The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g.

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits posted online for all to see are something absolutely other, uniquely themselves compared to canonical short stories, for example, and so it'd probably be best to call it something other than "online lit" since I honestly think very little of it can compare to so-called "literature."

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.