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Thinking of Tiktok I realized something. Has @Troy figured out or implemented a plan for aalbc members to carry their data over to another website when [if] aalbc close its doors? I am not trying to be morbig, and I wish troy many healthy happy years but I have been part of a number of esocial media closings and not all closings had tools to carry content over. I am just wondering... Open Pulpit

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TikTok banning on book publishing MY THOUGHTS 1) tiktok is the most popular website in modern humanity so replacing its algorithm joined to its userbase will be a challenge- many websites will try but i think many will fail, an expensive failure 2) outside a website with a similar userbase size [google/meta] a website with a smaller relative userbase that succeeds with a sharper marketing style will lack the exposure or outreach of a larger userbase 3) Book readers will survive and at the end of the day the Booktok model will survive maybe mirrored in various places that will require book lovers to know where to be online. An interesting time for the commercial structure of the literature business concerning the internet ARTICLE BookTok shaped a new generation of readers, authors. What happens if TikTok is banned? Clare Mulroy USA TODAY It doesn’t matter if you’re off social media or chronically online enough to know what “faerie smut” is – if you’re a reader, you’ve probably heard of BookTok. Reader communities are nothing new. But BookTok isn’t your grandma’s book club or the Facebook fan page of your mom’s generation – in fact, it gave online book communities of days past a run for their money by boosting book sales and birthing an entirely new generation of readers. But on Friday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments to determine whether it should block a law requiring TikTok to cut ties with the Chinese government or be banned Jan. 19. What happens for booklovers if it all goes away? The 2020 pandemic lockdown days and TikTok’s growing popularity primed young adult readers for this online bibliophile's paradise. Backlist sales soared, especially with romance and fantasy authors like Colleen Hoover and Sarah J. Maas. Hoover's romance book sales increased 693% from 2020 to 2021, the Washington Post reported. Maas anchored a 75% year-over-year revenue increase in 2024, according to Publishers Weekly. TikTok’s algorithm also became the silver bullet for many independent and self-published authors. On a platform where anyone could go viral, any book was fair game for discussion, and some authors’ followings ballooned. “Because TikTok is free, so to speak, it’s a very valuable, cost-effective marketing tool that authors have used,” says Regina Brooks, president of the Association of American Literary Agents. “If you find readers who really value your work, you as the author don’t have to do the same type of pushing because you have ambassadors who will do that work for you.” Bloom, an imprint of Sourcebooks, became a big name in romance publishing by taking over the distribution and marketing of some of BookTok's viral self-published authors including Ana Huang and Lucy Score. “It really democratized social media and it really put voices all at one level, including those of our authors,” says Maranda Seney, the publisher's senior online marketing manager. “What that did was really facilitate an openness and vulnerability and a new level of connection between authors and readers. And I do think that TikTok and TikTok’s algorithm were incredibly helpful in that.” Before, authors were often encouraged to keep interactions with fans limited. Molly Waxman, vice president and executive director of marketing at Sourcebooks who has been in the industry for 25 years, remembers when the fanmail-answering guidance was “let the USPS be the barrier between you and your fans.” Now, on TikTok, authors are encouraged to hop on a livestream or answer fan questions. Many agents and publishers look specifically to sign authors who already have a social following. Some TikTok users have even secured book deals from their viral videos like Alex Aster's "Lightlark" and "Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective" by Katie Siegel, who both posted concept videos and caught the attention of publishers. That emotional connection between authors and readers has been “powerful” to watch, says Dominique Raccah, publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks. Rather than being on a pedestal, authors are rewarded for their candidness and authenticity. “It’s about being human, you’re on this journey with somebody you admire and really love their books and you’re walking every step with them,” Raccah says. But if TikTok does get banned, will that mentality sundown too? Rachel Whitehurst is the founder of the marketing firm The Nerd Fam, offering public relations support to independent authors who don’t have a marketing team. She thinks the seed has already been planted – support of self-published authors will only continue on the next “BookTok.” “It will be more important for (indie authors) to use that business acumen,” she says. “It’s unfortunate, and I do think that adapting is going to be the most important thing, but I’m not worried.” Authors may have benefitted, but really, readers and content creators are the ones driving the BookTok bus; finding bubbles of niche reading tastes thanks to an effective algorithm that uses large swaths of data to bring users videos tailored to their interests. Rachael Beck, an author and owner of FanCornerCreations, makes fandom and fantasy-themed trinkets like “Harry Potter” wedding ring boxes, earrings and games. “We make the nerdy products no one else does, with the passion only a fellow fan can,” her site reads. On BookTok, Beck found a loyal, supportive community that valued her creations as much as she did. Her success on the app allowed her to quit her corporate job and focus on her business fulltime. Half of the traffic to her website comes from TikTok, she says, and it’s how she gets people to visit her booth at Comic Cons. “It’s been very life-changing,” she says. “I really feel like I found my voice because of TikTok.” To prepare for a possible ban, Beck started cross-posting on Instagram but the community aspect didn’t translate, she says. When she posts well-performing, well-received TikTok videos on Instagram, they get fewer views and more derisive comments. “I’m the same human, sometimes literally (posting) the exact same content,” Beck says. “I try to cater it to the different platform I'm on, but there’s absolutely no question that TikTok’s algorithm puts you in front of more people. And it’s a better algorithm, so the people you’re being put in front of are much more engaged in the content.” She’ll continue no matter what happens with TikTok, but she worries about other small businesses, who she says need support to feel like they can keep going. “I think there’s going to be a lot of small businesses who’ve never weathered a big storm before, who just capsize,” Beck says. Industry experts are looking to readers for the next steps, confident they'll find them wherever they land if TikTok goes away. “There’s always going to be an iteration of this. It’s about community,” says Pamela Jaffee, senior director of publicity and brand marketing at Bloom Books and Casablanca. “Twelve years ago, it was the in-person book club that made ‘50 Shades of Grey.’” The book community got online with Facebook, then blogging, then Instagram, with a dozen apps in between. “The readers took that voice back on TikTok and now that they have that voice, they’re not going to be silenced. They’re going to share that love and that passion, and I think it just leads to more opportunity to reach readers widely,” Jaffee says. Seney concurs: “At this point, it’s technology’s job to catch up with readers and then to meet us where we are, which is in this place of community and connection.” Brooks also sees a silver lining in a possible eviction from BookTok – new creative endeavors. “That platform also kind of turned books into status symbols, and I think in a way that other platforms have not done. And I also think that if TikTok goes away, it could spur a bit more innovation in marketing,” she says. “I would love to see people be a little bit more creative about how books can reach their intended audience." Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY’s Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find her on Instagram, check out her recent articles or tell her what you’re reading at cmulroy@usatoday.com. article url https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2025/01/10/tiktok-ban-supreme-court-booktok-publishing/77601633007/ linkedin referral from Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency https://www.linkedin.com/posts/regina-brooks_following-its-rise-in-popularity-in-2020-activity-7284612784460300290-I_pS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Prior Post https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11422-economiccorner007/

@ProfD did you vote in the poll?

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The porn industry has always been active or alive, the key is where is it legal or allowed to be legal. The financial beauty of onlyfans or similar, plus why the video porn industry diminished, is the privacy or intimacy of onlyfans or similar; they are alot more safe for women, are not on the street thus are safe from law enforcement of the street, or all the visual desires men have can be sated for a price. Someone asked an interesting question, cited below. The problem with the general video market and this goes to the larger issue with fiction , is humanity is in a cinema verite era. Life film. Yes, a person can watch a free film but seeing the live action is the thrill, this is unique, this is personal, this isn't for the exact mass consumption and that plays into the ego of the male buyers, or buyers in general. The key isn't the porn in itself, you can get that for free, the key is the personalization of the porn. I recall a pole dancer, a black woman with a very supple athletic body, once said, though i paraphrase, the key isn't dancing on the pole, but getting the customer to think you are dancing on the pole for him. Yes, a porn star in a movie can sleep with ten men with penile implants pounding away and do it smiling with giddy sounds, a great performance; but it isn't one to one, it isn't personal. A porn star on onlyfans, who doesn't have the physical condition to handle multiple penile implanted men pounding, or is unskilled as a thespian to provide the sound or face for convincing joyous revelry , can offer that personalization , that illusion to one to one, like the phone sex but with visual media, that a recorded film to the masses can't. I was unable to confirm the numbers but this explains a big path for all the arts commercially. Art that somehow interacts with customers is the commercial key in the near future. Kim Kardashian and similar in the past who were in many ways mocked comprehended the power of the future of cinema verite, where the recorded will be manipulatable, the common can be generated through computer programming, it gives greater value to the real, even if the real is scripted or engineered. A QUESTION This can’t be real. Do people realize that they have free porn sites?? https://x.com/Ohearn22/status/1878118399676486068 VIDEO VIDEO TRANSCRIPT 1.4 Million women in the United States of America are active users of onlyfans 1.2 million are between 18 and 24 I decided to google the number of onlyfans workers And when i tell you guys this number, I want you to remember, sex work is an industry for young women, and so the majority of this number will come from gen z I found out 1.4 Million women in the United States of America are active users of onlyfans 1.2 million are between 18 and 24 What percent of women, how many women in the usa are between 18 to 24. I find out roughly ten million women. So , just from onlyfans members, ten percent of women in that age group are only fans members. So there is only ten million women between 18 to 25. Then i decided to think more about the consumers. who is consuming onlyfans. And, I found out that 82 million American men subscribe to onlyfans. To think about that number is. How many people are in the united states of America? 165 million men are in the usa. So they are telling me 82 million from 162 million are subscribed to onlyfans. Of the 82 million men subscribed to onlyfans 90 percent are married. And 87 % users are male , and 68% of users are white. So the average onlyfans customer is a white married man VIDEO CITATION https://x.com/OfficialTrigga7/status/1878050225752887458 VIDEO ORIGINAL https://www.tiktok.com/@justpearlythingspodcast/video/7454375207340444974?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7453919654784943662 REFERRED FROM Former WNBA star Liz Cambage retired & joined Onlyfans & says she made more money her first week on onlyfans than her entire WNBA career https://x.com/DailyLoud/status/1877850539615989897 Prior entry https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11405-economiccorner006/

THOUGHTS AS I VIEWED 0:03 Octavia Butler's grave is still standing, survived the fires 0:05 introductions by Steven Barnes + Tananarive Due image 1 0:09 Steven says Afro futurism is our, black peoples, flavor of science fiction image 2 image 3 image 4 0:11 Science Fiction principles, one of three: what if, if only, if this goes on 0:15 How Steven Barnes met Octavia Butler image 5 0:16 Butler said human beings are hierarchal, and people put themselves higher on the levels. 0:17 At Clark university was the first black science fiction convention image 6 0:20 Octavia Butler was honest about the conditions and had a pessimism that she questioned into her work image 7 image 8 image 9 0:31 Steven says Creating art is a way of communicating things in words 0:32 Ray Bradbury, who didn't drive image 10 image 11 0:34 Steven felt Ray Bradbury's work was the warmest that he read Steven and his girlfriend at the time, took a story to Ray Bradbury . Great story on steven getting his first two letters from Ray Bradbury. 0:36 Butler was penniless till an mcarthur grant. Steven admitted he wasn't interested in living in poverty. he had to compromise his own voice working with a team to make a wage. 0:39 It is funny, at times I am so serious. Many around me suggest I need to lighten up. Maybe I shall listen:) Ray Bradbury said: I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. Tananarive said Butler became despondant at times. 0:42 Bradbury's rules for writing. image 12 Write short stories, quantity creates quality. Tell the truth first Don't think too hard, especially in the first draft. Write what you love Study the work of the masters, the work that has survived for generations Take off the safety harness Use every experience that touches you Indulge in your own personal madness Don't be afraid to write crap, either Get comfortable with the idea of work image 13 image 14 image 15 0:50 Tananarive's work and Steven's work image 16 My thought: both writers visual examples display themes that reflect themselves. 0:54 Barnes said if you see a lack, you should write that lack 0:59 image 17 image 18 1:02 writing futurism course [ www.writerwebinar.com ] image 19 image 20 image 21 1:04 they will teach how to teach image 22 image 23 1:07 marketing tools from Due and Barnes, and aids. Affordable. image 24 image 25 1:10 stress and strain image 26 1:12 breathing, diaphragmatic breathing image 27 image 28 image 29 Questions and Answers 1:25 Steven Barnes: if you are just by yourself, you have to take care of yourself. Morning ritual of movement gratitude, motion. 1:28 They have a free zoom meeting every weekend 1:44 [ https://www.steven-barnes.com/live-classes ] steven barnes lion blood https://a.co/d/aV8XTDJ https://iloveafrofuturism.com/

@Chevdove The USA has a culture of media comprehension. Those in power in the usa always know the influence of media. The USA will never admit defeat never admit being influenced, that will be an admission of failure or incompetence. The powerful in the usa are trained to rather say nothing or lie than speak any truth that leads to any negative conclusion to the usa. This is why 9/11 was never framed as an act of revenge, which it was. This is why just today, the justice department has officially changed the report on tulsa to a half truth, a spontaneous act by whites to the black community of tulsa . [ it wasn't spontaneous, it was organized and coordinated like the attack on all black affluent communities in the usa] while never saying it was wrong in the past. The USA never says it lost to vietnam in the vietnam war but says it evacuated, even with photos of helicopters leaving their vietnamese allies who are trying to hang on. The USA will rarely while never say officially Russia/The Soviet Union is better than it or influencing it in any way. Media control, like Slavery are two true pillars of the usa. Which is why so many in the usa lie or are slavers or are enslaved.

@ProfD ahh right, thanks for reminding about Troy. I knew it was south. and your correct, but said wealthy blacks have no excuse to not collaborate if they want. @Chevdove yeah, the cold war really wasn't cold, it was the first war in humanity between nuclear powers, where the total arsenal of the main belligerents couldn't be used so those without the same level of arsenal could be used as proxies and the main belligerents keep each other safe. the korean war/the vietnam war/all the people killed by cia/kgb/fbi all the various independence/revolutionary movements and all the various armed groups involved in them, all stemmed from usa+ussr but in such an environment the usa+ussr could have war actions through policies, like when the soviet union brought many from africa or asia to learn engineering in the soviet union, or afterward when the usa had an immigration act of 1964 which opened the usa grandly for the first time ever.

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@ProfD Well, not all battles are the same but when it comes to history, harlem or the greater black populace in nyc shows the way. Libraries can be private. What libraries do black people in florida have/own/control? Do they have any publishers in florida? The two key elements any community need for history is their own library/libraries + a way to publish books. In NYC I recall as a kid the black community in nyc had a bunch of initiatives for such a thing. Do the black people of florida have it? and if they don't then they need to ask about. I have said this before. The black financial aristocracy today has no excuse. Dwayne Wade has money. Gabrielle Union? who are the wealthy blacks of florida ? Invest in the black populace of florida. People may not want to hear it but it wasn't the white community that built the colleges/schools/libraries/museums/business quarters in NYC, it was rich whites that built up the white populaces infrastructure in nyc. So rich blacks get busy. Black people have to stop the fantasy of the community building in fiscal capitalism. Rich chinese built up chinatown, it wasn't the common folk, the tong the triad they did it. Yeah ok, money was from crimes or illegalities but they did it. Black Harlem, Black Brooklyn, Black Queens were all built up by black people. Black people built up the schomburg, medgar evers college, et cetera . So black flordiians of wealth, get busy.

@ProfD yeah the tariffs is a blunt way to change the global financial order, if you take the usa out of the equation most governments financial activity lacks crucial elements and in that chaos , the usa can benefit off of any other governments realignment. That is the positive potential side that the white isolationist have desired since woodrow wilson started the usa organizing intergovernmental bodies. but the negative potential side is the chaos will create fissures or strengthen fissures that can lead to an age of woe at a scale nearest apocalyptic

@Chevdove remember the primary reason for the immigration act was to win the cold war with russia. Russia had accused the usa of being a country of tiered groups. Immigration didn't make the whole of humanity better, but it allowed a small percentage of people from each country, usually the wealthiest, to come to the usa and take part of the empire. Sequentially, the wealthiest group in each country in humanity is pro usa. The fact that the immigration act 1960s led to a shift among a growing populace of black people in the usa was a positive side win for non blacks. Well to erasure, remember, wherever you live Chevdove, you can organize, get parents together, and with that can set up a program to instill a certain education amongst DOSers of all ages.

@Pioneer1 No because the prisons that exist now aren't as i described the prisons need to be for he mentally ill. The key is type of prison

@Pioneer1 I did say the following.... Prison by default is an abuse. Being abused in prison is a double abuse. but as my words show I am convinced the human abuse can be minimized based on the design of the prison. That is key. Not rather, the treatments of the mental hospitals were greater abuses. Said mental hospitals were in truth places of inquisition, as in spain, than hospus. and a prison, away from those who broke the law or criminals , designed for cruel mean eternal isolation is an alternative. And I Said in a position of power i defined what I am willing to do to reach said alternative. And I would reject the bill the second any allowance of doctors or pharmacist or experimentist were placed in the prison for their so called treatments.

@ProfD yeah and the usa is poorly run. Joining a country that is dysfunctional internally, lies to itself constantly, is full of variant peoples who have at best a connection only to live on top of each other.why join that? yes your correct about sovereignty and being favored by the usa. A good satrap is unbothered by the persian emperors. But, the usa in my view is not a place of positive value outside of militaristic strength. Take the usa military out and the remainder of the usa i argue is worthless.