BookTok and overconsumption

TikTok promotes overconsumption - that's a sentence you'll no doubt have heard at some point over the past couple of years. It started with TikTok fashion, then with TikTok beauty trends and food and drink (remember WaterTok?) and it has slowly made its way into homeware. Judging by the rate at which BookTok is growing, I think literature is next. Chapters: 00:00 - TikTok is a selling machine 01:05 - the BookTok boom and book haul culture 04:04 - BookTok is not all bad 04:36 - but it's not all good either 06:18 - everyone wants to read MORE 10:34 - reading = virtue 12:03 - reading also = entertainment 13:10 - the environmental impact 15:19 - an ode to personal libraries and unread books 17:15 - BookTok burnout 19:44 - remember libraries? 21:21 - TikTok is starting a publishing company 22:50 - the TikTokification of literature 24:52 - thank you for watching love you Videos mentioned Jordan Theresa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI4qUrt9R60&t=96s Mina Le - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR3z8lq2cNM&t=155s Alice Cappelle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1nIumGnuw&t=198s Tiffany Ferg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ovahkCFKio&t=165s Jack Edwards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFTvBvliXw&t=532s Elliot Sang - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3bYCYSIBGA Gabi Belle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS4r5tDxASE&t=212s Articles mentioned https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/29/its-exciting-its-powerful-how-translated-fiction-captured-a-new-generation-of-readers https://mashable.com/article/diverse-book-recommendations-accounts-to-follow https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/books/tiktok-book-publishing-bytedance.html https://bookriot.com/tiktok-publishing-company/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/reading-is-precious-but-the-cult-of-book-ownership-can-be-smug-and-middle-class https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/must-writers-get-on-booktok The TikTok creator asking whether books are the new fast fashion is Kaelyn Grace Apple - @KaelynGraceApple both on TikTok and here on YouTube. "personal book cellar" article https://sentiers.media/dispatch-14-a-personal-book-cellar/ thank you so much for watching, please subscribe!!!! #booktok #booktube