This bestselling author’s creepy email for “spicy content” from book influencers backfired on him

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@syruphim 4 месяца назад

kenma kazume explaining what's going DOWN in the book fandom for 23 minutes and 28 seconds

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

ur comment was my first laugh of the day

@havokkhead 4 месяца назад

I KNEW they looked familiar

@sussiesushi9474 4 месяца назад

Cindy is about to pick up a volleyball just you wait

@Leevillain 4 месяца назад

HAIKYUU FAN SPOTTED

@minim-ms 4 месяца назад

Hang on I gotta google something Edit: ok this is funny

@Sheena000 4 месяца назад

“I’m a HUSBAND. I’m a FATHER” AKA “I can only recognize a woman’s humanity when I see them as an extension of myself.”

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

THIS ONE

@Sheena000 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy hi Cindy! Hope you’re doing well and having a great new year!

@morley364 4 месяца назад

"I'm RELATED to WOMEN, I can't be sexist!" ahhh right, because the most sexist people famously have no women relatives. Men only in their family tree.

@rue6914 4 месяца назад

Right like!! Don't you have sisters and mothers and aunts and grandmothers 🤯

@JamieLBW 4 месяца назад

@@rue6914 it's like, yeah dude, we assumed you met a woman before. We're half the planet. Lol.

@lightquest2 4 месяца назад

“i’m a HUSBAND, i’m a FATHER” is the equivalent of “i have a black friend”😭🤦🏾‍♂️

@LilyEvans1996 4 месяца назад

Yep! Because husbands and fathers have NEVER been abusive and inappropriate🙄

@Lovefortea448 4 месяца назад

I doubt those jobs are going to be long lasting either

@melowlw8638 4 месяца назад

it reminds me of matt damon a while ago saying smth around the lines of "im a father i would never want my daughters to have smth happen to them" in regards to SA and its like.. you need to be related to a woman closely to take bad shit happening to them into consideration?? why cant u just not want SA or attacks to happen regardless of whether u have women in ur life/who they r....

@imgunnagetyou 4 месяца назад

bruh i hope his wife got a divorce fr

@sakurabiskuit 4 месяца назад

I can't be a misogynist, my mother is a woman!

@HappyBirddi 4 месяца назад

"I'm a husband, I'm a father. I'm the son of the mother, I'm the mother of a son, I'm the nephew of a woman aunt." Only when the Barbie movie did it, it was supposed to be funny

@trucevideos 4 месяца назад

"some of my best friends are jewish!"

@mantisgreen 4 месяца назад

Reminds me of a Madonna song: "I could be your sister, I could be your mother, we could be friends, I'd even be your brother but I- would rather send creepy emails."

@lovelyhomeboy1584 4 месяца назад

@@mantisgreen is the i would rather send creepy emails actually part of the song.

@mantisgreen 3 месяца назад

@@lovelyhomeboy1584 Nah, it's not.

@Kay-wp8xf 4 месяца назад

Men really be like "I have a mother of course I love women" and then harass women

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

as if having a mother makes people exempt from sexism lol

@Kay-wp8xf 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy it's giving "I'm not racist I have a black friend" frfr

@rogue-taxidermy_griffin 4 месяца назад

@@Kay-wp8xfit is the exact same thing except it's more believable that they have a mother or female SO

@cloverp 4 месяца назад

@@azure9570funny because i dont do that. lets breed and see what our child's stand is on women

@GayAndTransCatLover 4 месяца назад

@@azure9570you’re either a POS or a bad jester. Either way, it isn’t funny. Quit harassing and degrading women.

@cuddlewuffle 4 месяца назад

why did he think that someone filming themselves nude and covering their genitals w a book would even be allowed on TikTok ??? this was definitely him trying to get ppl to make content for him to look at 😭

@randompromises1038 2 месяца назад

I'm not a TikTok user but I feel like even censored nudity would not make the TikTok guidelines very happy, and what this author wanted was definitely against most social media guidelines that prohibits even cartoon nudity (unless you're Instagram)

@Peevee-xs4xq Месяц назад

I've seen like straight up 🌽 on tiktok and like live streams of dying kids and people skinning rats so I don't doubt this happening

@childofgod759 6 дней назад

@@Peevee-xs4xq not on tiktok but i assume its like tumblr in the sense that it only targets a specific demographic, for example on tumblr you'll see gore because sometimes bigots will spam it in lgbtq+ tags, or cp being posted under a tag called redacted or something so it goes under the radar, but if you post a selfie as a trans woman on tumblr you'll be banned immediately for 'violating' guidelines. OR if u post a picture of urself (usually as a woman) in a risky outfit then you get banned and ur blog destroyed forever. TLDR; I don't doubt there are probably some people making sexual content on tiktok that goes under the radar but rarely do social media corporations actually enforce their guidelines in any meaningful way...

@TheMetamorphoses2003 4 месяца назад

"I'm a husband. I'm a father." Why do sketchy men always say this when they get caught for acting creepy towards women? Also, you're telling me he only started seeing women as people when he got married and not when he had a mother? 🤨

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

sadly many people dont see mothers as women

@mayarahman9995 4 месяца назад

It sounds like every politician 😅

@Demi_Purple 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy yeah... and seriously, a person like this seeing you like they see their mother still wouldn't help

@Sheena000 4 месяца назад

I don’t think people/men like this truly see women as people. There’s just the women who are extensions of themselves(mother, wife, daughter, sister). These women are obligated to serve them because of their personal connection but they’re also reflection of him so their image cannot be tarnished. Then there’s all other women. These women can be used and discarded because they’re not real people unless they’re personally connected to him. Their lives can’t be as meaningful and complex as his if he’s not in them.

@mookiess 4 месяца назад

ive seen so much of this happen to know that anyone that puts so much emphasis & builds their entire identity around a single issue (race, gender, etc.) to show how great or morally superior they are, are likely just using it as a front and to compensate for the real, terrible behavior. I mean, Ned Fulmer's a prime example. He put so much identity into being a family, wife-loving man and look how that turned out. Or the many examples of people that put a sexist remark then say they're all about gender equality.

@juliaschultz7192 4 месяца назад

As a woman named Julia from Canada I am very sorry that I apparently caused this and hurt so many women. I am sorry women.

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

Omg we finally found u

@juliaschultz7192 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy I'm tired of hiding. the guilt of ruining the good name of JD Barker was killing me

@marshlandz 3 месяца назад

@juliaschultz7192 this is absolutely hilarious 🤣

@alejajm1666 2 месяца назад

Do you even exist or are you three JD Barkers in a trench coat?

@missrebel634 2 месяца назад

Your sins are forgiven

@Nachtmusiks 4 месяца назад

How these authors keep fumbling the bags that was spoon-fed to them never fail to amaze me. First Cait Corrain now this guy.

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

i think this dude will be ok tho since he's already established

@Frogface91 4 месяца назад

And even if he hadn't been, I reckon he'd have been given a pass. A man, doing a harmless sexism? No biggie! @@withcindy

@tiacat11 23 дня назад

Imposter Syndrome is a hell of a drug, I guess.

@brunetteartist2750 4 месяца назад

> Male writer mails spicy booktok challenge suggestions to _only_ women > Suprise pikachu face when women complain about being sexualised unnecessarily

@KeylahJooste-gj8rs 4 месяца назад

"I'm a husband, I'm a father." Yes, history has never had a problematic husband or father before.

@MichelleGrondine 4 месяца назад

as soon as you read “covering up your naughty bits” onward i think i temporarily blacked out with rage

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

its best to black out for the rest of it tbh

@AllTheHappySquirrels 4 месяца назад

I'm so envious you were able to protect yourself that way. But I guess it means the therapy is working if can't dissociate from shitty situations anymore 🤷

@ermm-uz5we 14 дней назад

covering upyour👆naughty😈bits😳

@ermm-uz5we 14 дней назад

same omfg

@awakeache3627 4 месяца назад

'I have nothing but the deepest respect for women. I'm a husband. I'm a father.' Then you should know better???

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

CC the email to ur wife and daughter then

@awakeache3627 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy I want to make funny continuation of your joke, but I am honestly just internally screaming that my favorite Book Reader RU-vid responded to my comment.

@gentleauroraasmr8562 4 месяца назад

@awakeache3627 and sad part is. It's always those sort of guys who do the worst sht. It's almost like they use having a wife and daughters as a scapegoat to defend their actions. I hope his wife woke up fr and see what type of man she's laying next to.

@La-PetitMort 4 месяца назад

@@gentleauroraasmr8562well, she's probably aware. Love is blind and all that

@michellegodwin6567 4 месяца назад

What grosses me out the most is that the email states he would personally review these "promotional materials". Grossgrossgrossgross...

@kbird6208 4 месяца назад

And make specific requests back to you if your naughty bits aren't good enough for him

@jasminv8653 4 месяца назад

'regardless of age' is not sounding as good as mr barker must think it is

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

ya....

@friendlyghosthost1830 4 месяца назад

Kinda sounds like he mailed this to minors…

@Ka-BO0M 4 месяца назад

@@friendlyghosthost1830protect the minors away from mr baker /j

@twotruckslyrics Месяц назад

😵tf was he thinking

@stormborn23 4 месяца назад

Dude's like "How can I ruin my career in the sleaziest way possible? OH, I KNOW!"

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

"how can i upstage cait"

@stormborn23 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy HOLLERING 💀💀💀 What a way to start BookTok's year.

@kkuudandere 4 месяца назад

the second a man starts with "i have a daughter, i have a wife, i respect women", you KNOW he doesn't 😭 I'm also sure that influencers get paid WAY more just to sell food boxes and flat tummy teas, so that pay scale is ridiculous. No wonder he went after people who don't normally make that kind of content, because maybe he was hoping they wouldn't know any better. That's EXTRA creepy to me.

@VeronicaWarlock 4 месяца назад

That people even go there just shows they don’t have the respect. They think “I have one positive relationship with a member of a group” equals “I have done all necessary inner and outer work to achieve full unquestionable allyship with that group.” It’s very telling to everyone else.

@kkuudandere 4 месяца назад

@@VeronicaWarlock it's giving "i can't be a bigot, my dentist is [ethnicity]" lol and considering the way that relationships between husbands and their wives or fathers and their daughters has traditionally been viewed as basically ownership of a human being... it's never a good starting point

@Lovefortea448 4 месяца назад

Even if he has a wife, I'm pretty sure he already cheated one her with those emails. So he doesn't even respect her or the kids.

@VeronicaWarlock 4 месяца назад

@@kkuudandere exactlyyyyy. We can’t even pretend that being related to a woman is the same as respecting women. Like, it’s not a special circumstance. Most people are related to a woman, and everyone is related to a female person (though perhaps they never knew them). Half of all people with children have daughters. Does this mean everyone respects women? Maybe if they like outlined all the ways they are raising their daughters to be strong and independent, but nope. “Daughter exists, therefore I am great.” “I know a person of color and I don’t actively slur them to their face (or if I do they think it’s cool), therefore it’s impossible for me to do a racist action.”

@missrebel634 2 месяца назад

Preying upon the inexperienced smh

@samsaraatkis6098 4 месяца назад

I already get quite nervous emailing ANYONE, even for important things like academics. So, the sheer nerve of people to actually type down their brainrot and send it is insane. Like he really thought he ate that.

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

oh to be a man with no fear

@lizabethhampton4537 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy Reminds me of that one tweet: "Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man"

@isotetra1912 3 месяца назад

all he ate was a giant slice of humble pie that day....

@chickencatsoup 4 месяца назад

That email you recieved is absolutely unhinged. I cannot even fathom the lack of genuine human interaction this person must have to think that not only was any of that inappropiate, but actually admirable.

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

I just know they live in a different plane of reality

@CasinoQueenn 4 месяца назад

@@withcindyhe must have googled himself and couldn’t end the hallucinations.

@kartik3719 4 месяца назад

"He really learned that from Rhysand" had me screaming 💀

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

love it when a man gives me a choice

@wizmo2216 4 месяца назад

It all comes back to Rhysand 🧚✨

@Muted_Marcus 4 месяца назад

Hearing "your choice" in Cindy's voice is all it took for the Pavlovian trained gears in my head to start whirring.

@bunny_koo 4 месяца назад

Rhysand will never not be brought up in a discussion of feminist kings 😭

@toyo.saketoba 4 месяца назад

No because that was my first thought before starting the video😭😭😭

@francescakyanda9182 4 месяца назад

"I'm a husband, I'm a father" two of the most powerful household positions? two positions that can be abused under the guise of respect? say less.

@fenriswoolf 4 месяца назад

dude snatched defeat from the jaws of victory basically. like he had the movie deal already, why do all this😭

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

dude flew too close to the sun, needed to see the spicy vids too much

@artemis88899 4 месяца назад

@@withcindythe incel icarus

@librarianontheloose 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy Ick-arus

@desertels5119 4 месяца назад

@@librarianontheloose *slow clap* that gave me a chuckle

@twotruckslyrics Месяц назад

@@librarianontheloosein a positive way thisd do numbers on tumblr

@Jay-kc6sg 4 месяца назад

You’d think a bestselling author could write up a more believable excuse for the email that wasn’t just a version of “oopsie! Wasn’t me; my younger cousin must’ve been messing around on my computer” 🤡

@twotruckslyrics Месяц назад

sorry!! 😖 my brother wanted his turn on the computer and said that😱

@wizmo2216 4 месяца назад

Emailing people offering to pay for book reviews is already loser behavior (assuming he wanted positive reviews), but suggesting nudes really sends the loser-ness over the edge. Like this is a new level of pathetic. 😑 Edit: I wrote this reply around the 40 second mark of the video where Cindy says that the guy sent the email to “reviewers,” so I got confused and thought he was asking for book reviews initially. Now I get it.

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

paying for book promo is pretty standard! these examples, however, were not...

@wizmo2216 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy⁠ oh yeah, I’m sure paid book promo is pretty standard (if not something the publishers should already be doing), but seeing this guy email this while trying and failing to make it look like a PR team, that’s peak loser energy.

@kolorye 4 месяца назад

he wasn't offering to pay for book reviews, but for a sort of ad !

@GoldenWreck 4 месяца назад

@@kolorye much worse lol

@s.ian1 4 месяца назад

@goldenfred5815 Paying for positive book reviews is definitely against multiple book distributors TOS Paying for a book promo ad whatever is a lot less shady. Especially cause they have to disclose its a paid ad

@reporpoized 4 месяца назад

Now who would confidently email people to pose nude in a book review.. that's my question

@Lucifersfursona 4 месяца назад

Colleen Hoover Men

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

u wouldnt think PR is needed so much as common sense

@EmissaryofWind 4 месяца назад

Julia's a freak fr

@cat.book.nook. 4 месяца назад

Julia did! 😂

@d.o.vitelli5855 4 месяца назад

Who's Julia?

@Hermit_96 4 месяца назад

The way he signed those creepy perverted emails off as 'Julia', like he couldn't help himself, he just had to sign off with a 'J' name, IMO.

@alecg4995 4 месяца назад

is it an author trope whenever they get called out for their shitty actions to make an “imaginary character” to shift all the blame to? First Cait now this wacko. Like honey if only your delusional behavior was just fiction.

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

fiction is their go-to i guess

@keybladewizard49 4 месяца назад

his stalker amy wrote those emails

@jamesduggan7200 4 месяца назад

Language can be fun, as in this case where the phrase "I take full responsibility" probably means "I'm taking no responsibility at all and am actively looking for a scapegoat."

@chelscara 4 месяца назад

“Looking for any Julia willing to take responsibility for me”

@kbird6208 4 месяца назад

I take full responsibility for making up a persona to throw under the bus

@stephysteph8558 4 месяца назад

"I take full responsibility for not knowing that this other person did a boo-boo."

@thisurldoesnotexist 4 месяца назад

Crazy that someone who supposedly watches you didn't watch long enough to hear that you have a girlfriend

@natanbcpc 4 месяца назад

How do men manage to be that creepy so confidently? 😭

@flowersandcheesecake1710 2 месяца назад

Years of a culture giving them excuses 😒

@randompromises1038 2 месяца назад

Having had younger siblings where they could freely abuse me with no consequence, when you not only feel you're above consequence but you KNOW you're above consequence you want to keep pushing just to see how much more you can get away with. Barker must have attempted other sleazy shit and got away with it before this.

@revelockey 4 месяца назад

book drama never ceases to amaze me

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

the book community recycles discourse so much that im just glad when we get new stuff to talk about

@carolinemckee7009 4 месяца назад

This week on "How to Kill Your Writing Career": Author and his marketing team mistake TikTok for OnlyFans by conducting zero research

@vitadasgupta5336 4 месяца назад

I’m sorry the fact that it says “he will personally review the vid” and the suggestion is a bunch of convoluted nudes is djdjsbsb

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

he will PERSONALLY handle it

@julietamr1007 4 месяца назад

The Fact the email was signed with a Woman's name Completely shows that him or his PR or whoever he wants to blame for this, knew that it was creepy and women would be put off and weirded out by a man suggesting this.

@urishitapawar 4 месяца назад

Book drama is always so out of pocket and for what 😭

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

what happened to writing

@skylaswirls 4 месяца назад

I swear the art community and the book community have the worst drama

@Mae_is_meh 20 дней назад

@@skylaswirls dont forget the knitting and crocheting communities its a clown show there

@rickochetz 4 месяца назад

My headcanon is that "Julia" is really just Rhysand and he cofounded that PR firm with JD Barker

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

rhysand respects women so much he has to make alter egos of them

@rickochetz 4 месяца назад

We love a lying feminist king 👑

@necroticpest9118 4 месяца назад

I think that email sent to you took years off my life just listening to it. I've been sent horrendous shit, but that just made me cringe too hard

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

if i had to read it so do u

@Pandaroll223 4 месяца назад

Girl I hope whoever sent you that email is watching and is so embarrassed of themselves rn cause that was nasty 🤢

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

anyone with that lack of self awareness has to depend on never feeling embarrassed

@JustNicole6400 4 месяца назад

The apology is giving Chat GPT 😂💀

@nyoomeck 4 месяца назад

makes sense given that the cover for the book is ai 💀💀

@thesealky6445 4 месяца назад

@@nyoomeck OH NOOOOOO

@kieransky 4 месяца назад

@@nyoomeckI was wondering why the jigsaw elements of it looked so scuffed, if it's actually done by AI that would explain that

@teslashark 4 месяца назад

The video suggestions are, too

@nyoomeck 4 месяца назад

@@kieransky it 100% is, it’s crazy too bc how much work is it to edit jigsaw pieces over a woman’s face?? he’d just be paying for the stock images too, it’s so dumb

@bessdavies6440 4 месяца назад

Who's Julia you ask? You wouldn't know her, she goes to another school 😂

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

shes from canada!

@alanis0533 4 месяца назад

she lives in vancouver

@NixLaLoupe 4 месяца назад

He thinks "outside the box" but his characters are named Abby and David 😂

@JuniperJadePR 4 месяца назад

Cait: *nukes entire writing career with sockpuppet reviews* J.D.: "Hold my creepy uncle card"

@eridexx 4 месяца назад

it is amazing to me how so many of these authors CONTINUE to fumble the bag so hard. it takes zero effort to not be creepy, not be a liar, or to not try to copywrite the sun. these people go out of their way to sabotage themselves. it's crazy.

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

just be quiet!! thats all it takes

@Lovefortea448 4 месяца назад

@@withcindyno exactly. It's really not hard to be quiet during your success, especially when it's something people can only dream of

@scottbuck1572 4 месяца назад

Seriously, like you just have to do nothing. Like sit still and don't talk and you will be a famous and wealthy author 😂

@annieothername 4 месяца назад

I think…it’s very interesting that despite sex work having legitimate, safe, and inclusive and independent platforms where he could send this email and have it less disturbing, he chooses instead to harass non sex-workers for a single Benjamin. Like you said, didn’t even ensure those asked are adults, provide storyboards or visualizations for concepts vs having people MAKE the content and send it BEFORE approval. This one is REALLY bad but im so glad that women feel safe enough dunking on these creeps collectively ✨ be safe, everyone!

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

yea, it adds to the unprofessionalism - the "ideas" are so poorly written with no actual concept or direction

@chrisvogel9744 4 месяца назад

I can't believe they actually sent out an email with the words 'naughty bits' in it. I know that's the least of the issues here, but it bugs me inordinately.

@ramshafarooq 4 месяца назад

anyone who puts THAT many ellipses in a single paragraph is bound to be sus

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

.......true.......

@chelscara 4 месяца назад

“I’m a husband and father” and I feel bad for your wife and child my guy, it changes nothing 😂😂😂

@Lovefortea448 4 месяца назад

He's about to go through a 'divorced with estranged kids' arc

@diiiiiiiiiii78 4 месяца назад

No sugar or spice just my salty tears of disgust

@christinahicks978 4 месяца назад

As someone who does read spicy books and refuses to read books based on booktok recs, these authors and PR people need to stop pandering to booktok. All I see is them trying to force themselves in and then getting in trouble either due to with the hockey drama and causing sexual harassment to who The PR teams were wanting to promote or here were its sexually harassing the content creators for booktok.

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

very true!! they dont know how to read the room

@Perfectothemediocre 4 месяца назад

Even if I were trying to promote a spicy book, and I thought the best way to do that was to make the promotion itself spicy, I would still do it the opposite way from how this guy did. Instead of approaching book content creators and asking them for spice content just approach spicy content creators and ask them for book content.

@Tenshii_Artii 4 месяца назад

Literally. Even though this whole thing is all gross. It would seem more appropriate to actually send this to exclusively known Spice-content creators…you know, being professionals in their craft?? How someone can lack this much of self-awareness is baffling.

@lilamasand5425 4 месяца назад

the ad they wanted those BookTokers to make is like the kind of shitty ad you see on mobile games lmao like it's honestly not that hard to engineer a TikTok that BookTok would like, but obviously they have no idea what those usually look like

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

yea those ideas really were just winging it with no actual market research or knowledge of how booktok operates lol

@KosmiskRevolution 4 месяца назад

"J D Barkley, are these influencers in the room with us right now?"

@twotruckslyrics Месяц назад

HELP

@opal_sage_ 4 месяца назад

the fact that he uses that he's a husband and a father as an excuse like that means anything

@VeronicaWarlock 4 месяца назад

It actually means the opposite, that he has no idea what respect entails.

@valeriarossini543 4 месяца назад

why do all these authors who are already set up for success fumble the bag so hard

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

they flew too close to the sun

@annaweldon8064 4 месяца назад

Sun ™️

@hartthorn 4 месяца назад

What's wild is that... if he had just said "Hey! This is a campaign for a book of the spicy variety, so suggestive promos are not only allowed but encouraged! We want people to see this book and think sexy." and people would have probably just went "yeah, that tracks." At most they would have said "I'll pass on this one." But dude got himself so worked up over the IDEA of it, he decided to force his porn fanfic on people in a business email.

@exhaustedhomo7059 4 месяца назад

“by the way, if you don’t know what i’m talking about” for one millisecond i lived in a fantasy world where i don’t know what booktok is, and for that i thank you

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

Ur welcome, I wanted to give u that peace

@HyeJinStarlight 4 месяца назад

seems every shady author is trying to outdo the previous one...

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

cait corrain still gags me tho

@HyeJinStarlight 4 месяца назад

@@withcindy cait corrain surely did the most... but the one who claimed she had a copyright on the sun really had me thinking it was a prank

@cylexia 4 месяца назад

GIRL!!!! that email you received at the end is so funny 💀 why do men ...

@tillyb7 4 месяца назад

Cindy talking about book drama has to be one of my all time favorite things

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

glad u revel in watching the trainwreck

@exhaustedhomo7059 4 месяца назад

why do ppl who get even a little bit rich and famous suddenly think that everyone else around them is an npc that will do anything for a certain amount of cash, like NO sir, OBVIOUSLY people won’t strip naked to promote your book, go find weirdly specific, ego-stroking, softocore porn elsewhere, if u want the promo that badly, hire actual adult content creators instead of bothering people who just wanna talk abt books online ffs

@kbird6208 4 месяца назад

Would a PR firm EVER have access to someone's actual email account in this way? Does that even make sense?

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

maybe they do when that person is also the co-founder of said PR firm

@chexmixbaby44 4 месяца назад

* wrestling announcer voice * And here come Cindy with the INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE!!!!

@KitCabaret 4 месяца назад

What really gets to me is the way it says like, "Barker will review each video, triggering payment" and that you're "free to post" only AFTER the video is submitted to him directly. Like... Not payed for publishing the video (ie actually *advertising* the book), literally payed for sending a spicy video directly to him - like clearly this whole stunt was never about advertising to begin with, but if that's not a smoking gun I don't know what is

@samantharose1001 4 месяца назад

okay what got me (besides everything) was the “sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you!” as if it’s benign or a typo rather than super creepy and not okay at all 🙃

@MegaChadAnakin 4 месяца назад

ive been in the community for 5 years but this one genuinely shocked me

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

damn that says a lot

@librarianontheloose 4 месяца назад

Author tea is some of the wildest tea I come across. I mean fake your own death, make sock puppet accounts to bash your competition, ask for n00ds type of insane tea levels. And all of that was just in the past year.

@Blackdecay 4 месяца назад

Cindy, you‘re like the opposite of the Avatar, the antiavatar, because every single time I need your content most, you deliver! 😩

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

Love that!

@chacharealsmoove 4 месяца назад

The way he literally admits to viewing the women by saying ‘promotional material’ is insane

@oopsallbugs 4 месяца назад

this is such a small thing but the "10-15 seconds of footage of the influencer holding or pointing to the book" is insane, that is such a long amount of time to do that! Just no concept of what makes for good advertising on even the smallest level. My "men who write dark/sexual thrillers are generally creeps" belief remains unchanged

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

perhaps the most offensive part of the email is the terrible ideas itself

@tarotsushima3332 4 месяца назад

The first email was egregious enough, didn't need the "Sorry my cousin wrote that/logged into my account" ass excuse as well. And yeah listening to the premise it does sound exactly like Nerve,the book, so idk if there's more to it than making it 'spicy'

@RamonaGelosi 4 месяца назад

The "I'm a husband, I'm a father" reminded me of that scene in Barbie that Will Ferrell says: "I'm the son of a mother. I'm the mother of a son. I'm the nephew of a woman aunt. Some of my best friends are Jewish!" just bc Barbie was upset bc there was no women in charge.

@breauna3988 4 месяца назад

22:15 Before you described what he looked like I knew that man had a fedora or two 😭😭😭

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

Sometimes stereotypes are true

@brittanyphillips9157 4 месяца назад

I feel like I need to know if he also has a pet lizard. Idk why but it’s giving me pet lizard vibes 😂😭

@biblio.esther 4 месяца назад

Cindy: But when it comes to the music it's always your choice. Me: He learned from Rhysand. Cindy: He really learned from Rhysand. Me: 🤯🤯🤯

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

rhysand will never make us forget

@Jolan-bm3io 4 месяца назад

I wouldn't even call that e-mail amateur work, it's laughably bad, like down a pathetic level. I don't know a single person in my life, no matter how little they might know about advertising, who would write something this creepy with no thoughts and have the nerve to offer this little compensation. I don't understand how people like this are not afraid their own incompetence might poorly affect their work, and just do whatever they want.

@thuthuypham8611 4 месяца назад

Idk why but the tea is much~ more interesting when Cindy talks about it 👌👌👌

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

haha glad i can make it more interesting!

@poingupoingu 4 месяца назад

I’d have so much more respect for him if he just straight up said “yeah I’m a misogynist creep with no self awareness. I fucked up and will be seeking therapy”

@isitleeyourelookingfor6352 3 месяца назад

"Show him your body, and he'll DECIDE if he wants to pay you for it" WHAT? That's gotta be one of the biggest red flags when it comes to doing any type of work for someone,,,That's crazy

@chelscara 4 месяца назад

21:30 it’s the “LOL”s for me, I don’t know why they are giving me the most damage

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

and yet none of us are laughing 🤡

@satemine6387 4 месяца назад

this is exactly what i needed before my philosophy class. questioning what’s wrong with humanity ^2

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

this is real philosophy

@elena_1776 4 месяца назад

This dude 100% just wanted to look at pictures of women posing naked with his book. No chance he can convince me there was any other motivation lol

@randomspider725 4 месяца назад

OMG, that email that you got feels like something written in a bad novel. How do people have this much confidence?

@banafanafofana6914 4 месяца назад

Another day, another man with The Audacity.

@alexhika 4 месяца назад

I legit spit some sushi when I heard RHYSAND. Will we ever be free? 😂

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

never

@tatiana2696 4 месяца назад

*The tea is exceptionally good today* - Wendy Williams

@crimsonpsycho 4 месяца назад

Cindy keeps me up-to-date of all the onlime book drama without me ever opening tiktok. The sheer audacity of authors like Barker to pull this shit really shouldn't surprise me, but it still does.

@Zoeaxel 4 месяца назад

Not Rhysand catching smoke too 🤣🤣 I need more book drama to be explained to me by Cindy

@ma.nasa26 4 месяца назад

This is the equivalent of a film director asking film reviewers on TikTok to post an Onlyfans remake of their movie wtffffffff

@sunnyy_ 4 месяца назад

And the thing is, his book sounds kind of interesting, but now I'll never even consider reading it. What a loser

@MaxEverywhereSystem 4 месяца назад

every time i hear about this kinda book drama im always reminded of the tweet "whenever you get in a twitter beef with someone it's only a matter of time before someone starts talking like sephiroth in your replies." because ive yet to hear of an author acting normal after criticism

@withcindy 4 месяца назад

LOLLL HELPP

@abookishmess 4 месяца назад

"I'm husband, I'm a father and now a creep" see he just didn't finish the phrase. 😂😂 But seriously the police should raid his laptop because I'm worried he's sketchier than we think.

@allyhildreth9438 4 месяца назад

The email you received is INSANE

@ruoye7 4 месяца назад

That email cindy got is genuinely unhinged 😭 it’s crazy to think that people like that exist in real life and see nothing wrong with the way they act😭😭

@shannon.a.smithh 4 месяца назад

Putting all the creepiness aside (which, like, how can you actually?), I love how he said “I trust influencers to market my book better than I can!” And then two seconds later he said “make a video exactly like this with these specific shots, blah blah blah” like stfu sir 🙄🙄🙄