I was on the fence about making this poll, but I realized i wanted to hear what people who don’t keep up with drama in the book community (or those aren't even in it) have to say about it.
I do want to say that this is not a complete list of book drama because it’d be way longer, so I didn’t include things like Soapgate, the A Deadly Education fiasco or the multiple controversies Cassandra Clare/Colleen Hoover were in.
also, I found out there’s a bit of character/option limit when it comes to poll choices, so I had narrow it down.
which one of these bookternet scandals was the most “wtf” thing to ever happen?
A dude calling female BookTubers “fake “readers ”*
Handbook for Mortals taking the 1 spot on NYT bestsellers list bc of scam
That romance writer who faked her death
A black woman's book gets accused of plagiarism because the MC had sun powers
that time B&N decided to slap POC onto covers of classics to be more diverse
Matt Shaw harassing a girl for not liking one of his books
White author reviewbombs books by POC because she had a breakdown apparently**
Vulture article accusing bookstagrammers of faking their photos
A Canadian journalist doing blackface to write a book about race
J.D Barker asking Booktokers to make lewd videos to promote his new book
Booktokker's thirst over a hockey player causing a feud between her and his wife
the author who faked being Latinx while catfishing under 10 fake names
*by that, he meant if you are a woman in your 20s who wears makeup, does book tags/hauls, make high quality videos, and/or rave about YA, you’re not a “real reader™️”
**in a later interview she then tried to rectify this by saying it was actually her upbringing and mental illnesses that caused her to reviewbomb other debuts Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the Reylos got involved in this.