BookTok vs Moral Panic

BookTok insidious anti-intellectualism debate is, ironically, mis-applying the term

Feb 12, 2026

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I promised myself I wouldn’t succumb to the ragebait of online discourse anymore. No more buzzing around the nectar of a venus-fly-trap. Yet here I am, baited. Swallowed whole. I am wading back in.

Ah shit, BookTok, here we go again.

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