNDER 24 HOURS! Lani sarem thinks this is a bragging point, too. After her book was removed, all her copies afterwards had a sticker on the front that said "A new york Times best seller" (and then in small print): "for 23 hours".
Soap dick gate!! Omfg so funny. Thank you for this video as someone newer to the book community this was a good catch up 💖
Need to finish the video but I'm gonna drop this real fast, first: MARIE KONDO SAID SHE ONLY HAS 30 BOOKS. The entire philosophy behind the Marie Kondo method is to keep what sparks joy. And that’s different for every person. Marie Kondo has never and WOULD NEVER say how much of a specific item you should or shouldn't own. It's not about the "numerical amount" it's about the "emotional value". If having more than 30 books is what makes you happy then KEEP them. If not? DONATE whenever possible because someone else WILL find joy in what you pass on.
That's why I, as a hhoarder, love her. The Marie Kondo method is about your happiness not getting rid of everything for the sake of minimalism. Heck, depending on the person, following the Marie Kondo Method could lead you to being a MAXIMALIST. Savy from Savy Writes Books has a few videos on Marie Kondo and her experiences with following the method and I highly recommend people watch those videos. After this one, if course! Gotta support the algorithm after all! 😉
Any time I see someone use that image of the "bimbo lady becoming a book nerd", I am reminded of someone else explaining that it was very obvious (to whom?????) comissioned fetish art of bimbofication.
yeah its such a strange piece of internet history in and of itself
Oh no, I feel like this is going to bring back some memories I wish to forget 😂It's been a while since I heard of 🍆soap
I can't wait
it’s still my favorite 😂
I was a baby bookseller (read: first week out from training) when the Handbook for Mortals thing happened and that was SOMETHING
I’m not in the book community. I absolutely suck at reading XD I just like your channel, Mads lol your existence brings me joy
ah Your existence brings Me joy!!!
I think Lindsay Ellis just attracted a lot of critics because she had the "audacity" to critique things that had big fandoms and people did that thing where they pore over every crumb of that person's online existence and Lindsay has been online for A LONG TIME being an elder millennial and was involved in some questionable content, which she had distanced herself from a LONG TIME AGO and was made to feel like she had to defend herself over things that happened at a time when she was very vulnerable. TL;DR: Lindsay make fandom cranky, fandom try to cancel Lindsay, Lindsay make video response and dipped from RUclips.
I actually remember most of these! Guess I'm more in tune with the drama than I thought. 🤣
What I hate about the audiobook discussion: I have visual impairments, as have millions of other readers, and I always feel this stance of "It's not real reading!" completely disregards readers with disabilities. I mean, would they say that wheelchair dancing is not real dancing?
Besides, for a 2019 study ("The Representation of Semantic Information Across Human Cerebral Cortex During Listening Versus Reading Is Invariant to Stimulus Modality"), they scanned the brains of participants while they read or listened to stories. The result? They found that it stimulated the exact same cognitive and emotional areas of the brain, and that the way we process language is pretty much independent of which senses we use for input.
I may or may not have quoted the sheet out of this study over the years.
Unfortunately there’s lots of people who say wheelchair dancing isn’t real dancing 😭 Ableism everywhere you look.
@@RuthMadisonAuthor I should not be surprised, but ugh. It's very much real dancing!
Just popping in to say Lindsay left because of the Raya debacle. I'm sure she got shit for talking about Children of Blood and Bone, too, because for some reason people just wanted to see her drown at that point, but it was specifically the Raya stuff that was the last straw and made her quit the internet.
well i think the problem was she made some comment comparing the two
I need more videos of you going over book community things, please and thank you.
considering my lack of reading there’s more in the docket 😂😂
Also, I don’t even think Children of Blood and Bones is finished? Like there’s still another book to be published, and I know when 2020 happened, I read the first book again so I could read book 2 (which was BAD) and then nothing? Like I don’t even think there’s a release date for book 3
I just found your channel and I already love your energy and am surprised you don’t have more views and likes. Keep up the good work, Mads! ✨🥶
thank you!!!
I've missed a lot. 🥶 Thanks for catching me up. I think I'm glad I missed that stuff. Enjoy your content! Thank you!✨️
Hey Madi, I’m rather new here but I’ve loved all your content so far. Please keep it up
thank you 😊😊
@@alilbitmads most welcome Ma’am :). You are gonna go places I can feel it
About the save the pearls thing. I actually mentioned it to my cousin the other day because on a writing page I'm on, everyone was talking about their character's flaws. One white man said his character's flaw is that she is a slave (she's white) and falls in love with a slave owner (....his black). That's not a flaw, and that is just a horrible premise
that’s…an incredibly concerning concept that someone would attribute as “character flaws”
@alilbitmads yeah. The page discourages most negativity so I just scrolled passed but damn. I did comment asking for elaboration on someone who said their character's flaw was being mute... their reply didn't dismiss the ablism vibes. Fingers crossed those two books never get published
Yikes
i just mentally came up with 3 books that got cancelled for that premise. oof.
This is the first video I've seen from you but I love your energy, just subscribed ✨❄️
aww thank you welcome!!
real ones fuck with the raven cycle but don’t fuck with maggie lol
At first I was surprised there was so much drama in authors and then I remembered what we do for a living 😂
I just recently learned about the soap thing from another booktuber, and oh boy that is a thing that happened, huh? I'm too ace to yuck anyone's yum there, but oh nooooo soap is for EXTERNAL use only please 😨
You haven’t finished the Children of Blood and Bone series because it hasn’t been finished. Book 3 has yet to be published and it looks like its becoming a Name of the Wind type situation
this is Wild bc i swore the third one came out.
Omg don’t remind of Name of the Wind I am still in agony and waiting
The Halsey & Stiefvater twitter beef was basically Stiefvater saying Halsey’s song lyric was sexual in nature & that the scene the fandom were applying it to was not & basically being like “no, just no”. I don’t think she got actually mad nor do I know if Halsey got mad, maybe upset idk. but I believe Halsey then corrected Stiefvater about her lyric - saying it wasn’t sexual - & Stiefvater is known for not being the most elegant at responding to people & it snowballed from there.
What about us very well endowed nerdy bookworms 😂?
as a member of this community myself it’s a great time 😂
Here’s a 🔥 because I’m ✨nOt LiKe OtHeR gIrLs ✨ lol
Yes love this video idea, please keep expanding on this 🙏❤️
I should be listening to an audiobook right now but as always I’m on booktube
Icebergs my beloved ❤
i think lindsay staying on twitter would have been really bad for her book sales because people were unearthing her past racist joke tweets that she kept deleting and they brought up some of her nostalgia chic stuff (also racist). i also think mara wilson tweeted about her being biphobic to her as well while all this was happening which turned a bunch of people on her.
I dont know about the YA related drama and just think people had a good reason to dislike her. i remember she frequently made risky comments that would always thread the line of offensive but as a big ytuber she got away with a lot until people began piling everything up and im not sure if she ever tried to clear things up since I stopped following the situation
I'm not trying to hate on her btw, i got her first book signed and enjoyed it and think she's a good writer and her videos are still solid
🥶 it’s cold down here.
I'm honestly just here for the smutty parts of this 🥵😂
you know what tbh same
✨🥶 I loved the meme about Mari Mondo comment
Mari “you shouldn’t have more than 30 books”
Readers “on the nightstand?”
When will people learn to stop coming for bookworms, we defend our books aggressively. Usually with lots of caffeine and cat/dog armies
Man, I HATED that meme. Because she said SHE doesn't have more than 30 books at a time. That that was what made HER happy. Marie didn't "come for bookworms", she was misquoted and people who made owning books their personality came for her.
The ENTIRE philosophy of the Marie Kondo method is to KEEP what sparks joy and DONATE what doesn't if it's still in good enough condition to do so.
So the meme would more accurately be something like:
Marie: "I see that you you have 30 books on your nightstand. Are there more?"
Reader: "Yes there are. Is that a problem?"
Marie: "That depends, do they all spark joy? If they do, then that's not a problem at all!"
Don't get ne wrong, I LOVE all of the books I own (WAY more than 30) but I think it's a problem that so many people TO THIS DAY still think she said that. It drives me up the wall.
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I'm so glad that as a community we're getting better with the not like other girls stuff. I want my make up and my books, and more protagonists that enjoy their femininity instead of rejecting it! Great video, I never thought I'd hear the phrase "don't plagiarise the spider smut book" and yet here we are!🧊✨
me as well it was a trip 😂
I swear Legally Blonde changed my life. It was the first time I realized I could be nerdy and girly if I wanted
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I'm not normally a commenter but one thing i have to say that still kinda annoys me is that the Caleb drama was blown out of proportion. As far as i remember, he was never sh*tting on people who went to bea and got all dressed up to take pictures, he just said that he personally would never do that and that it wasnt his thing. Which is ok imo. People just jumped on him
Honestly I'm a Caleb defender bc he was the subject of several dramas over the years that were mostly just people purposely misinterpreting what he said.
i agree for the most part. caleb has a very specific brand of humor that i think some people find off putting. his video wasn’t necessarily an attack on the people who like dressing up but his tone could be construed as condescending even if he wasn’t being serious. i enjoyed his content for the most part but kind of understand why people would react negatively to what he said.
Also a Caleb defender because 1) yeah, I never understood why people took everything he said at face value (like him laughing during a movie review because Bella Thorne's death scene was just over dramatic and people acted like he was laughing at a literal dying girl. Like what?), and 2) he was a literal child through out the height of his channel and the people dog piling on him were always adults which made it even more bizarre
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Literally the only book channel I still subscribe is BookswithEmilyFox and I found it because I subscribed to her beauty channel xD
It’s privilege and classism to say that audiobooks are reading. Go tell poor people around the world who never got to learn to read that, if they can listen to an audiobook, that they’re really reading. It would be an INSULT to tell people who can’t read that listening to audiobooks is really reading. YOU can read, and so take for granted the difference. Can you consume words without the assistance of someone to *read* it for you? Congrats. You can read. Audiobooks are a great way to CONSUME stories, but they are not reading. Period. You don’t read an audiobook. You listen to an audiobook. Reading means using your eyes or braille to put the letters and words together, and is a vital skill. I’m actually concerned by how many people think listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading.
My daughter’s best friend hasn’t been taught to read (ad he’s 11) because his parents think he’ll magically catch up despite not being sent to school (this is in the US too). He can listen to an audiobook, but can he read? Well, if audiobooks are reading, then yes, he can read. But hand him a book, and he’s clueless because he can’t READ.
We should be glad people are consuming stories, whether they’re listening to an audiobook or reading a book. But we MUST stop saying that audiobooks are reading. This is dismissive of literacy. It’s an insult and reeks of privilege by those who actually know how to read.
Thank you! 👏This is what I have been saying for so long. You listen to audiobook which is a different skillset to reading, stringing words together to make sense. I can make sense of written Spanish and translate sentences to English but listening to it is a totally differently ballgame other than the random words I can understand.
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SPIDER-SMUT, SPIDER-SMUT, something something something SPIDER-BUTT! 🧊
🧊 there was so much on here I wasn't aware of! Wow. Thanks for the great video!
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Omg what about the woman who killed her husband and then wrote a children’s book about mourning his ‘loss’? Wiiiiild
i’m sorry WHAT????
@a lil bit mads Kouri Richins is the author Katie was talking about. Reads with Rachel talked about the situation for her Authors Behaving Badly series of videos. There's other videos on the situation, but I've only watched Rachel's video and one from a non-booktuber by the username Atozy.
@@alilbitmadstrial hasn’t happened yet but she sure looks guilty
I remember dick🧼gate...😂😂😂😂 and the disclaimers of how not to use it.
Some stuff I wasn't remotely aware of.
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