Ethel Cain has thoughts about the current irony culture

[just444]

Comments

[sillyskinny]

Another thing to consider: The fire one-liner typically gets more engagement (quick comment, upvote, reaction) than a long, thoughtful response. That's important to some people.

[scriptedending]

lol, this is every popular Letterboxd review

[kwoneunbi]

I usually don't mind the one-liner reviews because I fully understand not every film warrants a whole essay and everyone goes at their own pace, but the one-liners have sadly made the site feel like a popularity contest ala twitter because it feels like it's more about who can have the most popular review or become the next Demi or Lucy rather than focus on, like, enjoying movies. It did take a lot of the fun out of the site for me and enjoying films as a whole for a while, tbh, sdbghjkgh. I'm pushing 30! I shouldn't give this much of a fuck about something that's essentially a FILM DIARY WEBSITE.

[mayjailer]

aka what's made me hate letterboxd

[odetothefool]

letterboxd reviews have really tanked ever since it's become a clear competition over who can have the best one-line zingers. it's getting pathetic tbh and it's inappropriate in some settings

[beegotry]

I fucking hate letterboxd for this, especially because I write nuanced reviews you can read in five minutes or less, but I need to be on there because critics are there too.

[solookup]

look at ontd, we only read the titles.

[meetviolent]

Barely.

[odetothefool]

i'll have you know i ACTUALLY read ethel's post THANK YOU very much!!
(but this is like a one in a million instance...)