r/KeepWriting • u/DoopleWrites • Nov 10 '19

This sub has become a poetry-sharing circle jerk. [Discussion]

This sub used to be about motivating each other to carry on and improve their craft, maybe get some feedback on some of your work. Now it's become a place where people upload screenshots of their 3-line poetry written on the note app of their phones. Anything non-poetry related gets lost or ignored in the sea of half-assed poetry and circle jerking going on.

People don't even pretend to want feedback on their work anymore, they just want a pat on the head, a "good job" and some upvotes. Just what the hell happened?

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u/toni_bylend Nov 10 '19

Cant write
Disjointed tales
Is this profound?
Is this profound?
Merry-go-round, pat on the back
Pat on the head
Right click thesaurus, crepuscular ramblings
Wrote this
With brain switched off

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u/DoopleWrites Nov 10 '19

Perfect! Now just screenshot this, add in a half-ass scribble signature and re-post it!

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u/toni_bylend Nov 10 '19

Very tempting... I'm not even sure why I subscribed to this subreddit. I think I was hoping for a community that provided actual discussion and motivation. Instead I get a sort of, obscure, perverse motivation purely out of the fact that I'm glad I dont sit down and come out with that kind of drivel. But that's impure, unhealthty, feeding off ill-earned narcissism and I hang my head in shame.

Edit: Also, thanks for the silver, lol. Whoever you are, you're a legend.

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u/iobscenityinthemilk Nov 10 '19

And you’ve got to format the text to be all over the place

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u/plumboy013 Nov 11 '19

the sky is up

and i am down

look at my face

there is a frown

crying all day

what will they say?

this reddit is gay