#99.9% sure b&n knows that this works for the same way rage bait works for grifters online too

[maester-of-spreadsheets]

One of the more annoying genre of posts on here is when someone posts a pic of a “as seen in booktok!” table at barnes & noble and it immediately gains like a thousand notes of people acting like the pic held a gun to their head and made them read the published reylo fic

I get that familiarity breeds contempt and I have a lot of things I feel scorn for just based on overexposure lol. But sometimes the reaction reads like “have I signaled that I dislike the #problematic thing yet today?”

#also if you’re fuming because these books get more attention than your favorite books #or the books you have written for that matter #algorithms do not care if you’re interacting with something in a positive or negative way #you’re just increasing the attention sjm or ali hazelwood books get #not saying don’t ever post critiques of things but … man #so much of post 2010 fandom behavior is people acting like Charlie with Lucy and the football #you mean the thing I hate …. still had things I hate in it? 😮 #99.9% sure b&n knows that this works for the same way rage bait works for grifters online too #helps the people who genuinely do want to find the books #and apparently compels the people who hate the books to talk about the books #which makes more people curious about the books #win win for everyone except the people who got shot for not reading the love hypothesis #god rest their poor souls