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We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

94 reviews

chrishham's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Violence, Antisemitism, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Blood

maryfranvs's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

froggirl666's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide, Antisemitism, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

keekalee's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

i really liked this book, i'm so surprised by the reviews! personally, i don't mind an open ending and don't necessarily think it should have been wrapped up neatly. i also think it made sense for the main character and underscored how deeply her actions were impacted by the work she did (

having been confronted with her own acts of abuse against sigrid, kayleigh comes up with a "noble" gesture to make it up to her - going to the home of a young girl who had died by suicide, and whose video of self-harm had been reviewed by sigrid, and asking the parents to absolve sigrid of her inaction. kayleigh, unaware and delusional as ever, breaks in when she realizes they're not home. it's not until the end, when she's made her way to the girl's bedroom and hears the girls parents come home, that she has a moment of lucidity and asks herself what the hell she's doing.

).
i think it succeeded in showing and exploring how constantly being exposed to disturbing content and acting as the judge of what is acceptable impacts the characters' sense of morality - they're so desensitized to what they see, and so used to permitting offensive content, that they don't seem to recognize when they're enacting harm on others.
i can understand wishing the characters and story were more fleshed out, but i kind of liked how it felt like briefly peering into this secret world that none of us have access to - the format of it being written as a letter worked very well for this reason imo.
overall, i definitely recommend - read in two days and got me out of a reading slump! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Blood

michachi's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault

biblionam's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The concept was so interesting. That was what made the book redeemable for me a bit. I understand that the author was trying to portray the harmful effects of such a job. However, this was not done well. I found it terribly hard to care about any of the characters because I hardly felt like I knew who any of them were. They weren’t flushed out well (to be fair though, this was a very short book). Some pieces felt unnecessarily convoluted and the ending was just… what? It wasn’t poetic or hard hitting, even with some reflection.. It just felt like a chunk of the book was missing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

breanneporter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A very short, strange book. It’s told from the perspective of a late-twenties lesbian working as a content moderator for an unnamed media conglomerate (such as Meta), and mostly details the rise and fall of her relationship with one of her coworkers. I liked the premise and the writing style (second person - the whole book is written as a response to the lawyer representing her former coworkers in a suit against the company for hazardous working conditions) quite a lot, and was riveted / quick to finish after I had started it. But the open ending…. So abrupt and so strange. I don’t hate it (

I do love an unreliable narrator and this is one of the most extreme examples I’ve read of revealing the unreliability of the narrator, who may have SA-ed her ex gf??  

) but I don’t love it either. I have a lot of questions. I think this idea could have been fleshed out into a longer novel. I’m not sure I would recommend due to the trigger warnings and unsatisfying ending, but I’m glad I read it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, and Grief

withlivjones's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

An interesting look at content moderators who review the worst things people put onto the internet, and how becoming desensitised to such content might affect their own sense of morality. The concept was super intriguing but the execution felt very rushed. There were a lot of different topics and themes covered that could have had more time spent on them, and the open ending felt anticlimactic and unfinished, like the author just didn’t know how to end the book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

woweewhoa's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

An interesting book where I understand that what it's trying to do is show the different ways that being a content moderator, in the vein of the extreme conditions ie facebook, affects people and how lack of proper support alongside forcing a certain 'performance in the workplace' at the end of the day destroys them in all the ways it can. 
It's an interesting book to think about, especially now that I'm finished with it, but I don't think(and it's not meant to in all fairness) it's enjoyable to read at all, and I kinda wanted to get the experience over with. It does help that bit as the book isn't very long or complicated and, aside from content, is easy to read. 
Dunno. Had mixed feelings about this book but land more positive than negative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Self harm, Violence, Antisemitism, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

pabi's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Very abrupt ending. I definitely think more things could have been elaborated on and more details about the job could have been exposed. It was a gripping story but ultimately let me down.

ps. I wish I could read the book in its original language.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail