BookTok Has A Boundary Problem

Having fantasies is one thing, just leave minors out of it! It's that simple!

Certain sides of BookTok need to learn to read the room.

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chapters for your viewing pleasure:
0:00 DAY 6!
0:31 "it's not drama, it's dangerous" - Swoop
1:26 what is BookTok?
2:07 BookTok & "spicy" novels
3:18 BookTok x BikerTok
5:31 where the problem starts
10:41 jesse's response
11:46 BookTok & boundaries
15:42 final thoughts

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[austinwade]

as someone that was groomed as a teenager, it doesn’t matter if a teenager says “its okay”. it is ALWAYS the adults responsibility to leave children alone. period

[WishGender]

It's like I always say
"BookTok fans (esp CoHo fans) are people who didn't have a fanfic phase as teenagers"

[fishyfishy_.]

As a 16 yr old, I cannot imagine being so sexualized by grown women

[remipoyntz]

I'll never forget the first booktok video I came across. A GROWN ASS WOMAN saw a motorcycle in the parking lot of a barnes & noble, and literally jumped and squealed in the parking lot. She then went inside and wandered the bookstore trying to find the guy, and when she did she peeked around the aisle cap squeaked out "uwu" and then ran. The whole video was so unsettling. Like ma'am you're pushing 40, can we not stalk and harrass random 20 y/o men trying to buy books??

[chickennuggetpaw]

As a 16 year old (almost 17 now but still a minor) and an avid reader, the situation with Jesse makes me so angry. Not only were they being weird and “UwU such a baby” over him reading Hunger Games and Maze Runner (both great books, esp for a teenager) but they had the gall to suggest this MINOR read a book about SA and child abduction. Like actually wtf is wrong with people! I hate it when I have to say this, but it is true in cases like this; imagine if this happened with a 16 year old girl and a bunch of adult men. SUPER creepy. Ugh just makes me angry for that kid.
PS: everyone I know says “school”. I’ve never heard a highschooler call school “class, ” so you’re probably right about the school-class thing. I think it’s just because of how differently highschool and college are structured.

[Mary_]

This also a HUGE problem in the cosplay industry, like holy shit stop people

[midnightpebble]

My rules are:

If i would be uncomfortable if someone did this to myself, then i don't do it.

If it's creepy for a man to do it, then it's definitely still creepy when a woman does it.

[stella]

when did people stop being embarrassed…
these are grown women who clearly never stayed up till 6am going through ao3 tags at age 13

[yolandaponkers]

16 is a child, full stop. I’m 32 and I remember guys saying disgusting things about waiting for me to turn 18 etc. I feel so bad for this kid. I really hope he doesn’t get traumatized by all of this.

[nya-hsmc]

what’s worse about the kraken situation is that after the wife asked booktok to stop sexually harassing her husband, rather than doing that, they decided to harass her instead. they would leave the nastiest comments on her instagram saying she was jealous her husband was getting attention and that he was probably cheating on her. these people are absolutely insane and delusional.

[lawliet]

Oh this creeps me out deeply. Very very much. Those messages about keeping him “innocent”? As a woman who is not interested in men and has been infantilized by men for being “short” and “cute”: NO. No no no NO.

[the_goddess_]

Women dont seem to understand that theyre equally capable of committing sexual harassment, and dont realize that thats exactly what theyre doing when they say stuff like this to men
I utterly agree that when men do this, theyre torn to shreds (as they should be). We need to be better at calling women out as well. Too many think theyre immune

[gordshorde]

as an asexual i've never felt welcome on booktok. its so sexual on there.

[SapphireSeahorse]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who absolutely HATES being told things like "oh you're so innocent 🥺must protec." or when I ask what something means and they're like "you don't know? I won't tell you because that would corrupt your pure mind." it boils my blood but I always feel like I can't say anything about it. in middle school I didn't swear and it was especially bad. it felt like no one even saw me as a person.

[hihellocas]

As an indie writer I genuinely hate that I have to interact with booktok in any capacity to have even a smidge of a chance of getting copies sold 😭

[Jinx_mori_]

"guys he's a baby, we have to protect his innocence" BRO that's because he's a LITERAL CHILD

[yuno]

booktok really does anything but read 😭😭😭😭

[daisysevens]

As someone who has read all types of books, before even watching this I think that the amount of books with these weird immortal creatures getting into relationships with teenagers (especially girls) is just gross. Oh and the amount of unhealthy relationships that are showed in a positive way. It's just really odd and really unconfutable.

[finncubed]

i feel so bad for that kid man :( these women actually need to be behind bars. they're way too open and proud about their predatory behavior. its disgusting. i hope jesse is alright :(

[one_million_realities_away]

Over the years, I have gone from being an active member in the BookTok community to abandoning and shunning it all together. I would get called "vanilla" and "precious/innocent" (as a minor) whenever I would discuss how romance wasn't my go-to genre. (I prefer high fantasy/fiction and mystery with romance only being a subplot.) Hell, I've even been teased by an old friend of mine for not wanting to read ACOTAR. BookTok has many, many problems; there are too many to list here. I'm glad that some of the shady parts are finally being exposed.