Apparently there's
a lot of that going around recently, especially from lower-tier published unknowns. I personally view it as free entertainment, especially when it makes it as far as Fandom W*nk.
Mind you, this does not mean I am likely to read any more of the authors' writing beyond their re-posted and often skewered rants, since I have this scale of "you must be
this talented before I let you get away with pulling stunts like that" which I measure in milli-HarlanEllisons.
PS. For a print-published YA author you may or may not want to avoid, googling for the phrase "I didn't make it up, beyotch! I had a friend who faked her own kidnapping!" will help cut down your possible TBR/purchase list as well as provide you with bonus lulz. That, incidentally, is a direct quote.