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Something weird happens when people find an actor\u2019s Letterboxd account, especially an incognito one. Sure, it\u2019s exciting for a fan to find and share a celebrity\u2019s seemingly private account, full of honest reviews and rankings about their fellow actors, but there\u2019s also something sad about it. \u201cBoxxeding<\/a>\u201d celebs for their posts on Letterboxd is the most obnoxious kind of online person to be, and Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams is the latest to get the brunt of it.<\/p>\n A flurry<\/a> of social-media users<\/a> posting screenshots<\/a> are outing Williams\u2019s alleged account, effectively Letterboxd doxxing him and causing him to seemingly delete the account altogether. It\u2019s one thing to share Williams\u2019s posts because they\u2019re funny, but fans seem to be using his Letterboxd to attack his acting abilities and call his taste into question. Does Williams need to like Nope? Or Pedro Pascal? What does it mean that he likes the Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Lolita? Of course an actor has incomprehensible taste in movies \u2014 few actors\u2019 tastes actually line up with the work they do<\/a>, and even more of them have weird takes altogether<\/a>. The rampant unpacking of his account descending into ad hominem attacks feels counterintuitive to what people want from celebrities now, a patina of authenticity. What if, instead, we all just behaved normally about this for once?<\/p>\n As the Tina Fey clip from Las Culturistas<\/a> gets passed around for the ten millionth time, maybe we ought to rethink an ecosystem that encourages everyone to refuse to say how they actually feel for the sake of politehood at best and not pissing off stan communities at worst. It\u2019d be one thing if Williams was going on podcasts or doing interviews where he talked openly about his dislike for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, but his alleged Letterboxd \u2014 which has been otherwise absent from his promoting Heated Rivalry \u2014 is his business. He\u2019s not the only person on his show who has been forced to grapple with his digital footprint. His co-star Connor Storrie\u2019s embracing of his past YouTube videos<\/a> is very sweet but feels unnecessary. An account titled \u201cActorboy222\u201d is not asking to be discovered, let alone doxxed.<\/p>\n It was a little over a year ago when Charli XCX\u2019s Letterboxd account<\/a> \u201cleaked\u201d to the public, which led the singer to fess up to the account being hers. The appeal of Charli\u2019s account<\/a> was that her reviews were funny, yes, and a glimpse into her culture diet in relation to her own work. Charli decided to own it, both changing her bio on the site to be \u201cmy account got leaked i guess.\u201d Though the singer and actor posts semi-regular breakdowns of her activity on TikTok<\/a>, her unchanged bio on the site reminds users that she\u2019s not a public figure on that site by choice (even if her username made her easy to identify). Margot Robbie\u2019s alleged Letterboxd watches<\/a> made the rounds before that account mysteriously disappeared. Even more public-identifying figures on Letterboxd \u2014 like Sean Baker<\/a> \u2014 have curbed their activity on the platform, and other stars like Ayo Edebiri (and now Williams) deleted their accounts entirely<\/a>. Should celebrities feel obligated to be public ambassadors of movies on Letterboxd, we run the risk of having everything on there feel like #spon. Celebs will already give five stars to movies with their friends in them; do we also want them doing that with whatever studio spends the most on marketing?<\/p>\n The frantic dissection of Williams\u2019s account has allowed fans to feel they are close to, or even understand,\u00a0someone they don\u2019t know based on their media consumption. Or they\u2019re using it as a vehicle to be weird haters. It\u2019s a little interesting, sure, to see what celebrities get up to on Letterboxd, just as it is their Instagrams or anything else noted with a blue check mark, but they should be granted their privacy to have taste \u2014 good or bad or somewhere in between. If there\u2019s anything Heated Rivalry fans should know, it\u2019s that a little mystery is always more fun.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n