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Re: Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me

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Post by kcartlidge » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 11:46 AM UTC

meindnoch wrote: post #10

mkl wrote: post #7

Are there any Hungarians here who can enlighten us about what was controversial?

Author was the guest of honour for the opening panel of a book festival. An influencer was also present on the panel, and was expected to converse with the author. The influencer promoted herself instead of conversing the author. People who were there to learn about the author got outraged and demanded the influencer to apologize. The influencer apologized. The author says he wasn't offended, and doesn't think there…

> An influencer was also present on the panel

It should be clarified that she is also a newsreader and runs a book club. There's nothing wrong with being an influencer, but to not mention the rest is incomplete.

Re: Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me

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Post by lukas099 » Thu, Oct 05, 2023, 6:46 AM UTC

gilbetron wrote: post #40

lukas099 wrote: post #29

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Imagine this happened to Oprah (when she was younger) and somebody said "it is nice of him to try to take the heat off of a young content creator".

Roger Ebert helped Orpah when she was young (about the same age, 32ish) just before she exploded in popularity. I can't imagine Oprah being offended in that situation or seeing it as being patronizing.

I meant after she exploded in popularity.

Re: Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me

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Post by developer93 » Sun, Oct 08, 2023, 6:34 AM UTC

gbalint wrote: post #28

developer93 wrote: post #4

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Did you read the article? She runs one of the biggest bookclubs in Hungary. That comment seems a little patronising. :)

For the note, I'm a Hungarian, I read books regularly and also read the major news outlets daily, but I never heard neither about Agi Szabados, nor about this controversy.

My bad :-)

Re: Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me

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Post by developer93 » Sun, Oct 08, 2023, 6:40 AM UTC

DandyDev wrote: post #55

zrail wrote: post #25

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Ági Szabados is a 35 year old adult woman who runs a successful nationwide book club. "Young content creator" in this context absolutely is patronizing.

I didn't know her, so I googled her. What comes up the most: her YouTube videos and podcasts. That's the definition of "content creator". I find 35 young. Young != not adult. Having a successful nationwide bookclub does not stop her from (apparently) being a content creator. And vice versa, being a content creator does not diminish the success of her bookclub. You seem to suggest that being a content creator is someh…

Mostly I was objecting to young more than content creator, since it has connotations of inexperience. But yes I think in some circles books are regarded as "better" than videos. There's certainly a higher barrier to publishing books than electronic content, although obviously both and contain quality or crap.

Edit: bawolff said it better than I could

Re: Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me

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Post by developer93 » Sun, Oct 08, 2023, 6:40 AM UTC

bimguy wrote: post #60

zrail wrote: post #25

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Ági Szabados is a 35 year old adult woman who runs a successful nationwide book club. "Young content creator" in this context absolutely is patronizing.

Interestingly, you are the kind of person that Agi is facing ridicule from. Someone being offended FOR others, even though, nothing of offence actually occurred.

That is ironic ;-)