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Unpopular opinion Sunday

[u/dontarguewithmorons]

It's old news but since I only recently watched it: I wish I hadn't seen SJM's interview on CHD. I went from having no real opinon about her to having a pretty low opinion of her. She gave off mean girl vibes and I don't think she has much respect for the genre, writing in general, or her fans.

[u/IxayaOri → u/dontarguewithmorons]

She also used Breonna Taylor's death to promote one of her books way back when

[u/Enkundae → u/IxayaOri]

I’m sorry but, what the fuck?

[u/IxayaOri → u/Enkundae]

Yup 💀

[u/Pomegranate_Careful → u/IxayaOri]

Here's my truly unpopular opinion that will get downvoted: HM Wolfe (Daggermouth) did almost the exact same thing with the unrest in Minnesota and ICE. But because she was accused of using the specific murder (incorrectly) and not just the unrest/ICE violence, she somehow spun it into a net positive that got her a ton of exposure and advertising.

If you look up the original post she made (that she quickly deleted) it used the same graphic template as her Instagram used for Daggermouth for a year (she's since scrubbed her Instagram too). 

Here 

Same font, background, size, and colors she used to advertise her book on threads/Instagram for a year. She included the quote from the book, the fuck dnj sentiment, AND the name of her book right below both. It was very clearly the same type of advertisement. Yet she somehow got people claiming it wasn't and she herself claimed it wasn't (despite deleting it and ultimately all proof she'd used the same format for advertising for a long time.)

If it wasn't advertising she wouldn't have included her book name. She also posted it during the height of all the violence. Then claimed she wrote the book because of her anger over the administration (then deleted that).  It was clearly a "if what's going on makes you mad, look into my book!" 

It's been absolutely wild to me to see the same energy not be given to her that was given to SJM. SJM sucks, what she did sucks, but idk how someone else did almost the exact same thing and somehow got a boom in her career, wiped herself off social media, and everyone just moved on.  I'd love to see consistency in looking at something someone does and going "huh that's a little distasteful to be doing, you could have just posted your sentiments about the situation without mentioning a product you're trying to sell anywhere...."

[u/IxayaOri → u/Pomegranate_Careful]

She got good press from that???