S2 E13 | Gatekeeping, Accessibility, and BookTok Drama

The AyeSphere

We’re back! And in true time honored AyeSphere tradition, we’re starting off with some author drama on TikTok as Joy informs Aye about famed author Jodi Picoult describing self-published authors as taking “the easy way out” with publishing and why that’s Wrong. After that, we talk about the death of genre literacy, misconceptions about satire as a medium, and how that enables people to get away with heinous takes online. We wrap everything up by talking about gatekeeping and a lack of accessibility in media—specifically video games—and what we can do about it.