2025-03-11
13 分钟Hi, I'm Annie Aguiar.
I'm a reporting fellow covering arts and culture for the New York Times.
If you're into movies, you've probably heard of this app called Letterboxd.
More than 18 million film nerds like myself use it to log our viewing habits
and rate the movies we've watched.
It's a kind of freewheeling film criticism culture,
and it's a very online user base with people riffing off of the latest releases and esoteric films,
making little quips and quoting favorite lines.
So my editor and I, who also uses letterboxd, were talking recently,
and he asked me, have you heard of this letterboxd user who's a vegan?
And I cut him off, like, oh, my gosh, yes, Vegan alerts lady.
She's kind of a minor celebrity on letterboxd and has been for a couple of years.
In her reviews, she writes what she calls vegan alerts,
which are these lists of infractions against any vegan sensibility toward watching a movie.
The offenses can go from obvious animal butchery to, you know,
a stick of butter on a counter in the background of a scene.
So if I open up my letterboxd app, if I go to her profile now,
I can see this recent review of Mickey 17.
She notes it was a mixed bag,
makes some comments on some of the acting, and then gets to the vegan alerts,