Book Club on Sidechat | I’m so sorry y’all but this is very short sighted. There have always been trendy “bad” book recs. Before it was bookstagram. Before that, tumblr. MySpace. A social platform is not the culprit in the anti intellectual era when it gets ppl READING. AI is.

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Book Club 2w

I’m so sorry y’all but this is very short sighted. There have always been trendy “bad” book recs. Before it was bookstagram. Before that, tumblr. MySpace. A social platform is not the culprit in the anti intellectual era when it gets ppl READING. AI is.

Book Club 2w

do you think booktok and anti intellectualism are correlated with each other?

#poll

yes

139 votes

Anonymous 2w

I think booktok has a LOOSE correlation, but that’s purely due to the nature of tiktok as short form content, and its effects on attention span, and not on what books get popularized through it. God forbid someone want to enjoy a fun light read, or have some smut in a novel 🙄 Not articulating this well but I hope you see what I’m getting at

Anonymous 2w

Like most of the adult population statistically doesn’t read a single book in a year. Why are we blaming something that gets people reading, which objectively makes you smarter regardless of genre, than the fact that people are having a thief machine write papers for them? Write emails for them? Do their research? Make their “art”? Blaming a book platform for anti intellectualism is so backwards it hurts.

Anonymous

#1 2w

Yes I agree that the way social media has shifted is definitely having an effect on young people’s attention spans. That is why I heavily advocate for not raising your kids on technology. A huge issue with brain development these days is handing kids a phone instead of reading to them. The reason why booktok is not the culprit here is because it does get people reading and out of endless scrolling. It just happens to also be on problematic TikTok. Def understood what you meant!! 💜