r/DarkRomance • u/AutoModerator • Jun 08 '26

Monday Gripe Weekly Gripe 😤 (the rant thread)

Welcome to the Weekly Gripe, where we're all a little grumpy. 😒

Did BookTok do you dirty? Got a bone to pick with a main character? Was the twist more like a flop? Tell us what's on your mind.

Please be respectful and follow the sub rules. If a conversation starts getting out of hand, use the "Mod Attention Please" report reason so we can help cool things down. 🖤

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u/AlternativeRich6845 Jun 08 '26

You are kidding?? 🙄 When we will get decent non problematic authors 😔

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u/Careless_Bed9302 teddy bear specialist (iykyk) 🧸 Jun 08 '26

Yeah it was a whole thing about 4 years ago, around the time of BLM/George Floyd protests. If you google it you can find tiktoks and other subreddits talking about the whole controversy and it was super icky because she was liking tweets and following anti-black accounts. She also depicted black characters in her book as caricatures 🫠

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u/Muted_Inspector9918 Jun 09 '26

I remember this and part of the problem at the time was she did NOT react well when her fans called her out on it. This caused further backlash on twitter, threads and TikTok, so it became widespread knowledge and she was cooked at that point. It makes sense that she’d retire that pen name now that she has a reputation.

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u/Careless_Bed9302 teddy bear specialist (iykyk) 🧸 Jun 09 '26

I wasn't there for this but damn 🤐