If you see a cover you think is AI-generated, you can think that. You can choose not to buy the book. You don’t have to screenshot it, tag the author, and invite the internet to weigh in on whether this person deserves to keep their career. If you think ARCs shouldn’t be part of a paid tier, you can think that. You can not subscribe. You don’t have to publicly shame the author for making a different choice to you. If you discover an author’s pen name doesn’t match their gender, you can process that information privately. You absolutely do not get to share their real identity with the world. Because at the end of the day, nobody made you the gatekeeper. Nobody elected you. Nobody gave you the authority to decide what another author can and can’t do with their own work, their own business, their own identity. And wrapping it up in moral outrage doesn’t change that