 What's up gamers? James is gonna complain about a couple of things today or really just one thing. So I just I hate tiktok in general But I especially especially hate book talk because that pertains To me and what I do here on youtube now you might be thinking okay, james hates book talk because they're always recommending the exact same shit and Not really or you might be thinking james hates book talk because they're stupid or ignorant or smug or arrogant Obsessed with aesthetics above all else or really self-righteous or Okay, yes, all of that applies. Those are all reasons to dislike book talk and all reasons that I don't like book talk But the main thing that gets me and has been getting me more and more lately Is all of the stuff they recommend is just Erotica All right, and erotica is a euphemism for something else which i'm gonna wait until past the 60 second mark to to say I don't know if i'll be able to get away with that or not, but we'll see but erotica is stuff that is really really sexual Okay, sometimes it's softcore. Sometimes it's hardcore, but erotica is really sexual it's different from romance which Obviously they're not Completely separate things, but they are different. Okay enough time has passed. I can just say now It's porn erotica is just a euphemism for porn. That's what it is. It's something that is there specifically and almost entirely for the sexual gratification of the audience and just about everything that gets recommended on tiktok is It is porn Like sometimes it's hardcore porn in the case of things like fourth wing other times. It's more softcore, but That's what it is. It's porn and Like it had tiktok been around years ago like when 50 shades of gray was big or when 365 days was big Those books would have been huge on tiktok. I guarantee it because That's what they're looking for. They're they're not actually looking for story or anything They're just looking for sexual gratification now I don't think it's a bad thing That you're looking for that actually I did a bit of a rant video on this like a year ago on my secondary channel which you should check out if you haven't but basically that one was focused entirely on 50 shades of gray and When that was big when that came out like 10 years ago and then it was big for a couple years and then it just slid off into obscurity it's Like it was all over the place And again, it was just porn That's just what it is But it was pretending to be something it wasn't and that's really what one of the main things that gets me about this whole thing Like 50 shades of gray and its proponents Pretended it was just romance because they were just ashamed of the fact that they were consuming something that is just there for them to Demonetize this video too. Let's say you know what I'm talking about And when 50 shades was out and was big people made tons of fun of it You know and people generally disliked it and people didn't make fun of it or dislike it because it was porn Or I should say most people didn't there was a bit of an undercurrent and some people came right out and said Like oh 50 shades is mommy porn as it were like just you know, erotica for bored middle-aged white women and Yeah, you shouldn't make fun of them for that like they're allowed to have sexual fantasies. That's that's perfectly fine There's nothing wrong with that But that was part of the reason people made fun of it But and people also made fun of it because it was badly written In fact, there were a lot of people who joked and said like so people don't hate 50 shades of gray because it's porn they hate it because it's badly written porn and Yeah, I mean that is kind of funny to think about and there are a lot of Things in the 50 shades books that are horribly horribly written and by a lot of things I mean just everything like they're not well written books. The movies are not well made movies There it's really bad but the only reason that people were making fun of the writing is because People were pretending that it wasn't porn like all the people in the audience were pretending It was for something else. They're they were going they were trying to defend themselves and saying like no No, I would never do anything so vulgar as read Pornography. This is a romance novel. It's just kind of steamy or spicy as the kids like to say nowadays And i'm pretty sure they were pretending it wasn't because they were just ashamed You know that they were just ashamed of their own sexual Sexuality their own sexual desires their own sexual fantasies whatever they were ashamed of it But normally when people are ashamed of something they kind of hide it away You know, again, you think that they would just buy these and like keep them hidden In a shelf in their house or something, but they did the exact opposite They were just openly reading it in public like again I was in fucking high school when they first started to get big and People were just reading 50 shades in class Like in what world is that appropriate? Wait, do you have any idea how obnoxious and annoying that is when you're not the target audience or even if you are the target audience? But again, you're like you're in public. This is not the appropriate time to be doing this Like imagine you're on the bus or in a waiting room or you know just somewhere in public And then someone pulls out their phone and starts watching porn hub on their phone in the middle of everything That would be weird like even if it was a situation where you couldn't see it and you couldn't hear it But you just knew that they were watching porn. It would be weird, wouldn't it? So why is it somehow different when it's in written form? I don't understand like again You can do this but there's a time and a place for it and in public is not the appropriate time or place and then Because again, they were really big you would go into like Barnes & Noble and you'd have just displays with 50 shades of gray right out in front Again, that would be weird if they did it with visual porn That's such a weird thing to say, but it would be weird if they did it. It would make others feel uncomfortable it would probably make a lot of the people who Even the ones that were looking for it kind of uncomfortable because again, like you're in public This is it really isn't the appropriate time or place for it But for some reason it's okay with 50 shades and the many many erotic novels that book talk recommends like Why is that? I just I don't understand and again Like they're just lying to themselves like they are just Pretending that it's something other than what it is because they're just ashamed of this and number one You shouldn't be ashamed. Okay. You shouldn't be ashamed for having sexual desires. That's a normal thing Okay, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that And part of me feels like they're trying to like own it by doing this, but you're not owning it Like that's the thing. You are not owning it. You are hiding it behind multiple layers to try and obscure it and then You're pretending it's something else like again fourth wing is which I read a while ago is Basically porn it's really really bad because the first sex scene doesn't come in until like 370 pages into the book But that that's what it is like up until that point There's still a whole bunch of talk about how horny the main character is and by a whole bunch of talk I mean that is constantly in her narration like just constantly, but it is still Porn it is still erotica, but no one calls it that Everyone who claims to be a fan of it, especially over on tiktok Everyone who was claiming to be big into it was Calling it romance or fantasy if they really wanted to lie to themselves like fantasy romance was the most common thing I saw but a lot of them would just say romance and you you people are especially lying to yourselves Let me tell you but Like that's the thing No one just came out and said yeah, it's erotica and a lot of times with whatever they're talking about they also refer to spice level Which is basically just differentiating between soft core and hard core like you know, is is it r rated or is it x rated basically and I mean, I guess that's helpful for the people looking for it But again, if that's something that you have to specify stop pretending it's for anything other than what it's for Okay, it is erotica. Just be honest with yourselves My god because again, if you're trying to own it if you're trying to like embrace this part of yourself I'm happy for you. I really am like you shouldn't be shamed for that And if people do try to shame me for that well that fuck them But I really really hate that This is one not not only just out in public But two that that's all that book talk talks about Or pretty much all that they talk about like that's the big mainstream thing and algorithms just continually Uh push that more and more imagine if you were on letterbox or imdb or just you know somewhere out there looking for movie recommendations And you're like, okay I like action movies and then somebody recommended you hot housewives part three and you're like um That that's that that's not an action movie and they went no no no no see there's like one bank robbery scene 20 minutes in after the first three sex scenes and you'd be like You wouldn't be happy with them for that. You would probably be weirded out And that's basically what book talk is at this stage. I don't know if it was ever anything different But that is what it is It is just people who are ashamed of their own sexuality their own sexual fantasies But they also want to broadcast them to the world. So they pretend it's something different and I gotta tell you It's not only obnoxious and annoying. It's kind of sad from the outside It just is so people People who are on book talk, especially just stop I I don't think I'm gonna convince many people that just fucking stop Okay, or at the very least be honest with yourselves and go into your own corner when you're doing it because One people should have an actual space to look for like real recommendations Where they're really looking for fantasy or sci-fi or romance or whatever They should be able to actually look for that without just accidentally stumbling across porn and not realizing that it's porn until it's too late Because no one who's recommending it is honest with them about or themselves about the fact that it is Porn and it's also annoying because it affects what I do over here on youtube Like, you know my comments are full of people recommending me Oh read this or oh make fun of this or something like that And I'm like why would I make fun of that thing and I like maybe I've heard of it Maybe I haven't but as soon as I look it up and read a little bit about it. I'm like, okay. That's porn Like what why what's the point? There is no point to me overanalyzing and poking fun at something that is just there for the audience to demonetize this video to you know like I And uh, even if I don't want to talk about it like The discussion is dominated by that shit Like so much of the discussion in the past couple years has been dominated by shit like lightlark and fourth wing and colleen hoover and whatever the fuck else that they've been going on about and I just Like it's kind of annoying because like sometimes i'm okay with it You know, I I just did a video on the second lightlark book last week And I actually kind of enjoyed that series for totally ironic reasons. Like it's very funny to point and laugh at But then you got shit like fourth wing, which is just miserable to get through and the only Real reason that it got big is because It is erotica, you know, like there's obviously other reasons which I went into before like that It is pure wish fulfillment and stuff But it wouldn't have blown up as much if it wasn't playing to their sexual fantasies as well as their other fantasies So even though I really have nothing to do with that part of the internet and want nothing to do with that part of the internet It still hounds me and it still changes What I am able to do over here and it's just it's just fucking obnoxious I hate it. I really really hate it. So I don't know. I don't think I have much else to do. I feel like i'm repeating myself I don't want to go on much longer, but Again, just to wrap this up and summary Um pretty much everything that's recommended on book talk is just glorified porn Sometimes it's soft core porn. Sometimes it's hard core porn, but that's what it is. It's porn You should stop lying to yourselves and you should be honest with the fact that yeah, you're reading erotica for sexual gratification number two You should label Both the books you talk about and the videos you make a bit more clearly And again, just be honest with yourselves about the fact that yeah, this is porn so that you can have your own Part of tiktok your own part of the internet where you talk about this and share recommendations and stuff That's totally fine. But just like stop pretending it's other stuff and shoving it in our faces and completely taking over all the other spaces that you occupy Again, it's pretty much impossible to get like fantasy recommendations or anything on tiktok because of that and number three Stop getting but hurt because people criticize these things like I guess I didn't talk about that much earlier But again, there's people who uh get really upset when you criticize fourth wing and stuff and go like oh Well, obviously he only hates it because it's has a lot of romance in it. And I'm like, okay. First of all, fuck you I've read plenty of romance before you can go through this channel and when it's well written and cute and stuff I I'm happy to read it and uh praise it. I just don't do it a whole lot But fourth wing is bad romance and it's bad in pretty much every other way But people Again, because they they just have tied this part of themselves to it They've tied their sexuality to it and their personal identity to it in a weird way They just get really offended when you criticize it. So like just Again, be honest with yourselves acknowledge it for what it is and then stop taking it personally when other people don't Like the shit that you like, okay? Can we just do that? Goodbye Hello, huge thanks to all of my patrons. You see these names here. Yeah, these are my patrons Uh, their names are very cool. 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