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We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

36 reviews

izypup's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

While there is a lot of content warnings for this book, it’s a lot less graphic than what it seems to be made out to be when I saw reviews. It is primarily an insight on the effects of being desensitized/over-exposed to disturbing media online than about discussing the disturbing media. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs

Moderate: Antisemitism, Sexual content, Rape, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Violence, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Grief, Alcoholism, Death, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Stalking, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Bullying, Blood, and Racism

ruthlemon08's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Gore, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Death, and Toxic relationship

aliceloyallaleon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Stalking, Antisemitism, Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Rape, War, Biphobia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Bullying, Gaslighting, Genocide, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Self harm

trippalli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

It's a challenging book full of awful things happening on the Internet and the witness stress of those paid to review flagged posts and the hardships of that job, their coping.... Their fallout of beliefs from flat Earth to denying the Holocaust, the tiers of what most need taken down and what isn't is hard, the hopefully things they see, some described, is really hard to hear. Especially a young girl cutting her face before killing herself.. And how they take the cutting post down and find out about her suicide later because they can't stop thinking about the girl and remember her real name and investigate. Along in the story is the narrator trying to have a relationship with her girlfriend that goes through it's own hardships in parallel to the harshness of this job both women and their friends work at.


It's well written but full of so many trigger flags, most of not all of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Child death, Mental illness, Self harm, Body shaming, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Suicide

breanneporter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A very short, strange book. It’s told from the perspective of a late-twenties lesbian working as a content moderator for an unnamed media conglomerate (such as Meta), and mostly details the rise and fall of her relationship with one of her coworkers. I liked the premise and the writing style (second person - the whole book is written as a response to the lawyer representing her former coworkers in a suit against the company for hazardous working conditions) quite a lot, and was riveted / quick to finish after I had started it. But the open ending…. So abrupt and so strange. I don’t hate it (

I do love an unreliable narrator and this is one of the most extreme examples I’ve read of revealing the unreliability of the narrator, who may have SA-ed her ex gf??  

) but I don’t love it either. I have a lot of questions. I think this idea could have been fleshed out into a longer novel. I’m not sure I would recommend due to the trigger warnings and unsatisfying ending, but I’m glad I read it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Torture, Sexual assault, Violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Self harm, Animal death, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Racism, Sexual content, and Suicide

woweewhoa's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

An interesting book where I understand that what it's trying to do is show the different ways that being a content moderator, in the vein of the extreme conditions ie facebook, affects people and how lack of proper support alongside forcing a certain 'performance in the workplace' at the end of the day destroys them in all the ways it can. 
It's an interesting book to think about, especially now that I'm finished with it, but I don't think(and it's not meant to in all fairness) it's enjoyable to read at all, and I kinda wanted to get the experience over with. It does help that bit as the book isn't very long or complicated and, aside from content, is easy to read. 
Dunno. Had mixed feelings about this book but land more positive than negative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Animal death, Sexual content, Stalking, Drug use, Racial slurs, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Racism

Minor: Fatphobia and Body shaming

stareaten's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.25

the thing about this is, this was advertised to me as a fucked up horror, so i spent a good portion of this book waiting for something vaguely paranormal to happen. but as it turns out, it is an exploration of the effect which longer exposure to virtual violence might have on our psyche as well as a short look into unhealthy relationships. so I definitely was not prepared for this type of story and for me it was just depressive, i feel like some depictions of violence were unnecessary and thrown in for shock value, and the ending kind of felt abrupt. i usually love it when stories don't spell out everything for us and make us connect some things on our own, but this one felt like the whole fuss at the beginning was too much and the lawsuit was actually not connected to what the protagonist did. that being said, it is apparently based on real things that happened in similar work places and i don't want to go into spoilers so i just want to say if you want a story about how bleak people can get when exposed to terrible environment, this is a good meditative piece.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Racism, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, and Antisemitism

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Vomit, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Excrement, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Torture, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Drug use, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Addiction, Car accident, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Outing, Rape, Sexism, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Transphobia, Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Dysphoria, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death of parent, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Suicide attempt

cassettetaped's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

i liked it for the most part, but the ending wasn’t very good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Gore, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicide, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Body shaming, Vomit, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

keirahelena_'s review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Torture, Self harm, Gore, Sexual violence, Racism, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Religious bigotry