I love Lauren but I want to scream every time she does a video with David. Constantly interrupting him and shouting over him.
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I've had to stop watching most of Lauren's videos, couldn't stand the screeching any more. Isn't she mid-20s? She doesn't act like it IMO.
My current gripe is Simon Savidge's weird habit of berating people for answering his questions on social media. He wants engagement (for the £££s, obviously) but only if you word it in a way he likes. I feel for the people who are pulled up for not saying something right. I mean, he doesn't name them, but they must recognise themselves. I just find him quite pompous at the moment.
My current gripe is Simon Savidge's weird habit of berating people for answering his questions on social media. He wants engagement (for the £££s, obviously) but only if you word it in a way he likes. I feel for the people who are pulled up for not saying something right. I mean, he doesn't name them, but they must recognise themselves. I just find him quite pompous at the moment.
Yes I'm the same! I don't think she does all of the Currently Reading/Favourites/Catch-Up videos that were basically the same thing any more but I just unsubscribed and now I will search her every so often to watch wrap-ups or Cosy Reading Night vlogs etc. She seems like honestly a nice person but she is A LOT.
Simon is another one I had to unsubscribe from
All of his little annoyances I just feel like, stop mentioning it? At one point it felt like he opened every video with a telling off and it was just so unnecessary.She’s 33 I think!
Yes those three videos every single month made her content so repetitive it was driving me mad.
I think she's 34 which I always have to remind myself of! I think of her as being early 20s. Agree with you about Simon. I found him very smug over the Sky Arts show (great for him, but he was only on screen for about 3 minutes per show!).
Oh that’s interesting. I unsubbed a while ago because while he seems lovely, our book tastes are a bit too different. Can anybody remember an example of him doing this? Would be curious to hearSimon is another one I had to unsubscribe from
Wow, I thought she was quite a lot younger!
She talks so fast and loud I always wondered whether it was a nervous thing.
I watched about half of one of the Sky Arts shows and he was just sat in the background looking like a spare part.
I found the BBC2 book show (Between the Covers?) better overall.
She works in admin in the diabetes centre part of a hospital.
I don’t follow Sasha so wasn’t aware of any of this. I find this and the stuff around Ariel and reading rush earlier in the year really interesting. Is it just a trend of the old guard of booktubers getting too detached and out of touch?
I think, in my opinion, I've found a majority of the older/bigger BookTubers with the exception of a rare few are incredibly out of touch - hardly do videos anymore, if at all. I find the Sasha thing interesting because while she was definitely exploiting people with the price she was selling books on Depop, I find the signature thing odd as who would be stupid enough to leave the trace underneath?
I think I have just been enjoying smaller BookTubers a lot more lately as they seem to actually enjoy making content a lot more and are doing it for the fun of it rather than out of expectation or ad sense.
Some Vlogmas BookTubers I've been enjoying if anyone is looking for recs:
- Always Doing
- Melted Books
- Coynie Reads
- Jenni King
- Lauren Wade
- Little Devon Nook
- Perfect Paperbacks
General recs:
- Mary Among Stories
- GK Reads
- Tiny Book Dragon
- Leanne Rose
I could go on and on
@RosaGirl200 I only know Lauren Wade from that list, thank you!
Yeah, the forging a signature is the weirdest bit to me.
Yeah, the forging a signature is the weirdest bit to me.
Yes, the image is often in front of the audio
I have been on a bit of a book tube binge today and Jesus the amount these people mention their wishlist but in the same breath say no need to get me anything or your views are enough etc. THEN DON’T POST THE LIST.
Your viewers are mostly young stop scrounging off of them. Honestly they can play it anyway they want to me it is just plain greedy.
Your viewers are mostly young stop scrounging off of them. Honestly they can play it anyway they want to me it is just plain greedy.
I first came across Simon through the podcast he did with an American book reviewer. I really enjoyed that, and I think I prefer it to his videos somehow? Even though he's as eloquent about books in both mediums. Maybe it is the slight out of sync stuff that makes the videos not my fave?
lol speaking of, Jean (Bookish Thoughts) yet again posted an instagram story mentioning her wishlist, there’s no question box to answer her actual question and story replies aren’t on, but there is a swipe up link included. How subtle.
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All the backlash on Gavin for his worst of the year list is so awful. He’s such an advocate for children’s books and boosts books so much. He posts a few of his least fave of the year as everyone does and he’s gotten so much tit from authors who are nothing to do with it. Apparently it’s been ‘a tough year for writers’. Yeah it’s been a tough year for everyone that’s got nothing to do with it. Negative reviews are important and booktube is for readers. People really showing their asses over this.
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