SHOCKING BOOKISH TERMS ON URBAN DICTIONARY...

this was weirdly really fun.. lol. i hope you guys enjoy it!
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[@virginianunez3448]

Imagine coming to the book community with English being your second language. I was CONFUSED. I just googled everything haha I remember not knowing what tbr, dnf and otp meant. There were even some expressions/slang that people use in their reviews and I just needed Google to tell me what that person said hahaha

[@veronicamontes5226]

Same 😂😂

[@BrittvanVliet]

Omg same

[@sophiabuttner3467]

Same 😂😂

[@memoriesintechnicolour1360]

Same lol 😭

[@netta2337]

Same 😅

[@TaylaLouise]

Jesse is such an innocent human 😂 innocently types wrap up in urban dictionary and doesn’t see how that could go 🙈

[@keefe0019]

So I just looked up the "dirty" terms for bookshelf and bookend..... now I'm forever scarred.😳😳😳

[@BrandontheBeldam2993]

It gave me a chuckle.

[@percabethlumity]

As a fan of the KZbinrs the ship DNF involves, I get whiplash every time I hear you say DNF now LMAO. Also even though it was for one sentence it was cool seeing my two worlds collide

[@sadmoresmore]

LITERALLY

[@zelpazz]

Omg yes same!

[@savanna1601]

When I first found booktube I had NO idea what a TBR was or meant, and everyone on booktube obviously used the term. Let’s just say it was a confusing time in my life, but I ended up googling it and feeling so dumb.😂

[@blattsee5262]

about your question: for me, since english is my second language, all those bookish terms were not that confusing since basically any other new word was just as confusing. The only difference was that for things like DNF there is no translation to be found in dictionaries, but i simply found out all of the meanings through context clues, just the way i do it with most new words i stumble about

[@kavya12kohli]

Same happened with me

[@sternentalerswald]

Yeah, dnf took the longest for me to figure out because it is mostly used in through-away-sentences without giving much context. There was also this one moment where I read "Book freak out tag" and thought to myself "Wow, there's a whole day dedicated to freaking out about books!" It took my brain way too long to figure out it wasn't German xD

[@nuzeee_k]

English is like my third language so when I was young I didn't read any English books read the translation ones but when I joined the book community I was pretty good with English so I could easily understand terms like tbr,dnf,otp without any help back in the day it didn't matter cuz I read alone and talked to no one about it 😂😂😂😂😂

[@nicole38568]

While you're searching up these terms on Urban Dictionary. I was doing it along side you and XD some of these terms!! 🤣🤣🤣 Who would have thought

[@timelord1040]

When I started watching BookTube, I remember not being confused about the really common ones like TBR and DNF, but I do remember watching a bookish terms video and not knowing some of the ones that aren't used as often.

[@lovefairfox5249]

I don't remember what it was like, but I remember being 12 and talking to my cousin about how I much I enjoyed the Fandom of the shared book we were reading and he just had, NO CLUE, what I was talking about. Like, how sad you life is without fandom!. So of course I shared everything with him.

[@teresaneves8839]

When I first started getting into books it was 2020 (so not that long ago!). And when I started hearing these terms on booktube I picked up on most of them, like: otp, ship, wrap up and book tropes. But some of them I was a bit confused by, especially with English being my third language. For example: TBR, DNF, arc and words like “dystopian” or “high fantasy”. But I watched a video from this booktuber back then (I think she was called Murphy Napier, but I might be completely off lol) explaining bookish terms and abbreviations and I wrote them down. Even now sometimes I hear someone talking about books using words I don’t recognise, but I think I got most of them down hahaha

[@Rie_Bot]

Merphy Napier! Yes she's excellent

[@ladypolf]

I watched that Merphy Napier explanation video too! So helpful! 😅

[@hayashaikh8159]

Even I feel lost without your "What up Reader Fam" ..👀

[@rainydaysreads]

Me who sometimes says howdy: well I guess I'm sus now.

[@jessethereader]

SUPER SUS

[@rainydaysreads]

@@jessethereader howdy dowdy!

[@Foxheartbooks]

I’ve been watching BookTube and reading book related blogs for almost 10 years and just found out what DNF meant🤷🏼‍♀️ I think I had an idea but never thought to look it up till recently 😁

[@edieee]

what reality am i living in where jesse just acknowledged the existence of dreamnotfound?? what is happening

[@ellensahlberg8628]

Well i have no clue, but I am happy about it

[@Torithegreat]

I’m from Texas, everyone says Howdy 💀

[@reresalam7621]

I started watching booktubes two years ago and I was faced by all these new definitions like TBR, DNF, book hauls, pet peeves, MC, and I'm sure there are others still but those are the ones I remember now.. I used to search the words every time I see a video using these words and get back until I kept all the meanings 😂 This always makes me laugh 😂

[@ushiiiiiiii]

Not only do I want to raid your bookshelves, but also your closet. Your style is *Chef's Kiss*!!

[@cecilie...]

Like really! I did a double take in the beginning, I frigging love tulipans!

[@leilanimacintyre3632]

Not the DNF. Also Jesse saying he hopes they’re happy and together when they’re not actually together bu everyone online just ships them. I am the book obsessed and MCYT fan out here pls let me not be alone.

[@shabditarajesingh6945]

Another Entertaining Video from Jesse. ! You make my day better. Especially when I'm sick. SOME of these definitions!!! Oh MY. GOD. And yeah!! It was very confusing for me at first!!! TBR, DNF and various other things. But it got clearer by time. Also? Have you heard about the Shadow and Bone show? I know it's late.... But THEY ANNOUNCED THE CASTING !!!! You should try out the show Jesse. It has done the book justice and it has characters from six of crows and We MAY get a spinoff series for Six of Crows this Season!!! Definitely check it out Jesse!! Have a nice day!!💖❤️ Keep up the good work. The comment got very long. I think I got carried away. Sorry about that

[@OmegaBanda14]

Seeing dnf, the ship name and the actual book term is my worlds colliding lol 😆😆 I follow those youtubers and to see their fans coining that term had reader me fairly confused haha

[@sadmoresmore]

As someone who watches said 'DNF' youtubers this is incredibly funny

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

I felt so proud of my siblings when they slowly started to understand my book speak 😌

[@skyemartens]

Don’t be shy… bring back the Whats up reader fam intro😫😫

[@HannahReadsFiction]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Jesse say intercourse or sexy times 😂🤣🤣

[@lifu._]

I love your aesthetic. Also the books lined up on the shelf is so satisfying.

[@stargayzer-piyo]

love triangle: a romance plot device that could easily be solved if authors knew about polyamory

[@mackenziemc]

Guess my uncle needs to be sent to an island to mull over his Texan roots🤠

[@valeriadentis1630]

As an Italian learning conversational english with youtube, the first time I stepped in booktobe was a bit startilng, ngl. But it was easy, after a couple of videos, to get what all these terms meant: after all, you get to *see* what's a TBR pretty soon in the experience :D

[@alexishurtado6183]

Shadow & Bone Season 2 Cast Announcement AND a new video from Jesse??? This is the best day ever!!! Also, to answer your question, I had watched a lot of Booktube before making a Bookstagram account, so I knew most of the bookish terms beforehand!

[@biancac1742]

I know. We have been waiting for the cast for such a long time. I can't wait for season 2 with the Crows and Nikolai!

[@zephyr2266]

Whaaaat

[@shifra1967]

Yess I love it sm

[@lauraphilip9342]

when i first got into the book community, the first thing i heard about was ships and was i confused! otps, dnfs, pnrs, mcs, povs, rtcs...abbreviations over abbreviations and i didnt even know what ngl meant! (i am not old, just not well informed). in such a dire situation, i turned to the one reliable thing that would open a world of knowledge to me...The internet! i learned every meaning with examples and started randomly saying it to non reading friends to inflate my own ego and i started understanding tweets and comments made by the reading ones. it was not fast and it seems like there is a new term everyday but it makes me feel part of the community to know them, like a secret language or code. anyways, this is my pov to this question, hope i made my comment before the question dnfed itself. :)

[@aarjvijain]

I couldn't for the life of me remember what "DNFed" meant, like I just couldn't catch the word booktubers were trying to say and even after searching it up, I'd immediately forget the next time I wanted to the meaning. My google search history has DNF in it a couple of times. Thanfully, because of this story, I remember the full form now😂😂

[@BrandontheBeldam2993]

I've been reading since I was a child, but I never knew there was an entire community and terminology for book lovers until I joined KZbin and just started watching them. Learning the lingo was odd at first, but I quickly got it and I'm really bad at generally at keeping up with internet lingo/slang, does anyone have that issue? On a unrelated note, Where do you buy your shirts Jesse?

[@zelpazz]

Lmao I love dream and gerogenotfound and I was not aware that "DNF" was also short for their shipname dreamnotfound. Though I don't agree with shipping real life people but that is another conversation.

[@Mister_Dollz]

Maybe Jesse should change his intro from "What up Reader Fam" to maybe "Hey Reader Fam"?

[@Alyssofhearts13]

I miss the Reader Fam!

[@love_for_ertugrul_gazi]

I actually just learned what DNF means🤧

[@FreyaWarr]

Other terms for future videos: Villain Hero Anti-hero Plot Plothole Plot armor Side kick Enemies to lovers Found family

[@leiselclayton5772]

I’m pretty good with word games and context clues, so I don’t remember many of the bookish acronyms being hard. TBR and DNF were pretty obvious. I think it was helpful to see a definition of the term “ship”, because while I had the gist of what it meant, I didn’t instinctively know why they were calling it that.

[@kamea3236]

I STILL AM CONFUSION 😂 coming into this community has been fun.

[@mindfulbynicole]

I remember when I first found booktube, I think a lot of it was self-explanatory or made sense within the context when people were talking, but it was when people would reduce book titles to the first letters. Some of them I understood after a second, others I sat there for ages trying to work it out and a few will forever remain a mystery!

[@dorinamonoki2340]

I vividly remember learning what DNF is by watching your DNF zone video years ago. The rest was pretty easy to learn as far as I remember, Pinterest and google were my teachers at times. English is my second language, but “haul” and “unhaul” is also used by youtubers in my native language (Hungarian).

[@BuntinCozymysterylover]

I was quite confused at first because there were so many terms I didn't understand, so I had asked Google and looked them up in the dictionary. I'm still doing that. Some of the terms kind of understood as I watched Jesse's videos✨ Reading the comments here, I felt a little relieved to see that there were many people like me. And, I had always wanted to ask: "What is ''Instalove''?"

[@HarvestLockwood]

I don't think I was confused by the acronyms and things when I came into the book community. But that's probably because I watched like 50 Booktube videos in a row, so they all made sense pretty fast.

[@Ellie_amanda]

I have to say - I always admire your fashion! It looks so stylish, unique and fits you like a glove! ❤️

[@annikaringbooks]

I’ve been a reader for a long time, but I had never heard most bookish terms until about a year or two ago likely because I don’t really have social media. So like it started when I got Pinterest and had to scroll through all the comments until I found another uneducated person who asked for clarification. (Because psh why would I ask myself. I’m far too self conscious for that…)

[@giorgia9424]

At first especially since English is not my first language it took a while to get to know all the terms...had to google all the meanings HAHAHA but then you just starting picking up the terms and it gets easier. Definitely love them and adds spice to my English vocabulary!

[@eli99019]

When I first joined, I'm pretty sure I googled what 'TBR' was because I heard it the most. Other than that, I kind of ignored the other terms and over time I figured out what they meant. But I only learnt what 'otp' was today

[@annascorner84]

I'm going to miss what up reader fam.

[@biancac1742]

Do you know why he stopped?

[@doraskenderovic9031]

I just want to take this occasion to share my favorite bookish term with all of you: Mashed potato books. It comes from Books Unbound, the wonderful podcast by Ariel Bisset and Raeleen Lemay and it is used for books which you keep delaying although you know they are going to be great. I'm sure many people have already heard about the podcast, but if you haven't, I higly recommend checking it out!

[@emilygrace4713]

When I first joined the book community and was confused, I just Googled the definitions and added them to my own personal dictionary to use.

[@emmawheeler4624]

I’m a newbie to the book community, literally a month ago, and didn’t know all the abbreviations mainly, I get it now. Didn’t realise how big booktube is, I’m in heaven 😄

[@MichelleWilliams-wk3ig]

👀 me looking up the urban dictionary for bookshelf and bookend. I love your laugh.

[@deannascorner8112]

This is too funny cause I made a video about literary terms for authors cause I was so confused by some of them - and now I find yours here!

[@jessiceberg2915]

I’m not sure if you do requests or recommendations, but I would love to hear your take on Rainbow Roswell’s Simon Snow series and if you were able to finish it!

[@caitlyn.m.t9618]

I still use the word cull when it comes to getting rid of books. It is the term my family uses whenever we get rid of anything. When I start hearing the word unhaul it still takes a moment for me to connect the dots. Personally, it doesn't do it for me.

[@emilygrace4713]

Huh why did you drop the "what up reader fam" intro? It feels watching a video without it!

[@ashleighifert]

For someone who has terrible spelling these terms made my life so much easier. But it also involved my BFF helping explain them to me. Thankfully I've come a long way and now I'm explaining some terms to her.

[@keefe0019]

I got into the book tube community about 4 or five years ago, actually with one of your videos. I remember having no idea what dnf or tbr meant when I first started but as I watched more and more videos( from you and booktubers), I just kinda used context clues and figured it out for myself. ( What i meant was I looked the terms up on Urban Dictionary:) )

[@mathwhiz702]

I was actually think about your intro as I was waiting for the video start and then it starts and I’m like whaaaaaat we’re on the same page 😆

[@ABreathOfSerenity]

I hate book titles shorten to acronyms. There are too many books with the same title letters. Just say the book name!! XD

[@Notfallkaramell]

OTP is used in the realms of Fanfictions. At least on Wattpad

[@prarthanamodi9479]

I got eased into it quite fast but the friends I now convert to booknerds normally took a year to get the hang of it loll

[@bellabunny5425]

Yay!! My anxiety is now zapped away with booktube!! Fr thanks for the upload❤

[@Bookdragon11]

I love how I’m so accustomed to Jesse's outro that I can make a little dance to it 😆.

[@asprinklingofbooks]

ok I should not have looked up bookshelf...yikes!!!!

[@bookaholicgameaholicvlogah4191]

Are you going to read book 2 to infinity reaper I want to know your thoughts

[@jennawar13]

I remember feeling weird when people would say they DNF’ed a book bc that just means they “did not finished” a book and it doesn’t make sense but I understand them Like we use it as a verb not as an acronym

[@jessethereader]

okay but honestly i felt the same way!!

[@nicole38568]

I learned all these terms throughout watching your videos through the years!!

[@cryptic_sunflower]

I love looking up names on urban dictionary

[@cheese6575]

My my these definitions are so scandalous XD

[@percydoeseverything]

LMAO this started out so innocent 🤣🤣🤣

[@june_eyre09]

Me who says "howdy" sometimes : * offended noises *

[@jakegreyxx]

Seeing this and hearing you say "advanced reader copy" and trying to figure out what that means but all I can think of is like. A more detailed and complex version. Which can't be it so I'm lost honestly.

[@АлександраПузик-ж5щ]

Good night from Russia!

[@Lauren_Jeanne_]

Haha “back in the day” I feel that 😅

[@christhesquirrel9432]

… I had to do a lot of looking up (still needs to do) because English not my first language. But honestly, even with my first, I am like a stranded fish when it comes to abbreviations sometimes (is there an abbreviation for abbreviation?). TBR was something I could get from context quickly. But DNF was a new thing to me. I knew OTP from the rps and rpg world. (Also generally “gaming”. And the wonderful world of manga). What I still need to learn to differentiate are the scales of spicy reads because depending on its scale, I actually skip the book or only the steamy passages. 😬 I’m always like “Okay, guys. You do you. Byyyyye” and move on.

[@june_eyre09]

"Like suddenly I'm a runner, I'm a trackstar. CAN'T TOUCH THIS". That had me laughing so much 😂

[@ambersandstrom2003]

I for sure had to ask a lot of questions about abbreviations in the book community 😂 I couldn’t figure out what TBR, DNF, or ARC were until I asked a Facebook group

[@sierramiller6835]

After watching BookTube for so many years I sometimes find myself talking about a book with a non-bookish human and occasionally will accidentally slip and use "TBR" or "DNF" out loud, in actual conversation (yes I am cringing) and whoever I'm speaking to gets so confused! When I try to explain it usually ends up freaking non-bookish humans out

[@kingboogy7706]

I wanted someone to put Read: the past tense of read

[@kavya12kohli]

Earlier I just read the books directly without marking any progress cause I wasn't aware about Goodreads. There I slowly came to know all those terms for the first time. Now I'm the pleased to inform that I'm all caught up ☺️😉. Love ur videos Jesse! U r just so adorable and entertaining. I've read so many of your suggested books. U r my favourite booktuber! P.S. I'm very jealous of your book collection. I wish I could raid it cause most of them are my taste.

[@thatianemachado3432]

English is not my first language, so bookish terms were extremely confusing for me, especially TBR, DNF and such. So I had to do a lot of research when I first got into book tube

[@eireann9239]

I've only been 'here' (booktube) for about six years and I definitely did not know what most abbreviations meant. I still don't know some but I don't try to look them up because I am wary of the questionable things that can come up when one searches a perfectly normal term 🤣🤣 so I just watch and hope someone will eventually explain things.

[@emmal7510]

(Packs tbr into several bags) "Howdy" I think I'd run into most of the bookish terms elsewhere, before I found booktube.

[@henriettaanneeles490]

It was really confusing, I must say (in regards to your question). Some of them, once I paid attention to the context, made sense very quickly, even if I didn't know what they stood for exactly...while others took awhile or I had to give in and google lol

[@thisisme4074]

how did he not expect wrap up to be…??

[@WiseDragon50]

Jesse getting canceled with all the bleeps😂😂😂such an innocent hooman ❤ I was my own book community until I officially entered it two years ago now😁😁😁

[@naiole]

Why is he not doing his intro anymore?

[@ellejaysea2799]

Me not knowing what an arc was for a year

[@little.prince]

Yep, when I first came in (the international book fandom ig where all terms are in English) I had no freaking idea what TBR and DNF meant XD

[@cathyenfield]

The only term I 'struggled' with was DNF cause I felt like people started using it overnight and I had a clear idea of what it meant but for some reason I couldn't figure out what it stood for for the longest time 😂

[@manyabansal5717]

For me it was like I had in my mind 20-25 books that I wanted to read and the next moment it was 1500🤷🏻‍♀️

[@dagimille]

My goal this year is watching more of your videos and reading more ngl ... I have too many goals already tho Trying my best for sure :D and damn some of these bookish terms on urban dictionary wohoooo xD

[@okapiverglas9636]

The dnf definition- LMAO. I started to hear heatwaves as soon as you read that. I don't read/like dnf, but being a part of the dsmp fandom forces me to be very aware of it.

[@luciaferrufino8774]

Ngl when I first joined the book comunity I was very confused with all these terms but I just googled everything and got the hold of it quite easily

[@alexia0707]

For me I knew terms like TBR and book haul and things like that or at least I caught on to them quickly… but DNF and ARC took me so long to understand what that meant because a lot of times when people say those they don’t say what that means in the same breath. I remember being so confused until I learned

[@gabriellefortier8733]

When I first started watching booktube videos it took me a while to understand what people meant by tbr, otp and dnf. After I understood what it all meant it wasn't confusing anymore.

[@letnievechera]

You you so creative! 😍

[@margaritamikalauskaite9875]

I got into booktube when I first read the hunger games almost 2 years ago now. I looked up most of the terms or just figured them out myself except for dnf since I had played a few racing games when I was a kid so I already knew what it meant

[@xx-jh7oz]

I think for me, it was not that confusi ng at first, because at the beginning everyone in the german speaking book community explained the terms in their videos but when i joined the english speaking book communtiy, i was a little confused