Have any of you that watch booktube noticed booktubers acting like this lately because I have and I wonder. why? Some of the booktubers that I've been watching lately have been making these challenges for themselves where they have to read a certain amount of pages for the month and when they don't they get disappointed with themselves.
Saying I'm going to try again next month and I'm going to beat it. Also they will make videos doing wrap ups talking about all the books they read the previous month and how sometimes they're disappointed with themselves because they haven't read as many as the month before that or as many as they normally do.
These same people also get disappointed with themselves when their yearly goal isn't the same or more as the previous one. Meaning they haven't read as many as last year or more than last year. So I'm genuinely curious why they're doing this to themselves? What happened to just reading books as long as you're enjoying them and who cares how many?
Is it because so many people feel the need to turn their hobby into a job nowadays and want to make money so they feel like they have to do these kinds of things in order to keep up their viewership and bring in the coin? Because if so I could kind of understand but still. And I should also say not just booktubers do this I'm sure there's plenty of book TikTok accounts that do as well. But I only ever see it on booktube.
by inyoureyesiremeberu
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>Is it because so many people feel the need to turn their hobby into a job nowadays and want to make money so they feel like they have to do these kinds of things in order to keep up their viewership and bring in the coin?
Yes, this is exactly the reason.
Because at this point they’re reading books for a living if they’re popular enough. Professional athletes are devastated when they make mistakes because they have a following that they want to maintain and they want to be worth the most amount of money in their respective sport. It is the same (usually on a much smaller scale) for people who are making money off their YouTube videos. They may still love reading, but I’d imagine all the goals and challenges that they set for themselves seem much more intense because they have an audience.
Feeding the YouTube algorithm doesn’t allow for fun. Eg. they probably make regular videos in order to keep showing up as suggested videos