BookTok
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| Name(s): | BookTok |
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| Scope/Focus: | Tiktok videos about books |
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BookTok is a community on Tiktok centered around books, in a range of genres with a specific focus on young adult literature, fantasy and romance.
It is one of the communities under the Bookternet.
History
Practices
AO3 Users vs. BookTok Fans
AO3 vs. Booktok meme (2023)
There's some animosity between Archive of Our Own's userbase and fans of Booktok. Many are a part of both, and poking fun at the animosity is pretty common.
BookTok Discourse
There is only one popular TikTok fantasy book and the more you people talk about the same shit over and over and over again the more outsiders will think all of fantasy is like that, ya know, it will prevent them from checking it out at all [and fantasy] deserves better than what you're giving it right now. Like whenever I think about how everything on BookTok is not only the fucking same but it's also always very bad [...] To the people who like the popular TikTok fantasy book, I ask you to try something new for your own sake, because it will open your eyes to what the world holdsJames Tullos "I love Powerless"[1]
totally aside from the moral panic about women on booktok being """porn addicts""" because they're reading erotica, I think it's so fucking goofy when people act as if there needs to be some kind of societal reckoning with how tiktok books "aren't very good." like, okay? they're commercial products mass produced for entertainment. tiktok didn't invent thatbatmanisagatewaydrug[2]
Drama and Controversy
2023 Hockey BookTok Sexual Harrassment Controversy - The Alex Wennberg Hockey RPF thing
Examples
Further Reading
References
- ^ "I love Powerless" YouTube video uploaded by James Tullos timestamped to 29 minutes and 45 seconds. Posted June 19, 2024.
- ^ Tumblr post by batmanisagatewaydrug (posted July 12-July 14, 2024)