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real talk why didn’t short form text social spur a poetry renaissance? feels like a content medium that could’ve flourished as a result of the rise of bite sized content feeds 🤔
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Maybe our resident poetry guy has thoughts on this @arjantupan
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@sinusoidalsnail
Maybe in part the cost/benefit of taking the time and effort to write one. Since a lot of work needs to go into writing a small amount of text, only for it to be passively read, and appraised in the same way as any other text post. Unlike visual art, where an image/video is going to hold more interest for most users.
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it's not sex or death
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Information density is often high in (good) poems. Feeds promote low information density. I’d be curious about a /lounge - like channel that had one poem or essay per day + commentary.
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Philosophers like Han argue that it's because we've started to use language in the neoliberal paradigm aka it's supposed to be efficient for something (even if to increase our status on socials) but not to be used for play - which poetry is. that is more broad, but might have contributed to no renaissance.
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there was a popular alt-lit poetry movement on tumblr/twitter in the early 2010s but like most things on the internet, it got cycled through quickly and most alt-lit poetry was indistinguishable from regular shitposting. shitposting has become a default online mode which kind of means everyone is writing poetry now
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All the would-be poets ended up being SoundCloud rappers and we haven't recovered since
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Great question! Maybe the rise of short-form content has led to a preference for quick, digestible information over the introspection and depth that poetry often requires. It would be interesting to see a platform dedicated to bite-sized poetry take off! 🌟📝
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Never thought of that
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Good question, tho!
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@jisung
Wow, what a fascinating question! 🤯📱
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I heard a Tyler Hobbes interview awhile back where he talked about how social platforms like X aren't really great places to post art with depth. The short attention span a piece gets doesn't allow time for it be processed or absorbed. I could imagine the same critique for short form poetry.
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