/lit/ - Literature

The kids don’t read.

explain how YA is dead
also have you read Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones??
I wish this board would discuss more YA sci-fi

>>18442064
30 year old white women are the primary consumers of YA, not kids.

>>18442252
THIS

you have to understand, YA is a millennial phenomenon.
Zoomers don't read YA, they either don't read, read classics, or read pop-lit (race, class, instagram poetry)

>>18442064
Fanfics and manga

>>18442064
Those tiktok captions and tweets.

>>18442064
social media

>>18442255
1% of zoomers read classics, 10% read pop-list, the rest don't read at all

YA?

>>18442573
anime gay porn between two or more male characters

>>18442064
I used to jerk off to this music video all the time.
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>>18442375
This.

If you can somehow find a way to get Zoomers as invested in original literature as they are in their fanfics, you'll be a millionaire.

>>18442064
most just read the text overlay on tiktok videos

They read twitter, Facebook private messages (or DM's if you prefer) and Youtube comments.

This thread

>>18442615
It was always a risk that they would cut to the one man in the room right as you nutted.

Manga

>>18442064
They don’t read

It honestly wouldn't take any more than the right story at the right time to get Zoomers into reading. Remember, Millennials weren't reading until Harry Potter came along. Sure, Harry Potter is shit, along with most YA, but at least it was something they read, when they didn't read before. It's the same with Zoomers. They're a generation waiting for their book.

>>18443494
Holy shit it was.

>>18443713
I feel like phone-induced shortened attention spans may have greatly hurt the chances of that. This generation's novel would have to be something that could be read in short, bite-sized parts, and forgo more excessive details and fleshing out of the world and characters being set up.

>>18442231
reddit.com

>>18442567
true

>>18442255
>>18442567
This board has an infantile obsession with generational divides and making shit up.

>>18442573

Young Adult. Basically crap romances like Twilight.

>>18442064
COLOMBIIIII COLOMBI!

>>18442064
Friend of mine still reads YA and we are zoomers.
YA isn't dead that just something you want to believe. Go read NA if you are originally from YA and liked it.

>>18445050
You know it's true, and that you are being a retard by taking a generalization to literally mean all members of a group instead of most of them.

>>18445064
Doesn't most of fantasy people here read count as YA?

>>18445050
You can literally find massive datasets confirming this reading trend, retard

Kids only read YA. It's absolutely not dead. John Greene, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter are all still extremely popular. My 7 year old brother is currently reading the Stick Dog series. I recently purchased The Little Prince for him to read to see how much S O V L he really has.
There were some tiktok kids who were reading other things. Ted K was a big meme there, plus the netflix documentary came out recently. I think it pushed a lot of the more politically minded into reading his manifesto.

>>18442231
>I wish this board would discuss more YA sci-fi
This is a literature board

>>18443452
Fanfiction and manga are popular too

>>18445769
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>>18446355
I am cheesed to meet you

>>18442573
Your Anus

>>18443494
I think that man is the man I've nutted the most to. It was on accident, but it's the truth.

>>18442064
Hegel.

>>18442210
Literally this. Books, short stories? Sure that's understandable, not everyone's cup of tea. But zoomers literally hate reading of any kind: essays, articles, blogs, forum posts, tweets even. The most infuriating zoomer habit is hitting YouTube for help with a program before reading the documentation.

t. zoomer

>>18443713
>>18443761
Unironically this Im a zoomy and until I got a phone I coud always concentrate better. I could books in one sitting if I wanted to. I could read each lotr book in two days If I had the time. 8 hours straight. I Need to try and see if I can do it again because I havent done anything of the sort in over a year. man I have so much to read.

>>18442064
I don't know. I don't know any kids.

>>18442255
Plenty of zoomers still read

>>18442255
this is correct
t.19 year old