I just think YA should be for entertaining teens and giving them a voice or a mirror to see themselves and the more people keep writing it to make themselves popular, the worse it’s going to get. That’s my hot take. IDK when YA stopped being about teenagers but it sucks.

There’s a lot of authors out there that seem to not give a shit about their audience and a whole lot more about getting clout online

YA authors are also not parents. I think all this fuckin discourse ends up being performative fighting amongst a bunch of adults who are grossly out of touch at best or just straight up don’t give a fuck at worse

Like are you trying to be better for kids who don’t get to see themselves in books or are you trying to be better so a bunch of adults with Steven Universe icons will call you queen in your replies