What are Alert Peetimes and why did we add them?
For years, one of the most common requests we've had is: help me avoid the scenes I don't want to see.
We were already doing it informally. When a scene was far more brutal than the rest of the movie, we'd try to put a Peetime over it. An Alert Peetime makes that official. It's a Peetime that sits over a scene some people would rather skip, and it's marked so you know why it's there.
What gets an Alert Peetime
We focus on three things:
- sexual violence
- animal cruelty
- torture
These are the scenes people ask us about most, and the ones that tend to catch viewers off guard.
Context matters
An Alert Peetime marks a scene that stands out from the movie around it. If you're watching a gangster film full of violence, we're not going to flag every beating, because that's what the movie is. If that same film has one scene of animal cruelty, we'll try to flag it.
What Alert Peetimes can't do
This is subjective. One person's "I can't watch that" is another person's "what scene?" There's a lot of common ground, though, and that's what we aim for.
We can't cover everything. Anyone can carry a reason a particular scene is hard to watch. If you were recently in a bad car accident, a car crash on screen might be rough, and we can't predict every one of those. If there's something specific you need to avoid, the best move is still to ask a friend who has seen the movie.
We'll miss some. Alert Peetimes are a best effort on top of our main job, which is finding good times to run to the bathroom. If we missed a scene, or flagged one that didn't deserve it, tell us. Every Peetime in the app has a way to send a comment or correction, and we read them.
Why we bother
RunPee started as a way to never miss the best part of a movie. Sometimes the kindest thing we can do is help you miss the worst part.
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