We Had to Remove This Post follows Kayleigh, who's in debt and struggling. When she stumbles upon a job as a content moderator for a popular social media site it seems easy enough: classify flagged content and decide if it should stay up or not. Simple. Sometimes the content is difficult to swallow but it's part of the job, right? View, classify, decide, and move on. These are monotonous tasks: why is Kayleigh beginning to feel different? What started as an easy cash-grab quickly shows itself as a heavier burden than it might be worth.

I chose to read this book based on the content moderation premise, its length (luvs a good lil novella), and the fact that I've seen it floating around social media circles, BookTok specifically. Every review I've seen has stated this book highlights the depraved, seedy underbelly of human nature. BUT REALLY there were maybe...2-3 instances where these dark events were described. The piece of content that had the largest effect on one of characters was very light compared to the description of the novel.

As I read, it was evident WHTRTP doesn't focus on the aspect of content moderation but instead on the affects of viewing this content so frequently. SO THIS MUST MEAN IT LED OUR CHARACTERS TO SOME HORRIFIC ACTS, RIGHT? No. Kayleigh's transformation was so minuscule I found it slightly annoying, and the same for her coworkers. The side effects of the job manifested through believing half-hearted conspiracy theories and fake news articles, bringing critical thinking skills to an all-time low. This ~"horror"~ had no effect on me as a white woman with older family members on Facebook: I see this