Literally the entire poetry space is so much horrendously worse with this. I make art as well but it is literally so intense, how little poetry people do not reblog anything outside of their PERFECT little aesthetic. I was curious and looked at like 20 different poetry blogs and found the same or similar aesthetic stuff and very few people reblogging other forms of poetry. Whatever poems I do post usually never get reblogs, and there’s only like 3 likes after a few days and the post never gets interacted with again.
The people supposedly ENJOY the content, but not enough to ruin their perfect aesthetic blogs or to make a side blog to look at other people’s poems and works. And I’m not dissing aesthetic blogs, you do you, good for you, but the problem comes from not supporting other artists or poets. No comments on posts either usually, just likes and moving on. It’s at the point I have considered several times to entirely stop posting my poetry. I’ve long since almost entirely stopped posting my art because it feels like more effort to tag the damn art than it’s worth, because nobody sees it or cares. No sketches, no wips, no talking about my story, no talking about my characters, I save that for my discord communities because literally it’s a ghost town here.