This author was caught faking their race with multiple identities: a deep dive into Freydis Moon

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Let's deep dive into Freydis Moon, otherwise known as Taylor Barton, otherwise known as Taylor Brooke, otherwise known as Brooklyn Ray, otherwise known as Jupiter Wyse, otherwise known as Stacey Anthony, otherwise known as Hunter Lewellyn, otherwise known as Hunter Taylor, otherwise known as Cordelia Lynne, otherwise known as Bailey Greene, otherwise known as Saint Harlowe, otherwise known as Daniella...
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⌛ 0:00 - Intro: Who is Freydis Moon?
⌛ 02:53 - Parade [ad]
⌛ 03:56 - The original tale of Taylor Barton
⌛ 08:27 - The reincarnation of Jupiter Wyse
⌛ 14:00 - The deja vu of Freydis Moon
⌛ 21:46 - The random subplot of Saint Harlowe vs Cardigan
⌛ 26:43 - The ghosts of Hunter Lewellyn and Cordelia Lynne
⌛ 32:43 - The consequences of their actions
⌛ 37:57 - Why this hurts writers with pen names, Latinx/Latine authors, and indie authors
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@annabelleslator6441 2 месяца назад

New phone, who Freydis?

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

STOPPPPP

@ericae.6547 2 месяца назад

YOU WIN

@manboy4720 2 месяца назад

freydis, freydat. freyget about it!

@Oak_Eggar Месяц назад

HELPP😭😭😭

@AJ-The-Bumblebee 2 месяца назад

Donating to the trevor project after accusations of racism is the most white person thing to do, tbh. "I'm sorry I was racist, but I love the gays!"

@krow5099 2 месяца назад

That whole apology was yt coded lmao 🤣

@Aurelian369_ 2 месяца назад

@@krow5099 "I'm listening and learning" is practically a common trope of bad racism apologies at this point

@manboy4720 2 месяца назад

@@Aurelian369_ "i'm listening and learning, and i am completely ignoring all of it."

@alliumspark Месяц назад

which is crazy because you’re literally donating the money anyways, you dont lose anything by donating it to poc focused campaigns. like it literally doesn’t change anything for you personally bc you’re giving the same amount, so why would you pick a gay charity

@sophie-dd7wg Месяц назад

News flash, youre also racist for assigning stereotypes of being tone deaf to white people.

@JulianGreystoke 2 месяца назад

As a white queer woman I'm starting to worry that I don't have several identities to grift with. Am I behind? When do people normally start doing that? Oh god I'm 38 and I haven't done a single identity scam!

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

This comment made me lol, thank u

@Skaði 2 месяца назад

if you figure it out can you tell me? I really need a manual on this I don't know where to start!

@_koraki 2 месяца назад

I think whatever grift it is you have to have plausible deniability and minimal proof

@thelexicon7294 2 месяца назад

Can we get some kind of time management resource? I feel like I don’t have time to have DM convos with my POC alts, but maybe I’ve been mismanaging my time. Maybe there’s some responsibilities I could cut to make room for a network of aliases.

@amberanthony883 2 месяца назад

I’m 70. I have no game for this. I’ll watch.

@JPWrites 2 месяца назад

What boggles my mind is that it's so hard to get an agent, and this person managed to do it three times under different identities???

@drawingsticks5333 2 месяца назад

I guess she actually is good at writing but instead of writing books she keeps getting caught into this.

@finboror 2 месяца назад

You can achieve anything if you're a pathological liar

@tamarleahh.2150 2 месяца назад

I had the same thoughts. Either the writing is phenomenal or it's playing into some crazy confirmation bias.

@moustik31 2 месяца назад

Ikr?! They must be good at writing, couldnt they focus their energy on that?!

@kingnight2161 Месяц назад

Lol that doesn't necessarily mean that they are a good writer. They just know how to write what agents are looking for. As someone who has had an agent in the past, they are very much looking for a specific kind of story and writing especially if you are an author of color or masquerading as one.

@adrianfridge 2 месяца назад

I'm legit surprised you didn't even get to the juiciest reveal: Freydis Moon is the one who "exposed" Cait Corrain. When Xiran Jay Zhao brought up the topic, they didn't name names in order to try to still keep it private, but then Freydis was the one who blasted out Cait's name and forced everything public

@radiantirl8278 26 дней назад

WHAT

@kiss_my_ash 25 дней назад

PARDON

@genesisofthebetween 17 дней назад

Damn, book-asshole infighting

@iansorono5376 17 дней назад

Who would win? Person with multiple pen names to avoid the consequences of their actions VS person with multiple alt accounts to review bomb other authors

@MintyBingus 7 дней назад

OH MY GOD??????

@lilyholic_ 2 месяца назад

as a black brazilian i find it very funny that this person did not fake being a white latine, it would be so easy for them 😭

@lordarthur2165 2 месяца назад

Cara, eu tava pensando a mesma coisa kkkkkk Nem para fazer uma mentira boa, eu acho que é porque tem muito gringo que acha que tode latine é um pessoa racializada, quando ser latine é uma nacionalidade, não uma etnia.

@elizzadeath 2 месяца назад

RIGHT?!?!?

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

nah they were like i gotta go BROWN

@beksfue5937 2 месяца назад

@@lordarthur2165tal vez esqueceu que existem mais países na América Latina do que o México. E também acha que todos os Mexicanos somos cafés (marroes?) -_- Erro típico de gringos racistas. (Me desculpe pelo meu português, ainda estou aprendendo)

@lordarthur2165 2 месяца назад

@@beksfue5937 sim, é sempre muito engraçado quando eles acham que a gente é tudo a mesma coisa, quando dentro de um mesmo país é cheio de variações regionais. Aliás, você está indo bem no português! Só a palavra marrom que você errou, o plural de marrom é marrons e a o "mexicanos somos cafés", acho que a terceira pessoa ("são" ao invés de "somos") se encaixaria melhor. Mas não se preocupe que dá para entender perfeitamente o que você quiz dizer, meus parabéns, aprender outra língua é difícil.

@LyrinaeSings 2 месяца назад

This person really said "I'm not an ABUSER, I'm a RACIST, get it right" lmao

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

djlkasldjksa omg

@honinakecheta601 2 месяца назад

It's giving, "I Can Excuse Racism But I Draw The Line At Animal Cruelty" XD

@per-c8229 2 месяца назад

@@honinakecheta601 "You can excuse rasim?" Always appreciated a Community reference =)

@Shyknit 2 месяца назад

@@per-c8229 the writers of the show really knew what they were doing lol that exchange always makes me laugh for several minutes

@per-c8229 2 месяца назад

@@Shyknit The first time I watched it made me hate Brita, then I got the joke and a laugh, still don't like her but I can laugh about it =)

@kitsterangel 2 месяца назад

Befriending people as one identity but then beefing with them under a different identity is unhinged 💀 I mean, its all a bit unhinged to be fair, but that's actually unhinged.

@diannadolly 21 день назад

that’s so funny. the utter madness and pettiness

@moonjui 2 месяца назад

im crying at them continuing to post their SAME cat under each fake name like bro 😭

@KadaArt Месяц назад

Right like huh

@camille1324 Месяц назад

I mean there are a lot of similar looking black cats out there but the backgrounds are what gets me. Like you’d think after getting caught the first time they could figure a way to just…not use the same backgrounds. like get a tablecloth or something it’s not rocket science

@comradecomrat8545 15 дней назад

And it’s a tortoiseshell. Tortoiseshells are all unique. If it was a black cat or a basic orange tabby it would have been less obvious.

@yinyinbun 2 месяца назад

The FBI works hard but booktwt works harder

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

im truly impressed by their detective work

@randompromises1038 2 месяца назад

Everyday I remember the Reylos tweets backlog.

@Queen_Cnidarian 2 месяца назад

Considering 4chan once called an airstrike, this is only a fraction of the Internet’s power.

@maymay5600 2 месяца назад

@@Queen_Cnidarian 4chan is the spine of the internet Only fraction of their power is always terrifying when ready

@perlyshell 2 месяца назад

online sleuths will be out there sleuthing lmaooo

@iamtheplague5879 2 месяца назад

Going to therapy-❌ Creating multiple fake identities and keeping twitter acounts to publish a bunch of books instead of doing any self reflection-✅

@princeofdarkness4711 2 месяца назад

one cost money while the other is free with lots of undeserved validation.

@tamarbeker1701 2 месяца назад

Honestly? Out of this context, larping on the internet can be considered harmless fun. Disassociation from your own identity in order to try and get into the mindset of a character you made up can be rad. Just not like that.

@Professor_Brie 2 месяца назад

This feels like what happens when you listen to the thoughts of “what if I did a crime? I bet I could pull it off” or “What if I just…started lying on the internet? Who could stop me?”

@BelBelle468 2 месяца назад

@@tamarbeker1701 reminds me of that Republican straight white man who cosplayed as a Republican black gay man to try and “validate” republicans online.

@Sh12pen 2 месяца назад

Ah yes, the pipeline of downloading a car to identity theft 😂😂@@Professor_Brie

@malaizze 2 месяца назад

When Dr. Jekyll creates an alternate version of himself to enact his darkest desires he’s “iconic literature” but yet when SOMEONE ELSE tries it they’re “problematic” smh smh 🤦

@aesinam Месяц назад

To be fair, Mr Hyde was still the same race

@achoquenao3719 Месяц назад

Would it still be problematic if I sing about it?

@AstarTiamat Месяц назад

Depends on the quality of the song and singing @@achoquenao3719

@lindsayshanks7555 Месяц назад

At least Jekyll set out with good intentions What's the excuse here? 😂

@gabriellasands 21 день назад

@@lindsayshanks7555He did not lol. In the original book at least he just wanted to do bad things and release his devious urges without any consequences in his professional civilian life. (Also, I know tone is super hard to convey over the Internet, this comment is lighthearted, and a fun fact.)

@aratoho 2 месяца назад

Love how Cardigan tried to come back like "a-ha! see?" and everyone just went "no ✨"

@Sing_A_Rebel_Song 2 месяца назад

That’s the funniest part of this whole thing 😂

@KadaArt Месяц назад

Made me laugh a bit

@akyle6765 Месяц назад

I was waiting for the reveal that Cardigan was also Freydis.

@radiantirl8278 26 дней назад

@@akyle6765LMFAO SAME

@CMAlongi 2 месяца назад

These writers know that R. F. Kuang's YELLOWFACE was a fictional story, not a step-by-step guide, right?

@yougtoo 2 месяца назад

pls 😭💀

@mariaerdgzn 2 месяца назад

maybe it was misplaced in the DIY section at b&n…

@emilyparisjohnson 2 месяца назад

I got so confused because I’m not a regular participant in booktok but I am a theater nerd and there is a play by David Henry Hwang of the same name with similar satire and themes. If anyone is interested I highly recommend.

@EldritchOverlord 2 месяца назад

This. Like jfc

@dontmindmev 2 месяца назад

@@mariaerdgzn plssss im dying

@bittervibez 2 месяца назад

Colonizing isn’t good enough, now their cosplaying as us 😭

@chrissy3060 2 месяца назад

😭😭😭 not cosplaying

@ingridcamargo5085 2 месяца назад

Not all colonizator but always one, gosh....

@ingridcamargo5085 2 месяца назад

I'm joking. It is always a colonizator, lol

@kgal1298 2 месяца назад

Colonizing was always about stealing the ideas of minorities and using them to make money. Honestly you can blame capitalism it leads people to say "fuck em I got mine" which is why employee protections are so weak in the United States.

@yamiyugi2894 2 месяца назад

like the Spanish weren't colonizers lol

@kikikitty7563 2 месяца назад

This is your reminder that if this person can get four agents, you can get one.

@monochromicornthetuna4256 2 месяца назад

LMAO! Watching this video actually encouraged me to write today. I was on the ‘I’m tired, I have work, I have chores’ train but watching this made me determined to write no matter what😂

@MorganForteMakeup 2 месяца назад

I’m the whale author mentioned at the 22 minute mark and hearing it from someone not living on book Twitter just made the whole thing sound so much more ridiculous 😭

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

HAHAHAHA when I saw the screenshots I was like why are people so pressed about someone writing about whales?!

@MorganForteMakeup 2 месяца назад

@@withcindy that group has a weird parasocial beef thing with me but I was shocked to say the least at the absolute vile spewing that was going on and also yeah WHY DO WHALES MAKE YOU ANGRY I CANT😭

@oneinathousand2156 2 месяца назад

They must really hate Herman Melville too.

@avsambart 2 месяца назад

I need to know what this whale book is called.

@MorganForteMakeup 2 месяца назад

@@avsambart it’s called THE DEEDS THAT BIND US!! It’s on sub right now so fingers crossed it actually sells😭😭

@kabangukabangu2529 2 месяца назад

"The Year I Turned Brown, A Memoir"

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

NOOOOOOO

@Shyknit 2 месяца назад

That sounds like Mindy Kaling's brother's book about him pretending to be black to get into medical school 💀

@exocutionn 2 месяца назад

I CACKLED

@kudzaishemakoni5279 2 месяца назад

😭😭😭😭😭😭

@mxngos7493 2 месяца назад

NOOOOOO 😭

@bepi1114 2 месяца назад

any one of us could be taylor at this point. it could be you, it could be me, it could be cindy

@justcallmeivonne 2 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@thatonearoace 2 месяца назад

Oh god, am I Taylor?!

@alejajm1666 2 месяца назад

It me

@j.g.3293 2 месяца назад

Are there anymore squidwards I should know about 😭

@sleepy.timaeus.arts. 2 месяца назад

@@j.g.3293PLEASE 😭😭😭

@RariettyC 2 месяца назад

I write as a hobby, and sometimes I think that my plot ideas are too outlandish, but then some non-fictional drama happens that makes me realize that absolutely anything I could make up on the spot would probably not be as batshit insane as the lengths some scammers go to when they're desperate

@Lovefortea448 2 месяца назад

You can be the next kuang lol

@DinoCultist 2 месяца назад

For me it's whenever I remember that author who wrote the personification of Covid as a love interest

@WildArtistsl 2 месяца назад

😮wtf i am curious but at the same time not @@DinoCultist

@DinoCultist 2 месяца назад

@WildArtistsl oh it is a TRIP! I looked him up and forgot it was a whole series called "Kissing the Coronavirus" The author is M.J. Edwards and he has other titles as well, including "Mating with the Mantis" and "Penetrated by the President's Twitter Feed" There's another person who does similar stuff called Chuck Tingle and his titles are W I L D ! ! ! The one that always cracks me up is "Bisexual Mothman Mailman Makes A Special Delivery In Our Butts" Oh and who can forget "Pounded In The Butt By The Sentient Physical Manifestation Of My Writer's Block Then Realizing I've Already Found Inspiration By Literally Writing About How I'm Not Inspired" These are all real titles. If even the idea of these exist to the point where there are so many of these and they're all selling on Amazon, you can write anything!

@hahahahahahahahaa6580 2 месяца назад

@@DinoCultistwas it Chuck Tingle? That dude's books are entirely unhinged and I can't help but love him for it.

@maidarlindear 2 месяца назад

this is like Scooby Doo, but the unmasked villain of a whole season its just the same guy on slightly different costumes every time! “And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!”

@krow5099 2 месяца назад

I thought about it 😂😂😂

@artsyscrub3226 День назад

If only a furry helpped so we couldda said "And your damn dog too!"

@erikdaniels0n 2 месяца назад

Seems like this person saw the Cait Corrain situation and was like “lmao I can be messier.” The hell you mean they kept this up for *FIVE YEARS*

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

cait corrain: who are you freydis moon: im you but stronger

@kgal1298 2 месяца назад

Hahaha I had the same reaction. 5 YEARS?????

@belovedwinter 2 месяца назад

I can hardly keep people's Christmas presents a secret for 2 months never mind THIS WHOLE ASS MESS

@yamiyugi2894 2 месяца назад

king shit

@firewolfandrewb 2 месяца назад

Finally, a sequel to Rachel Dolezal

@TerrificGiggles 2 месяца назад

Pretending to be another race just so you can roleplay opression.... I'm in an utter state of shock.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

it aint new unfortunately... they were just the only few that were caught

@randompromises1038 2 месяца назад

I always think about this like why is our suffering so interesting? Why would you want that? I've only had a handful of experiences with racism (really it has to do with my lighter skin tone) but I would never wish I had it worse. Those instances were more than enough.

@Evelyn_Okay 2 месяца назад

@@withcindywhite people are SO desperate to be oppressed

@MrGreyseptember 2 месяца назад

I mean you don't even have to pretend to be another race. Tip for future fraud: just say that your family is Ukrainians who fled the Soviets in the 30s to escape the genocide that Stalin committed against the Ukrainian people. We are very white, and Christians at that, which did not stop our neighbors from oppressing, enslaving, repressing, and committing genocide against us for 300 years. But this, I guess, is not a well-known fact, although with how much free time these people have...

@byulharangforlife 2 месяца назад

@@randompromises1038 it's because privileged people feel uncomfortable being privileged. because they dont want to examine themselves.

@Omnipresentpigeon 2 месяца назад

If you wanted a new identity, then write under a different pen name, and locate yourself in a different state or something…Changing your race is INSANEEEE

@absurdum-the-artist 2 месяца назад

Pretend to be some sort of flavor of European maybe lol. I can’t with these people

@finboror 2 месяца назад

@@absurdum-the-artist "As an Italianx person, I cooka da pasta" do you really think this is any better

@absurdum-the-artist 2 месяца назад

@@finboror NO LOL. However I think most would agree that Italians are less oppressed

@finboror 2 месяца назад

@@absurdum-the-artist Indeed they are...nowadays, at least. But the point still stands: regardless on how much or how little Americans bully some culture, you maybe shouldn't genuinely try to impersonate it lol

@absurdum-the-artist 2 месяца назад

@@finboror I agree with that

@OliveJKelley 2 месяца назад

as one of the queer indie authors in Freydis’ immediate circle (the “small discord of 30 or so” mentioned in the video), thank you for emphasizing how annoying it is going to be to erase their presence from all of our books. I have three books out and to revise all of the files is around $75, which is the kind of money I do not make off of my writing yet! And I have friends (ex. DC Guevara, an extremely talented latine author who was taken advantage of by Freylor) who have to remove entire epigraphs and cover blurbs from their books. It’s nightmarish both emotionally and logistically rn

@Caiuxa190 2 месяца назад

This is what happens when people get tired of writing fanfiction on AO3 and start writing fanfiction IRL.

@citlalialvarado666 2 месяца назад

What in the Yellowface is going the hell on

@MagisterialVoyager 2 месяца назад

Pandemic online community made me learned that some people ARE this messy and more. They’re living for the drama even though it never ends well.

@MeganAllen1738 2 месяца назад

Not fan fiction IRL 😂😂😂

@Sh12pen 2 месяца назад

Self insert taken too far...

@brierrandall3374 2 месяца назад

As a white skinned latino, I think it's funny that she felt the need to really convey that she was darker skinned when portraying a latino person 😂 really goes to show just how ignorant she is about latino identities

@k80_ 2 месяца назад

Yeah genuinely they coulda said they were Argentinian or Uruguayan or even Spanish… but this wasn’t about making sense, it was about seeing what they could get away with.

@angelawossname 2 месяца назад

Is Latino the correct term? I'm Australian so forgive my ignorance. Why is Latinx considered offensive? Foreigners think that "aborigine" isn't a slur, so I appreciate your frustration.

@bookish.calirican 2 месяца назад

@@angelawossname”Latino” and “Latina” are Spanish words, and to most Spanish-speaking people those are the correct terms to use in reference of someone from Latin America or people of Latin American descent living outside of the region. Spanish is a gendered language, a lot of words are either masculine or feminine. There is a moment within the Latin American community (esp in the USA) to develop gender neutral variants of gendered Spanish words. Latinx and Latine are meant to be used as gender neutral word for Latino/Latina. But there’s debate within the community about the ‘validity’ of these new words.

@angelawossname 2 месяца назад

@@bookish.calirican thankyou.

@schrodinger_punk 2 месяца назад

@@angelawossnameusing x, e, or even @ to represent women and gender fluid people within a group has been a thing in Latin America since the 90's (probably even before that). Queer and punk communities have been using those suffixes for ages but now it's become mainstream thanks to years of work from queer and feminist activists. E, x, and @ are perfectly valid.

@necronival 2 месяца назад

when cindy said people found out they were the same person through ASTROLOGICAL CHARTS... my jaw was on the floor

@Evelyn_Okay 2 месяца назад

Cant believe they didn't use the "I have self-diagnosed DID and you are all being ableist" defense

@readyfreddie1256 Месяц назад

don’t give them ideas 💀

@readyfreddie1256 Месяц назад

don’t give them ideas 💀

@Homodemon Месяц назад

"i can't help that my alter is black 😢😢" Unrelated but this reminded me that I used to post on a dress up game website where discussions like these happened all the time but mostly because most of the userbase was just kids, and I swear 90% of them claimed to be POC in some way just to talk in AAVE or say weird stuff without getting called out and when they got discovered of race faking then they would play the "Neurodivergent and a minor" card even if they were not even a minor (like, 18-20 year olds also played the game) I outright saw one saying "oh, I'm an age regressor and this game causes me to regress to the age of 13 so you cannot be calling me out on this weird shit I did because you would be bullying a minor and that's not cool" (the person was like, 19)

@mj-sw2nh Месяц назад

I clicked on this vid thinking that’s what this was 😭😭😭 she couldn’t even use the term right

@chickenlittle8158 Месяц назад

She already seems like the kinda person who would lie about being diagnosed with something, she lies about her race and identity so much already. This jus reads as a way to shit on people self-diagnosed with DID/call them liars, like Freydis is. People both self and professionally diagnosed with disorders abuse it as an excuse to be horrible.

@muixc 2 месяца назад

"You fool! I have 70 alt accounts! You'll never find my main!" - Taylor Barden, Taylor Brooks, Brooklyn Ray, Jupiter Wise, Stacey Antony, Hunter Taylor, Hunter Lowellen, Cordellia Lin, Bailey Green, Saint Harlow, and Freydis Moon (probably)

@carolinemckee7009 2 месяца назад

Girl had access to thousands on names on the internet and she landed on Taylor 3 times

@leonardozhang 2 месяца назад

Those sound like names of paint colors

@ashannaredwolf8485 2 месяца назад

@@leonardozhangI want to paint my room Freydis Moon with a Jupiter Wise trim.

@periodt87 2 месяца назад

and they all sound like white names 😭

@xTheRainFallsx 2 месяца назад

these are like the names a quiverfull white mother gives her twenty blue-eyed blond aryan children

@stefunnylim 2 месяца назад

these book dramas be getting more and more outrageous smh 😭

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

and thats only the stuff we know about

@foxesofautumn 2 месяца назад

IDK if this is typical 1820’s craziness and just no one knew or this is a wholly modern madness.

@haggisa 2 месяца назад

True, it’s almost like a tv series. Oh, you thought Joffrey Baratheon was bad? Well, here comes Ramsay Bolton!

@jess4334 2 месяца назад

I feel like I'm on a Glee episode holy shit

@kennedythedford9102 2 месяца назад

With all this drama we’ll never even get to to read their books😂

@aylishoconaill6710 2 месяца назад

As an afro-latina I appreciate when you said "this is not my discourse to be a part of". A lot of ethnic people feel entitled to discuss any racial issue even if it doesn't relate to them specifically. Your nuanced approach is refreshing and very welcome.

@theunexpectedsmile5535 2 месяца назад

I feel like I need multiple bulletin boards with pictures, charts, diagrams, labels, pins, and multicolored string to keep up with this - and I’m just barely peeking in here. How could anyone keep up with this for 5 years???

@DiMagnolia 2 месяца назад

I kept having to go back to re-listen to parts of this video because the story is so convoluted. Cindy did a great job but wow what a complex story.

@effarig4017 2 месяца назад

This entire fiasco sounds like a pitch for an American Dad episode where the family argues over whose favorite author is superior for them to all end up being Roger.

@kikoonthemove 2 месяца назад

God I can just imagine them asking “okay Roger, since we all disagree who’s your favorite?” As he’s walking into the kitchen and him just responding “none of them they were all me” then walking back out.😂

@lindamoore9773 2 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@mayagarcia-hector2732 2 месяца назад

I’m dead

@mamabear1394 2 месяца назад

@@kikoonthemoveAnd then they get mad and try to kill him

@Cherry20955 2 месяца назад

oh my god the picture of them with the sugar skull bandana is in black and white so you can't tell they're white, i am HOWLING

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

EXACTLYYYYY

@michelletuband 9 дней назад

Her hiding her hand in the background of the cat pic got me

@sydney6548 2 месяца назад

it's so unbelievably insane that this person could just like. quietly write good books and garner a pretty decent following, but instead did this. THE SCAM IS MORE EFFORT THAN JUST BECOMING A GENUINELY GOOD AUTHOR

@TheHopperUK 2 месяца назад

Imagine how good their writing could be if they put all that energy into their fiction instead of, well, their fiction

@MoondropValley 2 месяца назад

And here I am with barely any energy to do laundry while this author is doing a one-person theatre group

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

I literally slept on the couch for 3 days bc I had no energy to put on new bedsheets

@idaeie 2 месяца назад

@@withcindy my people😭 I moved to the couch because there was a tower of mess between the bed and me I couldn't muster enough energy to get through.

@emackenzie 2 месяца назад

12:00 Holy fuck the absolute tone deaf rant of "characters of color don't have to be tied to a culture, let them be NORMAL" as if African and South American stories aren't... normal? Then complaining that the paranormal genre has been whitewashed??

@jareaus 2 месяца назад

this was like watching 50 people do a really bad costume change in theatre

@SocarellaDeToussaint 2 месяца назад

I once got catfished on Goblindr, I expected to get a one night stand in a goblin cave and turns out it was a whole alpha werewolf. I was like no sir, I have standards, and walked out.

@ashannaredwolf8485 2 месяца назад

This comment might have inspired my next 5e campaign…

@eastahbunbun 2 месяца назад

i would've been happy that it's an alpha werewolf. trade?

@definitelynotashark1799 2 месяца назад

The way I fully expected goblindr to be an actual neurodivergent dating site 💀

@thunder7442 2 месяца назад

Not the goblin cave 💀

@LMBillingsley 2 месяца назад

Not me seeing goblindr and thinking it's a play on blind dates...😂

@PokhrajRoy. 2 месяца назад

RF Kuang can now have ‘Now an actual event’ in the next reprint of ‘Yellowface’. The Daniels have found the sequel to EEAAO.

@erikdaniels0n 2 месяца назад

NOT “now an actual event” 😭😭😭

@yaoyanhuang7927 2 месяца назад

RF Kuang the real winner of all this drama lol

@kgal1298 2 месяца назад

Noooo because when I was thinking about that book I was like "I bet someone's done this already" and I only thought that because I had this friend who kept getting mad at Hollywood because he said he couldn't get role because he's white and I was like "babe maybe you just aren't that good because they're deff hiring white guys" and it made me think then about how some people lie about their age and ethnic backgrounds to land roles...it happens it really happens so her book just seemed real to me.

@saiabokor 2 месяца назад

😂😂💀

@aliceborry3753 2 месяца назад

My thoughts exactly 😂

@izzyyrivv2761 2 месяца назад

This whole situation is insane but "The ghosts of Hunter Lewellyn and Cordelia Lynne" goes hard as a title

@krow5099 2 месяца назад

Someone should do a book like it lmao 😂😂😂😂

@sahie 2 месяца назад

As a white person, I really hate when this stuff happens and people feel the need to say, “Not all white people!” Yes, not all white people, but definitely *some* white people. Which is altogether too many! We consistently expect people of colour to be held accountable for the actions of other people of colour, but want to disassociate ourselves from people like this or (ugh!) Trump and Pals. It’s hard to accept, but we benefit from a racist society. We can never do a racist thing in our lives and people out there will still be actively working to make our lives better at the expense of people of colour. If we don’t work to make things better, then we’re a part of the problem. It sucks that the result of these bad actors is that it makes people less trusting online, putting further emotional labour on people of colour. 😔

@nyandoesthings 2 месяца назад

literally they sound like "not all men",, babes you can't just say "not me specifically though" and pretend like there isn't a problem

@IronWangCreates Месяц назад

Yeah it’s like “not all white people but all the people doing this have been whiiiiiite”

@titaniumandspiritgum1290 25 дней назад

I understand that part, but I think it's a bit dangerous to make this about queer women. The fact is that a lot of genuinely queer women get accused of faking their places in the LGBTQ+ community for attention, so painting the queer women as liars with victim complexes reinforces that harmful narrative and makes it much more difficult for women to come out.

@alexreid1173 2 месяца назад

How do these people even keep track of all the different people they’re pretending to be???

@banafanafofana6914 2 месяца назад

Imagine if they have DnD character sheets so they know how each fake account is meant to act 😂

@leontrotsky7816 2 месяца назад

I suspect corkboards criss-crossed with lots of strings might be involved.

@elleporter3157 2 месяца назад

not well enough to update the metadata 🥴

@rikimaru700 2 месяца назад

Multiple personality disorder maybe?

@sphericalspiders 2 месяца назад

@@rikimaru700No, this really isn’t how DID works. I bet there’s some crazy spreadsheets involved.

@cathym1365 2 месяца назад

The way they sabotaged themself multiple times because they kept on taking the same photos 😭

@mkay8894 2 месяца назад

No fr!! Imagine if they didn’t take the same photos, no one would have ever found out

@cathym1365 2 месяца назад

For someone who made such devious and complex plans they really forgot the small details 💀

@Romanticoutlaw 2 месяца назад

imagine being both a writer and *THAT* creatively bankrupt 💀

@AC_336 2 месяца назад

@@Romanticoutlaw all the creativity points went towards creating those identities.

@moustik31 2 месяца назад

And manuscripts!!! 😭

@21kaduku 2 месяца назад

"wHy aRe yOu mAkiNg tHiS aBoUt qUeEr wHiTe wOmEn" because they're always making it about themselves

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

YUPPPPP

@purrsefonie 2 месяца назад

spilled

@dereineschwarzerabe 2 месяца назад

Lmao they always feel so attacked everytime even tho its not about themselves

@Sheristen 2 месяца назад

"Uphold yourself with the same confidence as a white writer trying to catfish as you" motivational. Needed this today Cindy ❤

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

Yes!!

@raezersharp 2 месяца назад

Bro what even is the internet anymore 💀

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

a mess is what it is

@RuSosan 2 месяца назад

Dead internet theory. Except it's all bots *and* sock puppet accounts.

@manboy4720 2 месяца назад

@@RuSosan it's true. i'm a robot. bleep blorp.

@TheFlowerbeast 2 месяца назад

five YEARS??? The dedication and energy required to pull that off for that long. I can't even be bothered to pretend that i like someone's company for a week

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

Same I don't even stay in school or in a job for that long

@Lovefortea448 2 месяца назад

They couldve spent those five years actually learning spanish and latin culture or even travel to latin countries to create latin characters in her novels instead of this roleplay that amounted to nothing lmao

@TheRonnieaj 2 месяца назад

I’ve heard nothing about this (I deleted Twitter a few months back), but I find it WILD that I had the Taylor’s blocked but followed Freydis. The level of effort to maintain such different identities boggles my mind.

@GreatGreebo Месяц назад

*Creepshow Art:* “Nobody in the online creative space is more Bat Shite Crazy than me!!!” *Freydis Moon:* “Hold my beer….”

@BelleChanson0717 2 месяца назад

I really thought that the lady who faked her own death was going to be the most wild booktube drama for at LEAST a couple of years but Freydis said, "hold my beer" and went for gold.

@Daryaa804 2 месяца назад

and why did she lowkey ate with that..?

@BelleChanson0717 2 месяца назад

@@Daryaa804 genuinely, who among us has not had the urge

@Daryaa804 2 месяца назад

@@BelleChanson0717 she‘s iconic for that smh

@Daryaa804 2 месяца назад

@@BelleChanson0717 she‘s iconic for that smh

@highadmiraljt5853 Месяц назад

@@BelleChanson0717among u

@babyhippo3000 2 месяца назад

so this is my personal account, but i am a fantasy author who shared an agent with “freydís” and considered them a friend for over a year. they introduced me to my agent (who was also their agent at the time) they blurbed my book, i blurbed theirs, we chatted frequently, the works. i can tell you from personal experience that the depths of their depravity and deceit are shocking and go deeper than just their posts. i genuinely believe there is something deeply, intrinsically wrong with them that cannot be fixed. they create these false identities and slip between them with ease that i can only describe as sinister, and they seek out up and coming authors and industry professionals-generally queer and bipoc-and attach to them like a leech. i have rarely felt more violated. anyway, in the end i was the one to being the thread of proof to our then shared agent and within a couple hours they were dropped so…poetic justice i guess.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

i'm so sorry you experienced the misfortune of crossing paths with them :( your good faith and willingness to support your peers shouldn't have been taken advantage of like that

@babyhippo3000 2 месяца назад

@@withcindy thank you! that is so kind! one positive is since i pulled my blurb from the gideon testaments i was able to open up my requests to actual queer latine authors and have already read some really wonderful books because of it. other authors have been doing that as well which is fantastic imo. anyway, really great video! i won’t comment much in the future as i don’t wanna be in reader spaces too much even on my priv, but you def got a subscriber! 🫶🏻

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

@@babyhippo3000 ur always welcome to comment whenever u wanna share something or chat! Glad some good things came out of the situation, and wishing u all the best with ur writing ❤️

@babyhippo3000 2 месяца назад

@@withcindy thank you, same to you! i’m sophia slade on my public socials! ☺️

@christineherrmann205 2 месяца назад

As someone who was married to someone with DID, my primary reaction to this story was "This person is ill."

@witchflowers6942 2 месяца назад

shocked and horrified a fellow bisexual orca/cetacean enthusiast was getting bullied. We stand together 🐋

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

Hahaha I'm gonna send this comment to her so she knows she's got an ally 💖🐋

@TiffWaffles 2 месяца назад

Why do this? This writer spent five years pretending to be somebody they weren't when they should have spent all of that effort rebuilding their reputation, acknowledging their past wrongs, and I don't know... maybe writing their books. Instead, they spent five years hurting an entire community of people, and continues to hurt the very people and community by doubling down and refusing to acknowledge what they've done.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

i think they get more of a thrill pretending to be this persona than writing their books

@i10i60 2 месяца назад

It might be motivated as revenge against POC and allies on Twitter because Taylor felt like they were being bullied/cancelled unfairly. Manipulating the same community that cancelled them for being racist by pretending to be "LaTiNx"- I imagine Taylor to be devilishly twirling their moustache. Some people enjoy manipulating others and pat themselves on the back for 'cleverly' hurting others. Taylor was outed for being an unapologetic racist bully initially.

@NixanAmbrose 2 месяца назад

Book drama is like a multi season tv show where they have to constantly one up the last season until its delved into this atrocity

@Lovefortea448 2 месяца назад

Its a telenova worth coming back to everytime

@Lovefortea448 2 месяца назад

'the real authors of new Jersey'

@thewolfandherbooks 2 месяца назад

omg so truuuue 😭

@birb5306 2 месяца назад

we’re the Riverdale of Twitter

@qstionblomens6138 2 месяца назад

This is the Supernatural of booktwitter

@GangstaSparkleFairy 2 месяца назад

The internet has truly allowed grown adults to extend their middle school girl bully tendencies far beyond what is socially acceptable. All of the duplicity of pretending to be someone's friend on one account while trashing them on another gives me horrible flashbacks to childhood when girls did something fairly similar but without the benefit of anonymity that the internet provides. People like that are precisely why I've essentially opted out from engagement with the world outside my home.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

im sorry u had such a bad experience :( i hope u know that there will be good people who will care about and respect u too

@aesinam Месяц назад

I have a small but really close and loving friend circle. I hope you find something similar. There are good people out there. Don't give up

@natashalawely2900 2 месяца назад

as a white passing queer latine, i was getting major imposter syndrome, and then you hit me with 46:44 😭😭 you really hit me with what i needed to hear, thank you ❤

@thewitchbasket Месяц назад

This is giving me HIV Living flashbacks 😭

@chimchimcher-ee8191 2 месяца назад

It's important to note that not all Latine/Latinx people are people of color. If she was just pretending to be "Latinx" that's one horrible thing, but pretending to be a brown person goes so much further and contributes so much to the racism and colorism that Latine people of color experience.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

They were confirmed to be white, not white latine

@kusawwwwww 2 месяца назад

As one of these people I like to attribute this to what I call the “Schrödinger’s White People” effect. Basically, a latino person can be 100% genetically “white”, i.e. they can have the ability to trace all or most of their entire bloodline back to Europe but because they speak Spanish or Portuguese and/or live in a non-US country, by default, to Anglos they are “POC”. That’s really all it takes. Therefore we may be considered “white” or “non-white” depending entirely upon whatever happens to be the most convenient at the time, and therefore, people have some really weird hangups about “whiteness” in intersection with Latin identities. That is, people who are distinctly “white” WILL perceive you in a racialized way if you are Hispanic, Latino or even Chicano-even if you are visibly white-looking they will IMAGINE color that is not there the moment they learn of your heritage, hear your accent, see the food you make at home, etc. Whether or not we are “white” depends entirely on whether we are being observed and who is observing us. Does this make any amount of logical sense? No. Does this override actual colorism? Also no. But whiteness is a club, not a real actual thing-like, fucking Italians and Irish weren’t considered “white” less than a century ago. And so I can kind of see the path where a weird twisted sort of logic could come in that led a person to pretzel themselves into thinking they could claim this identity.

@kusawwwwww 2 месяца назад

(This also gets way more complicated when you talk about mestizo people, who by nature occupy a weird nebulous space between “white” and “non-white” that depends mostly on phenotype, but just as an example within my own family there are numerous people who are only 1-2 degrees separated familially but just so happen to Look totally different. My grandmother was visibly POC, and often had slurs intended for black people hurled at her when walking down the street in the US back in the 70s. My mom happens to be the kid with the lightest skin color out of her children, and so I ended up being a light-skinned grandkid. I have uncles and cousins with very dark skintones despite being half white. Both my mom and I get clocked as “racially ambiguous”-personally *I* think I look pretty white, but more than one Even More White person has randomly approached me out of nowhere to ask if I was *Japanese* before! It’s a mess!)

@coyoteartist 2 месяца назад

Latine? I've not heard this word before. I had the impression that Latinx was coming into use instead of specifying the gendered terms Latino and Latina. Is latine another similar word? I thought the word for just referring to Latin culture and countries was Latin.

@-homechord-2908 2 месяца назад

@@coyoteartistlatine is an alternative to latinx that flows more naturally in Spanish and works better with constructed gender neutrality in Spanish. For example, an nb person could say 'estoy cansade y soy latine' (I'm tired and latin). Both work tho lmao. It's a personal preference thing.

@baileywatson1606 2 месяца назад

Cait Corrain: I have caused the biggest book drama of the year! Taylor B. Barton: *sips drink and takes off sunglasses* hold my purse

@RespektTheBovril 2 месяца назад

And it's only April, we still have so much of the year left

@firewolfandrewb 2 месяца назад

If that's even their real name! No, legitimately, I have no idea what their real name actually is.

@emilyepew 2 месяца назад

The crazy part is that with the similar manuscripts, they were either guilty of plagiarism or race-faking like they were screwed regardless

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

A lose lose situation of their own making!

@emilyepew 2 месяца назад

@@withcindy truly

@KateHolden 2 месяца назад

I can't get over the deviousness of making angry tweets calling out the people who criticise any incorrect Spanish or get suspicious about lack of genuine-feeling cultural details in their stories, using legit social justice topics about PoC's relationship with language and the burden to only tell stories with an "ethnic" element. There's a really horrible cleverness to it. These are things my British Pakistani partner (who loves to write Fantasy) brings up often, and seeing a white person observing these real things PoC talk about and deliberately using them to imitate PoC for personal gain, and scare away anyone suspicious of that fake identity, is so shockingly brazen.... and yet unsurprising. As I often tell my partner: Take every opportunity you're offered, because as a middle class white person, I can tell you, we middle-class white people are raised to take every opportunity, poke holes in every contract, and to complain to the management if they deny us, or play to emotion or use rhetoric... *anything* to get our way. We're just also taught from an early age that being upfront and honest about being ruthless or competitive is terribly gauche, and it must all be hidden under a facade of niceness and civility. You are *not* taking more than your fair share by doing what we do.

@carolinemckee7009 2 месяца назад

*Reads title *Lounges back with a cup of tea "Alright, so who's pulling inspiration from R.F. Kuang this week?"

@user-kx5en8dg7u 2 месяца назад

i just know rf kuang giggles with joy every time something like this happens

@citrinedreaming 2 месяца назад

The funny part is Kuang could have actually taken inspo from them 💀 like when I read Yellowface I was like oh this is entertaining if unrealistic and then 2023-2024 book twitter happened and I was so very wrong

@lenimeredracone9579 2 месяца назад

I truly believe In like a year or two we're gna find out that all of book twitter is actually just 5 people getting into arguments with themselves using different accounts

@absolutew33b 2 месяца назад

And Colleen Hoover is somehow all 5 of them

@IronWangCreates Месяц назад

5 racists in a trenchcoat

@879SCSP 2 месяца назад

I like how the first comment I saw when the news broke was "SAVE ME READSWITHCINDY! I NEED A RECAP! SAVE ME!" ✨your impact✨

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

Hahaha prayers answered

@taylorfisse2978 2 месяца назад

Twist: Jupiter is actually Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way

@fernandafuentes6858 2 месяца назад

I'm watching this from mexico city, baffled. This gringa really logged into twitter for years and went 'mi gente latinooo'

@GioInvestigatesFrogs 2 месяца назад

Stooop not the JLo reference 😂

@DiMagnolia 2 месяца назад

Watching from Chiapas and baffled 😂 I screamed at the mazapán

@Marasaorykgsm Месяц назад

STOOOOP IT!!!

@kgal1298 2 месяца назад

5 years? The dedication I don't even stay at jobs for 5 years. 3 years tops.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

Literally same I didn't even stay in school for that long

@IronWangCreates Месяц назад

I signed up for a doctors surgery recently, and then when it was time to go in for them to check my ID I realised I’d forgotten what doctors surgery id signed up for. This was in the space of a week. If she doesn’t have multiple google docs tracking all this information then she is truly built different and built wrong.

@FortheHoliestofDoves 2 месяца назад

!!Not discourse!! For those who genuinely want to know or who don’t know, there are two forms of gender neutral terms for “Latino/a”. Latino is gender neutral and is used as a general term. Latine also fits this bill as the letter “e” after a Spanish word is usually gender neutral. If you know someone who is Latino and gender nonconforming, ask them which label they prefer or if they prefer a different version of the term. Just be mindful ^__^

@caprisbookisland 2 месяца назад

I like that you also touched on the importance of pen names for queer authors and authors of color and the way shit like this happening robs other people in small ways. The internet is so unreal

@kl3321 2 месяца назад

Person: so do you have any hobbies? Taylor/Jupiter/Freydis/Hunter: it's complicated

@artemis7104 2 месяца назад

i know logically that people are willing to fake anything, yet im still surprised every time something this outrageous happens

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

caucasity knows no bounds

@CL-lx2pm 2 месяца назад

@@withcindyEvery time I see shit like this I say a little thank you to my social anxiety lmao

@coolkidruby3429 2 месяца назад

This is scary… because she fully KNOWS all the things about why this is wrong. She knows all the talking points about being bipoc and the struggles. Yet they don’t care in the least bit. They could be at the protest rn saying all the right things while simultaneously making our live MUCH harder. Man wtf?? I’m questioning the whole “ally” thing. How tf do we trust that when we are literally fighting the monster outside with a bunch of little monsters “fighting” besides us. It’s scary fr.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

I totally get what u mean. Like we can't even trust "allies" at this point

@hex_gurl2389 2 месяца назад

as a mixed chicana who can barely speak spanish, what you said about imposter syndrome is so true. here i am freaking out whether or not my main character is “latina enough” for only knowing a little spanish and worried about using a pen name with my own literal great grandmothers last name because im worried i am not latina enough to actually have it, when literally this person is going around cosplaying my literal experience. cultural identity and the confusion and pain around it is real, and the thought of a white person pretending to experience that for clout pisses me off so much i think i may just have to feel good about myself now like you said 😭 thanks cindy!

@BrianaMichelleMeyer 2 месяца назад

I’m here. Lunch is almost done heating up. I’m ready.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

whatcha eating for lunch

@BrianaMichelleMeyer 2 месяца назад

Left over beef

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

@@BrianaMichelleMeyer omg I'm gonna eat the same for dinner

@mysticcat22 2 месяца назад

i’m glad you mentioned that a number of white queer people co-opt issues and concepts which are associated with poc, it’s like a gross attempt to get sympathy points. The apology was so icky because the language seemed lifted straight from poc discourse. You are right, those individuals don’t see the full spectrum of being a poc, they only see the support and opportunities created in a small subset of the internet, yet they still want to encroach on that space. Thanks for putting my discomfort into words.

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

Thank u for validating my words!! I got so many argumentative ppl the last time I brought that up 🙄

@mysticcat22 2 месяца назад

@@withcindy aww you’re welcome! i can’t believe people celebrate diversity in lit, then in the same breath argue with a poc bringing up issues of race

@cocoabeanz6171 2 месяца назад

what confuses me is... they're queer. They're already marginalized. They at least know what discrimination is like, even if not racism. why do they want another layer of systemic discrimination against them?

@tiamystic 2 месяца назад

Yeah people like that piss me off.

@followthemagpie 2 месяца назад

I'm not on booktok, or literary twitter, or have ever watched withcindy before. but this video got recommended to me and I have watched the entire thing, 10/10

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

welcome!

@christineherrmann205 2 месяца назад

Every time I even think about working on my own work instead of fanfiction, Cindy comes out with another of these videos.

@RamenzillaX 2 месяца назад

They love writing so much that they wrote themselves 80 different identities.

@GorloftheMonth 2 месяца назад

authors stop getting into controversies challenge 🙄 (impossible)

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

what would they do instead? write a book?

@Nebulousart 2 месяца назад

that would require remaining in the realm of fiction and not playing with real people's lives

@krow5099 2 месяца назад

The rock stars of our generation 🙄🙄🤣

@finboror 2 месяца назад

@@withcindy "I've given up trying to write a novel!" "I'm not going to do it!" "I've given up!" "Do you know how hard it is to sit down and write?" -calvin and habs

@ecrusar5216 2 месяца назад

There's a whole extra layer of depravity to this. When Freydis still had a lot of credibility to their name, they had (and might still have) a WHOLE lot of fans and followers who would blindly believe everything they said about other indie authors, and would witch hunt and harass them into silence as a result. Cardigan WAS an asshole, but publicly pummeling smaller authors is something of a routine pattern of behavior for whoever-the-fuck-this-person-is. I happen to be close friends with an author who was once targeted by this due a VERY public misunderstanding, and while they tried to politely clarify and resolve the issue in private with Freydis, they went on fanning the flames of controversy in public, spreading information that they knew damn well at that point wasn't true. The verbal harassment went on for like 2-4 weeks and left that author completely isolated from the community in a way that still hurts them to this day. Even if it wasn't just a misunderstanding, the level of abuse Freydis had a tendency to incite onto others was so far past the boundary of acceptable that it's kind of insane. They're far from the only one, too. Freydis practically specialized in using their platform to alienate other authors in the community over very flimsy slights, perceived wrongdoings, outright made-up wrongdoings, or even something as simple as speaking poorly of Freydis -- particularly other queer and neurodivergent indie authors. One of the more notable moments of this was when Freydis and another author/several other authors got into an argument over the expectation of sexuality in indie romance/fiction. When they disagreed with Freydis, they baselessly accused the other authors of being racist. Which their followers believed 100%, and harassed the authors as a result while Freydis went on a blocking spree. This is far from the only time that exact accusation has played out with them. I absolutely cannot fathom why they did this, since, as you said, they clearly had no problem with getting places in publishing. It was exclusively bullying for the sake of it, and a lot of authors were traumatized and forced into silence because of it. So if racefaking and mass deceit and manipulation on a level that would make the CIA uncomfortable wasn't enough, they used that same platform that they built off of completely fabricated identities to attack other authors basically just because they could. They'd make a spectacular supervillain, ngl.

@mirandabee2323 2 месяца назад

I saw "author was caught faking their race with multiple identities" and was surprised when this video wasn't about hivliving. 🙃 Thank you for the book recommendations!

@Aurelian369_ 2 месяца назад

Sometimes I’m glad my ethnic background isn’t trendy (Filipino) so I don’t have to see corny ass authors talking about how much they miss the halo halo man or whatever

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

LOLLLL PLS

@Lovefortea448 2 месяца назад

Same like at least shes not trying to pretend to be Uruguayan lol

@kecenzhou4668 2 месяца назад

Beware of Apollo's dodgeball (I used to think nobody would fake being Chinese because it wasn't as cool to be Chinese when I was younger, but I was proven wrong).

@farnregen 2 месяца назад

Dont give them ideas haha

@Ches19. 2 месяца назад

yeah exactly like there’s no clout whatsoever in being arab/muslim, so on the laundry list of issues i gotta deal with at least that’s not one of them lol

@DaniDacey 2 месяца назад

Shout out to Cindy for actually DESCRIBING WHAT HAPPENED! I just left a video where the creator clearly wanted to talk about the drama but didn't want to be seen as talking about drama. 😑So the entire video is just "can you believe that happened??" NO! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!? There are 15 different book communities on 15 different platforms. Provide context or shut up! If it's minor, just say what happened. If it's truly bad behavior, just say what happened so I can make more informed purchasing/reading decisions. Again, THANK YOU, CINDY!

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

i gotchu!!

@empressofkingfishers8656 2 месяца назад

Note to self: when undergoing new identities I should swap out my carpeting, my walls, my Christmas decorations, never take photos of my skin, and change my cat.

@percydoeseverything 2 месяца назад

I don’t get how people have the time to “be” multiple people…. I barely have time for myself 😂

@jolakristin281 2 месяца назад

Quitting my audiobook of yellowface for real book drama ✨😂❤️

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

who needs to read that book when u got the real deal here

@grapefruitTwostep 2 месяца назад

I was a critique partner of this person in the ancient year of 2014 (they then went by Taylor Brooke and as far as I know, I provided critique for their first novel but honestly what is the truth) The amount of racist shit I tried and failed to get them to cut out of their work earned them the nickname The Racist Wiccan amoung my friends. Shouldn’t be surprised AND YET here we are

@withcindy 2 месяца назад

NOOOOOO the way they only experienced character development in the worst way

@birb5306 2 месяца назад

Holy shit, like what? (No pressure to say, I’m just nosy sasdfghjdll)

@grapefruitTwostep 2 месяца назад

@@birb5306 ⁠A lot of it was kind of classic stereotyping: a Black woman described as “sassy”, a Japanese character with a Chinese surname and a family that ran a sushi restaurant to prove he was Japanese. At the time I figured we were both just young and white and still unlearning stuff at our own paces and they’d grow out of it (wrong, obviously). But they did once go on a rant regarding something in my work about a character of color making a comment about white people that I remember vividly because they were upset that as a white person, they “weren’t allowed to talk about certain issues” and “couldn’t go to the wrong neighborhoods” and also that reverse racism was real. They generally seemed really pissed that there were spaces in this world that just weren’t for them. Guess they decided they were gonna get in there no matter what

@jazwhoaskedforthis Месяц назад

That is a wild name and yet I'm not surprised unfortunately

@AlexHider Месяц назад

The nature of humanity is such that once in a while someone accidentally reinvents msscribe

@honey_bee1905 2 месяца назад

I love how you really break these things down. I get real bad impostor syndrome a lot, but then I learn authors like this exist and it makes me feel a bit better.

@m.a.w. 2 месяца назад

I am so tired of people faking their ethnicity. A tale as old as time but no one enjoys the story.”

@yessica7654 2 месяца назад

How do authors even have the time/energy to pull this off i cant barely get out of bed everyday

@bookbelle5475 2 месяца назад

This 100%, everytime sometime like this happens I'm just like how do you even have the time to do this?

@Lovefortea448 2 месяца назад

And where tf even happen to shame like how can you even lie like this, let alone 5 years?

@serenitysfirefly Месяц назад

Hey there! Hispanic American here (🇵🇷), albeit a bit late. A decent group of people in my community use the term "latine" rather than "latinx" because "e" is a pre-existing gender neutral vowel in Spanish. I also use "e" to refer to my non-binary partner; my "novie". :D

@CSRaeburn 2 месяца назад

Me, after deleting Twitter, TikTok, Insta, etc...: I am *so* done with internet and social media drama. Cindy: **uploads**

@fusetunes 2 месяца назад

this author would've thrived during the eras of ms. scribe sockpuppeting and that person who faked being hiv positive to write hamilton fanfics

@questionstar 2 месяца назад

LMAOoo I thought of these too! It's like this BS isn't new, but the scale definitely feels way bigger now lololol

@birb5306 2 месяца назад

FR!!!!!

@Romanticoutlaw 2 месяца назад

booktok would not survive the tomas jefferson hatsune miku binder era 💀

@octolingo1892 2 месяца назад

That person who WHAT

@HeckingHampter 20 дней назад

@@octolingo1892 Tldr; a hamilton fanfic author pretended to be a POC traffiking survivor with HIV for years. If you're curious, Strange Aeons has a video on them.

@odearflannery7781 2 месяца назад

It's crazy how her personality never changed no matter what race she was😂

@AC_336 2 месяца назад

Because to her, race is all that matters.

@elianaslivia4405 Месяц назад

She’s so bad at making fake identities, I’m sobbing 😭 like Ma’am! If you want to fake your identity don’t put the same zodiac signs at the very least!

@randompromises1038 Месяц назад

At least give one of your alts an actual Latine surname?? Like Martinez or Rodriguez like jfc

@IronWangCreates Месяц назад

I lost my EarPod in my bed for over 2 days and this person is keeping track of how many identities for HOW MANY YEARS?

@mayagarcia-hector2732 2 месяца назад

Half of these words would kill like anyone who actually goes outside.