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We Had to Remove This Post
by Hanna Bervoets
Upping the rating to 3 stars just because I was genuinely intrigued by the issue on social media content moderation. But other than that is just 'bleh'. However, the more I read other people's reviews and essays on the novel, the more I'm convinced to reflect more on it because I feel like there is a lot more to think about and I have just been judging it based on its surface level. Or maybe it's just one of those novels that have extremely interesting premise but poor execution.
I love tealmuffin's review on their reddit post:
"god, i loved it. when i finished, i was like “wait, is that it?” but then i went back and reread the first few pages. the book is an exploration into how this job has fucked kayleighs sense of right and wrong, only being able to think within the “guidelines” of hexa and how she’s applying those rules to her own life.
in the first few pages she mentions how she wishes she could forget the images of Sigrid gasping for air, being choked against a wall, and the last few pages are her moderating her own porn tape that these images come from. she hasn’t been able to understand that her actions towards Sigrid could have been construed as abusive or corersive. Of course, Sigrid was paranoid about a lot of things, but the line between right and wrong was blurred on both sides of their relationship.
i found this less of a commentary on the social media aspect itself and more on the ways how it’s pretty inhumane to ask people to moderate things like this day in and day out; it’s shifting their morals and their own sense of being.
i saw a lot of similar reviews talking about how it has a litany of trigger warnings, and i think that sets up a lot of people for disappointment on what the book really is. it’s not chronicling what she has seen, it’s chronicling how what she’s seen has fucked her up.
its truly an interesting book and i think a lot of the negative reviews come from what people expect the book to be about and then being disappointed its not just a list of made up, fucked up things that could have possibly been posted online. It’s psychological, i liked how it honed in on this one persons experience with content moderation. The author states at the end that the book is fiction, but any similarities to real life are “not accidental,” and lists articles and documentaries about this same topic that inspired this book and her research into it."
I love tealmuffin's review on their reddit post:
"god, i loved it. when i finished, i was like “wait, is that it?” but then i went back and reread the first few pages. the book is an exploration into how this job has fucked kayleighs sense of right and wrong, only being able to think within the “guidelines” of hexa and how she’s applying those rules to her own life.
in the first few pages she mentions how she wishes she could forget the images of Sigrid gasping for air, being choked against a wall, and the last few pages are her moderating her own porn tape that these images come from. she hasn’t been able to understand that her actions towards Sigrid could have been construed as abusive or corersive. Of course, Sigrid was paranoid about a lot of things, but the line between right and wrong was blurred on both sides of their relationship.
i found this less of a commentary on the social media aspect itself and more on the ways how it’s pretty inhumane to ask people to moderate things like this day in and day out; it’s shifting their morals and their own sense of being.
i saw a lot of similar reviews talking about how it has a litany of trigger warnings, and i think that sets up a lot of people for disappointment on what the book really is. it’s not chronicling what she has seen, it’s chronicling how what she’s seen has fucked her up.
its truly an interesting book and i think a lot of the negative reviews come from what people expect the book to be about and then being disappointed its not just a list of made up, fucked up things that could have possibly been posted online. It’s psychological, i liked how it honed in on this one persons experience with content moderation. The author states at the end that the book is fiction, but any similarities to real life are “not accidental,” and lists articles and documentaries about this same topic that inspired this book and her research into it."