YABookgate

[NoReturn]

I've been informed this may be the correct thread to drop some TikToks, please enjoy some random selections:

Julis Library · @julithepilot
Posted 2 days ago
145K followers
24.95K views
3.25K likes
27 comments
116 shares
𝖇𝖔𝖇𝖇𝖎 ✰ - original sound - aricentrall
You can’t tell me that’s not the hottest thing #BookTok #books #darkromancebooks #nocticadia #studentxprofessor

TwinReadsandReds · @twinreadsandreds
Posted 19 hours ago
127.4K followers
16.98K views
1.86K likes
88 comments
30 shares
tayloewe - original sound
Library Tour! #BookTok #books #library #bookshelftour #tour

spicysmalltownromances · @spicysmalltownvibes
Posted 21 hours ago
1.64K followers
1.1K views
91 likes
0 comments
3 shares
kt - original sound - mowkayla
Rare Blend by Michelle Naomi Mosley - Small Town Romance - Grumpy x Sunshine - Dislike to Love - Forced Proximity - Boy Obsessed - He Falls First - Book Boyfriend - Latina FMC - Slow Burn - Contemporary Romance - Romance Books - Kindle Unlimited Romance #smalltownromance #grumpysunshine #romancebooks #booktokfyp #creatorsearchinsights

simonewhiteauthor · @simonewhiteauthor
Posted 1 week ago
4.39K followers
3.4K views
79 likes
0 comments
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littleeyelish - original sound
Noelle is MOMMY Tropes: workplace romance best friends dad age gap (20 years) forced proximity dual POV open door spice 10% plot, 90% smut #BookTok #agegapromance workplaceromance bestfriendsdad spicybooktok holidayromance kindleunlimited christmasbook christmas booklover booktok booksta bookstagram books indieauthor spicybooktok smut bookstagramromance viralbooktok christmasnovella olderman agegap agegapromance forcedproximity workplace workplaceromance bestfriendsdadromance Christmas novella • holiday romance • bookstagram • booktok • kindle unlimited • booksta • indie author • romance book • smut books • spicy books • kindle unlimited books • love • snow • Age gap • workplace • forced proximity. Age gap romance • boss x assistant • best friends dad • older man

Please note the highlighting on those last two. Is this a normal thing? Is it for those people who say they only read dialog?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Please note the highlighting on those last two. Is this a normal thing? Is it for those people who say they only read dialog?

If that's true, these people need to be dragged out into the streets and shot, holy shit.

Also that fat Asian(?) chick has a weird face filters can't fix. *beat* Actually, they all do. Jesus Christ, these dumb broads are ugly.

 

[NoReturn]

If that's true, these people need to be dragged out into the streets and shot, holy shit.

I found more, so I guess it is.

AuthorRachelKellar · @rachel.kellar
Posted 6 days ago
1.12K followers
4.71K views
38 likes
0 comments
0 shares
☆ - original sound
: Boss Abroad by Rachel Kellar #billionaireromance #bossromance #billionairebookboyfriend #bookboyfriendsdoitbetter #jealousbookboyfriend

Savanna Rose | Author · @savannaroseauthor
Posted 1 month ago
5.32K followers
22.68K views
231 likes
3 comments
14 shares
ᶜ ʰ ˡ ˡ ˣ ᵉ ᵈ ⁱ ᵗ ˢ - suara asli
Risky Business by Savanna Rose is out NOW in ebook, paperback and on KU! brothers best friend summer romance forbidden love forced proximity one-night stand he falls first and harder trauma and healing no 3rd act break up dual pov spicy scenes #kindleunlimitedromance #steamyromancebooks #bookishtiktok #romancebookrecommendations #newadultbooktok

authorruthstilling · @authorruthstilling
Posted 1 week ago
6.74K followers
33.91K views
259 likes
4 comments
12 shares
vowl. & Sace - 2000
Ruled Out by Ruth Stilling #BookTok #romancebooks #hockeyromance #secondchanceromance #forbiddenromance

I guess it's to mimic what they do irl:

katherine | booktok · @katherinerosereads
Posted 1 year ago
5.08K followers
2.92K views
115 likes
16 comments
12 shares
katherine | booktok - original sound - katherinerosereads
annotion vlog: first time using highlighters on a book (graduating from tabs) #bookannotations #bookish #bookvlog #readingupdate

Andreea · @andreeeareads
Posted 2 months ago
1.49K followers
65.75K views
5.67K likes
55 comments
177 shares
Dèja Parker - suara asli
At leaaaaast I highlighted just a few things not a hard tabber #BookTok #booktokfyp #fyp #alchemised

Gabi · @gabija.reads
Posted 1 year ago
4.91K followers
134.28K views
12.09K likes
112 comments
292 shares
daylightws - original sound
Will never stop annotating books #annotatingbooks #annotations #rfkuang #BookTok #literaturetok #literature #books #fyp #foryoupage

wbkruluise · @wbkruluise
Posted 3 weeks ago
195 followers
13.38K views
990 likes
30 comments
54 shares
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Antwort auf @Elilein @SenLinYu how I annotated Alchemised. #senlinyu #alchemised #booktok #annotatingbooks #manacled

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

The highlighting is so weird to me. Is that just a hold over from public education/college? I understand when you're dealing with a non-fiction book, but for genre fiction? Excessive. Or is it just so they can skip to the "spicy" parts when they're beating off?

 

[Super Mario Brothers]

I don't use tiktok, why are words like "knees" censored?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I don't use tiktok, why are words like "knees" censored?

Knee-grows, probably.

 

[trekkor]

The highlighting is so weird to me. Is that just a hold over from public education/college? I understand when you're dealing with a non-fiction book, but for genre fiction? Excessive. Or is it just so they can skip to the "spicy" parts when they're beating off?

I've wondered about that too. Whenever I see TikToks of them showing their highlighted pages, I like to pause sometimes to see what exactly they've been impressed by and what they've written next to it (if the latter exists). It's always something like
>wow.... what a mood!
>spicy
>omg so true
and a weak attempt at saying something about the politics and themes of the book that most of the time comes across as "we live in a society </3"

Even the highlighted quotes themselves are always nothingburgers that don't convey anything that might give you pause to reflect or hit you with a deep sense of recognition. It's ALWAYS
>"You belong to me always," he snarled, his six-pack gleaming in the sun and wobbling like a twerking black Queen."

 

[Commissar Fuklaw]

Gaston did nothing wrong.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Gaston did nothing wrong.

• Works out
• Eats lots of protein
• Impressive collection of weapons
• Beats the shit out of furries

Seems worthy of emulation, I'd say.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

Gaston did nothing wrong.

In the 1700s that man is primo husband material

 

[Elite Kipchak]

Seems worthy of emulation, I'd say.

You can try, but there's no one like Gaston.

The highlighting is so weird to me. Is that just a hold over from public education/college? I understand when you're dealing with a non-fiction book, but for genre fiction? Excessive. Or is it just so they can skip to the "spicy" parts when they're beating off?

I've encountered some that sell their annotated books, so I assume that's what's going on. why you'd want to actually buy an annotated book is beyond me. Another possible explanation is it's another hyperconsumerist "art" project for tiktok views, similar to scrapbooking or journaling (link in bio if you want to buy my exclusive alibaba annotating supplies for a 5000% markup!)

 

[Henri Barbusse]

You can try, but there's no one like Gaston.


I've encountered some that sell their annotated books, so I assume that's what's going on. why you'd want to actually buy an annotated book is beyond me. Another possible explanation is it's another hyperconsumerist "art" project for tiktok views, similar to scrapbooking or journaling (link in bio if you want to buy my exclusive alibaba annotating supplies for a 5000% markup!)

There's a lot of reasons to buy annotated books, but the kind of books you encounter on tiktok aren't the kind that require annotations. I bought annotated Anne of Green Gables, which is not the type of book you'd usually associate with annotated editions, and it was totally worth it. However, it's a book from 1908, so a lot of cultural context has faded away from living memory and the annotations were done by people who know something, not tiktokers.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

The highlighting is so weird to me. Is that just a hold over from public education/college?

I've wondered about that too. Whenever I see TikToks of them showing their highlighted pages, I like to pause sometimes to see what exactly they've been impressed by and what they've written next to it (if the latter exists). It's always something like
>wow.... what a mood!
>spicy
>omg so true
and a weak attempt at saying something about the politics and themes of the book that most of the time comes across as "we live in a society </3"

Yes, sort of; it's meant to emulate 'deep reading' and understanding a novel. You'll notice a lot of the highlighted books (vs digital/kindle) are done in aesthetic colours with matching side-tabs (forget the name) and dainty pen writing. It's meant to look like the reader is deeply engaging with the plot and characters, like how one might annotate Catch 22 to make sense of the timeline, but really how 'deep' can the average booktok book be? It's all show no substance mainly made to look good on camera; highlighting 'relatable quotes' and 'cute moments' or 'squeeeeee so cute!'

 

[Elite Kipchak]

Yes, sort of; it's meant to emulate 'deep reading' and understanding a novel. You'll notice a lot of the highlighted books (vs digital/kindle) are done in aesthetic colours with matching side-tabs (forget the name) and dainty pen writing. It's meant to look like the reader is deeply engaging with the plot and characters, like how one might annotate Catch 22 to make sense of the timeline, but really how 'deep' can the average booktok book be? It's all show no substance mainly made to look good on camera; highlighting 'relatable quotes' and 'cute moments' or 'squeeeeee so cute!'
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what the fuck, are we seriously putting trigger warnings in books? what the actual fuck. and playlists too? this makes me unreasonably upset. and you know that book was written by and for privileged white women who have never known hardship or challenge in their entire lives. those are all such relatively tame things to include a trigger warning for too. fuck

 

[Edgelord Vampire]

what the fuck, are we seriously putting trigger warnings in books? what the actual fuck. and playlists too? this makes me unreasonably upset. and you know that book was written by and for privileged white women who have never known hardship or challenge in their entire lives. those are all such relatively tame things to include a trigger warning for too. fuck

Trigger warnings are a big thing in books now and bookish spaces will lose their entire shit if a book with "triggering" subjects doesn't have the warnings in it.
The Reads with Rachel lady that has been mentioned in this thread before is one of the creators that will bitch endlessly if a book doesn't have trigger warnings, for example.
People expect to be coddled in every avenue and it unfortunately has seeped into literature spaces. Sad!

The playlists I sometimes think are kind of cute but it should just be kept to the personal iPod/MP3 Player/Spotify/etc. or on a blog page and not in the actual published work.

 

[Old King Koaleamos]

Yes, sort of; it's meant to emulate 'deep reading' and understanding a novel. You'll notice a lot of the highlighted books (vs digital/kindle) are done in aesthetic colours with matching side-tabs (forget the name) and dainty pen writing. It's meant to look like the reader is deeply engaging with the plot and characters, like how one might annotate Catch 22 to make sense of the timeline, but really how 'deep' can the average booktok book be? It's all show no substance mainly made to look good on camera; highlighting 'relatable quotes' and 'cute moments' or 'squeeeeee so cute!'
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I fucking hate this.

If you're really noting things down, you do it with a pencil/pen/highlighter. Whatever you have, in whatever way you're willing to do. This is just performative claptrap.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Trigger warnings are a big thing in books now and bookish spaces will lose their entire shit if a book with "triggering" subjects doesn't have the warnings in it.

Trigger warnings in anything drive me up the wall. For one thing, how do these people even function, and why are they even reading books to begin with? Many of these "triggers" turn out to be plot-relevant or even plot twists in their own right, so why would you give that away from the beginning?

Second: Imagine getting fucking triggered over the natural reality of experiencing loss of a loved one. If that bothers you so much, you have failed as a human being and need to get it over with by ending yourself ahead of everyone else. Dead serious.

The Reads with Rachel lady that has been mentioned in this thread before is one of the creators that will bitch endlessly if a book doesn't have trigger warnings, for example.

Let her get triggered. Maybe the shock of something simple like the female main lead getting permanent scars or the male main character kindly turning down a landwhale's advances will trigger her into cardiac arrest. Histrionic bitch.

 

[Edgelord Vampire]

trigger her into cardiac arrest.

Given how she likes to misrepresent why certain books are being banned from schools, this can't happen soon enough.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Yes, sort of; it's meant to emulate 'deep reading' and understanding a novel. You'll notice a lot of the highlighted books (vs digital/kindle) are done in aesthetic colours with matching side-tabs (forget the name) and dainty pen writing.

I fucking hate this.

If you're really noting things down, you do it with a pencil/pen/highlighter. Whatever you have, in whatever way you're willing to do. This is just performative claptrap.

I genuinely hate the reader annotations within the book. They end up giving them away to a library or selling it, and nobody wants their first forray into a novel to be heavily guided by some midwit's writing.

These are the same type of people who get performatively angry at dog earing a book

 

[Audit]

While looking for booktubers, I stumbled across a tranny who thoroughly misunderstands why women read romantasy books and has been picking fights with the romantasy community for a while.

He's presently taken to declaring his utter disdain for women's erotica and wishes that it would promote better love interests, like himself and not icky cishetero men. Proudly, he proclaims that romantasy is conservative propaganda written by incels and terfs to promote trad wifery.

Naturally, this position has upset many women, who have in turn review bombed Willow's troon friendly fiction.



Now, as for Willow himself, his bio is something else. Scary that he was a school teacher in the UK. Nice to see one less groomer in the system today.




Current Willow


Pretrooning Willow