The US Election Is Tearing BookTok Apart | WIRED

TikTok creator @lizabookrecs had a question: When did BookTok become political? It was in the hours after Donald Trump had won the election for US president and the subset of TikTok that likes to talk about literature was already starting to fracture. People had started unfollowing fellow BookTokkers whose views didn't align with their own - mostly people who'd expressed support for Trump-and a lively debate was growing about whether or not the space was a political one. In her post, @lizabookrecs professed, "We don't need politics ruining a good thing we have going."

By the following Monday, it seemed as though this crumbling of BookTok had already come to pass.