The commodification of leisure is a trap we all fell into. There is something pure about keeping your joy offline and unindexed.

This mom gets it. We don't need likes to validate our experiences. I wrote about this previously too.

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A screenshot of a tweet by user @Raelthy dated Feb 16, 2026. The text reads: "My mom has a little notebook where she writes down every movie she watches and a few of her thoughts about it. I told her about Letterboxd & she said 'does everyone need an audience for their hobbies now?'"
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