I think Letterboxd is a really healthy thing to have caught on with younger crowds.

Like, there are a lot of criticisms (some valid) of how much Gen Z and millennials broadcast every detail of their life, often preserving moments at the cost of enjoying them.

But something about Letterboxd and the way people use it feels far less like screaming into the void like a Steam or IMDb review. Maybe it’s because the social aspects of the platform guarantee that it will be seen by your real life friends, or maybe it’s just a side effect of being an app exclusively for type of person who meticulously logs the films they watch— but Letterboxd as a website feels like an honest-to-god media journal just like they taught us to keep in film school.

And I love that about it. I think we’d all do well to write more about the media we consume— what it means to us, why we love the things we do, why we don’t the ones we don’t.

I always love revisiting things I wrote about media I consumed years ago because I know I will have lost the complex thoughts and feelings explored in the moment by the time I next recall that piece of media. It’s why I’m so meticulous with notes keeping when playing games. Letterboxd gives me that for film, plus access to so many other perspectives I would’ve otherwise lost.

I dunno. I’m sure someone will tell me Letterboxd is cringe or bad or whatever one day but I really like it. Feels like a pure slice of what the internet should actually be for.