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No. 2090464
A thread about all about the book drama world be it:
Booktok/tube drama
Authortok/tube drama
Book review/Goodreads drama
Notable author cows:
>Xiran Jay Zhao - Author of "Iron Widow." A themby who insists that she's NB and wants they/them pronouns but always dresses and presents like a woman. Started off on youtube and became successful after reviewing Disney's Live Action Mulan. With the new success, she continued to make claims how China was "so queer until white people came in!" ignoring the eunuchs, concubines, and wanton sexual abuse of boys. Still makes incorrect claims about Chinese history. Family are rich Chinese with ties to the CCP. Even mainlanders dislike her. Used viral success to promote her book, which is a Darling in the Franxx rip off. Commissions people to make "fanart" of her "polyamorous" characters from book. Reported the Cat Corrain drama, which caused people to think she was Cait Corrain and received lots of hateful messages. Doesn't know when to STFU about politics and claims her new book is delayed because of her stance on Palestine. Currently acting out because she got disqualified for the Hugo award, which is hosted in China this year.
>Piper CJ - Author of "The Night and It's Moon". She's self-published a book with a self-depricating attitude that "no one will read it" yet advertises it like crazy on tiktok, garnering lots of interest. Book gets released, it's predictably bad-average. Youtube book reviewer ReadswithRachel makes a video reviewing using buzzwords like plagarism and "problematic representation." CJ and her friends (or sockpuppets) start to leave nasty messages and report Rachel's tiktok. Overall CJ doesn't take criticism well. Recently wrote another book
>Cait Corrain - Author of "Crown of Starlight." Started off as a Reylo fanfic writer. Created lots of sockpuppet goodread accounts to reviewbomb up-and-coming books in the same genre as hers and other indie randos. Absolutely retardedly used those same accounts to give her book 5 stars. People caught on to the fake reviews and figured out it was her. When caught, she created fake conversations with the "real culprit." Screenshot convos were horribly editted and cropped, indicating she didn't even bother to at least have a conversation with herself. No one bought it. Got dropped by her agent and publishing company. Authors that got reviewbombed all happened to be POC and got labed as racits. In her apology, she blamed it all on depression and alcoholism.
>Alice Oseman - author of "Heartstoppers." Hates BL made by Asians and touts herself as writing true queer romance without the problematic stuff "Asians" write. Currently getting eaten alive by the audience she bowed down to by daring to make the implication of her 17-year old male character looks up sex questions on google
>Alex Aster - Author of "Lightlark." Blew up on tiktok over making videos about vague tropes and asking "Would you want to read a book about X trope??" The viral success got her a publishing deal and a movie deal. Aster claimed she was self-made. Turns out her family is rich and her twin sister is a millionare. Book is released and it's laughably bad and juvenile. Sequel written and released a little over a year after first book. Still bad.
Book reviewers that attract drama:
>WithCindy
>ReadswithRachel
Book hoarding and subscription consoom:
>illumicrate
>fairyloot
>owlcrate
Notable ancient milk:
>Hockey booktok incident
>Cyborg Tinkerer fiasco
>Handbook for Mortals
>JK Rowling always winning
No. 2090521
>>2090464Xiran and other CCPbots piss me off so much. Mulan wasn't even Han Chinese, she was Xianbei, a proto-Mongolian ethnic group. Even her wiki admits this
>As the Ballad of Mulan is set in the Northern Wei dynasty when northern China was ruled by ethnic Xianbei, a proto-Mongolic people, there is some evidence that Mulan was not ethnic Han Chinese but Xianbei, who had exclusively compound surnames.>The Xianbei in China also retained certain nomadic traditions, and Xianbei women were typically skilled horseback riders.[6] Another popular Northern Wei folk poem called "Li Bo's Younger Sister" praises Yong Rong, for her riding and archery skills.[6] The Ballad of Mulan may have reflected the gender roles and status of women in nomadic societies.Female skeletons from Xianbei graves show they have wear and injuries to their skeletons consistent with long term archery practice and combat injuries.
Han We Wuzzers are insufferable.
No. 2090613
>>2090465The people who jumped on making videos put themselves in such a stupid position. This guy spends the entire video going "I should have waited and not made a video right away" but of course he also made this video the second the narrative changed! He couldn't just leave it after "slandering" someone and was forced to apologize as soon as possible. And now if new information turns up he's forced to do it again. Honestly even if you want to support a
victim, making a video on it is tacky and gross when it earns you money.
Tips for any lurking or aspiring booktubers; don't touch other people's drama no matter what.
No. 2090778

Okay, here's my summary. I have to split it into 2 parts because lc says it's too long.
>in May 2023, Naomi King uploads a video called "a conversation about manipulation, consent and assault" (video attached)>the video (still up as of posing this) is 8 minutes long, and basically says she thinks if she agrees to have sex with someone because you think you're gonna have a future with someone and then you fuck and he just says 'peace, I'm out' that's assault" (I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but that's basically what she said) >she says "I had a friend turn out to not be a friend and he assaulted me, then when we got back and he blocked me and said I bring out the worst in him">says she was his free therapist for 3 years and started talking to someone else who he did that to (later on this person turns out to be someone named Madison, Daniel's talker who he briefly dated and was making libelous posts saying he raped her, he got her to take them down with the help of a lawyer)>Naomi never said it was a public figure or anything or even a youtuber, never said what he looked like etc. all she said was it happened in Vegas, and that she goes to Vegas a lot to get tattooed
>roughly a week ago as of posting this, Naomi King uploaded a video called "Daniel Greene threatened to sue me" (a video that is no longer up and I can't find reuploads of so I can't double check it) showing how 8 days after she posted that video he sent her a cease and desist for it>she says how the cease and desist was really threatening and threatened to wipe her off of social media completely and bury her in legal fees (I think she showed the cease and desist on screen, but I don't remember if it showed the whole thing so I can't remember if it's as threatening as she said it was)>it was also probably a template because it kept mentioning yelp and called Daniel a "medical professional">she tells the story of how she went to Vegas to meet Daniel and they agreed to go as "just friends">he sends her a text message saying how he "wanted to spoil her as a friend">she said that he got there at midnight, and she was extremely high because she had been taking edibles all day and he just got off the plane so he was sober (later turns out not to be fully true)>she says that when he got to the hotel room he pushed her over and stuck his tongue in her mouth and wanted to fuck her and she kept saying she wasn't gonna have sex without lube because she has a medical condition where she can't self lubricate, she says he jerked off onto one of her tattoos which was supposed to represent sexual healing>she says the next day that they agreed it shouldn't have happened and then when they were alone together the next day he did it again>she says how she wrote Daniel an 8 page letter weeks before the Vegas trip, saying "I BEGGED him to talk to Kayla, I was calling him out for how he's treated me for the past 3 years. I had PROOF that I fucking fought for her, that I fought for their relationship" (she later posted the letter and it turned out she was basically just begging him to leave Kayla and enter a poly relationship with her)>she never shows the message of her saying what happened though, just shows one of kayla's replies that says "you both are vile, despicable human beings to do this to another person, over years. I'm revolted by the mere sight of you.">she said that she didn't talk to Daniel at all after the Vegas trip and blocked him until Kayla reached out to her>she messaged kayla (Daniel's fiancé) before she left the airport (Naomi lives in Canada) because she "needed her to know she didn't want it" and Kayla told her to leave her alone, then a few weeks later Kayla messaged her again asking for the truth (according to Naomi she didn't try to contact them at all outside of this, later it turned out she was harassing them) so Naomi sent her the 8 page letter (I think this is what happened, the video was kind of confusing)>she kept breaking down crying during the video and left a 5+ minute long panic attack in the video because it triggered her PTSD (even when I believed her at first I found that really questionable, I wouldn't want to post my PTSD panic attack on the internet) >the way she acts in this video is as if Daniel was pressuring her for an affair and she was saying no and telling him to talk to Kayla, this turns out not to be the case, she was obsessed with him (will get to that later)>she shows a lot of texts from Daniel, including one that says "I will always be a cheater", she shows some other texts and acts like they're talking about the rape (but later turned out to be about cheating) one of them said something like "I act like the person the voices in my head say I am" or something like that, there were more that looked like they were talking about rape but I can't remember them>at the end of the video she said she reported it to the Las Vegas police (who knows if she really did though) and she also says in her original video that she basically didn't realize it was assault until after, if that's the case then why would she have gone to the police so soon before getting back home, Idk>around the time right after the Vegas trip, Daniel's channel went on hiatus for a month or two and said it was because of mental health concerns>a few days after the allegations come out, he uploads a 90 second video saying he's gonna respond to the allegations and that he has clear and convincing evidence that he didn't sexually assault her, he's clearly reading something and not making eye contact and seems nervous
>a few days later, Naomi uploads "Daniel Greene situation part II". It had her showing even more texts but the texts ended up making her look bad, the texts that were posted in the youtuber thread, of her basically saying she's mad at Daniel for "going back and forth" on whether he'd have sex with her, and saying she wanted it. another one of him saying "oh shit did I cross other lines? did I pressure you?" and she says "the issue is that you keep going back and forth" read the texts yourself >>2089941>in the video she shows even more texts from him, though I don't have screenshots of those>one of them is how they met, which was him messaging her on Instagram over BLM>in the beginning of the video she says "I even wrote songs about the dude" showing lyrics to 3 songs, 2 of them were called "maybe someday" and "we knew each other first">in that video she also starts reenacting him jerking off onto her and what he was saying while he was doing it, extremely uncomfortable to watch. the video got taken down because of it>everyone starts to realize Naomi is full of shit No. 2090779

pt 2
Daniel's side:
>Naomi was harassing him and Kayla after the Vegas trip, even though they blocked her on several platforms, she also had a friend harass them
>she sent them a video of her crying (it does seem like super fake crying) saying "I wish I could take it all back, I wish I could take it all fucking back, I wish I had said no, I wish we had never gone to Vegas, I feel so fucking guilty for what I did to Kayla, it wasn't worth losing what we had" she showed snippets of that video in her own videos but edited to make it look like she was crying about rape and not the affair, I think she just played the "I wish I could take it all fucking back, I wish we never went to Vegas" part. she also says "I feel terrible for cheating on Kel, he treats me better than anyone I've ever been with" Kel was a married man that Naomi was seeing
>he shows the text messages that she posted that were basically a self own about her begging him to have sex with her
>we find out that he wasn't totally sober that night, he was on 10 milligrams of weed, plus that he only knew about her taking 1 edible at noon, didn't know about her taking any after that and when he greeted her at the hotel she walked all the way down to the lobby and greeted him and "walked back upstairs sober as a whistle"
>Kayla comes on screen and says that Naomi messaged her first with a video to apologize about the Vegas thing. Kayla said she wanted to hear her side of the story because she thought it seemed fair. After that Kayla sends her a message (that Naomi never showed) that said "I understand you feeling guilty, but please just let me grieve in peace, I'm trying to hold on to what pieces of my life I have left and this just sends me into a world of hurt. I just want it to stop. I just want to be left alone." after that she sent the "you both are vile, despicable human beings to do this to another person, over years. I'm revolted by the mere sight of you." Naomi acted like this was in response to her telling Kayla about getting raped when it was really about the affair. Kayla shows her own messages and says how there's no mention of sexual assault, and that if there was she would have taken it very seriously because she's survivor of SA herself. Her comments were about learning about the affair, not about sexual assault
>Kayla blocked her then received a message from someone saying they were Naomi's friend and roommate (she doesn't say what they messaged her but it probably doesn't matter)
>there were posts on Tumblr and other places of someone saying they were raped by Daniel Greene, he didn't even know who it was until he started working with a lawyer to get them taken down and it turned out it was Madison
>Daniel talks about a girl named Madison, who he went on a few tinder dates with. He went to Ireland to study abroad after that. When he got back from Ireland Madison drove several hours out of her way to go see him.
>he filed a police report against Madison for that
>Madison has a pattern of making accusations every time he hits milestones like when he first reached 100k subscribers or when he released his first book
>Daniel said Naomi kept asking him to buy lube during the trip and even pulled up a nearby sex shop on her phone to go get it from and he refused
>he says he takes full accountability for lines being crossed
>Naomi said that when they got to the hotel she went to the pool and Daniel just stayed in the hotel for hours. This was also a lie because they went to a bunch of different places, one of them being omega mart and Daniel shows a bunch of receipts from it
>he shows messages showing that he's the one who demanded they should confess and that he should confess to Kayla, when Naomi acted like it was her
>Daniel says how he and Kayla have worked in therapy a lot so that he stops cheating, Kayla comes on at the end saying how Daniel is such an amazing person and wants to spend her life with him
>she's also his business partner and helps him make content
I might be missing a few details, but that's basically most of the important stuff. Sorry that was so long.
some updates
>Naomi uploaded several apology videos and kept taking them down, one of them had the 8 page letter in it. The video was basically just "well I never said I was raped and never said I said no and never fought him off. I'm so sorry to Daniel and Kayla, and to all the survivors I've hurt. that wasn't my intention. I've become that person who has sent SA survivors back. OOPS tehe I'm gonna log off the internet now"
>then she uploaded another video with 2 other anonymous women talking about how Daniel allegedly raped them but have 0 evidence and don't even identify themselves, Naomi took this video down promptly too and hasn't uploaded anything since that I know of
My speculation: Daniel and Naomi were basically having a years long on/off emotional affair. Naomi is a crazy obsessive BPDchan who got tired of being strung along and exploded. He simply could have avoided all of this shit by just not being a cheating dickhead. He also is always saying how people (mostly authors etc) are trying to sue him for talking about them so he got media training and now says "allegedly" constantly and released a shirt with one wizard pouring another wizard tea that says "allegedly". At the end of his video he's like "if someone comes after you or your family HIRE A LAWYER. IT'S NOT AN ADMISSION OF GUILT. Which is true I realize suing Naomi and authors suing him are 2 different things, but it still seems a tiny bit hypocritical. There was no way anyone would have seen that original video from Naomi and known it was supposed to be about Daniel.
No. 2090785
here's a video of someone reading the letter, or you can read it yourself here but the shitty quality of the screenshots makes it hard to read
https://imgur.com/a/naomi-king-eight-page-letter-dtQs0vqthere's a lot of "you tell me you think about me when you fuck her, you tell me how you want me so badly then disappear for months, you tell me how your dream scenario is being with me and kayla is your best friend" etc etc, between this and the "I will always be a cheater" texts I don't know how kayla is still with him
No. 2090787
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and here's her apology video
No. 2090846
>>2090778>>2090779Thank you so much for the summary nona, may your pastures be forever green!
Man I felt so guilty for taking one look at her channel and thinking she seemed like an untrustworthy slut (for a lack of a better term) when I usually
never am the person to judge a
victim based on appearance. But I guess my intuition was right.
Kayla sounds stupid though, unless she's cheated on him too there'd no reason to stay with a gross serial cheater like that.
No. 2090975
>>2090951No they did stuff but it was consensual according to the text messages, we don't (and probably never know) the extent of what they did. My guess is he was jerking off on to her cause they didn't have lube but who knows. The video was extremely emotional and that's why it had so many people fooled. It's really disturbing that someone can fake their emotions that well.
The Tumblr post was from his stalker Madison, it's mentioned in the summaries.
>>2090846>taking one look at her channel and thinking she seemed like an untrustworthy slutYou're not the only one, just look at the comments on this video.
No. 2091387
>>2091350fucking boatloads of them are published constantly, books about Hitler and tanks and golf and fishing and literary novels about how a sad professor is horny and having sex with undergrads with big boobs and science fiction books about spaceman being horny and having sex with green alien lady with big boobs and detective novels about detective being horny and having sex with shady redhead with big boobs
books about Jesus the CEO and books about how you can make a kajillion dollars by flipping houses or bitcoins or whatever the fuck
also every children’s book is for boys, from Percy Jackson to Dogman to Captain Underpants to Diary of a Wimpy Kid
No. 2091644
>>2091350I'm not even gonna post it, but I got recommended a similar video recently complaining about how women are "ruining" fantasy and scifi because the best selling books in that genre are ACOTAR and Fourth Wing. Yeah those books are kind of trash (especially Fourth Wing) but the video called them degenerate because they're full of smut- which isn't even really true, ACOTAR is not really as smutty as people think it is (well at least the first 2 books aren't). In the video he said "they're not even fantasy, just romance with a fantasy setting" which also isn't true, there's more plot going on in both of those books (albeit generic plots, but so is a lot of male fantasy). Nevermind the fact that men have been inserting their sexual fantasies into fantasy and scifi since the genre began. How many fantasy books can you think of that constantly describe women's breasts/nipples, and has a character that women constantly throw themselves at for no particular reason (looking at you, Witcher). The Name of he Wind has a lot of absurd sex scenes in it too. Wheel of Time has the main protagonist end up with 3 hot women (which is HEAVILY inspired by Dune) and WoT is not even that bad in that regard. I'm sure GoT has that even though I haven't read it. I fail to see how any of that is less "degenerate" than books like ACOTAR.
All of the comments were whining about how there's "no books for young boys anymore". Boohoo, I'm sure there are but they're not reading them because 12 year old boys would rather be playing minecraft or watching hentai than reading. People in general don't read that much anymore but the majority of people who still read are women. I'm also not saying their isn't a smut problem in modern books, but it's more that the publishing industry sucks now and promotes trash that it knows will sell instead of actual good literature.
No. 2091699
>>2091350Moids literally don't read books that aren't about politics, history, already tired fiction like LOTR, religion, self-help and so on because, you know the visual sex? They seem to have trouble visualizing shit while reading anything.
Hell, I haven't even seen a single moid in my entire 30 years alive, a literature student btw, reading a book for actual fun, not even degenerate shit, they read because they want to "prove a point" (aka say nanananananananaIdon'thearyouI'mbetterthanyouandIhaveaPenis) or seem intelligent to others.
No. 2091708
>>2091699>seem intelligent to others.Yes, hence the fantasy (in which moids have now turned it into some RPG experience with autistic leveling up and stats, I'm not fucking kidding), and the old literature.
"Oh you haven't read Joyce, Tolstoy, Hemingway, or [insert meme author of the 1800s]???" then proceed to talk their heads off how smart the writing is and how smart they are for reading it and being above the plebeians who read books written for the peasantry, but not them! Modern books are too poorly written, bland, female, etc, for their big brains!