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mushroomgoth OP t1_j0u3a0y wrote

Reply to comment by sysadminbj in Twilight could've been so much better. by mushroomgoth

A lot of things are successful while being horribly bad. In my opinion, Twilight is one of those things

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Black-Sam-Bellamy t1_j0ubzqi wrote

The things that made it bad are the things that made it appealing to certain people. The characters were deliberately bland, so the reader could be like "this is just like me and my crush" it was set in high school for the same reason, etc etc.

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AngelDeath2 t1_j0uwcyx wrote

Exactly! I feel like a lot of popular books are popular precisely because they are bad. In Twilight's case it's because society socializes young women to want relationships with narcissistic, predatory, older men. So when thay read a book about that happening, they think that they like it

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