![]() While this all may seem like an obvious case of an insecure author giving low scores to their competition and boosting their own book and then creating an elaborate fake text conversation with an imaginary friend who they claim actually posted the reviews without their knowledge or blessing, it turns out that’s exactly what it was. When confronted with this information, fellow debut author Cait Corrain claimed it was a friend taking action on their behalf, which left many unconvinced, and then privated most of their social media. ![]() Over a half-dozen fake Goodreads accounts review bombed upcoming authors and books with similar themes, while also giving 5 stars to someone in their cohort. Is This Books? In The Mary Sue Alyssa Shotwell recapped the latest Goodreads review-bombing scandal : ![]() Today The Verge released a package of stories which amount to a eulogy for the hellsite that was, and let’s be honest, big editorial packages are usually mostly filler but this one is all killer, with Zoë Schiffer remembering what Twitter wanted to be at its best, Nilay looking at the way Twitter concentrated everyone in media and politics on one website and then drove them all insane, an archive of so many of the all-time greatest Tweets that you can easily waste an entire workday just scrolling through them (and you should), and a masterpiece from Sarah Jeong about her 2018 Twitter-fueled cancellation and subsequent “case of PTSD that is deeply embarrassing to explain.” Jeong’s story includes an anecdote about Andrew Sullivan that requires more telling than I can easily blockquote here but is so delightful on its own that it would more than justify the whole piece. 1īut the main thing that happened this year was Elon Musk murdered Twitter, which is now limping along with its new Mountain Dew ass name on eight dollar a month donations from the anti-woke and whatever it can collect for semen theft ads. The Racket ’s Jonathan Katz recapped the Top Zero Ivy League Genocide Threats of 2023, and Variety ’s Todd Spangler reports that the most Googled actor this year was Jeremy Runover. Am I so out of touch? No, it’s time that is wrong. That was this year ! Barely four months ago.
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