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Date: 2021-07-04 11:26 am (UTC)I think the YA Twitter essay suffers in that its two central theses are flawed. She places the blame for the toxicity of the YA community at the feet of a) Twitter and b) the fact that its readership is mainly adults and the marketing expectations reflect that. Whereas I think the toxicity flows from the paranoid attitudes of scarcity which encourage authors to view other authors not as their colleagues but as their competition (and so accusing another author of writing a book full of problematic content becomes a prudent marketing strategy), and the fact that professional marketing teams have been replaced by a requirement for authors to market their own work on social media, especially on Twitter (which rewards loud pile ons).