Alt Lit, Illuminati Girl Gang and Porn Carnival: A Decade of Online Poetry Communities (2010-2020)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The kind of twenty-first-century poetry that contains the language of late capitalism, products and brands, and resembles the syntax of text messaging, Instagram comments and memes, is a result of the collective rhetoric of a Millennial group of writers that came of age on the Internet. Online communities and publications that emerged between 2010 and 2016 such as Alt Lit, Internet Poetry, Illuminati Girl Gang, and others, have in fact paved the way for provocative multimodal poetry books such as Rachel Rabbit White’s Porn Carnival (2019). These groups of writers, now many in their early to mid-thirties, are the founders of new digital discourse communities, online journals, and digital reading series, which experienced renewed relevance during the Covid-19 crisis when in-person readings were not possible. This paper discusses the aesthetic and social effects of online discourse communities on the production of poetry books, emphasizing how digital communities function as a continuous and collective writing project on their own.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".