Gatekeeping and the return of the literary SNOB

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'Bring back gatekeeping' has been quite the conversation starter in recent months. From people sick of hearing "we don't gatekeeper here" or "hot girls don't gatekeep" every time they open a social media app to those who genuinely want to return to a more exclusive approach to art and culture, everyone has had 2 or 3 cents to add to the conversation. So here are mine, too!
This video is about the return to gatekeeping, book snobs, literary elitism, TikToks taste, reddit literature, cultural capital, the figure of the critic and online culture curators... among other things.

timestamps:

00:00 - intro: why are we bringing back gatekeeping?
03:44 - gatekeeping and girls' girls as marketing device
08:22 - the online culture curator
16:52 - the children year for depth
22:54 - the limits of "good taste"


references:

https://www.readfeedme.com/p/magazine...

https://dearheadofmine.substack.com/p...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/inf...

https://www.thecut.com/2023/07/what-d...

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