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>Unknown author Shawn Warner's book goes to #1 on Amazon in hours and sells thousands of copies because a Tik Tok video of him being sad at a book signing where no one showed up went viral. Now people are buying his book.
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He will be known as the greatest writer of our generation
The book sounds very based. It's about a teenage girl who solves crimes with the help of ghosts. Far better than anyone on IQfy will ever dream up.
You sound insecure.
You wouldn't say that after reading my histfic forcedfem tour de force!
This actually sounds right up my alley, like something Phillip Pullman would write, what is the name of the book?
Leigh Howard and the Ghosts of Simmons-Pierce Manor
The cover looks like a cumbrain fantasy
You say that like it's a bad thing
No zoomer is reading that book, it is performative sympathy larp for online clout
Only right answer
Yup.
they're buying it, but I bet they're not reading it. Not that publishers care. Hopefully his next book will be picked up by a real publisher.
frick that cover is dreadful
yeah it is, but the first page isn't so bad. It's YA, so it's not my thing, but it's clear that he actually thought about including a hook, it doesn't start with the main character waking up, and it's not written in first person, so it's already better than most of self published stuff.
It's not very good in my opinion. I hate this rambly writing style. An entire paragraph about how long the driveway is on page 1.
woah she's kinda hot im gonna buy this plus motorcycles and gosts are sweet
Haha wtf a coomer cover
>sexy woman on motorbike with ghosts and spooky house
Yeah I'll read it
>sexy woman
>short hair
we all have different tastes you bugchasing pedo, leave bro alone
>Hot teen emo girl with obvious daddy issues
>Bent over her motorcycle with a her HUGE ass sticking out
>Cover art has the atmosphere and vibe of some kind of porn game i'd find on steam
Based boomer creating his own waifu and writing a whole novel for her
if she had high heels i'd buy. close but no ciggy
writing is a tough business. he's an old guy, he obviously knows how bad the competition gets. the females of tiktok might give him some sympathy money but if they're not gonna read his stuff he might as well be a hobo you throw some spare change to
Am I supposed to show sympathy for some retired boomer? He already lived through the most prosperous period in world history in the greatest nation on the planet, what more could you ask of life? Just sit home and read your Christian Science Monitor and Reader's Digest in peace.
you’re genuinely a moron
his amazon bio says he was a paratrooper and an engineer so it sounds like he worked at a lot harder than you have
>paratrooper
WOAH! He went to a 3 week course where he literally did the same movements hundreds of times and ran a lot
>engineer
WOAH! Are you telling me he learned how to draft by hand with vellum and pencils? Then he did math? All while working a summer job at a fast food place to pay off his entire college tuition? That sounds really hard.
The students nowadays who have to compete in STEM fields against thousands of Indian slaves and rich Chinese international kids while attending a college that will leave them in debt for 10+ years, while at the same time having a more expensive cost of living and lower wages have no idea what a boomer paratrooper engineer had to go through when he lived through the most prosperous time in American history. The cost of his home probably was less than 2 years of his starting salary at his first job out of college, modern day Americans have no idea how difficult that must have been!
Frick you, moron.
if you served in the military like he did you would have college money from the g.i. bill and admission preference at selective colleges. if you did what he did today, you would still have a house and no college debt. obviously the american standard of living is declining, but if you aren't wiling to even work as hard as a boomer, you can't really complain.
>if you did what he did today, you would still have a house and no college debt
Are you serious? When was the last time you stepped out of your gated community?
the minimum wage in 1972 was $1.60. he was getting paid twice the minimum wage just like construction work today will pay well above the minimum wage. the minimum wage according to that calculator would then be less than $10 an hour. if you got fooled that easily by an absurd infographic, i can't say i'm surprised that you haven't found financial success.
All wages should rise in line with inflation. Inflation has been going up but the wages have remained stagnant for decades now. That means all those wages are much worse than before.
>Noooo you're just lazy!
The GI Bill covers 4 years of school, I know because I used it. A b.s. is worthless today so you will have college debt.
1. I went to community college before going to a 4 year college
2. I transferred to a 4 year college and got about 80% of tuition in scholarships and financial aid because I wrote about how poor I grew up (extremely true, my mother and I were homeless multiple times and I didn't even have a bed until I was 9 years old). Also I claimed to be a minority in my application because race is just a social construct :^)
2. The only scholarship that I didn't claim to be a minority on, I did not get, despite fitting every category more than perfectly because it was specifically for first time college attendants from poor families. I met others who did get the scholarship and they were all minorities who came from two parent households that owned homes lol
3. I went to college before joining the army, and used my SLRP to repay any minimal debt I took out
Your response only serves to show how much worse things still are. Boomers just had to work part time at the ice cream parlor to pay for school in full. Students today have to set themselves back 3 years and risk getting deployed where they can get injured/killed in a foreign country. Purchasing a house was incomprehensibly easy and inexpensive back then. It's true that the VA Home Loan is beneficial, but it does not compare at all to house buying at the time of boomers, are you pretending to be stupid?
The stuff I wrote about how much harder it is for today's students wasn't a biography about myself. I did make it through, but I had to attend community college while working full time, live in my car for two years, and eat fricking Onions 1.0 when it first came out because I have no fridge while I was homeless and in school, so nowhere to store or prepare food. Onions 1.0 was so horribly shit that words can't even describe. It was nearly inedible and made every bathroom session smell horrid, plus it probably fricked up my hormones with all that onions. Then after graduating I joined the army. Doing all this set me back YEARS behind Boomer Bill. He just graduated high school, fricked around in college for 4 years, and got a job straight out the door that he could purchase a home with in full in less than 5 years on STATED INCOME rather than proving income.
Even in the idealized examples you provide, it still shows how much easier boomers had things than today's generation when it comes to making a living. The stupid response of "well now you have the whole wealth of knowledge at your fingertips through the internet" as if that somehow means life is easier. To be able to make money from this situation you need to be on the bleeding edge of technology and follow innovations in science and tech religiously. Boomer Bill could just sit and watch his TV after work, then have so much extra income that he could buy a boat while working an entry level job at a vacuum factory or something.
>Onions 1.0
lol I didn't realize the filter was global
smelly dumb sѹ bѹ scum
Could this method be used to get some IQfyizens in the mainstream?
>1. Setup a table in walmart with sob story
>2. ???
>3. Profit
You need to be cute otherwise they will call you an incel
That homie aint cute
He is though. He looks like Santa Claus. But his rakishly unbuttoned shirt divulges a latent sexual energy could flip that cute/creep switch REAL quick.
This.
This ploy only works because he looks like the cutest little old grandpa with just the right mix of pathetic misfortune and positive never-give-up attitude. Think about Belle's father, Maurice, from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
Anon is right. A young male can't sell pity, at least not like this. People will only see failure sitting at an lonely table. If you're a young male you'd want to take the opposite approach. Fake it till you make it, hustle and drum up a crowd for photo-ops to make your table look more busy and popular than you really are. Or maybe a flash mob or whatever other stupid zoomer gimmicks are popular on tiktok these days.
Old people get a disproportionate amount of sympathy for being alone. I think it's bullshit, I would argue young men are more alone at this point of time, I've been alone for most of my adulthood and all I have ever got is indifference.
Pretty much this. My grandma died a year ago and now my grandpa is being mopey and depressed like a little b***h. He had 60 years of happiness with her and still thinks he deserves more.
how can someone possibly be this bitter
Probably a decade of watching the grandparents squander the family fortune on bullshit. Spending years watching your inheritance dwindle to nothing really breeds contempt. Similarly I have an uncle who's squandering the family inheritance in court on laywer fees (both sides) because he's a spiteful moron. Before I was apathetic about him but watching some waste money like that out of sheer spite simply breeds contempt.
Imagine siding with boomers.
Grandpa should join you at the bar, cruising for some coed strange
This rocks
Rules*
Everyone here is so negative. This story is wholesome as hell
IQfy is such a strange place.
>wholesome
not even trying to hide, you have to go back
lol I know. IQfy is full of bitter people looking to blow their bitter wads into other people's eyes. I'm just here for porn and got distracted.
>>>/b/
nothing wholesome about a boomer writing YA shit
>My grandma died a year ago and now my grandpa is being mopey and depressed like a little b***h.
At first I thought you were a sick piece of shit, but then
>He had 60 years of happiness with her and still thinks he deserves more.
And I realized these old fuddy fricks had pretty much the best time any human has had on earth and left the following generation with nothing because they squandered everything they got for free while simultaneously leaving nothing for their own children, and still call their children lazy despite the fact that people need to work 2 jobs just to graduate with a useless degree and still be in debt. He had a happy 60 years of marriage and life. What in the frick have I had? Social media which fricked my head up before people realized how fricked up it was, only to live in a world where people fully buy into the social media rat race as I am left with dating options between a 300lb purple hair feminist and a trans-woman? These problems didn't even EXIST when he was going through his early adult years.
You'll say "but he had to join the army" well guess the frick what, so did I and I'm still only marginally better off than if I didn't join. Thankfully I didn't have to go out and kill strangers in their own country at least.
>how can someone possibly be this bitter
how can someone be this much of a cuckold fricking shitter who sides with the generation of people who gave him nothing but high interest rates, higher cost of living with lower relative wages, and a never ending of supply of tax money to Israel rather than reinvesting it into your own country
just have a nice day already jesus
>It's true that society today is worse than the time of the boomers, but I don't want to admit it because I am either some cucked boomer apologist or a boomer myself who finds validation through the erroneous belief that kids today can't get ahead because they don't just give the CEO of a company a firm handshake to get a promotion, so I'll just tell him to kill himself
That's for the (You)
If you are so single minded that you can't fathom the possibility that a person is able to truthfully complain about and criticize the terrible state of the world and society relative to the past while simultaneously choosing to enjoy life anyway and still continue to strive to live the best life that they are able, you are fricking moronic. I know society is degrading, I know the economy gets worse and worse, I know that working towards and achieving a lifestyle that boomers were provided with simply for existing is not possible, yet I still find enjoyment and contentment in life. It's like you're saying that the Brazilian who complains about how difficult his favella life is should just kill himself simply for complaining. Boomers are the only group of people who straight up deny the reality that they had things better than everyone else when it is presented to them. At least people around the world will give credence to the cries of the favella dweller and acknowledge his life is harder than that of the average American, which at least gives him the solace of having a stable perception of reality and truth rather than dealing with the boomer that is forever gaslighting everyone around him through his rejection of truth and never allowing an agreed upon reality to find respite upon.
I said "That's" instead of "Thanks" -- My entire argument is now null and void because I made a typo :^(
>higher cost of living with lower relative wages
Imagine being this dumb. Understand basic economy. Resources are scarce while needs tend to be unlimited. Because the demand of resources is exponentially higher nowadays due to overpopulation, the cost of living becomes higher.
>muh overpopulation
>american population in 1970: 203,211,926
>american population in 2020: 331,449,281
so a 50% growth
meanwhile
>$1 in 1970 is equivalent to $7.44 today
so a 644% growth
>Muh the price is higher
Your wage also gets higher.
Impressive, very nice. Let's see the graph excluding the CEOs
And surely the purchasing power of that wage has risen over ti--oh...
https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1800?amount=1#:~:text=Value%20of%20%241%20from%201800,cumulative%20price%20increase%20of%202%2C313.71%25.
Now calculate inflation adjusted wages with the formula the Bureau of Labor Statistics used in 1980.
While you're at it consider why in CPI datat are product substitutions are included but education, home, medical and fuel prices are excluded and what impact they might have on the narrative you're pushing.
If you ever mature enough to care about things other than consumer electronics and bread and circus, you'll notice that living space is a scarce resource that isn't growing. My great-grandfather built a cabin with his bare hands on lakefront property in the 1920s, it's been in the family ever since. It's very rare for property in the neighborhood to show up for sale and when it does you're paying half a million dollars for a 3-season summer home with no fresh water. Good luck, zoomers.
So you go to the public watering hole and find it crowded with shitskins blaring all manner of obnoxious music (hiphop, bollywood, latin). The whole place stinks of curry, musk and fried chicken. If you're lucky you get redneck landwhales playing country, eating hotdogs and chain-smoking cigarettes.
So you go hiking, probably pay to park (if you're camping you have to book your campsites in advance). And trails look like pic related. Everything is getting more crowded.
And the US has grown more slowly than many other countries:
>Nigerian Population in 1970: 50 million
>Nigerian Population in 2020: 224 million
450% increase
>Zaire 1984: 30 million
>Congo 2023: 97 million
323% increase (this despite multiple civil wars)
>India 1970: 550 million
>India 2020: 1.4 billion
250% increase. The increase in Indians alone is more than twice the population of the US.
>Brazil 1970: 94 million
>Brazil 2020: 217 million
230% increase
ok? i don't know what point you're trying to make, my post was simply denying the role of rise in population in rising prices
Yet all those countries have affordable housing.... Odd....
That's really bad math.
still gets the point across
I never imagines to meet a person in this level of denial, even on this moron website.
Zoom-zooms have never been isolated because they were raised with social media and the instant gratification of the internet. This has rendered them poorly socialized--they're self-centered and entitled. Imagine being jealous of old people because they got attention on social media for being sad.
By the time I'm a geriatric I won't have time to be sad over book sales, my chief concern would be surviving the water wars and the nuclear apocalypse.
it's not jealousy, it's disgust.
Boomers wouldn't survive in the new economy and/or dating market.
Young men still have time to turn things around, old men are at the end and scared
Jesus christ, get over yourself
OK, now what?
You realise you're proving his point?
>boo hoo poor old man is alone better wire him some money asap
>ew look at that creep all alone, such a pussy lol
You are seeing things that aren't there, get help.
>get help.
ok, how much are you donating?
I'm not paying for your therapy, but maybe someone on tiktok will if you make a post 🙂
>such a pussy
yes
>wAaaaah waaaAaah why people dont pay attention to me! waaah
kys
Well done grandpa, let's get you to bed
>book sign
>no one shows up
This has to be fricked up, I mean no one even bought his book while there and got him to sign it.
>boomer gets everything for whining
Nothing new
People love sympathetic old grandpas. I'm happy for him and anyone who isn't (won't give you the (You)s, sorry) should go outside and touch grass
>People love virtue signalling and mindlessly donating to charity
ftfy
thanks mr. wannabe normalgay, very cool
Thank you for your newsblog. The book seems like an okay children's book but its cover is atrocious
>ahhh, I can't believe those stupid zoomers bought some old guy's book because they felt sorry for him... The compassion for the weak is truly man's eternal sin... Those virtue signaling idiots would never appreciate true literature like my 30 page manifesto about the root european races and the faustian spirit, the west has indeed fallen... Oh well, back to reading Evola I guess
this but unironically
kys
This but unironically
I'm as lefty as you can possibly get and I loathe boomers and old people
That's par for the course with your ideology.
We know, your lot shilled for compassionate euthanasia as if it was revolutionary when the bourgeoisie has been hoping and wishing for years.
You're a troony, trannies are filled with hatred
thank you
I have less sympathy for boomers. Every one of them I've known to be sad old men had really charmed lives, their silent gen parents worked themselves to death so that they could live good lives, they had fulfilling careers, and now that this man's testosterone is waning he gets sad like a woman when nobody buys his late life crisis "I'm actually a writer too!" excretion. My father and father in law both did something similar and were extremely upset when nobody cared. It's pathetic, I pray I don't end up like this.
If he's been an author his whole life and remained unknown then it's less offensive, but if this is his first book then boo hoo.
>this man's testosterone is waning he gets sad like a woman when nobody buys his late life crisis
oh that's what my dad's going through. just divorced after 30+ years, sitting an over-sized empty house, has such a deprived life of the mind and labor ravaged body he has no energy or curiosity to do literally anything other than sit in the laz-e-boy and watch 2nd amendment youtube. Try to do anything with him and he's a damn mute statue and not in a wise stoic way -, not that he has any experience or information within the last decades to draw on for conversation. If I had to bet, he'll continue coasting and languishing til his body degardes enough he's had enough exercise his 2A right much like the malignant anons here terminal futures'.
oh and he just got romeo pig-butcher scammed for $100k by a random snapchat "woman" even though I warned him and pointed out every step of the way over weeks what was happening and going to happen next. motherfricker should've respected me enough to listen.
>mistaking one's irrational hope for lack of respect for the advice giver
cmon at least give some slack for your dad
>irrational hope
oh but I did entertain it for the other 2 random snapchat women trying to sugar baby finesse him - at least it's experience flirting on text for him. Even on the one that took him for $100k I explained all the common security risks around crypto and if he just wants to play around on a legitmate exchange with a small amount of money in a pump in dump fine, explained it all, he definitely understood. But then what does the motherfricker do, the next day, without telling me for fear of being thought foolish and lured by the promise of an early retirement, he follows her instructions to move his money to a random fake gambling website then gets dazzled by fake returns and then dumps a ton of savings in and whoops wouldn't you know we're having problems withdrawing your funds!
oh nevermind. He's beyond hope. At least try to make sure that he doesnt gamble away last of your inheritance before the inevitable elderly home
>gamble away last of your inheritance
I'm secure but yes keep an eye on your parents folks, the international scamming industry is enormous and laser focused on redistributing a significant percentage of all dumbass naive senile boomers accumulated assets, billions and billions leaking out to the third world and will only continue in a perpetual arms race.
homie brought 4 pens in case the ink ran out from so much signing.
What the frick?
The average Portland male.
>this is SO SAD
>can we get to 50k likes???
lmao but he does look sad so I'm glad he's getting some love even though judging the book by it's cover it looks like hot garbage.
This is the second time tiktok does this. Publishers will force authors to pull this stunt all the time now.
It is very difficult to sympathize with boomers because they inherited everything and left us with nothing. On the whole their generation did nothing but consume. How can I feel sympathy for some old homosexual who lived during the height of civilization and could have lived a comfortable middle-class life working at McDonalds who then proceeded to sell out all traditional values and generational wealth for a timeshare in literally-who-gives-a-frick and a Mercedes to impress his neighbors that he never drives. Boomers will go down in history as one of the laziest and self-absorbed generations to ever disgrace humanity with its presence. Why should I care that they are lonely now. By all means it’s their own fault their grandkids are too busy being wagecucks to visit them. Even now they have the self-entitlement of a 5 year old crying that mommy has to go to work.
>gets sad like a woman when nobody buys his late life crisis "I'm actually a writer too!" excretion. My father and father in law both did something similar and were extremely upset when nobody cared. It's pathetic, I pray I don't end up like this.
Same types that told their children and grandchildren to put off family formation until they had 'all their ducks in a row' financially after passing student debt non-forgiveness legislation, rubberstamping another Gulf War + Patriot Act, and all the Ponzi Scheme bailout chicanery culminating in Operation Warp Speed experimental gene therapy & ascientific lockdowns all for a bunch of Nam draft dodging codgers -- Zoomer cynicism picked up from their Gen X parents (themselves 1/3rd aborted by selfsame Boomers) is entirely justified.
he's not a social media influencer, ho basically won the lotto and he's gonna spend the royalties on a trip to some Carribbean island and never be heard of again
meant for
I guess who cares, even, great if it makes a man happy, good books won't disappear after this, maybe 1 or 2 more people will get hooked on books and this will be more opportunity for my texts to sell. Anyways, market doesn't care
Exquisite suffering. Imagine the emotion, the inner dialogue he was having there, marooned at his table in the middle of the bookstore, with nobody there, sparse people walking around him.
Now that's something you could write about
Just ordered a copy. Always support your fellow straight white males.
I saw a few author popups like this when I worked at a grocery store. It's almost always a YA fantasy writer who's set up near the entrance hoping to sell stuff to bookworm kids / parents of bookworm kids. The books generally had sub-50 ratings on GR, and the authors were all sprightly millennial women. I didn't know old men even wrote this kind of stuff.
It's a sad sight to see when you walk past them, but I have to imagine they sell at least some copies. What's actually depressing are those tweets from authors who scheduled a reading / Q&A in an actual bookstore and no one showed up; you see in the photo just rows of empty metal folding chairs, aligned towards someone who is having one of the worst days of their life.
Maybe authors are no more prone to falling into obscurity than musicians or artists, but when you consider just how much work it takes to come up with a book vs a single or a print it really gets depressing seeing these people alone out there like that.
How much expendable income do tiktok zoomers have? I'm pretty sure if they weren't spending the $$ on this shitty YA out of sympathy then it would have gone to some lascvicious streamer or onlyfans siren
Saw a fat middle aged woman looking very sad and alone at signing table for her self-published book at a surburban shopping centre bookshop last month. Felt bad for her. Circled around twenty minutes later with the intention of looking at her book but she'd already given in and packed up the card table.
So how soon does this guy get cancelled for having Boomer politics that Tiktok hates?
>boo hoo old boomer is le sad
I have been alone and depressed for 5 years now, when I'm supposed to be in the prime of my life, where's my sympathy $$$?
probably being done deliberately by marketers right at this moment, even if this one might be sincere, who knows.
everything is a hustle including emotional appeal (manipulation)
Has he tried pulling himself up by the bootstraps?
This is why I dont use social media and will publish with a pseudonym. I want people to buy my book because others say its good, not out of pity. Of course all of that is reliant on me actually writing it...
let’s see how based it is
Judging by the trailer: extremely based!
bizarre. good find.
sovlfvl kino
most popular community highlight is talking about self harm scars
>Community highlighting
What the frick is this? Who would want this?
it's a feature with kindle unlimited, if you want to see popular highlights and notes from other readers you can, it's not always on. it's a cool feature, unfortunately the book selection is all normie garbage.
Can't wait for total boomer death bros
hey it's not their fault they were brainwashed by a israeli cabal
People forget that a lot of the older generations tend to fail helping the youth get even a basic job.
I wouldn't buy it either with how expensive it is on Amazon.
And?
This site has become a parody of itself, what an absolute embarrassment.
>some sad old guy gets pity-donations from tiktokers
>this is the worst thing that could've possibly happened
this forced jadedness is so tiresome.
It’s not forced, you’re in the midst of a legion of failed writers and talentless dreamers who are bitter and can only respond with anger at the knowledge of anyone else’s good fortune
boomers are soulless corporate slaves
The argument can go both ways. Yes they are soulless boomer scum for chopping down the trees (assuming this story is true, it probably isn't), but clinging to the past is equally cringe. I personally don't give a frick about my ancestors. I will never meet them, and they have nothing to tell me. The only family that matters is your spouse and your children (if you can even get them in clown world), and the only time that matters is the future. The past is for cringe nostalgiacucks who love reminiscing about "the good old days" despite them not ever actually exiting in the first place.
>it probably isn't
Are you 12 years old or something?
>I personally don't give a frick about my ancestors. I will never meet them, and they have nothing to tell me
I remember being 12 anon
Explain what your ancestors can tell you.
They are literally part of you, you fricking moron. What the frick are you talking about? Even if you are some kind of edgy materialistic fricker, is it pointless to send your DNA to some israeli company so they can have it checked for a lot of things?
For starters, if your ancestors got sick of <insert whatever>, there is a decent chance that you should be wary of that. Then there is food, what worked for them, will most likely work for you too, so if you want a "safe bet diet" go with what they used to eat, and so on. There is a reasonable deal of "not having to figure shit out" when it comes to maintaining a tradition, which in turn has everything to do with what your ancestors can tell you.
You just know this was written by a 100% Aryan (latam) male.
Esoteric bullshit. All of you said is common sense. Whoa, you discovered that israelites are evil? Everyone who isn't a moron already knows this.
>esoteric bullshit
The israelites were literally the least important part of that post. What the frick is wrong with you? Reread it, now without any mention to them.
And what is esoteric about science and DNA? Are you high?
>They are literally part of you, you fricking moron. What the frick are you talking about? Even if you are some kind of edgy materialistic fricker, is it pointless to send your DNA to some company so they can have it checked for a lot of things?
For starters, if your ancestors got sick of <insert whatever>, there is a decent chance that you should be wary of that. Then there is food, what worked for them, will most likely work for you too, so if you want a "safe bet diet" go with what they used to eat, and so on. There is a reasonable deal of "not having to figure shit out" when it comes to maintaining a tradition, which in turn has everything to do with what your ancestors can tell you.
The history if my family
>frick boomers they got everything easy
>better times didnt actually exist btw (look at me i'm smart)
Sad old people are my weakness. Dont do this to me OP
>82nd airborne
frick that pogue
>82nd
>pog
>"pogue"
Lol wut? Do you airsoft as SOG operator or something?