booktok is targeting children...

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[@ChemicalPenguinn]

They really need to start marking these books as "for adults" or "18+" so they don't get shoved in the kids/YA section.
Totally agree that there's a lack of books for young teenagers, it's a problem!

[@Raven7Raves]

Subbed just cause you're so BASED xd

[@Ezo_0002]

My booktok consists of dostoyesky hollyjackson and kafka as a young teen and the book that scared me was vanishing girls i stopped reading a few pages in and i was disgusted and that book was given to me by an adult who clearly by the creased binding had read it and thought it was alight to pass down to a 13 year old

[@italian_mixx]

uh i read 50 shades when i was 13. this was before booktok, booktube, bookgram etc etc etc...

[@Emonkofficial]

When i read books i sleep 😴 💤
But i am reading Atomic Habits now ! 😅

[@lje397]

I utterly agree I don't believe young children are being g allowed to read these types of books!

[@Rhea_chaseatlantic]

Ikr this problem is huge 😭😭

[@cravethechaos7362]

i totally agree - i definitely didn't read some of these books as young as others and tried to skip sex scenes but there was nothing that said to me as a tween/young teen on the book on icebreaker, for example, that said i shouldn't read it! as a kid i read everything, so i read all of the ya and young kid books but i also started reading these

[@Lunafangurl-v5s]

So I’ve been seeing Powerless a lot and I wanted to know if it was appropriate for twelve.

[@lauriegreeff2927]

So far as I know it's more appropriate for ages 14+ 🙂

[@NiniNonsense]

Randomly stumbled on this vid and I used to feel like you. I was clutching my pearls when I saw one of my 12 year old students reading Icebreaker, but then I watched Princess Weekes video "Media Literacy, Spice, and A Failure to Communicate" and it completely changed my perspective.
At first thought it seems like it makes sense that, yeah, books should have age ratings like video games, music and movies. But when you give it a second thought you can see what a slippery slope that can be. Book banning is SCARY. Conservatives may take the opportunity to make any book featuring a gay or trans character unavailable to kids, even if it is a book for kids, like Percy Jackson or Heartstopper. Princess Weekes does a better job at explaining this than I do, but her video really opened my eyes. It's natural for children to be curious about this stuff. I was reading Twilight in 5th grade and giggling with friends at excerpts of 50 shades in high school and then there was Wild West of wattpad. Kids today are still reading age appropriate books and is Icebreaker really the worst book out there? Not really, it shows a happy and consensual relationship. When I was 12 my bestie took out Flowers in the Attic from the school library and thats 10 times more traumatic than Icebreaker. Of course, I still agree parents should monitor what their kids are doing (I don't think they should be on tiktok at all for starters), but when it comes to putting ratings on books that scares me a lot as an educator.