My other half is catching me up on BookTube and how there are now video essays by "Serious Fantasy Readers" being cranky at "Book Girlies" who like what's functionally pulp romance mashed with fantasy - "Romantasy".
(Aside: Everyone involved in this that she's watched is women. Both sides.)
The "Serious Readers" think the "Book Girlies" are cheapening the resurgence of reading by promoting mindless pap.
So in case you were wondering if other interest groups fight like gamers do:
@LeviKornelsen It reminds me of the arguments between the hard core sf fans and fantasy fans when sf & fantasy were more lumped together. I remember particularly the argument over whether Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series counted as one or the other.
@LeviKornelsen I've been watching the BookTok drama with fucking popcorn. I don't even know a single title they're talking about, but the drama is real.
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