This bestselling author’s creepy email for “spicy content” from book influencers backfired on him

[@syruphim]

kenma kazume explaining what's going DOWN in the book fandom for 23 minutes and 28 seconds

[@withcindy]

ur comment was my first laugh of the day

[@havokkhead]

I KNEW they looked familiar

[@sussiesushi9474]

Cindy is about to pick up a volleyball just you wait

[@Leevillain]

HAIKYUU FAN SPOTTED

[@minniem-ms]

Hang on I gotta google something Edit: ok this is funny

[@Sheena000]

“I’m a HUSBAND. I’m a FATHER” AKA “I can only recognize a woman’s humanity when I see them as an extension of myself.”

[@withcindy]

THIS ONE

[@Sheena000]

@@withcindy hi Cindy! Hope you’re doing well and having a great new year!

[@morley364]

"I'm RELATED to WOMEN, I can't be sexist!" ahhh right, because the most sexist people famously have no women relatives. Men only in their family tree.

[@rue6914]

Right like!! Don't you have sisters and mothers and aunts and grandmothers 🤯

[@Morepanthers]

​@@rue6914 it's like, yeah dude, we assumed you met a woman before. We're half the planet. Lol.

[@MakKSharpe]

Men really be like "I have a mother of course I love women" and then harass women

[@withcindy]

as if having a mother makes people exempt from sexism lol

[@MakKSharpe]

@@withcindy it's giving "I'm not racist I have a black friend" frfr

[@rogue-taxidermy_griffin]

​@@MakKSharpeit is the exact same thing except it's more believable that they have a mother or female SO

[@yaoimodeactivate]

@@azure9570funny because i dont do that. lets breed and see what our child's stand is on women

[@Queer_AuDHD_Dragon]

@@azure9570you’re either a POS or a bad jester. Either way, it isn’t funny. Quit harassing and degrading women.

[@lightquest2]

“i’m a HUSBAND, i’m a FATHER” is the equivalent of “i have a black friend”😭🤦🏾‍♂️

[@LilyEvans1996]

Yep! Because husbands and fathers have NEVER been abusive and inappropriate🙄

[@Lemoncakelover678]

I doubt those jobs are going to be long lasting either

[@melowlw8638]

it reminds me of matt damon a while ago saying smth around the lines of "im a father i would never want my daughters to have smth happen to them" in regards to SA and its like.. you need to be related to a woman closely to take bad shit happening to them into consideration?? why cant u just not want SA or attacks to happen regardless of whether u have women in ur life/who they r....

[@imgunnagetyou]

bruh i hope his wife got a divorce fr

[@sakurabiskuit]

I can't be a misogynist, my mother is a woman!

[@TheMetamorphoses2003]

"I'm a husband. I'm a father." Why do sketchy men always say this when they get caught for acting creepy towards women? Also, you're telling me he only started seeing women as people when he got married and not when he had a mother? 🤨

[@withcindy]

sadly many people dont see mothers as women

[@mayarahman9995]

It sounds like every politician 😅

[@Demi_Purple]

@@withcindy yeah... and seriously, a person like this seeing you like they see their mother still wouldn't help

[@Sheena000]

I don’t think people/men like this truly see women as people. There’s just the women who are extensions of themselves(mother, wife, daughter, sister). These women are obligated to serve them because of their personal connection but they’re also reflection of him so their image cannot be tarnished. Then there’s all other women. These women can be used and discarded because they’re not real people unless they’re personally connected to him. Their lives can’t be as meaningful and complex as his if he’s not in them.

[@mookiess]

ive seen so much of this happen to know that anyone that puts so much emphasis & builds their entire identity around a single issue (race, gender, etc.) to show how great or morally superior they are, are likely just using it as a front and to compensate for the real, terrible behavior. I mean, Ned Fulmer's a prime example. He put so much identity into being a family, wife-loving man and look how that turned out. Or the many examples of people that put a sexist remark then say they're all about gender equality.

[@juliaschultz7192]

As a woman named Julia from Canada I am very sorry that I apparently caused this and hurt so many women. I am sorry women.

[@withcindy]

Omg we finally found u

[@juliaschultz7192]

@@withcindy I'm tired of hiding. the guilt of ruining the good name of JD Barker was killing me

[@marshlandz]

​@juliaschultz7192 this is absolutely hilarious 🤣

[@alejajm1666]

Do you even exist or are you three JD Barkers in a trench coat?

[@missrebel634]

Your sins are forgiven

[@HappyBirddi]

"I'm a husband, I'm a father. I'm the son of the mother, I'm the mother of a son, I'm the nephew of a woman aunt." Only when the Barbie movie did it, it was supposed to be funny

[@trucevideos]

"some of my best friends are jewish!"

[@mantisgreen]

Reminds me of a Madonna song: "I could be your sister, I could be your mother, we could be friends, I'd even be your brother but I- would rather send creepy emails."

[@lovelyhomeboy1584]

​@@mantisgreen is the i would rather send creepy emails actually part of the song.

[@mantisgreen]

@@lovelyhomeboy1584 Nah, it's not.

[@Nachtmusiks]

How these authors keep fumbling the bags that was spoon-fed to them never fail to amaze me. First Cait Corrain now this guy.

[@withcindy]

i think this dude will be ok tho since he's already established

[@Frogface91]

And even if he hadn't been, I reckon he'd have been given a pass. A man, doing a harmless sexism? No biggie! ​@@withcindy

[@tiacat11]

Imposter Syndrome is a hell of a drug, I guess.

[@kyrus4989]

​@@withcindyUnfortunately you are correct. He is doing just fine as of 8 months later.

[@michellegodwin6567]

What grosses me out the most is that the email states he would personally review these "promotional materials". Grossgrossgrossgross...

[@kbird6208]

And make specific requests back to you if your naughty bits aren't good enough for him

[@KeylahJooste-gj8rs]

"I'm a husband, I'm a father." Yes, history has never had a problematic husband or father before.

[@chickencatsoup]

That email you recieved is absolutely unhinged. I cannot even fathom the lack of genuine human interaction this person must have to think that not only was any of that inappropiate, but actually admirable.

[@withcindy]

I just know they live in a different plane of reality

[@CasinoQueenn]

@@withcindyhe must have googled himself and couldn’t end the hallucinations.

[@jasminv8653]

'regardless of age' is not sounding as good as mr barker must think it is

[@withcindy]

ya....

[@friendlyghosthost1830]

Kinda sounds like he mailed this to minors…

[@Ka-BO0M]

@@friendlyghosthost1830protect the minors away from mr baker /j

[@twotruckslyrics]

😵tf was he thinking

[@brunetteartist24]

> Male writer mails spicy booktok challenge suggestions to _only_ women > Suprise pikachu face when women complain about being sexualised unnecessarily

[@revelockey]

book drama never ceases to amaze me

[@withcindy]

the book community recycles discourse so much that im just glad when we get new stuff to talk about

[@cuddlewuffle]

why did he think that someone filming themselves nude and covering their genitals w a book would even be allowed on TikTok ??? this was definitely him trying to get ppl to make content for him to look at 😭

[@randompromises1038]

I'm not a TikTok user but I feel like even censored nudity would not make the TikTok guidelines very happy, and what this author wanted was definitely against most social media guidelines that prohibits even cartoon nudity (unless you're Instagram)

[@CoolAnagram]

I've seen like straight up 🌽 on tiktok and like live streams of dying kids and people skinning rats so I don't doubt this happening

[@childofgod759]

@@CoolAnagram not on tiktok but i assume its like tumblr in the sense that it only targets a specific demographic, for example on tumblr you'll see gore because sometimes bigots will spam it in lgbtq+ tags, or cp being posted under a tag called redacted or something so it goes under the radar, but if you post a selfie as a trans woman on tumblr you'll be banned immediately for 'violating' guidelines. OR if u post a picture of urself (usually as a woman) in a risky outfit then you get banned and ur blog destroyed forever. TLDR; I don't doubt there are probably some people making sexual content on tiktok that goes under the radar but rarely do social media corporations actually enforce their guidelines in any meaningful way...

[@starrycharacter]

Tiktok sometimes takes down videos if you show even the tiniest bit of cleavage

[@reporpoized]

Now who would confidently email people to pose nude in a book review.. that's my question

[@Lucifersfursona]

Colleen Hoover Men

[@withcindy]

u wouldnt think PR is needed so much as common sense

[@EmissaryofWind]

Julia's a freak fr

[@cat.book.nook.]

Julia did! 😂

[@d.o.vitelli5855]

Who's Julia?

[@stormborn23]

Dude's like "How can I ruin my career in the sleaziest way possible? OH, I KNOW!"

[@withcindy]

"how can i upstage cait"

[@stormborn23]

​@@withcindy HOLLERING 💀💀💀 What a way to start BookTok's year.

[@MichelleGrondine]

as soon as you read “covering up your naughty bits” onward i think i temporarily blacked out with rage

[@withcindy]

its best to black out for the rest of it tbh

[@AllTheHappySquirrels]

I'm so envious you were able to protect yourself that way. But I guess it means the therapy is working if can't dissociate from shitty situations anymore 🤷

[@ermm-uz5we]

covering upyour👆naughty😈bits😳

[@ermm-uz5we]

same omfg

[@kartik3719]

"He really learned that from Rhysand" had me screaming 💀

[@withcindy]

love it when a man gives me a choice

[@Muted_Marcus]

Hearing "your choice" in Cindy's voice is all it took for the Pavlovian trained gears in my head to start whirring.

[@bunny_koo]

Rhysand will never not be brought up in a discussion of feminist kings 😭

[@toyo.saketoba]

No because that was my first thought before starting the video😭😭😭

[@erinys2]

leave him alone😭

[@AwakeAche]

'I have nothing but the deepest respect for women. I'm a husband. I'm a father.' Then you should know better???

[@withcindy]

CC the email to ur wife and daughter then

[@AwakeAche]

@@withcindy I want to make funny continuation of your joke, but I am honestly just internally screaming that my favorite Book Reader KZbin responded to my comment.

[@gentleauroraasmr8562]

​@awakeache3627 and sad part is. It's always those sort of guys who do the worst sht. It's almost like they use having a wife and daughters as a scapegoat to defend their actions. I hope his wife woke up fr and see what type of man she's laying next to.

[@La-PetitMort]

​@@gentleauroraasmr8562well, she's probably aware. Love is blind and all that

[@samsaraatkis6098]

I already get quite nervous emailing ANYONE, even for important things like academics. So, the sheer nerve of people to actually type down their brainrot and send it is insane. Like he really thought he ate that.

[@withcindy]

oh to be a man with no fear

[@lizabethhampton4537]

@@withcindy Reminds me of that one tweet: "Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man"

[@isotetra1912]

all he ate was a giant slice of humble pie that day....

[@thisurldoesnotexist]

Crazy that someone who supposedly watches you didn't watch long enough to hear that you have a girlfriend

[@jamesduggan7200]

Language can be fun, as in this case where the phrase "I take full responsibility" probably means "I'm taking no responsibility at all and am actively looking for a scapegoat."

[@chelscara]

“Looking for any Julia willing to take responsibility for me”

[@kbird6208]

I take full responsibility for making up a persona to throw under the bus

[@stephysteph8558]

"I take full responsibility for not knowing that this other person did a boo-boo."

[@BlueLemons_96]

The way he signed those creepy perverted emails off as 'Julia', like he couldn't help himself, he just had to sign off with a 'J' name, IMO.

[@fenriswoolf]

dude snatched defeat from the jaws of victory basically. like he had the movie deal already, why do all this😭

[@withcindy]

dude flew too close to the sun, needed to see the spicy vids too much

[@artemis88899]

​@@withcindythe incel icarus

[@librarianontheloose]

@@withcindy Ick-arus

[@desertels5119]

​@@librarianontheloose *slow clap* that gave me a chuckle

[@twotruckslyrics]

@@librarianontheloosein a positive way thisd do numbers on tumblr

[@urishitapawar]

Book drama is always so out of pocket and for what 😭

[@withcindy]

what happened to writing

[@skylaswirls]

I swear the art community and the book community have the worst drama

[@Mae_is_meh]

​@@skylaswirls dont forget the knitting and crocheting communities its a clown show there

[@francescakyanda9182]

"I'm a husband, I'm a father" two of the most powerful household positions? two positions that can be abused under the guise of respect? say less.

[@carolinemckee7009]

This week on "How to Kill Your Writing Career": Author and his marketing team mistake TikTok for OnlyFans by conducting zero research

[@necroticpest9118]

I think that email sent to you took years off my life just listening to it. I've been sent horrendous shit, but that just made me cringe too hard

[@withcindy]

if i had to read it so do u

[@rickochetz]

My headcanon is that "Julia" is really just Rhysand and he cofounded that PR firm with JD Barker

[@withcindy]

rhysand respects women so much he has to make alter egos of them

[@rickochetz]

We love a lying feminist king 👑

[@julietamr1007]

The Fact the email was signed with a Woman's name Completely shows that him or his PR or whoever he wants to blame for this, knew that it was creepy and women would be put off and weirded out by a man suggesting this.

[@natanbcpc]

How do men manage to be that creepy so confidently? 😭

[@flowersandcheesecake1710]

Years of a culture giving them excuses 😒

[@randompromises1038]

Having had younger siblings where they could freely abuse me with no consequence, when you not only feel you're above consequence but you KNOW you're above consequence you want to keep pushing just to see how much more you can get away with. Barker must have attempted other sleazy shit and got away with it before this.

[@Pandaroll223]

Girl I hope whoever sent you that email is watching and is so embarrassed of themselves rn cause that was nasty 🤢

[@withcindy]

anyone with that lack of self awareness has to depend on never feeling embarrassed

[@alecg4995]

is it an author trope whenever they get called out for their shitty actions to make an “imaginary character” to shift all the blame to? First Cait now this wacko. Like honey if only your delusional behavior was just fiction.

[@withcindy]

fiction is their go-to i guess

[@keybladewizard49]

his stalker amy wrote those emails

[@JuniperJadePR]

Cait: *nukes entire writing career with sockpuppet reviews* J.D.: "Hold my creepy uncle card"

[@Jay-kc6sg]

You’d think a bestselling author could write up a more believable excuse for the email that wasn’t just a version of “oopsie! Wasn’t me; my younger cousin must’ve been messing around on my computer” 🤡

[@twotruckslyrics]

sorry!! 😖 my brother wanted his turn on the computer and said that😱

[@diiiiiiiiiii78]

No sugar or spice just my salty tears of disgust

[@KosmiskRevolution]

"J D Barkley, are these influencers in the room with us right now?"

[@twotruckslyrics]

HELP

[@NixLaLoupe]

He thinks "outside the box" but his characters are named Abby and David 😂

[@JustNicole6400]

The apology is giving Chat GPT 😂💀

[@nyoomeck]

makes sense given that the cover for the book is ai 💀💀

[@thesealky6445]

@@nyoomeck OH NOOOOOO

[@kieransky]

​@@nyoomeckI was wondering why the jigsaw elements of it looked so scuffed, if it's actually done by AI that would explain that

[@teslashark]

The video suggestions are, too

[@nyoomeck]

@@kieransky it 100% is, it’s crazy too bc how much work is it to edit jigsaw pieces over a woman’s face?? he’d just be paying for the stock images too, it’s so dumb

[@opal_sage_]

the fact that he uses that he's a husband and a father as an excuse like that means anything

[@VeronicaWarlock]

It actually means the opposite, that he has no idea what respect entails.

[@ramshafarooq]

anyone who puts THAT many ellipses in a single paragraph is bound to be sus

[@withcindy]

.......true.......

[@lilamasand5425]

the ad they wanted those BookTokers to make is like the kind of shitty ad you see on mobile games lmao like it's honestly not that hard to engineer a TikTok that BookTok would like, but obviously they have no idea what those usually look like

[@withcindy]

yea those ideas really were just winging it with no actual market research or knowledge of how booktok operates lol

[@valeriarossini543]

why do all these authors who are already set up for success fumble the bag so hard

[@withcindy]

they flew too close to the sun

[@annaweldon8064]

Sun ™️

[@eridexx]

it is amazing to me how so many of these authors CONTINUE to fumble the bag so hard. it takes zero effort to not be creepy, not be a liar, or to not try to copywrite the sun. these people go out of their way to sabotage themselves. it's crazy.

[@withcindy]

just be quiet!! thats all it takes

[@Lemoncakelover678]

​​@@withcindyno exactly. It's really not hard to be quiet during your success, especially when it's something people can only dream of

[@scottbuck1572]

Seriously, like you just have to do nothing. Like sit still and don't talk and you will be a famous and wealthy author 😂

[@Perfectothemediocre]

Even if I were trying to promote a spicy book, and I thought the best way to do that was to make the promotion itself spicy, I would still do it the opposite way from how this guy did. Instead of approaching book content creators and asking them for spice content just approach spicy content creators and ask them for book content.

[@Tenshii_Artii]

Literally. Even though this whole thing is all gross. It would seem more appropriate to actually send this to exclusively known Spice-content creators…you know, being professionals in their craft?? How someone can lack this much of self-awareness is baffling.

[@chrisvogel9744]

I can't believe they actually sent out an email with the words 'naughty bits' in it. I know that's the least of the issues here, but it bugs me inordinately.

[@t_billyb7]

Cindy talking about book drama has to be one of my all time favorite things

[@withcindy]

glad u revel in watching the trainwreck

[@vitadasgupta5336]

I’m sorry the fact that it says “he will personally review the vid” and the suggestion is a bunch of convoluted nudes is djdjsbsb

[@withcindy]

he will PERSONALLY handle it

[@exhaustedhomo7059]

“by the way, if you don’t know what i’m talking about” for one millisecond i lived in a fantasy world where i don’t know what booktok is, and for that i thank you

[@withcindy]

Ur welcome, I wanted to give u that peace

[@MegaChadAnakin]

ive been in the community for 5 years but this one genuinely shocked me

[@withcindy]

damn that says a lot

[@kkuudandere]

the second a man starts with "i have a daughter, i have a wife, i respect women", you KNOW he doesn't 😭 I'm also sure that influencers get paid WAY more just to sell food boxes and flat tummy teas, so that pay scale is ridiculous. No wonder he went after people who don't normally make that kind of content, because maybe he was hoping they wouldn't know any better. That's EXTRA creepy to me.

[@VeronicaWarlock]

That people even go there just shows they don’t have the respect. They think “I have one positive relationship with a member of a group” equals “I have done all necessary inner and outer work to achieve full unquestionable allyship with that group.” It’s very telling to everyone else.

[@kkuudandere]

@@VeronicaWarlock it's giving "i can't be a bigot, my dentist is [ethnicity]" lol and considering the way that relationships between husbands and their wives or fathers and their daughters has traditionally been viewed as basically ownership of a human being... it's never a good starting point

[@Lemoncakelover678]

Even if he has a wife, I'm pretty sure he already cheated one her with those emails. So he doesn't even respect her or the kids.

[@VeronicaWarlock]

@@kkuudandere exactlyyyyy. We can’t even pretend that being related to a woman is the same as respecting women. Like, it’s not a special circumstance. Most people are related to a woman, and everyone is related to a female person (though perhaps they never knew them). Half of all people with children have daughters. Does this mean everyone respects women? Maybe if they like outlined all the ways they are raising their daughters to be strong and independent, but nope. “Daughter exists, therefore I am great.” “I know a person of color and I don’t actively slur them to their face (or if I do they think it’s cool), therefore it’s impossible for me to do a racist action.”

[@missrebel634]

Preying upon the inexperienced smh

[@annieothername]

I think…it’s very interesting that despite sex work having legitimate, safe, and inclusive and independent platforms where he could send this email and have it less disturbing, he chooses instead to harass non sex-workers for a single Benjamin. Like you said, didn’t even ensure those asked are adults, provide storyboards or visualizations for concepts vs having people MAKE the content and send it BEFORE approval. This one is REALLY bad but im so glad that women feel safe enough dunking on these creeps collectively ✨ be safe, everyone!

[@withcindy]

yea, it adds to the unprofessionalism - the "ideas" are so poorly written with no actual concept or direction

[@chelscara]

“I’m a husband and father” and I feel bad for your wife and child my guy, it changes nothing 😂😂😂

[@Lemoncakelover678]

He's about to go through a 'divorced with estranged kids' arc

[@chexmixbaby44]

* wrestling announcer voice * And here come Cindy with the INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE!!!!

[@librarianontheloose]

Author tea is some of the wildest tea I come across. I mean fake your own death, make sock puppet accounts to bash your competition, ask for n00ds type of insane tea levels. And all of that was just in the past year.

[@bessdavies6440]

Who's Julia you ask? You wouldn't know her, she goes to another school 😂

[@withcindy]

shes from canada!

[@alanis0533]

she lives in vancouver

[@Phantomphan613]

​@@alanis0533with her sister Alberta

[@Blackdecay]

Cindy, you‘re like the opposite of the Avatar, the antiavatar, because every single time I need your content most, you deliver! 😩

[@withcindy]

Love that!

[@thuthuypham8611]

Idk why but the tea is much~ more interesting when Cindy talks about it 👌👌👌

[@withcindy]

haha glad i can make it more interesting!

[@HyeJinStarlight]

seems every shady author is trying to outdo the previous one...

[@withcindy]

cait corrain still gags me tho

[@HyeJinStarlight]

@@withcindy cait corrain surely did the most... but the one who claimed she had a copyright on the sun really had me thinking it was a prank

[@cylexia]

GIRL!!!! that email you received at the end is so funny 💀 why do men ...

[@hartthorn]

What's wild is that... if he had just said "Hey! This is a campaign for a book of the spicy variety, so suggestive promos are not only allowed but encouraged! We want people to see this book and think sexy." and people would have probably just went "yeah, that tracks." At most they would have said "I'll pass on this one." But dude got himself so worked up over the IDEA of it, he decided to force his porn fanfic on people in a business email.

[@samantharose1001]

okay what got me (besides everything) was the “sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you!” as if it’s benign or a typo rather than super creepy and not okay at all 🙃

[@isitleeyourelookingfor6352]

"Show him your body, and he'll DECIDE if he wants to pay you for it" WHAT? That's gotta be one of the biggest red flags when it comes to doing any type of work for someone,,,That's crazy

[@crimsonpsycho]

Cindy keeps me up-to-date of all the onlime book drama without me ever opening tiktok. The sheer audacity of authors like Barker to pull this shit really shouldn't surprise me, but it still does.

[@chacharealsmoove]

The way he literally admits to viewing the women by saying ‘promotional material’ is insane

[@exhaustedhomo7059]

why do ppl who get even a little bit rich and famous suddenly think that everyone else around them is an npc that will do anything for a certain amount of cash, like NO sir, OBVIOUSLY people won’t strip naked to promote your book, go find weirdly specific, ego-stroking, softocore porn elsewhere, if u want the promo that badly, hire actual adult content creators instead of bothering people who just wanna talk abt books online ffs

[@satemine6387]

this is exactly what i needed before my philosophy class. questioning what’s wrong with humanity ^2

[@withcindy]

this is real philosophy

[@tarotsushima3332]

The first email was egregious enough, didn't need the "Sorry my cousin wrote that/logged into my account" ass excuse as well. And yeah listening to the premise it does sound exactly like Nerve,the book, so idk if there's more to it than making it 'spicy'

[@RamonaGelosi]

The "I'm a husband, I'm a father" reminded me of that scene in Barbie that Will Ferrell says: "I'm the son of a mother. I'm the mother of a son. I'm the nephew of a woman aunt. Some of my best friends are Jewish!" just bc Barbie was upset bc there was no women in charge.

[@breauna3988]

22:15 Before you described what he looked like I knew that man had a fedora or two 😭😭😭

[@withcindy]

Sometimes stereotypes are true

[@brittanyphillips9157]

I feel like I need to know if he also has a pet lizard. Idk why but it’s giving me pet lizard vibes 😂😭

[@jazwhoaskedforthis]

"It's called subtext, something writers are USUALLY aware of. " I love you

[@kbird6208]

Would a PR firm EVER have access to someone's actual email account in this way? Does that even make sense?

[@withcindy]

maybe they do when that person is also the co-founder of said PR firm

[@randomspider725]

OMG, that email that you got feels like something written in a bad novel. How do people have this much confidence?

[@KitCabaret]

What really gets to me is the way it says like, "Barker will review each video, triggering payment" and that you're "free to post" only AFTER the video is submitted to him directly. Like... Not payed for publishing the video (ie actually *advertising* the book), literally payed for sending a spicy video directly to him - like clearly this whole stunt was never about advertising to begin with, but if that's not a smoking gun I don't know what is

[@chelscara]

21:30 it’s the “LOL”s for me, I don’t know why they are giving me the most damage

[@withcindy]

and yet none of us are laughing 🤡

[@alexhika]

I legit spit some sushi when I heard RHYSAND. Will we ever be free? 😂

[@withcindy]

never

[@eduardos9905]

Cindy u don't understand, I need your videos to keep moving forward in life

[@withcindy]

You got this bb

[@majuzinhas]

i remember you posting that email on twitter 😭😭 how can someone be SO WEIRD and actually have the guts to hit 'send'

[@tatiana2696]

*The tea is exceptionally good today* - Wendy Williams

[@oopsallbugs]

this is such a small thing but the "10-15 seconds of footage of the influencer holding or pointing to the book" is insane, that is such a long amount of time to do that! Just no concept of what makes for good advertising on even the smallest level. My "men who write dark/sexual thrillers are generally creeps" belief remains unchanged

[@withcindy]

perhaps the most offensive part of the email is the terrible ideas itself

[@AuraSoneCARAT]

Thank you Cindy, without you I would never know about all these book dramas and they way you tell them is thoroughly entertaining🙏🏻

[@withcindy]

im here to inform the people!

[@Zoeaxel]

Not Rhysand catching smoke too 🤣🤣 I need more book drama to be explained to me by Cindy

[@glitchpink]

i was waiting for you to make a video about this. my jaw dropped when i saw the email i don’t know how he could think that was a good idea

[@withcindy]

the caucasity

[@poingupoingu]

I’d have so much more respect for him if he just straight up said “yeah I’m a misogynist creep with no self awareness. I fucked up and will be seeking therapy”

[@MaxEverywhereSystem]

every time i hear about this kinda book drama im always reminded of the tweet "whenever you get in a twitter beef with someone it's only a matter of time before someone starts talking like sephiroth in your replies." because ive yet to hear of an author acting normal after criticism

[@withcindy]

LOLLL HELPP

[@elena_1776]

This dude 100% just wanted to look at pictures of women posing naked with his book. No chance he can convince me there was any other motivation lol

[@biblio.esther]

Cindy: But when it comes to the music it's always your choice. Me: He learned from Rhysand. Cindy: He really learned from Rhysand. Me: 🤯🤯🤯

[@withcindy]

rhysand will never make us forget

[@Politoed89]

i don't know how else to describe this, but the guy who emailed you reminds me SO much of the bronies i knew in high school in 2012

[@withcindy]

Omg I see it

[@ma.nasa26]

This is the equivalent of a film director asking film reviewers on TikTok to post an Onlyfans remake of their movie wtffffffff

[@allyhildreth9438]

The email you received is INSANE

[@sunnyy_]

And the thing is, his book sounds kind of interesting, but now I'll never even consider reading it. What a loser

[@outeremissary4438]

OH GOOD GOD YOUR EMAIL. Cindy you are so strong enduring this constantly

[@withcindy]

I try

[@ruoye7]

That email cindy got is genuinely unhinged 😭 it’s crazy to think that people like that exist in real life and see nothing wrong with the way they act😭😭

[@banafanafofana6914]

Another day, another man with The Audacity.

[@onyx_mango]

"im a husband. im a father" im even more concerned now, you're not helping your case, dude

[@cryforhelp7270]

His book plot gave me a flashback to multiple animes.

[@dubitataugustinus]

Your hair looks SO PRETTY 👌✨

[@ashikjaman1940]

And you can thank THIS VIDEO'S SPONSOR-

[@withcindy]

Thank you!! still growing it out hehe

[@abookishmess]

"I'm husband, I'm a father and now a creep" see he just didn't finish the phrase. 😂😂 But seriously the police should raid his laptop because I'm worried he's sketchier than we think.

[@dramonmaster222]

It's always amazing to me how when a person is given an opportunity or blessing, they somehow find a way to mess it up.

[@withcindy]

the hubris of mankind