I've noticed it here too
>>221262687What if it's not performative What if they just like to read
>>221262687zoomers are realizing they needed to jestermaxx to get laid, so they pretend to enjoy reading books
wow a website called bookshop.org talking about more book shops
>>221262687lolquite the contrary in this shithole here
>>221262687Probably porn books for womeme
>>221262692Nope, the only fun things are jerking off, vidya, and getting (yous), everything else is a normie lie and therefore performative
>>221262687Melbourne and Sydney have been incredibly performative for decades.
>>221262778oh yeah but tiktok was the final nail
>>221262687I’ve perused several bookstores this year. They’re filled to the brim with tumblr core faggot shit and percy jackson. Utterly fucking embarrassing. No one is reading real books anymore.
>>221262844Define real books
>>221262844Trashy romance novels for foids have driven the publishing industry for 50+ years. There is nothing new about this.>>221262864My Twisted World by Eliot Rodger
>>221262864Finnegan's Wake, anything less doesn't deserve the paper it's printed on
>>221262692I doubt it. I can't remember which bookshop it is (I think it was in Boston) where people pay to go inside to take pictures and videos for their social media since it's so classical looking. Bookstores are just trendy set pieces for social media shit now.
>>221262864Books that are written by and for people with mental maturity above a middle school level.
>>221262920Hipster
>>221262778I still buy books quite often, I find they pass the time and take my mind of shit a lot better than watching TV and movies.
>>221262687I feel like they must be including coffeeshops/breweries that sell shitty poetry books as "bookstores"
This whole country's culture is a performance of one-upmanship at who can be the biggest and loudest fuckwit in the room
>>221262864My diary desu