What happened with Jay Kristoff:
Iāve gotten a couple questions about what happened with this Jay Kristoff. So here is what happened, with receipts:
For those who donāt know, he is coming out with a new book in the fall called, Empire of the Vampire.
This book is getting four special edition ARCs, which as we know, ARCs are produced for early reviews. One of the biggest controversies surrounding this is how itās already hard enough for BIPOC authors to even get arcs of their own novels, so why is an already successful, white author getting SE of arcs????
this leads into the next point, of how Jay Kristoff uses Asian aesthetics in his novels, in racist and ignorant ways, and how the publishing industry continues to promote these racist authors. Thereās a thread on Twitter about this, and Iāll leave it here:
āAnyone using the āheās successful and deserves this, MERIT! MERIT!ā or āITS JUST BUSINESS!ā arguments must not understand how this industry
Also, thereās this screenshot (gotten from @/readbytiffany on Twitter)
Iām sorry, but heās disgusting.
Here are more screenshots of people coming out about him.
Btw, Adonai is hebrew for god.
This is about Amie Kaufman, his co-writer. So fuck her, too.
He also attacked a black woman blogger, so like... okay you gross and racist motherfucker.
Jay Kristoff is someone who profits off of Asian culture and refuses to defend the Asian community, and people of color as a whole. He doesnāt deserve the platform he has. And he needs to be held accountable.
But unfortunately thereās a repetition of white authors never needing to take that accountability due to the large platform they have, and itās become a huge problem.