Call me mean, call me a monster, try to drown me in your hatred but …
Visual arts in the form of comics have been developing at lightning speed since the 30s (or earlier? I don't remember exactly).
Literature however has been taking a backseat.
With the development of social media and instant gratification, text has taken a backseat. People say it, pretty pictures are attractive. A wall of text is not.
We have developed our capacity to express ourselves visually and lost the focus needed to concentrate on written ideas. Hence, what is happening? The quality of comics I so superior to the quality of novels that it is painful. And we only consume third-rate novels as well. The one's that read like a 13-year old wrote them, because that has become the intellectual level we are at.
Barely anyone on here can read a short story by … say … Yukio Mishima (since this place is so Asian-inspired, it hurts). Some people wouldn't be able to keep up with Twilight, let us be honest.
Literature is slowly dying. Our ancestors left us Kafka, Aytmatov, Doestoevsky, Goethe, Balzac, Zola, Lope de Vega, name it. What are we going to be leaving our descendants?! Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey?!
You know what? I write. And yet, I too prefer the webcomic section of Tapas.