I would guess that your postmisses an important detail related to web novels. Sites allowing authors to publish them and set paywalls actually exist. What the sites lack is the ability to prevent content from being optimized for virality, not for actual value or even for the time during which the author is supposed to reflect on posts.
While I haven’t thoroughly studied English platforms, I have read the ones from Russia and suspect that most popular content is slop updated often enough to stay on top. In addition, unlike before, slop’s proliferation has now lost: the time necessary to deliver a new, ahem, piece of culture and reflect on it, the ability of the piece to mutate during replicationand friction which would accompany reproduction before the rise of the Internet.
The worst aspect is likely slop’s potential to undermine the society by affecting the readers’ worldview and/or by being superstimulating.
I would guess that your postmisses an important detail related to web novels. Sites allowing authors to publish them and set paywalls actually exist. What the sites lack is the ability to prevent content from being optimized for virality, not for actual value or even for the time during which the author is supposed to reflect on posts.
While I haven’t thoroughly studied English platforms, I have read the ones from Russia and suspect that most popular content is slop updated often enough to stay on top. In addition, unlike before, slop’s proliferation has now lost: the time necessary to deliver a new, ahem, piece of culture and reflect on it, the ability of the piece to mutate during replication and friction which would accompany reproduction before the rise of the Internet.
The worst aspect is likely slop’s potential to undermine the society by affecting the readers’ worldview and/or by being superstimulating.