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If you want to know what this wattpad addict is working on, gets frothy-mouthed over and hates with passion, this is the book! We're gonna be discussing movies, books (not songs, coz I have...
D4rlin9 recommended FullofIt's channel to me and I ended up watching a video over one hour long. (video above)
Hello everyone. Today we are going to tackle the topic of how much books affect readers. Feel free to disagree/ correct me at any point, we all wanna learn and grow here!
Back story: I watched the video above (a review of the popular AFTER series, which was originally a wattpad fanfiction. The review was negative, but I did feel that the reviewer gave pretty balanced points, and enjoyed it. If you don't wanna watch the whole thing, that's fine, you can still understand this chapter!
So after I read the review I scrolled through the comments and found this (I know all of you are cool peeps, but gotta put this out there: please don't go find the original commenter unless you wanna comfort her of course. I disagree with her to some extent, but what she says is valid and respected. )
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(And in case you're reading offline, I'll copy paste the paragraphs and let you know my thoughts one by one)
I read the original After 'books' on Wattpad in 2014 (back when it was "Harry" instead of "Hardin", "Zayn" instead of "Zed", so on and so forth) and what so many people absolutely refuse to acknowledge is how much worse the fanfics were. I don't remember everything of course but not only was the writing even more atrocious and robotic, but the abuse was somehow even worse (without things getting physical SOMEHOW). Anna Todd had to cut out and rewrite so much of the fanfics in order to get the fanfics published - she didn't just change the names.
(I haven't read the full original book. I read a few chapters and got bored, so I didn't know this).
Growing up on Wattpad was detrimental to my perception of relationships in the first place, especially as a 13-year-old obsessing over 1D fanfics, but After was the nail in the coffin. I, like many other young girls, learned that emotional abuse was love - especially with Anna Todd explaining that he WASN'T abusive. She was an older female writer that we trusted and looked up to, and if she was telling us that 'Harry' wasn't abusive (even though she was just trying to get away from the valid critiques of the older readers who were like... hey Anna... this is abuse). Long story short, my perception of healthy relationships was warped in my formative years.
