/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18761307]

What the fuck is this shit?

[Anonymous No.18761369]

I also saw something similar in a local bookshop. A little plaque much like this one that said something about "Recommended on tiktok".

If it gets younger people reading again then great, but is this one specific person reviewing books on tiktok who is famous enough not to need mentioned? Because if its like saying "As seen on youtube" then it's very very stupid.

[Anonymous No.18761382]

its similar to one of those like and share posts, but for the new social media site, try to keep up

[Anonymous No.18761399]

Face it, you've become an old man.

[Anonymous No.18761434]

>>18761307
I assume this picture was taken in a bookstore, and one of the staff wrote this.

If so, then Booktok is the section of Tik Tok that talks about and recommends books. The hash-mark refers to Twitter, so #Booktok is the tag used on Twitter to talk about this book-oriented section of Tiktok.

Many bookstores have their staff members group books according to quirky or personally-revealing categories to give the shelf arrangements some flavor. In this case, some staff member has decided to group some books together on a shelf that they decided to read because they saw some clips on Tik Tok recommending them.

I hope this helps, anon!

[Anonymous No.18761503]

>>18761369
tiktok trends are pretty homogenous. Once something takes off, it's like a virus.

[Anonymous No.18761816]

>>18761399
I heard about TikTok before it got big. I chose not to get involved because it was obviously for children and the feeble-minded. I am now 23 years old. I'm not an old man.

[Anonymous No.18762034]

>>18761399
I'm 19

Yeah, you're right

[Anonymous No.18762089]

>>18761307
Honestly as if "lit made me read it" is any better.

[Anonymous No.18762282]

>>18761307
>so #Booktok is the tag used on Twitter to talk about this book-oriented section of Tiktok.
what have we become?

[Anonymous No.18762288]

>>18761399
I've always been an old man.

[Anonymous No.18763713]

>>18762282
you are more of a zoomer than people on tiktok

[Anonymous No.18763935]

>>18761307
How are you supposed to talk about books on tiktok? Do they just hold up a copy of the book and dance around under a caption that says "DIS SHIT FUKKEN SLAPS MY DUDE" or something like that?

[Anonymous No.18764091]

>>18763935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDfK_ym_wks&t=541s
This should give you an idea of what it's like on there.

[Anonymous No.18764095]

>>18764091
I dislike this!

[Anonymous No.18764299]

>>18764091
I stopped two minutes in, this is so unlikeable.

[Anonymous No.18765502]

>>18761307
A sign showing books that are most likely not worth reading.

[Anonymous No.18765507]

>>18762034
lLEAVE NOW

[Anonymous No.18765946]

>>18764091
The transparent sticky note idea is actually pretty clever.

[Anonymous No.18766062]

>>18765946
Just write on the book.

[Anonymous No.18766111]

>>18766062
go back you disgust troglodyte

[Anonymous No.18766146]

>>18761369
>If it gets younger people reading again then great
It gets people reading but good lord it's absolutely horrendous
Watch a few https://www.tiktok.com/tag/booktok

[Anonymous No.18766150]

>>18766111
>muh pristine books are not to be written in or highlighted
redditor

[Anonymous No.18766167]

>>18761399
Fool. Fads and trends age like milk. I’ll unironically come out looking evergreen because I actually search for eternal truths instead of perpetually trying to keep up with the culture, which inevitably ends up making you look like uncool loser because you decided Ron latch on to a trend that was outdated a week ago.

[Anonymous No.18766184]

>>18766150
>preens and posits something that's antithetical to reddit being a reddit value
show me more of how much of a newfag you are

[Anonymous No.18766380]

>>18766146
>only females
>only YA books
>talking more about wanting to fuck the male characters than the contents of the book
I shouldn't have expected more.

[Anonymous No.18766393]

Is TikTok going to be 4chan's next nemesis? Right now our current nemesis is Twitter, but it feels like Twitter is on the verge of destroying itself. Which wouldn't be so surprising, 4chan's enemies have a tendency to self-destruct. I mean, that's what happened to SomethingAwful and Gaia and Tumblr and Reddit.

[Anonymous No.18766414]

>>18766393
4chan has no “nemesis” like reddit or Gaia in the days of old because the internet doesn’t work like that anymore. There are only like 7 websites/apps that are barely different from each other and all anyone does on them is talk about what is happening on the other websites/apps. At this point 4chan is basically culturally downstream from Twitter and tiktok, go to a shitty fast board like /pol/ or /tv/ and you’ll see what I mean.

[Anonymous No.18766421]

>>18766414
Twitter literally steals years-old 4chan memes and passes them off as original, we're not downstream of shit.

[Anonymous No.18766427]

>>18766393
TikTok is huge. Trying to claim them as our nemesis is like North Korea pretending they are equal foes with the US

[Anonymous No.18766567]

>>18761307
booktube reduced to a soundbite instead of 90 minute reviews

[Anonymous No.18766591]

>>18766393
this isn't 2007, 3/4ths of this website also browses reddit/instagram/etc. there are no more wars, we already lost

[Anonymous No.18766596]

>>18766421
go on /v/, /tv/, and /pol/ and see how many threads are just about a tweet. its cross pollination, this place aint special or isolated from the other big ones

[Anonymous No.18766650]

>>18766596
Well, if you're going on normie boards of course you'll get normies.

[Anonymous No.18766662]

>>18766591
I've never posted on Reddit and I never will.

[Anonymous No.18766667]

>>18766662
based

[Anonymous No.18766682]

>>18761307
>looking at the staff pics ever
Blah blah blah gender blah blah blackness blah blah oppression

[Anonymous No.18766687]

>>18766682
Last book shop I went to had Osamu Dazai and Dosto as staff picks.

[Anonymous No.18766778]

>>18766650
"Normie boards" make up a majority of the website, both in terms of the number of boards and population

[Anonymous No.18766823]

>>18761307
I looked through a list of booktok recommendations the other day and holy shit it's worthless. The only book written pre-2012 I saw was the great gatsby

[Anonymous No.18766982]

>>18766687
Mine is all YA fantashit

[Anonymous No.18767038]

If you read books that are readily available in a bookstore you’re reading trash anyways

[Anonymous No.18767065]

>>18766778
I'm guessing you're qualifyed to make such a judgement, anon?

[Anonymous No.18767269]

>>18766778
Not really. Downstream as it is, it's more like a floor drain with a filter that captures and concentrates the sludge along with a smattering of gems. It's seldom insipid, but it's also about as far from wholesome as it gets.

[Anonymous No.18767285]

>>18762089
The problem is that they feel the need to advertise this, not that they got a recommendation from there.

[Anonymous No.18767942]

Anyone know any good booktok peeps. Especially Indigenous American ones, need some new ones to follow.

pic unrelated, just to bump

[Anonymous No.18768060]

>>18764091
Not a shred of authenticity in this video.
That Schopenhauer quote about them visting operas or reading books for the sake of being seen visiting the opera or reading books gets proven right time and time again.

[Anonymous No.18768074]

>>18764091
What the fuck is this shit?

[Anonymous No.18768084]

>>18768060
Got the quote anon?

[Anonymous No.18768097]

>>18766167
The old man just doesn't get it, does he?

[Anonymous No.18768121]

>>18766167
based

[Anonymous No.18768166]

>>18768084
Cant find the exact one but heres something of that flavor in the meanwhile.
"Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor for fine art, have they really and truly any sense or susceptibility; it is a mere mockery if they make a pretence of it in order to assist their endeavor to please. Hence, as a result of this, they are incapable of taking a purely objective interest in anything; and the reason of it seems to me to be as follows. A man tries to acquire direct mastery over things, either by understanding them, or by forcing them to do his will. But a woman is always and everywhere reduced to obtaining this mastery indirectly, namely, through a man; and whatever direct mastery she may have is entirely confined to him. And so it lies in woman's nature to look upon everything only as a means for conquering man; and if she takes an interest in anything else it is simulated—a mere roundabout way of gaining her ends by coquetry, and feigning what she does not feel. Hence, even Rousseau declared: Women have, in general, no love for any art; they have no proper knowledge of any; and they have no genius.

No one who sees at all below the surface can have failed to remark the same thing. You need only observe the kind of attention women bestow upon a concert, an opera, or a play—the childish simplicity, for example, with which they keep on chattering during the finest passages in the greatest masterpieces. If it is true that the Greeks excluded women from their theatres they were quite right in what they did; at any rate you would have been able to hear what was said upon the stage."

[Anonymous No.18768473]

Darn kids doing stupid teenager things, when I was that age, I -

[Anonymous No.18768596]

>>18766650
what boards would you not classify as "normie"? /lit/ is slow but it's pretty normie and has plenty of "discuss this tweet" threads. don't kid yourself into thinking /a/ or any of the porn boards aren't normie as fuck. just about the only ones i wouldn't call normie are /i/ and /po/, and that's because they're dead

[Anonymous No.18768876]

>>18766167
It's a shame this trend, like booktube, will last for way too long.

[Anonymous No.18768921]

>>18766146
https://www.tiktok.com/@james.trevino
What the fuck is wrong with this guy? Is this the power of normies?

[Anonymous No.18768943]

>>18761399
>haha, get with the times old man ;) we're all addicted to dopamine slot machines now. it's the way to be. never a quiet minute in which to question the purpose of your existence.
smartphones were a mistake