Hello everybody and welcome to this video where we are going to talk about stuff and maybe have a conversation. I have been wanting to do the garbages tag ever since I saw it. I thought it was really interesting. And then there was a part of me that felt a little pushed in a corner because I feel like the majority of the stuff I read is trash anyway or considered trash. And I was like oh so is this poking fun at me? No but I've been wanting to do it and I might do it. I know we're like kind of in the month already so if I'm gonna shit I got a shit or also got to get off the pot that was graphic. So because I have such a mouth on me that so many of you have been pointing out recently I figured I should weigh in a little bit on some thoughts about garbage. British, Brian and British did a video today about Hybrou and Lowbrou and even Mediumbrou and I think you and a brow. I think there was a little bit of that in there too. What I liked about his video was the historical journey. He took the people who his viewers, he took his viewers on explaining socio economics and how different brows started. I wanted to add something to that which is I've talked about this before but what a lot of people do not get and do not understand what a big fucking deal it was was I believe it was 1949 the faucet publishing company, faucet books. They started a new line called Fossett Gold Medal and you've seen those books in my videos before. The reason why this was such a huge deal is because this was the first time original novels were being released for the first time in paperback meaning before that books were released in hardback editions and if that book became famous enough it would get a paperback edition and Fossett had another like sub company called Crest that put out a lot of stuff like that. So like all of your like Mark Twain and Shakespeare and stuff like that those are obviously the only two novelists I've ever heard of so that's all I got for you. And so when Fossett did this thing and started doing paperback originals it took a little bit like maybe a year or two because there was a lot of companies saying what the fuck are you doing you're going to destroy our industry like do not fucking do this like you're going to like rip the bottom out of like how we sell hardback books like what what are you fucking thinking and when this happened because Mark also talked about or I'm sorry not Mark Brian also talked about the 20s and the big boom of the pulps and again like the dime novels and penny dreadfuls and shit like that that had been going on since before the turn of the century but the big huge boom of pulps really took off in the 20s and 30s and that is where most writers cut their teeth and made their money and then what ended up happening was when Fossett did this amazing thing making the gold metal books between that between the wars between the slicks like slick magazines gaining prominence that all killed the pulps. Because now instead of writing for like a penny award or whatever these guys could go oh I could get like a thousand dollars or fifteen hundred dollars or ten thousand dollars for just writing one novel okay fuck it I'll do it like sign me up and I think and this might just be me but I really think that there became a push from the elite the upper echelon the publishing houses that paperback originals were low brow now yes paperback originals relied just like the pulps did on racy titles and racy artwork and luring and stuff like that but a lot of times like with the schlock films that came out in the 60s and 70s a lot of times a title would sound completely salacious and not have anything to do with the actual story like what's that Bruno Fisher book I like house of flesh like it it's so like not even like what the story is about it all and there's a bunch of other like that but anyway so I think there becomes kind of like a narrative that companies will put out to save their fucking ass and it's just marketing it's branding it's the whole fucking thing and in doing that a lot of people like that trickles down and then we get more of the distinctions between classes or the highbrow and lowbrow literature now I think what may have made things different was that in the 80s mainly a lot of people got re-etch making trashy horror novels okay so then there was this like divide where it was like that's trash and that's not literature but god damn those books are selling a lot so a lot of companies like started horror imprints and stuff like that and then as we have seen as time goes on a lot of these writers who started off doing one thing kind of branch off and try to be more higher brow and I think the problem we're at now between like YA and all this other stuff contemporary literature is I think really when the highbrow and lowbrow comes up and how it's going to go in the future here is that highbrow is going to basically be anything that has been released by an actual big publishing house lowbrow will be the things that were put out by self published authors mainly and then you might be able to get some of the more like boutique presses that do really interesting work and really interesting bindings and stuff like that that might be considered more high art but I really think the the difference between literature and trash is going to end up being something is silly as traditionally published self published so I don't really know how that's going to go but I feel like that's where it's going so what are your what are your takes on this and should I do the Gerberges tag is that something that sounds interesting let me know down below and I will talk to you guys later but bye and if you'd like to join the career of the energy crew just hit the join button beneath this video and if you'd like to become a member of my Patreon you can run over to the link down below to do that as well. 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