Among others, author Bethany Baptiste took to Twitter to call out the sketchy behavior. Bethany said, “Debuts have to deal with an albino snake in the hen house,” which one of Cait’s friends and defenders in the debut Slack channel took offense to and called Bethany ableist and racist.

This caused the Slack moderators to lock the #BIPOC and #disability channels as members worried about their private information being shared. After this, Bethany and several other authors left the Slack channel, and Xiran continued to post support for Bethany, saying that these accusations against Bethany are being used to "deflect from the allegations" against Cait.

Xiran also noted that there's something insidious about the review bomber "using clearly POC names in the fake accounts to upvote every negative review on POC books."