Why are grown adults reading books whos intended audience are teens
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Because society is being dumbed down yadda yadda we’re gonna overlook the fact that society never at large were any more educated than nowadays in order to make some garrulous point about how people shouldn’t read Stephen king or whatever bla bla bla /thread
Anon is correct but that's also why we used to not let most of society have political rights are relatively view civil rights.
>he thinks learning some worthless trivia equals "education"
the cheap entertainment media for the masses in the past was far more sophisticated than it is now, it had a rock solid foundation storytelling-wise. i think art in general has severely declined as tastes have become more meta and focused on posturing. the result is 'normal' media where conventional storytelling is expected doesn't have a solid foundation, or anyone skilled enough to do it, and recycles a very limited range of recent material that doesn't either.
>society never at large were any more educated than nowadays
The barriers to what was considered "educated" are exponentially lower.
You can be literally moronic and get a phd as long as you're willing to give a college money and sit in on classes for a few years.
Most Americans can barely read.
Isn't that basically the same map of percentage of non-whites living in the state?
Its weird how this is basically every map of the US
> Mexicans clearly can't read English as well
> Still less fricking moronic than very specific natural born citizens in southern states
most IQ tests are designed to be as language and culture neutral as possible because muh racism
i wonder how the demographics break down big guy
>30% of Faulkner's state is functionally illiterate
Never mind the irony, how does that state even function?
>Idaho sitting at good to great spots
Surprised Californification hasn't hurt us too hard.
The majorities have always been moronic, but rarely before are the elites HYPER moronic and the scholars not worth reading
Its not that people are getting dumber (although that is happening at a slower pace), but that everyone is becoming so childlike and incapable of doing anything for themselves. A sign of this is an obsession with baby books
Honestly this. The masses are supposed to be stupid. It only seems so bad right now because math, science and engineering make it look like a canyon - which it is.
We're just going to pretend de Tocqueville didn't predict that Americans would be a people who preferred books where they didn't need to look up any words... 200 years ago?
The average American reads at a 5th grade level so this isn't really surprising.
what happens to that average when you take out the black and hispanics?
It drops to 3rd grade
yes but now it's the teacher's, at least before they get stabbed and shot by the 3rd graders
I read at a college level in 1st grade.
Life is hard. People want comforting stories.
Because they read at a 6th grade level.
>80% are bought by adults
Yeah no shit, parents buy books for their kids. Tell me what proportion of those who read (alone, not to kids) are adults.
>Over half of the people (55%) who buy YA books don’t follow into the YA category but are over 18 years old.
>51% of YA book buyers over 18 years of age are between 30 and 44 years old, accounting for 28% of all buyers.
>78% of over-18 buyers are purchasing books with the intention of reading them themselves.
There is something disgusting about 30yo's keeping the YA industry so inflated.
>30 and 44 years old
This is literally millennials.
This is the age "90s kids" millennials are at now.
I don't see the issue. YA books often have more exciting plots than adult ones
>The heroine saves the day from the evil swastika wearing patriarchy
>again
Lol
There's more shonen tropes. Tragic childhood, a foretold hero etc. All things that people intuitively find exciting and like but "literature" drowns out for some reason
Yeye young kid who is the chosen one or has to find him/herself and has to fulfill an ancient prophecy etc. It is fine for what it is but that's all you can say for it. It is indeed very exciting so sure, lotsa people enjoy it. It is very banal however. Even if you don't care about the lack of intellectual stuff, it is still a very cliche filled genre.
At some point you will get bored of that, you will predict the 80% of the book. After that, you will lurk for more complex stories. To me, it was at 22 years old.
1. Because adults are unable to understand or appreciate books written at a high school or college level.
2. Because agents and publishers are aggressively searching for "the next Harry Potter" and refuse to publish or market actual literature, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy where everyone reads YA shit
3. Because women.
30 year old femcels buying them to re-live their youth
just call them light novels and be done with it
because 90% of readers are women, and women are basically children. men prefer videogames by a very VERY wide margine
I think I hate games too. Too repetitive. Actual games, that is. I used to like some RPGs with choice making, but they all got taken over by troons, much like the rest of media. There's nothing left for me except rue crime.
Don't worry fren, I'm developping an RPG right now. It might be too linear for you (due to a lack of resources) though
>modern day lit vs video games
I genuinely don't know which is worse. Might say vidya considering how addicted very many people get.
"Adult" books nowadays are full of sex, usually the homosexual kind.
So are the kids and teens books
YA books are just tv shows you read, NPR listeners think that goyslop you read is better than goyslop you binge watch, so they read a Harry Potter book every year and use "literary" as an aspect of an identity which makes them feel socially and intellectually superior to Drumphf voters/their parents/whoever.
The fact that they're marketed to younger audiences, forces the author to be creative instead of inserting their rape fantasy in every other page.
YA is usually less creative than even erotica
They count woman as grown adults
Women eat YA and airport romance shit up, those books are incredibly light reading and they eat them up one after the other. A mate's girlfriend once said she reads a new book every other day but it's all that kind of stuff, you can literally read one in a few hours tops.
But then again, pic related is what the average male reader is like these days so they're not much better.
Because YA actually has science-fiction and magic and shit. Every adult book is either "literature" or a murder mystery so frick off let me read about wizards and dragons don't really care.
Snobbery went out of fashion so now people have no reason to look beyond the interests they development as teenagers.
Because books intended for older audiences are all shit and boring
>Why are grown adults reading books whos intended audience are teens
he asked on a website dedicated to japanese cartoons for kids
how can they even keep track of something like that? There's no way of knowing the age of the different purchasers it makes no sense. Even if they could track every purchaser they can't tell if it's a gift or not