Yeah. Makes me feel like the world is turning into an anti-writer society

It's been like that for a hot minute, surprisingly. As early as 2002, people were hesitant to read anything more than a paragraph of stuff, and there was even a derogatory acronym created in response.

Remember tl/dr? It stands for "too long, didn't read" and was used mainly in a derogatory way to say people talk too much.

I see it a lot in video games, too. "Speed runs" are the hot new way to play, and people who actually play slowly and methodically are looked down on and in some cases made fun of for "trying to kill the vibe of the game"

No, we are the ones vibing in the game by preferring immersion and realism. Speedrunners are killing the vibe by trying to do everything as fast as possible without caring about anything else but how fast they can complete a level.

I still vividly remember the days when you had entire groups of people who roleplayed as the different clans or factions in the game when playing online. Now, you'd be looked down on for even attempting something like that.

People nowadays are spoiled by instant gratification. They want everything and they want it now. They don't want to read several pages of lore or history about a game. They just want to play the game.

It's much the same way with fursona backstories or lore. Nobody wants to take the time to read it or learn about it anymore. They just want the eye candy. They don't care to know anything more about a fursona than how good it looks.

Chuckles in slow burn so slow you can see the ignition happening

Back before the World Wide Web was even a thing (yes, I am old enough to remember), there was a lot more emphasis on and demand for writing, especially what was known as "ghost writing" where you told someone else what to write but they wrote it in first person perspective and made it look like you.

Ghost writers never got credit for their work publicly, but they were often paid for their work by the people they were writing for, and it was understood that by being a ghost writer, you would never get credit for your work publicly.

Man I'd be happy to just be a ghost writer at this rate