Digital technologies have radically transformed the landscape of the humanities, with poetry at the forefront of this change. The disappearance of traditional barriers to entry—editorial and ideological censorship—has produced a paradoxical effect: democratized access to publication has resulted in the total devaluation of content. Where publication once signaled quality, it has become merely a technical act accessible to everyone without competency validation.
This situation mirrors the classic ecological problem of common resource pollution. The internet's flood of low-quality texts has caused readers to lose trust in the category of "poetry" itself. Mechanisms of self-censorship and professional selection were dismantled by algorithms and open platforms, turning literary space into an uncontrolled data stream. The analogy with polluting a clean water source is apt: even the local appearance of substandard product alters the perception of the entire ecosystem, triggering a defensive audience response.
The expert conclusion is unambiguous: the crisis of audience trust has become fatal for classical textual poetry in its former form. In conditions of information overload, a work's value is determined not only by its content but also by filtering complexity. Without restoring strict selection institutions or changing presentation format (visualization, performance), textual poetry risks dissolving completely into digital noise, becoming invisible to mass consciousness. Technological progress, opening doors for self-expression, simultaneously destroyed the value of this self-expression in the consumer's eyes.