How Do You Write a Bestseller? (Feat.

[@doom_delrey9736]

All four of my grandmothers, completely independent of one another, purchased a copy of Where the Crawdads Sing at roughly the same time, and all four of them cried while reading it.

[@GroteB]

Four grandmothers?

[@doom_delrey9736]

@@GroteB Divorce lol

[@gabelaborte]

And here I thought both your parents had lesbian couples as parents like what are the odds

[@doom_delrey9736]

@@gabelaborte god I wish

[@Ghonosyphlaids]

@@doom_delrey9736 Holidays must be hell to organize

[@ZekeStaright]

Where the Crawdads Sing: Mortal enemy of Lidsay Ellis Also Lindsay: Wears a lobster dress. 🦞

[@digamejh]

Lindsay Ellis is a Menace™!

[@ryukagesama]

Lindsay has taken the side of lobster superiority in the crustacean race wars.

[@binkietheclown]

@@ryukagesama Plans to create and worship our leviathan lobster god.

[@alannabanana6255]

We need a video on why she hates this book so much!

[@EricLeafericson]

Damn you Jordan Peterson!!!

[@majorfreakingcupcake]

The irony of Lindsay mentioning "Where the Crawdads Sing," is great. Because at least some of us who had never heard/never cared about a book like this are AT LEAST going to go look it up since one of our favorite Influencers mentioned it a couple of times in her video. Don't look at me. You were thinking it, too.

[@darkmyro]

I'm not sure if it will translate into sales though, most of those mentions weren't glowing endoraements.

[@Inazarab]

@@darkmyro True, but still more of a chance then if she didn't mention it at all.

[@LoveLearnShareGrow]

I've already googled it.

[@GoneFishingAmalgam]

Look at her subliminally reinforcing the suggestion with that dress too

[@mylifeafterbreakfast]

If you haven't read it, please read it. I was so upset that I was in a grocery store when I got to the end. I wanted to jump up and down because it was so amazing!! Even so, people looked at me weird because they could still tell that I was smiling like a fool behind my mask. Lol ITS SO GOOD!!!

[@dougthedonkey1805]

Lindsay’s dress is calling to me... “Obey the lobsters,” it whispers. “Listen to your lobster queen.” I see no reason to object, so I agree. All hail Lindsay Ellis, leader of lobsters. All hail Lindsay, all hail Lindsay...

[@binkietheclown]

Plans to create and worship our leviathan lobster god.

[@edbutler3]

Yeah, it took me a few minutes to realize the dress is inspired by a lobster bib. Hilarious. Might also be a reference to that Crawdad book? Now I want lobster though...

[@dougthedonkey1805]

@@edbutler3 I think it’s a reference to the jokes about Jordan Peterson

[@DrewDesign]

‘Why The New York Times Bestseller list is meaningless’ by New York Times Bestselling author Lindsay Ellis.

[@SirBlackReeds]

Do you think she forgot that Axiom's End is on that list? She's damaging her own reputation.

[@liseegeskov8769]

@@SirBlackReeds She knows

[@Nocturne22]

@@SirBlackReeds lol no she's not

[@CT_Phipps]

Speaking as a guy who publishes in the indie scene and has been a "best seller" a few times on various lists, you are 100% correct that best-seller lists are primarily a marketing tool. It's not something that has any real meaning and plenty of lists exist to just make an astroturf demand. But congrats on being the list, Lindsay!

[@MetalGildarts]

What has been your experience being an indie author?? I’m planning on indie publishing myself.

[@ladystoneheart8155]

@C.T. Phipps Ooh. I know you. Well, not really. I recognized your name. My husband is a fan.

[@varenoftatooine2393]

I've never heard of an author that want a bestseller. Gives me hope for my own future

[@mhyzon1]

I usually don’t know the back story of at least 60% of Lindsay’s snark in anything she does, but I’m 💯 here for it.

[@lis.anwell638]

I love the way Lindsay talks. I also love It’s Lit. I run a used bookstore and recommend this channel to most of my customers.

[@cailinanne]

Ha- Hype House Blood Bath is definitely already in the works at Netflix.

[@KillahMate]

"Hello this is Netflix, your project is greenlit! How may I help you?"

[@wendychavez5348]

I'm Googling it right now!

[@johnny2003]

Amazon actually got the rights to serialization. But Peacock pre bought the movie rights. So rights are a complete mess right now.

[@Draqua]

Don't be shy... drop them Beast Wars fanfic recs

[@nulfater]

She has

[@nizvkfb7vsbvrsct723]

@@nulfater seriously?

[@StudioInkblot]

They're right next to her Phantom fanfic

[@digitaljanus]

I remember an analysis from 10-15 years ago that concluded while Oprah's club is really good for the titles she features, it didn't do much for the publishing industry as a whole. Turns out there's a finite amount of regular book buyers, and Oprah doesn't really create more readers, she just directs the spending patterns of a significant portion of them.

[@chegeny]

I remember Steve Jobs discussing why companies forget what it means to make great products. Product people are driven out over time and replaced by sales and marketing people.

[@MrPickles1987]

Too true.

[@ghfudrs93uuu]

people like himself

[@adamplentl5588]

That's hilariously ironic coming from Steve.

[@lnt305]

I'm 99% sure Apple doesn't employ a single person that isn't in Marketing

[@ghfudrs93uuu]

@@lnt305 Including the chinese kids?

[@kneerunjun]

Eagerly awaiting James Squibbles’ debut best seller Hype House Blood Bath

[@Alefiend]

I want, no, NEED this book.

[@oldvlognewtricks]

I’m more interested in the sequel: Clout Yurt Meat Crate

[@StudioInkblot]

I love his Pokemon fashion tips

[@thuytienlives8487]

You know, I would read a book with a funny title like that. Just to see if the book is as funny as the title.

[@Elinye]

I see the #feud has made it to PBS as Lindsay makes a bid for the title of Lobster Queen

[@katherinelynch4193]

Crawdad who? All hail Craw-Mama Ellis!

[@Ghonosyphlaids]

Subtle. Assertive. Stinging. Best faux feud ever

[@meg143562]

Okay but were they lobsters or crawdads? Either way I want the darn shirt now. #Brand

[@supernova622]

This is my favorite comment

[@binkietheclown]

Plans to create and worship our leviathan lobster god.

[@Adam-lc6mk]

I see a notification of a video ft. Lindsay "the legend" Ellis and the day becomes a bit more informative lol

[@NorthernStar27]

*Lindsay "the menace" Ellis*

[@KagamineProductions]

I worked in a bookstore for a while and it drives me crazy how much I see it, even when I don't work there anymore.

[@KatharineOsborne]

I used to work at a bookstore and I have this same visceral reflex with We Need to Talk about Kevin 15 years later.

[@caireahobbit]

I currently work in a used bookstore and while the furor has died down it's still quietly selling hand over fist. We buy a couple copies a week and they sell within a day or two each time. I think the last time a book stayed this popular for this long was The Da Vinci Code.

[@sabbathjackal]

@@KatharineOsborne that was a good movie

[@danielhergert7446]

Algorithm appeasement comment and a laugh at the Shapiro jab

[@ebros5758]

Do you interaction?

[@raddestoflads7771]

hehe

[@andynguyen2176]

Have some engagement, stranger.

[@ebros5758]

@@andynguyen2176 I sure am having a conversation

[@tamarleahh.2150]

I mean his platform is pretty big, so it doesn't surprise me that he would make it on the list legitimately

[@PonyusTheWolfdude]

As a audiobook addict and dyslexic, my view of this is kind of wierd to look at since my selection is more limited, and my distribution is even more limited, because I cant ever see a "Oprah book club" sticker and I don't care about the nyt bestsellers, I care about what has an audiobook right now.

[@prophetkat]

Kind of in the same boat but i would walk through a bookstore sometimes and take note of new or interesting looking books. But in the end it comes down to "is the narrator good"? And so many times the answer is "no, god no, did they even listen to this? This person made money sounding like a nightly news trainwreck?!"

[@kaspianepps7946]

If anything you're probably more affected by publishers' 'we paid a lot for this so we expect it to do well' attitude. The books that get audiobooks on or shortly after release are the ones the publishers expect to do well. And for other books it will depend on how well they sell - so your choices are probably affected by Oprah's book club even if you don't realise it.

[@PonyusTheWolfdude]

@@kaspianepps7946 Oh absolutly, I'm not saying otherwise, I'm saying that I have less ability to make an "informed" decision as is, and I'm stuck flapping in the winds of capitalism

[@PonyusTheWolfdude]

@@prophetkat TBH I'd rather hear the book and have a crap narrator rather than not reading it at all. I've tried books because of the narrator, but never rejected because of it.

[@allieeverest]

Ive noticed the quality of naarrators has gone up A lot recently. Also an audibook only fanatic. I can't remember the last time i rejected a book bc of the narrator. It used to be often but it's getting rarer and rarer

[@edenofeve8161]

Her necklace says influencer and I just ... I love it

[@Dumpknoedel]

I treat Lindsay's videos as a podcast so often that sometimes a click a new video like this and for a moment I'm struck like "oh yeah, she's beautiful, I forgot" In related news I'm very gay

[@crows2808]

Jimmy Squibbles became my favourite youtube personality and then became problematic right around the time I saw he was associating with Logan Paul. Such a wild ride. I hope he redeems himself. Also, how large is Lindsay's ironic wardrobe? An influencer necklace AND a crawdad dress? Bloody hell.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Those clothes are probably a tax write-off.

[@MidLa23]

I am also in the camp of "I have no idea what this book is about, but the very fact that it has remained #1 for so long infuriates me"

[@KillahMate]

"Hal, it's about crawdads."

[@Gaywatch]

I read it a while back without knowing how crazily hyped it was, and hearing that it's STILL being hyped is...weird. The prose was excellent but the story itself was painfully average and well-worn, and I personally dislike open endings when it comes to crime novels (even if the characters are supposed to matter more than the whodunit). As a semi-decent story being incredibly rendered I'd understand a certain amount of hype and maybe an award or two, but this is ridiculous.

[@ThrottleKitty]

As a southern I'm just pissed they use the word "crawdad". Never met a southerner in my life who didn't all them "Crawfish" or "Crayfish", despite living all over the south for decades. It's a very northern word, that for some reason northerners all seem to think southerners say.

[@MidLa23]

@@ThrottleKitty my partner and his family all say "crawdad" and they are, in his words, "as country as a sugar sammich" lol 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Ruruskadooo]

@@MidLa23 Yeah, "the south" is a very vague term, it's by no means a monolith. Even within my state it varies a lot by whether you're in a more urban area or not. I grew up around Chapel Hill, NC and people from this area don't usually sound "southern", meanwhile go half an hour outside of town and you can find plenty of people asking to borrow a pay-en and saying they'll see you on mundy.

[@joeycrunch]

I saw Lindsay Ellis and “How Do You Write a Best-Seller” so I, of course, 100% thought it was going to be a how-to video from her 😂

[@erinchristman2669]

"Don't read to into it." Ha.

[@kevinschultz6091]

She's actually got one on her own channel - or at least, a discussion of how SHE got a book deal. ...huh. The link to which was actually in the recommendations column of this video, for me: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqa1dmhrjq1rr6c

[@Aldo_raines]

Looking up the crawdad book as a Mother’s Day present.

[@jasondumb5706]

Those crawdads touched me. I won't say where, but I think you should give a read.

[@screaminggecko7660]

I read half of it and hated every minute. I don't mean this in a hostile way but I'm genuinely curious what you liked about it. (I'm not gonna call you stupid for liking the thing I disliked, I just want to hear a different angle on it)

[@jasondumb5706]

@@screaminggecko7660 I did not read, but the song of the crawdads, what a tune! Axiom's end now that's a book. Sorry to mislead, sounds like an Oprah book, I'm sure my mom read it too, as for why it's such a hit blame amazon they recommend it every time I order coffee pods (I don't actually order coffee pods.)

[@mylifeafterbreakfast]

@@screaminggecko7660 I did read it and loved it. I identified with the way she felt like an outsider and how she was able to work her ass off for every good thing she had and still be treated like crap by everyone. And I love that she is able to use that against everyone at the end to get her happy ending. It's awesome!! It's a revenge fantasy. I just happen to love those.

[@MagnaGresh]

It's a bit unfair that the publishers decide. It makes me wonder how many good books/author careers died just because some Karen or Jonathan didn't want give enough effort/attention to someone.

[@secondsein7749]

To be fair, they have to make money and sometimes talent isn't a guarantee for that. You also have to consider that in this day and age, talent is plenty but chances are most of them wrote similar stories. Publishers have to choose which story stand out the most, and that is usually more about undiscovered genre than anything else.

[@Catnippizza]

Also while it may not be fair it's hard to imagine a system where there is no selection in advance. I work for a literary agent and we get A LOT of manuscripts of widely varying quality. Add to that the manuscripts that get send to publishers directly. And even if they had space in their program for everybody - which would be a loosing game, probably even if you turned it into some kind of book on demand thing - they simply couldn't spend the same marketing resources on everyone. Is that fair? Absolutely not. Do publishers make mistakes in their assessments? Absolutely yes. But is it the only way any books can get made? Also yes. A lot of books by smaller publishers that are absolute passion projects can only be made because the publisher also offers and pushes books that will get sold in higher numbers.

[@scaper8]

Terrible Writing Advice did a video a while back about traditional publishing vs. self publishing. It really boiled down to "God, both avenues suck!" Yeah. It really can feel disheartening.

[@digitaljanus]

To offer some anecdotal observations from years as a collection development librarian: most people only read (or attempt to read) a couple books a year, and even most fairly regular readers tend to stick to the half dozen or so authors they like or the genres they prefer. There are so many books published every month it's hard for any to stand out unless there's a proven track record (i.e. well-established author), a big marketing push, some kind of TV or film adaptation, or a controversy. Otherwise you're spending a lot of time reading reviews or listening to influencers to figure out which of the dozens of new titles coming out this week is the new hidden gem. And most people don't want to invest that much time in planning their leisure time. (Books, save for audiobooks, are different from most other media in that they demand your full attention. You can't just have them on on the background while you do other things. So readers are especially concerned with finding books that don't feel like a waste of time, and that's a large reason why so many stick with the tried and true.)

[@jonathankaran5532]

:/ Oof. Incidentally, I also don't know how to solve the 'good curation of a million things' problem.

[@AdventuresWithPCS]

The "Where the Crawdads Sing" bit gave me my serotonin for the day

[@katherinelynch4193]

How did you do it, CRAWDADS? God, I wish people would talk to me so I could sprinkle that gem in during conversations.

[@wallybornmann8336]

I'm so glad I stumbled on to your post. You informed me, 3 years working on my HUGE BEST-SELLER you understand, but even more, you made me laugh out loud which isn't always that easy. Here's hoping that one day somewhere in the unseen future you will be commenting on my book as you are on "Where the Crawdads Sing." I'll let you know when I come up with a title for my number one best-seller. Thank you.

[@penultimateh766]

This woman appears to be wearing a lobster garment....

[@dseray9494]

It's either that that or some bizarre aliens genatalia

[@penultimateh766]

@@dseray9494 You took the most boorish possible turn in the shortest possible amount of time Thanks for dragging us all into the gutter with you.

[@dseray9494]

@@penultimateh766 the worst thing is I'm kinda proud of it, even though its an awful joke.

[@woodnoteflute]

Ah yes, elegant displays of crude humor ^

[@alexandermutsaers2693]

Great...now I have to go buy "Where the Crawdads Sing" out of curiosity. Thanks to this video, that book will NEVER leave the NYT Bestseller's List.

[@thelittletaosena5176]

HAHAHAHAHA 11:00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this series so much and Lindsay looks so beautiful. I love the way she presents this episode, too. Wow.

[@javi7636]

I worked at a bookstore once upon a time, and it was pretty interesting to see the rotating selection of bestsellers. Especially because my favorite genres are fantasy and non-fiction psychology, which pretty much never make the cut.

[@madamBfG]

And with one click of the refresh button, this video pops up, and my day is MADE! Thank you Lindsay for your wonderful content! 😁💖🦞

[@rami_ungar_writer]

I clicked on this video hoping I would learn the secrets to getting my own books hundreds and hundreds of more readers. I came away just glad that, while I've never made it onto any bestseller list, my books tend to have good reviews and I've got some devoted fans. Thanks for reminding me of that, LIndsay Ellis and Storied. I appreciate that. And if you need me, I'll be working on a story that probably won't get on a bestseller list but may entertain some readers. We'll see what happens.

[@darkmask5933]

Basically the book business is the same as the art business, who is successful is largely determined by people at the top deciding who is going to become a big name and who isn't, which small artists/writers breaking through being the rare exception to the rule.

[@chibiktsn3]

This legitimately helped me, you and Princess are the best!

[@topherblair5073]

"Don't read too much into it." Oh, don't you worry, Lindsay, we already have 😏👽.

[@mylifeafterbreakfast]

I like Where The Crawdads Sing. Also Reese Witherspoon has it on her book club list. And she's also making it into a movie. So she's been promoting it pretty hard.

[@CybershamanX]

LOVE Lindsay and I hope she continues to help with Storied/PBS It's Lit. I will be extremely sad if she doesn't come back, but considering what happened to her, I will totally understand. That still doesn't make it any easier to not be sad about her absence. She was both an inspiration and offered cutting edge insight into the world of literature and movies/TV. She will be missed. 😞

[@rohavic]

What happened to Lindsay?

[@CybershamanX]

@@rohavic She got dog piled one too many times. Over a tweet. Which she had deleted and tried to apologize and explain that she didn't mean like people were (supposedly) taking it. She has a very organized group of people who don’t like her and constantly wait for her to make the slightest mistake. It just got too emotionally overwhelming and decided, for her health's sake, to remove herself from social media indefinitely. It SUCKS. 😕 Having said that, join her Patreon if you want to hear/see some more content. She hinted that she might try to do some Patreon only stuff. But you'll also see her talk about what happened. In fact, the post in question might be publicly available, so check there for the full story about what happened to her. 🙁

[@zu_1455]

Love the polka dots and lobsters :o

[@hitchikerspie]

Hell yeah Lindsay award winning bestselling writer, shout it proud!

[@alicemcpike54]

My sister and sister-in-law were reading Crawdads for book club, which was reportedly an excuse to drink wine at 2 in the afternoon. Hope that helps!

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

I hate how much I love the title Hype House Blood Bath.

[@BangkokVoiceCoach]

Absolutely brilliant

[@360whiplash]

The thumbnail really made me miss Blockbuster Video.

[@junjunjamore7735]

"Gone With The Wind" is apparently one of the best-selling novels of all time, but I don't see anyone holding the book or hear them talking about it outside the context of "It is the best-selling novel of all time!"

[@davefreier7738]

And it's only been 85 years since it was first published. Such a flash in the pan!

[@lunacarmin]

In this very specific case I don't talk about it because it is super racist 😅 I think the author did a great job to make characters and story engaging but... Yeah any mention leads to the very blatant racism.

[@Kahtisemo]

"Of all time" means the very likely huge surge of sales due to the movie probably still count. Or given its size, it may just be on many a bookshelf and has never actually been read 😂

[@chelseacheckington7421]

@@lunacarmin Same. I actually really enjoyed the read, but I would never recommend such a racist book to anyone.

[@Soulus101]

Mark Driscoll bought a warehouse of his own book to push it up the charts. Good ol' moralisers, showing us how to win with honesty.

[@Rocketboy1313]

Boy this really takes away my desire to try and be a writer.

[@YuzuruA]

go watch the brandon sanderson´s yt if you haven´t

[@ZephyrFate]

If your goal is to be a bestseller, you should probably re-evaluate why you write. it’s worth writing even if you don’t make a living off it immediately; many writers don’t have their big breakthrough for a long time. Sometimes decades.

[@ZephyrFate]

@Anthony Leonhart there is. Most of it comes having your work adapted into another medium, though.

[@j_c_93]

You shouldn't do things just because of money. I make games and I make music without any expectation of ever making money from it. Why? Because I enjoy it. If a single person likes what I create, that's good enough for me.

[@bebel9]

@Anthony Leonhart To my knowledge, most authors who aren’t Dan Brown, Brandon Sanderson, JK Rowling, Rick Riordan (in other words, big name) do not make enough out of their books to do this full time. They either have a full time job or do extra work on the side to supplement their income. Not to say that it is impossible to be a full time writer, but for most people it definitely takes years to be able to get to that point, and even then things can be difficult. For the most part, fiction writers are not in it for the money, but because they like telling stories.

[@vsboardza]

Love everything this channel produces

[@lathanandrews417]

She hates the book about Crawdads. Ergo she wears a dress with (wouldn’t ya know it) crawdads.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Or she wanted something to reflect her crabby internet persona, but figured that a crab pattern would probably send the wrong message.

[@d.rabbitwhite]

Naw- it's a show of love for the king lobster daddy- jordan peterson. And- edited to add, because I almost forgot - an arrow slung to the current lobster queen, with who, Lindsay is faux( or is it?) feuding.

[@lathanandrews417]

@@d.rabbitwhite 🤣♥️

[@hectorrobertocontrerasmiranda]

@@d.rabbitwhite she IS a menace!

[@PalimpsestProd]

Wear what you hate. It's Prada's secret.

[@cloudcover863]

THE BEN SHAPIRO DAGGER SKKDHSHSJJFJD

[@foxyboiiyt3332]

I get the feeling that when Lindsey dislikes a book she REALLY dislikes it!

[@LilieLira]

I dunno, she dislikes Twilight but she's made her peace with it more or less.

[@Ericaaaaaaaaaa]

@@LilieLira her "apology" to Stephanie Meyer wasn't much of an apology, tbh.

[@jabradford32]

I really enjoyed "Where the Crawdads Sing" I thought it was a great book.

[@lars7282]

Please, MORE Lindsay 🥰

[@jellybean_91]

I am so excited that Lindsay has a new video! (And, omg, I absolutely LOVE that lobster dress!)

[@badbadandy73]

I have never left a comment on a PBS sponsored YT video before now, but this was a fantastic and informative topic! Great Job! And now you know!

[@thatsbougie]

In terms of who is the best tribune of lobsters, Lindsay Ellis > Jordan Peterson

[@abstellkarma3072]

I like the comparison between the sorrows of young Werther and ya novels because if I remember right it basically was a ya book in it's time

[@BaconHer0]

The last sentence of the Crawdad book is "They stopped singing shortly after plunging into a pot of boiling water. The end" I cried for hours

[@sabbathjackal]

That's. AMAZING

[@zacharymartinez7616]

I don't know if you're trolling or not.

[@BaconHer0]

@@zacharymartinez7616 Guess you have to read the book to find out

[@jenka3119]

As I have been busy with one of those labour of love projects, this was helpful and as a result I will not be quitting my job even if it ever gets somewhere. So thanks for not letting me run into that brickwall!

[@andrewb.8184]

I didn't realize I've been seeing those crawdads everywhere until she pointed it out...huh

[@CBSmith-js9yl]

The thing about The Great Gatsby was it became a classic kinda by accident. The US army bought the rights to publish it into small paperback editions for soldiers during WWII (among many other books that fell to obscurity so the rights were cheap) Gatsby and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn were considered literary classics when soldiers came back home and pushed the popularity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Services_Editions?wprov=sfti1

[@jngeorge]

I love this lobster dress tbh

[@LC-gw7tp]

The main thing I really took away from this is how badly I want the Twilight body spray

[@supernova622]

I worked at Hot topic. It wasn't very good

[@TheSirLaguna]

Oh lord, it's already taken me a while to finish a first draft and now that I almost have I'm about to go to back and essentially remake the whole thing but I've always imagined that the publishing part would be considerably harder... if only due to having to deal with other people and an industry that might not even welcome me. But I try to stay optimistic.

[@fishpastethe4th340]

Always excited for more Lindsay! Love the lobster dress 🦞🦞🦞

[@visitor48]

Or is it a...crawdad dress???

[@Victoriasm31]

The crawdads book (wow, autocorrect really doesn't like that word) was in Reese Witherspoon's book club. Her production company is also making the film. I'm sure these two facts are entirely coincidental.

[@dwdillydally]

If "Crawdads" is good enough for Lindsay's mom, then it's good enough for me!

[@robertroesch770]

Is Jimmy Squibbles related to Jimmy Scrambles?

[@lylamiklos]

Never mind the books! 📚 I want Lindsay’s Lobster dress!!!! 👗😂🦞

[@phantomdriver2010]

Man, being an author is a very daunting task

[@reed1159]

darn you singing crawdads! *shakes fist*

[@smashley4661]

I can’t help but laugh 😆 at the erotic Beast Wars fan fiction joke. When I finished watching Transformers Prime on Netflix a few years ago I was hungry for more content and then I got onto Wattpad...oh Wattpad, what a strange and beautiful mess website like those are.

[@beatlesrol456]

lobster dress supremacy

[@mhtlthm]

11:00 just cracks me up so much

[@trashraccoon2635]

oh i love her lobster print dress.

[@shchidakashamatnasha853]

This video hasn't deterred me from wanting to finish my novel. Well actually it seemed to push me to go on. But thanks for the info.

[@Super-Visor420]

This is literally a short Lindsay Ellis video disguised as It’s Lit, starting with the mention of Beast Wars fanfic

[@LazKoal]

Algorithm appeasement comment don’t mind me just boosting that engagement so KZbin knows this is quality content!

[@sarar4901]

Content!

[@LazKoal]

@@sarar4901 yesss content that’s right

[@sarar4901]

@@LazKoal The qualitiest. I'm so engaged with it.

[@joslyncarter4813]

Hey. Don't count out singing crawdads! I looovvveee animal characters!

[@cristagranada8860]

Now I just really want to read Where the Crawdads Sing.

[@Ceduria]

I didn't know anything about it going in and was hugely disappointed. The characters are unrealistic and the plot holes just on a different level.

[@francescakyanda9182]

I keep seeing Where The Crawdads Sing at the library and I don't know how much longer I'll be able to resist it

[@wendychavez5348]

I think I was in 5th grade when I ordered "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman" because i liked that title better than whatever the Book of the Month suggestion was that time around. My parents and several teachers advised against it because it was such abandoned reading--a dissertation that I didn't actually finish until maybe 40 years after I purchased it!-- but I have never regretted buying it. Just sayin' that what is popular isn't always the best quantity.

[@JoelCroteau]

7:14 Funny, it was shortly after this video came out that I bought Axiom’s End.

[@YapsiePresents]

The last time i watched Lindsay talked about history it was about Anastasia the Don Bluth movie.

[@shethewriter]

The jokes about the crawdad book are fantastic

[@dscrive]

I used to regularly read any book my friends were talking about, then I read Twilight and learned: popular doesn't mean good

[@toriagalaxy1566]

Great take! Lindsay is always so wonderful to listen to. Also, love the lobster dress, Crawdad tie together. Look forward to the progression of the Squibbles storyline lol.

[@hardlyworking_]

we miss you Lindsey! hope you're doing well 💗

[@SirNotAppearing]

"and for those who do manage to make it onto the list [beat, hipsway] 'Hello'..." 💛

[@barbarasantos2969]

Any day with Lindsay content is a good day

[@CerebrumMortum]

"Pokemon beauty guru influencer"... I literally almost chocked from laughter. The cynicism is so great in this one!

[@afroemperorfictionmythology]

*This is truly noteworthy*

[@shebjess]

Lindsay ranting about "Where the Crawdad Sing" reminds me of my least favorite things about publishing: The more copies the book has sold/the more it's praised, the less people talk about the actual plot. Seriously, it took me years to figure out what certain classics were about because the book blurb was just people gushing about the book and JUST TELL ME WHAT THE PLOT IS!!!

[@Dylan-vd6rz]

It took me til 0:40 to realise queen is wearing a lobster dress 🤣🤣💀

[@diegowushu]

L.E. stans, assemble! Hype House Blood Bath is a great title, ngl.

[@asdfghjklasdfghjkl321]

Not the shade we wanted but the shade we needed

[@piplupz1586]

pokemon beauty guru sounds like a wholesome aesthetic

[@katherinelynch4193]

where can I get a copy of Hype House Blood Bath my Jimmy Squibbles?