/lit/ - Literature

Look at this letter by a 17 year old in the early 1800s.
A 17 year old today couldn't write like this, even one who was destined to create the next great novel or school of thought couldn't write like this.
But does it make him less intelligent than an average intelligence person from that era who writes like this day to day?.
It's it is eloquent and beautiful to read this, but mostly because it is a relic of a "better" time in human history (that statistically was a far worse time to be alive).
Consumerism, nihilism and mental illness have certainly lowered the romantic and aesthetic output of a post-post industrial society, but the average person is more educated and more literate than from centuries prior.
I am not 17 or a zoomer, but I have two 15 and 17 year old brothers.
They spend much of their day on discord, twitch, and the internet, as do their friends.
I haven't opened discord in about two years prior to recently, don't use use twitch, but also spend a lot of my time on the internet.
I have spent a lot of time looking through the servers they are in on discord and looking at twitch chat.
It's really easy to consider this just a regression in language, and I'm not here to defend the intelligence of the average twitch chat user, but it's a more collectivist and almost hive-mind style of language.
It's memetics speech that has an almost Deleuzian way to take concepts from media and life and twisting them into esoteric phrases only vaguely related to their original meaning.
Conversations are snappy and said in only a few words, mainly relying on symbols known between the two to express the greater point.
You can see this all over the internet as well, and even encroaching into the way /lit/ speaks as more 18 year olds flood this board.
My question is, where does language go from here?
It might scream blasphemy to many users here, but could we see a wave of novels written in this fashion? Now understand I'm not suggesting sticking memes into a book, but people who can capture this style of speaking into a more readable format will surely create important modern novels.
What would post-prose literature look like?

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