Getting boys to read books?

Ever since the invention of the radio, cinema, and television, literature and books were rendered obsolete and has been dying ever since. The question I ask if you today is How do we get boys to read at an early age, IQfy? Recent studies have shown that they direct less time than girls to process words, that they’re more prone to skipping passages or entire sections of books, and that they frequently pick books that are beneath their reading levels.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/boys-don-t-read-enough

Have any of you guys thought of a plan to make reading more fun for boys or at the very least, try to reverse the trend?

I thought about using a Vtuber to appeal to them to read more.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick are you talking about.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      IDK about the vtuber bullshit, but it's true that boys read less than girls:
      https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reading-minds/201803/what-is-it-boys-and-reading

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        unless they're based schizos like me

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Boys are reading less, can’t you read?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        he's a boy deshou

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Deja vu, this thread again. Stop trying to shill your vtuber channel. Hiroyuki made an entirely containment board for this shit.

  3. 2 years ago
    Frater Asemlen

    The thing is, what girls read is usually garbage literature in the first place. Stuff like YA lit is equivalent to or worse than what boys would actually be reading which also wouldn’t be counted, which is to say, manga and light novels and comics and we novels and so forth. there is a massive consumption of these by young boys and already the YA market and fantasy is rapidly trying to absorb the tropes and cliches and narratives of manga and light novels due to them being phenomenal at getting high young male readership, and also because a ton of people who are trying to write these days simply don’t read any of our traditional western literature, instead basing their writing on tv shows, movies and the aforementioned anime/manga.

    Eventually our western YA material will be fully permeated with the Japanese style of young male wish fulfillment fused with the predominant genre formulae already employed, at which point we will logically see an uptick in young male readership. Someone like Sanderson is a proof that there’s still a big market in the young male audience for schlock.

    Now I’m not saying it’s better or worse, shit tier content is shit tier content, but our home-grown anime pastiche will attract more people.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The thing about books is that even the schlocky ones are a strong gateaay into training the mind's eye to process information into an imaginative form, making it much easier to process more difficult works.

      Not that there aren't plenty of great children's books and stories, even comics, but they're to be succeded by adult literature when the mind's ready.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Surprise to see this viewpoint on IQfy considering how elitist everyone is.

      • 2 years ago
        Frater Asemlen

        Sure but at that point boys are consuming plenty of material If we consider everything though, right?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >but they're to be succeded by adult literature when the mind's ready.
        OK I can get behind that idea. However, are you sure that reading YA novels will really get kids into tougher works? Often the difficulty of classics comes from the frickton of antiquated cultural stuff that requires you to google something 5 times a page, and the much more nuanced and complex, "difficult" themes. Difficult and more challenging thematic works are present in all forms of media, from movies to videogames, but you don't see movie and videogame junkies naturally transitioning to that harder stuff. I question if reading would be any different. You'd have more luck introducing harder classic works to a guy that watches similarly challenging movies than a YA novel fan.

        My personal master plan for educating the public is creating an addicting tropey free videogame which forces players into difficult ethical and moral dilemmas once they're hooked. Sorta like undertale tbh

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Recent studies have shown that they direct less time than girls to process words
    Maybe they're just smarter so they don't have to spend as much time thinking about the definition of words?
    >that they’re more prone to skipping passages or entire sections of books
    Many books have pointless filler in them. If you're just looking to get the general idea there's no reason not to skim.
    >and that they frequently pick books that are beneath their reading levels.
    Reading isn't a competition to see who can read the "hardest" books.

    The only thing to be concerned about here is that boys read less than girls in general, but with reading one should be more concerned about the quality of what they're reading rather than the quantity. I would rather young boys read one classic every year instead of a dozen shitty YA novels in a month. Young boys probably shouldn't be reading much anyways and should focus on more active things such as sports and constructive hobbies. I could argue that reading itself is a passive feminine activity with the exception of really good books that truly engage the reader. Women probably also watch more TV than men because that is similarly cheap passive entertainment.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Reading isn't a competition to see who can read the "hardest" books.
      >I would rather young boys read one classic every year instead of a dozen shitty YA novels in a month.
      Was it autismo?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No, too much IQfy b

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Classics aren't classics because they're "hard". They're classics because they hold cultural significance and are well-written. To Kill a Mockingbird is quite an easy read and may have more basic themes compared to what is mostly discussed on IQfy but that doesn't mean it's a bad book by any means and it is still considered a classic novel. Only pseuds try to play up the books they read as "hard" because they want to sound accomplished, just as some pseuds think a quantity of books read makes them smart. When it comes to encouraging the younger generation to read we should do so in a manner that doesn't make them into pseuds.

        I probably just fell for bait.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Classics aren't classics because they're "hard". They're classics because they hold cultural significance and are well-written.
          You're on IQfy.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's still surprising to me that people try to flex egos over reading fiction. In science, philosophy, history, or most other intellectual endeavors, the goal is to develop new theories by building on existing ones. As a literary elitist, attempts to flex egos are made by declaring that existing work(s) are beneath oneself and plebian. It's a purely negative endeavor which is why most of IQfy just reads for social capital and one-upsmanship anyway. No new knowledge is created here.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >It's still surprising to me that people try to flex egos over reading fiction
            Because they got nothing else going for them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Typical IQfy sexist autism. Women do this worse than men, women do that worse than men. Let's talk about literature. frick off

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How about you be a good little prostitute and post your breasts, b***h.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I have to be a woman to disagree with this nonsense?

          Post your country, third worlder

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            America.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's probably impossible. The allure is too strong now and kids are constantly on their phones. Not that they're the only ones. Almost everyone is basically fellating that fricking thing and even people that read a lot and try to get their kids into books fail. One can only hope they'll come around to it later in life.
    My mother toned me into it when I was little and it never went away. Had it been my father, well, I probably would have turned into a wage slave of the worst kind but that was back when the internet wasn't really around and phones were bulky giants. Nowadays you grow up with that shite and the internet and the TV and your social circle beats forces you to partake.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It isn't the allure, it's that books aren't instant communication.
      And that we live under the perception that we need to be productive in order to succeed in life. Reading a book takes time, time that you're not spending with others (or listening to someone other), and we learn the most and are most productive when we are toghether.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    First, you got to reform the school system, the way the school system introduces reading is terrible and counterproductive. The second, and perhaps more importantly, have authors write fun stories for boys/children. Those are my two cents.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Agreed with this comment about fun stories. As moronic as it may sound, I got into reading because of the series Beast Quest, and then quickly progressed to higher level stuff. It's fine for kids to read stupid stuff when they're young, but the trick is to make sure they don't stay at that level when they get older, like people who read lots of YA do.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I remember Animorphs, Redwall, goosebumps, etc. What's written for children today that's fun?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Now that you said it, what did happen to those series? And why haven’t they been replaced with new ones?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Brian Jacques is dead so no more Redwall. Animorphs concluded.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >YA (Young Adult)
        Why is this term used to sell books aimed at teens who go through puberty?
        Young adults are adults aged 18-30

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Because its a marketing term and nothing more.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          So the childish BookTok women can feel grown up because they're "adult", yet young and pretty because they're "young"

          We should reward young boys who read books with sex from girls. Of course they shouldn't be rewarded if they speed-read schlock books. Rather they should only be rewarded if they read classics or other worthwhile books, and then be tested on their ability to retain the information and cum to their own conclusions about what they read. Boys who show good reading comprehension with notable books should get first pick of the girls they want to frick, while the more illiterate boys choose last. Or maybe it should play out like a striptease, where if the boy answers a question correctly his hot teacher takes off another piece of clothing, but if he gets too many questions wrong he blows his chance at getting sex and is left blueballed.

          The bawdmaker wants to pimp out and ruin girls for their future husbands.

          Now that you said it, what did happen to those series? And why haven’t they been replaced with new ones?

          Warrior cats is still going

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >The bawdmaker wants to pimp out and ruin girls for their future husbands.

            >taking a IQfy shitpost seriously

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Warrior Cats is still going
            I thought that ended?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No. Young adult fiction is written for 12-18. And I don't know where you pulled that number because I've always heard about people referring to 16-18 as young adults. But I suppose when the term was created that was what young adult meant, and now not so much.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You're correct that the term "young adult" is typically used to describe people after adolescence. It's just an inaccurate term that was probably used to emphasize that young adult books were precursor to adult fiction in people's reading progression; essentially, adult fiction for young people. Teenage fiction would be a more accurate term.
          Also, after doing a bit more research, it looks like the term originated from an article in 1802 that defined "books for children" as <14, and "books for young persons" as 14-21, which feels roughly accurate.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nice effort post

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Here's what worked for me. My mother sat on my bed one night and told me she wasn't going to read to me anymore. Then she never did. She ran away with my sister and I've only seen her a couple times since. I figured she was really fricking serious about not reading to me anymore, and I kind of understood the basics of how to read, so I just tried hard until I could read more and more complicated books. In short, I think we should remove women from young boys lives early on and make sure those boys are surrounded by quality books.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    men don't need to read
    we understand things by interacting with the world, thinking, and debating
    we play video games for entertainment

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >men don't need to read
      IQfy in a nutshell

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Boys don't read because most of them are actually supposed to be learning real skills that they can perform with their bodies instead of sitting quietly and turning the pages of some YA novel with a progressive liberal slant. Reading isn't what they evolved for.
    Boys not reading isn't a problem. It's that, to progressives, boys being masculine is a problem.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You have to go leave

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I've been on IQfy daily since around 2013. Been on /misc/ maybe 20 times in my life.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          IQfy daily since 2013 yet you've managed to internalize the post-2016 /misc/ tourist propaganda. Reading builds critical thinking, they said

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >critical thinking
            >it's wrong because someone who goes on /misc/ might think the same thing.
            Sure, buddy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Boys don't read because most of them are actually supposed to be learning real skills that they can perform with their bodies instead of sitting quietly and turning the pages of some YA novel with a progressive liberal slant. Reading isn't what they evolved for.
      >Boys not reading isn't a problem. It's that, to progressives, boys being masculine is a problem.
      In 99% of human societies reading was an essential characteristic of masculine education, alongside gymnastics etc.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I think most human societies, on the total scale of humanity's existence, have not had writing. But of those that had writing, probably.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          yeah kek I was exaggerating, obviously a moronic comment from me. but in most literate societies yes. seems strange to describe the hypermasculine greeks as feminine

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >hypermasculine greeks as feminine
            They did had sex with children.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That does seem to be a feature of patriarchal societies

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And yet, the majority of men in those societies were illiterate.
        I'm not criticising the act of reading to understand the history of one's culture. I'm criticism the liberal hand wringing over the fact that men aren't reading as a leisure activity the way women are.
        If a guy plays videogames, and his gf reads YA, is she using her time more wisely? I don't think so.
        If a man goes to the gym and his gf reads YA, is she using her time more wisely? I don't think so.
        There's nothing inherently virtuous about reading for readings sake. It's about what you read, not that you read. And most men aren't going to get anything out of reading Homer so what's the point.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >And most men aren't going to get anything out of reading Homer
          How do you figure?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You talk with the average dude? They're dumb as a sack of bricks. They'd get filtered by the catalogue of ships.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Maybe the men I talk to are a skewed sample but I wouldn't have thought so.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Are you a bot?

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    We should reward young boys who read books with sex from girls. Of course they shouldn't be rewarded if they speed-read schlock books. Rather they should only be rewarded if they read classics or other worthwhile books, and then be tested on their ability to retain the information and cum to their own conclusions about what they read. Boys who show good reading comprehension with notable books should get first pick of the girls they want to frick, while the more illiterate boys choose last. Or maybe it should play out like a striptease, where if the boy answers a question correctly his hot teacher takes off another piece of clothing, but if he gets too many questions wrong he blows his chance at getting sex and is left blueballed.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You forgot to bump.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This is a garbage thread and OP has made it like three times already. I'm not going to willingly bump this bot-tier thread. I'm already taking a risk with this reply - you're probably trying to get me to admit to a sage so you can report me and get me banned. Well guess what, homie? I didn't sage this time. I hope you enjoy this garbage thread being on page one again. People complain about IQfy going into the shitter in regards of quality but when I make an active effort to keep the board clean by using a sage for it's intended purpose some homosexual calls me out for it. This is pushing me to the breaking point - maybe no one actually wants IQfy to have quality discourse any more. When this board is nothing more than blue /misc/ I hope you will look back at this post and realize what you are responsible for. homosexual.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You come to IQfy for discussion?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Clearly you don't.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I do, but I realize how pointless it all is when the rest of the bird doesn’t.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't think you can force it, but if more women found well-read men attractive it would be a big step in that direction. (I mean, I find well-read men attractive but I may not be the average woman.)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        > but I may not be the average woman
        Yes because you have a penis anon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That was four days ago, anon. She won’t see it.
          She’ll never notice you.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Show them books that appeal to them, that they're intrinsically motivated to read. That's going to differ by the individual.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Ever since the invention of the radio, cinema, and television, literature and books were rendered obsolete and has been dying ever since.
    So why is boys not reading a bad thing? The only reason anyone in past even bothered with literature was because for the longest time there weren't any superior alternatives. Literature had it's time, but it's over now. It deserves to die and be forgotten.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The thing is, this easy, comfortable and effortless form of recieving information makes boys weak and lazy from a young age. Why sit down and enjoy a book when you can overstimulate yourself with some spergy youtube video instead? Why retain information when immediate entertainment and gratification is so much easier? Making men think this way- and think that it's normal to do so, causes much more harm than the minor inconvenience of not having to try as hard to consume something, just because you don't feel like it.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Queen Ophelia III
    I just check this b***h on youtube, and she does book reviews, and it turns out she's from IQfy.

    The frick?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >and it turns out she's from IQfy.
      I keep seeing this, is this true? Why does she read if she's from IQfy.

    • 2 years ago
      « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

      >It was two years ago!
      Hahahhahahaha (1:19:00~ )

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        But she's right.

        • 2 years ago
          « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

          I heard her. I never knew this about the book. Silly incongruence timeframe.
          >“It was so long ago since I wore pants” it was two years ago!
          Oh Margaret

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I just check this b***h on youtube, and she does book reviews, and it turns out she's from IQfy.

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      >The frick?
      She can't be from IQfy, she read the books and gave a somewhat okay review on them.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I wish she did more read alongs.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I'm hoping she does.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >she read the books and gave a somewhat okay review on them.
        She's really passionate about them.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >using a Vtuber
    How is pretending to be a lust provoking anime girl supposed to better the world?
    If this is what's involved in "getting boys to read", then they shouldn't be reading in the first place.

  16. 2 years ago
    « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

    I think there’s some healthy equilibrium going on with less males reading. I don’t wish them a poorer education, but a little more understanding. Everyone’s different (what I’m just now listening to from this John Taylor Gatto guy) and can learn what they want and need in a variety of ways.

    (Queen Ophelia sounds cute)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm pretty sure that book is pseudoscientific nonsense with some pretty transparent mistakes about several world languages and cultures.

      • 2 years ago
        « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

        It’s pretty accurate, but the human mind is still mysterious and evolves easier. It’s a mystery why goddesses disappeared and why violence erupts at certain moments in history. This brain surgeon makes a decent case.
        Interested to hear about these “transparent mistakes about language”

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I can't recall them now but I remember seeing a webpage showing some quotes from it about Chinese writing that are hilariously wrong to anyone with a smattering of Chinese.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Frick off and have a nice day for once

      • 2 years ago
        « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

        Read a book for once.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          For once, I am

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    why would the system want well read boys they would be a threat to it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If the system built by men was allowed to reach that point then sounds like men were new a threat in the first place.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There's one already.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Who’s this?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Who?

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Weren't Novels written for the consumption of upper middle-class women for most of their history? All we're seeing is a return to form, the Novel had its time. Elevating the Novel to the highest form of art was a product of its time.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This. There’s nothing uniquely noble or valuable about the novel or the “western literary canon”. Most “great novels” are pretty shit actually.
      There are so many things that people can and do read instead of traditional literary fiction - manga, light novels, philosophy, political essays and news articles, hell they read fricking IQfy posts, thanks to public internet discussions more people are doing more reading and writing than ever before. If you think these media are low quality and don’t provide value, then work to improve the forms of reading that are actually relevant to people’s lives instead of trying to revive forms that are dead.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Most “great novels” are pretty shit actually.
        I think most people who read them can agree, but this is IQfy and no one here reads….

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's with your preoccupation with young boys? Seems a lil sussy.

    • 2 years ago
      « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

      >lil sussy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Vtubers are increasingly popular *among* teenage boys, and a lot of vtubers are shotacons/e-girlcons (yes, in that female-dominated space), so if OP is actually that vtuber shilling their channel here there's a good chance they do indeed have a thing for young boys and wants to relish in the attention of a bunch of horny teenage boys who need help with whatever book they're reading in school.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Have any of you guys thought of a plan to make reading more fun for boys or at the very least, try to reverse the trend?
        /jp/ here, someone is buying all those English translations of light novels. I'm even thinking of writing in that format myself.

        >Vtubers are increasingly popular *among* teenage boys
        >teenage boys who need help with whatever book they're reading in school.
        I have on and off thought about becoming a Vtuber but I have never made this connection.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What do you think are the most important ingredients of a good light novel?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Any thoughts on this? [...]

            Light Novels are episodic YA novellas with anime illustrations. Earlier series like "Baccano!" "Bakemonogatari" and "Spice and Wolf" where relatively high concept for YA but now it's mostly isekai. It's so pervasive that this anime season has a adaptation of "The Executioner and Her Way of Life" a recent Light Novel that fallows a assassin that kills isekai mc's before they can do edgelord shit.
            I can't brake it down to a formula but if you REALLY want to write for the anime audience
            >try to fit in a cute girl or two as long as it doesn't brake the tone of the story
            >isolation is the WORSE thing that can happen someone EVER
            >relationships (all of them, not just romantic) are VERY IMPORTANT
            >you can go between comedy and drama as long as you build up to it / not to jarring
            >have a basic, working knowledge of Japanese culture
            ^What I came up with researching for a Touhou doujinshi I'm certainly working on.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            this is a great post your summary of what makes an LN audience appealing is on point
            btw its break not brake 🙂

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >btw its break not brake 🙂
            I was taught to spell by sound so I often get things like that wrong.

            >but they're to be succeded by adult literature when the mind's ready.
            OK I can get behind that idea. However, are you sure that reading YA novels will really get kids into tougher works? Often the difficulty of classics comes from the frickton of antiquated cultural stuff that requires you to google something 5 times a page, and the much more nuanced and complex, "difficult" themes. Difficult and more challenging thematic works are present in all forms of media, from movies to videogames, but you don't see movie and videogame junkies naturally transitioning to that harder stuff. I question if reading would be any different. You'd have more luck introducing harder classic works to a guy that watches similarly challenging movies than a YA novel fan.

            My personal master plan for educating the public is creating an addicting tropey free videogame which forces players into difficult ethical and moral dilemmas once they're hooked. Sorta like undertale tbh

            >My personal master plan for educating the public is creating an addicting tropey free videogame which forces players into difficult ethical and moral dilemmas once they're hooked. Sorta like undertale tbh
            You reminded me that "Trolley Problem, Inc." is a thing.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Any thoughts on this?

          What do you think are the most important ingredients of a good light novel?

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If your parents didn't read to you as a child
    If you weren't reading books with exciting masculine themes in your formative years
    It's too late
    You can't expect these kids to read when all they know is that books are gay shit like to kill a mockingbird

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes you can, it's called not being a b***h.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      To kill a mocking bird is good.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sounds like an excuse IQfy would come up with.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If you think To Kill a Mockingbird is some gay shit you need to actually read it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        To kill a mocking bird is good.

        Yes you can, it's called not being a b***h.

        For some reason you people can't understand that I'm describing the pov of a boy who doesn't like to read

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          This is IQfy. No one likes to read.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >You can't expect these kids to read when all they know is that books are gay shit like to kill a mockingbird
      imo this is a big part of why interest in books is falling. it turns out most middle and high schools students couldn't care less about small town racism in the 30s or the biography of some pakistani refugee

      https://i.imgur.com/v3Mg2DC.jpg

      Ever since the invention of the radio, cinema, and television, literature and books were rendered obsolete and has been dying ever since. The question I ask if you today is How do we get boys to read at an early age, IQfy? Recent studies have shown that they direct less time than girls to process words, that they’re more prone to skipping passages or entire sections of books, and that they frequently pick books that are beneath their reading levels.

      https://getpocket.com/explore/item/boys-don-t-read-enough

      Have any of you guys thought of a plan to make reading more fun for boys or at the very least, try to reverse the trend?

      I thought about using a Vtuber to appeal to them to read more.

      Its not like cinema and television are exclusive to boys. both my brother and my sister are equally disinterested in reading, and they never talk about books with their friends either.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >both my brother and my sister are equally disinterested in reading, and they never talk about books with their friends either.
        Do they happen to post on IQfy?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I wouldn't be surprised.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          God, I hope not, we already have enough shitters as is.

  22. 2 years ago
    « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

    😀

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    We shouldn't. Reading is just another consoooomer activity like any other. If anything, it's worse since it alienates you from most people's interest. Unironically better off playing FIFA or Call of Duty.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What about reading books of quality and historical interest, and participating in the so-called great conversation?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If I somehow manage to reproduce and have a son I would much rather him have an interest in things that let him have friends and be sociable rather than nerd shit that I took an interest in during my youth. People skills are more important than any sort of intellectual knowledge for living a happy life. I want my kid to be a 90 IQ football chad instead of a 140 IQ depressed logician and if he reads books in his youth he'll be more likely to turn out like the latter. If I never played video games or used the internet or read books in my youth I would've retained my interest in sports and other people and I would be happy and sociable now.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Reading books doesn't increase your IQ. Having a high IQ allows you to read more books. Which is more fun than standing in the sun waiting for a ball to come your way. But stupid people have limited options.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Sounds like cope, anon. Just admit being physically active is better.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            One should do both. A sound mind housed in a sound body. But sports just aren't as good as intellectual pursuits.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >But sports just aren't as good as intellectual pursuits.
            Have you seen the state of /lit? I'll rather be active.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >People skills are more important than any sort of intellectual knowledge for living a happy life
        They are the same thing, unless you refer to intellectual knowledge as just general random trivia, in which case yes it is useless. Reading is important not because it in itself is some path to success, but because it is the means by which you access certain ideas and thinkers. Read, but don't read shit like YA novels except for entertainment. It is a BIG assumption that going into sports would have magically guaranteed you success. Plenty of people who went into sports turned out loser paper pushers. The difference isn't sports, it's your thirst for exerting your will, which you can do no matter what your interests are. Basically, are you a pussy or not. There are plenty of chad "pussy crushing" book nerds, you just weren't one of them.
        Social skills are very important yes, mostly because if you don't have them you're fricked. If you want social skills just apply to be a server and wrestle with that for a few months, you'll make huge progress. Approach socializing like an engineering problem, analysis and finding solutions. You will then reach "normie level" where just talking to people is easy and doesn't improve you anymore, and boom you're done.
        One thing you will learn as you socialize is that people who are so desperate for social acceptance that they will cast aside their passionate interests in something like reading and do something else like "join sports because i wanna be a chad" are losers and are just fricking themselves over. If you want your kid to be happy nurture his passions AND develop social skills (which should ideally be the fricking norm regardless of your lifetstyle)

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Go on.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Have you not noticed the new trend of boys reading litrpg and progression fantasy stories?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What's litrpg? A novel that reads like someone just transcribed the events of a role-playing game?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Exactly. It's the newest literary schlock trend, and from what I hear it's kind of profitable. If you're a writer and you don't mind debasing yourself like that just write some self-insertable fantasy RPG story.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          basically action/fantasy/sci-fi novels where the main character either is playing a virtual reality video game or the videogame system affects the real world.
          Like they workout for a few hours they get a point in strength.

          What if I just joined in a D&D campaign and literally wrote down what happened?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            If the protagonist can see and interact with the system than it would be a litrpg,
            Like they can see when they level up and choose what skills they get.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Then you have The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

            >but they're to be succeded by adult literature when the mind's ready.
            OK I can get behind that idea. However, are you sure that reading YA novels will really get kids into tougher works? Often the difficulty of classics comes from the frickton of antiquated cultural stuff that requires you to google something 5 times a page, and the much more nuanced and complex, "difficult" themes. Difficult and more challenging thematic works are present in all forms of media, from movies to videogames, but you don't see movie and videogame junkies naturally transitioning to that harder stuff. I question if reading would be any different. You'd have more luck introducing harder classic works to a guy that watches similarly challenging movies than a YA novel fan.

            My personal master plan for educating the public is creating an addicting tropey free videogame which forces players into difficult ethical and moral dilemmas once they're hooked. Sorta like undertale tbh

            I think the current form of YA ends up trapping people into just reading that, but I think you're missing the step of "adult novels" that aren't classics. Going from children's books -> YA -> adult books -> harder classics is a reasonable progression, but most people stop at one point and fail to progress.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        basically action/fantasy/sci-fi novels where the main character either is playing a virtual reality video game or the videogame system affects the real world.
        Like they workout for a few hours they get a point in strength.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          So it's, like... the western equivalent of isekai?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's been 10 years since Sao came out ...

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Unironically super-hero (Marvel, DC, Star Wars, etc.) stories with increasing difficulty levels. Put some high quality comic tier pictures, get some Zoomer streamers to shill it, and they'll sell better than funko pops in no time at all.
    Captcha: USR0T

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    All your rambling (and almost ramblings of the same sort) can be reduced to this word: "plebs".
    You will never get a well educated, read, etc working class. It won't happen, it never does. Stop losing your time with clouds.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'll read any book she wants if it means a cute vtuber gril will give me personalized JOI and send me lewd fanarts she made of herself.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Her videos are good.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They really are.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's literally the simplest thing, marketing stories to boys is easy as fricking cake
    >male protagonist that isn't a pussy wimp
    >have him do cool shit, but don't make it too easy. make him work for his victories
    >either give him rad as frick powers or put him in interesting situations in an exotic location
    >also include one or two cute girls who are into the main hero
    That's literally it. If you want boys and young men to read, just do the above. Guys aren't complicated, for the most part our tastes are pretty simple. Pic very related.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Spiderman is shit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He’s the most popular superhero in the world. He must be doing something right.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That’s Superman.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Time for bed gramps

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            He's right though, Superman is more famous and more well-known.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The Superman symbol is the most recognized superhero emblem in the world, yes. But Spider-Man moves more merchandise than Batman and Superman combined. It’s not even a contest. In terms of popularity, Spider-Man is the clear winner.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Superman symbol is the most recognized superhero emblem in the world
            Then that means Superman is more famous and more well-known

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            But not more popular. If he was, he'd be the top dog of sales. But he isn't. Spider-Man is.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >He’s the most popular superhero
          Batman, Superman, hell, even the flash is more famous.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            famous =/= popularity
            there's no way in hell Flash or Superman move more merch or sell as much as Spider-Man. the only one to even come close is Batman.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Flash? Give me a break. The Tick is more famous than him.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Reverse flash is more famous.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I have no idea what you’re talking about, DC kid.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      correct

      Spiderman is shit.

      only when he's being written by low test dweebs like Dan Slott

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Dan Slott
        Who?

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Few even read regularly as a hobby anyway. Boys aren't really repulsed by reading though, they just need books they can find interesting. There's a reason in the old days boys were given plenty of adventure novels and such to read.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >There's a reason in the old days boys were given plenty of adventure novels and such to read.
      That and because books were cheap, like 5 cents, unlike today.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Leave 12-year-olds to me.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is he our final hope?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Of what? What is that even supposed to mean?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          To have children read more books.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I recommend you get a total craniectomy.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            He’s right though

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Never knew Felix was out last hope for IQfy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is he still doing book reviews.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Rarely but he'll still occasionally mention some he's read

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ah, that’s a shame.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      His book mentions are great.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Men hate reading because they were conditioned by school to think that reading sucks. They were forced to read shitty books like the Great Gatsby. If they had read actually fun books like The Chronicles of Narnia or the Hobbit, more men would want to read.

    But there is also the fact that men are visual creatures. They respond to images more than women do. Give a man the choice between reading manga/comics or a book and most of the time they'll pick the one with the pictures. Books might be more popular if they had a lot of illustrations inside to go with them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Men hate reading because they were conditioned by school to think that reading sucks.
      Stop going to /misc/.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What does /misc/ have to do with it?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Men hate reading because they were conditioned by school to think that reading sucks

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Queen Ophelia III
    I love her so much bros.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      As does IQfy.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    frick this entire blatant self-shill thread. the obvious self-bumps.
    this guy's vtuber avatar is the worst i've ever seen.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >guy
      You’ve never seen

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The frick are you on about?

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