When did /lit/ become anti-elitist? In recent posts I've seen the claims that Chaucer is second rate and sounds exactly like Dryden, that McCarthy is the highest iq novelist, that Orwell is a better writer than Joyce, that the Greeks aren't worth reading, that poetry is an outdated form, that a Sally Rooney novel has more depth of content than the classics, etc. Such opinions would have been considered unthinkable on /lit/ even five years ago. Where previously it would have been a given expectation for the clamour of vitriol to drown out any such rubbish, we are now not even surprised to see it greeted with approbation. What has happened?
>>25186758i think bots are more rampant than ever with the advent of easy access to LLMs, and those bots are used for negatively charged social engineering on impressionable people who end up indistinguishable from them
>>25186918i mean, it seems blatant to me. Epstein and m00t met the same month /pol/ was brought back, after one of Epstein's homies told him about 4chan's "potential for manipulation". it's long been said 4chan is a honeypot and people have been pointing figures at glowies for over a decade, it's just kind of crazy to realize there was more to it than memesthe entire internet has been consolidated, much like the official media that people used to get their news from. everyone only uses a handful of sites now and those sites are all owned + operated by a handful of mega corporations which are heavily invested into lobbying politicians who change laws to manipulate investments
>>251867584chan stopped being a hangout for college students and become a poorfag hobby.
>>25186931we're approaching (living in?) a soft videogame-like dystopia, only without all the cool shit like augments and $50B rebel cyborgs
The opinion of /lit/ is the opinion of whichever random retard happens to come across your post at a given moment.
>>25186758Chaucher is okay. I hate Milton though. I love Cormac McCarthy. The Greeks and Romans are amazing. Joyce is okay; definitely better than Orwell. I haven't read Rooney or Dryden.
>>25188485*Chaucer
>bait would have been unthinkable on 4chan five years ago
>>25188485>Hate Milton>Joyce is okay>Chaucer is okay>love McCarthy Retarded takes. This is what OP is talking about. I swear, I’ve seen it too, McCarthy is fine, but if I were to say anything bad about him I’d have a league of fans throwing insults at me. Not that it bothers me, just that they don’t really argue as much as they shriek like autists.
>>25186758There are people who also try to argue Gene Wolfe is better than many canonical writers.
Well at least Pynchon receives more hate nowadays
>>25188593Only because of your autistic little tirade lol
>>25188618Mine? You must be mistaken.
>>25188485>I hate Milton though. I love Cormac McCarthy.And there it is: the cancer that's killing /lit/.
>>25188551Those people are figments of your imagination, and you're an obsessive weirdo.
>>25188485Go back. You have not read anyone you mentioned except for Cormac McCarthy.
>>25188551Nobody is saying Wolfe is better than Melville, trogolodyte. He's a frequent internet recommendation just because he's almost unknown outside of SF circles. God forbid an author write something that can be enjoyable and a little layered simultaneously.
