The Rise of the Antibiotic-Resistant Creator: How Based Creators Survive and Thrive Despite Mainstream Gatekeeping

A recent Twitter thread analyzing the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards highlighted a striking trend: the near-total absence of white male authors across categories. At just 22% of the nominees, white men, who once formed a large segment of published authors, are now a small minority in this prominent awards program.

This is no coincidence. Over the past deca…