In Defence of BookTok: Why it Doesn't Deserve the Backlash
In March, I noticed a particular video on TikTok was garnering a lot of attention from the BookTok community. The video, posted by a user named Daisy, commenced with text that read “I’ll never forgive TikTok for what it’s done to literature.” A provocative opening gambit, that’s for sure. Next, she decried the platform for promoting “generic genre[s]” such as “good girl/bad boy” and “mafia boss”, before concluding the video with a courageous statement: “I miss when literature actually meant some