I am so damn tired of the Internet Spoiling Shows

[Stalker0]

House of the Dragon season 3 came out yesterday. My girlfriend wasn't available for our watch, so we booked it for tonight. Ok great no problem.

Go onto the internet today. Did not look up HOTD, didn't even touch it. I get a popup article where the title gave a major spoiler to the episode.

Sigh.


I can fully respect spoilers after a few months. I can mostly excuse after a few weeks. But the gosh darn next morning....come on people!!!

 

[payn]

Gosh, sometimes spoilers be dropping when a show/film is still 6 months out.

 

[MarkB]

It gets worse as an anime fan. These days manga readers seem to drop spoilers for later in the story arc at the drop of a hat. Pretty much have to avoid the comments section when watching Youtube videos on them.

 

[VashVet]

Unfortunately, you have to go on a full lockdown now regarding the internet if you want to avoid something. A spoiler is just another way to gain clicks and drive ad revenue - the bigger the spoiler the better. This probably won’t get better.

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

I‘m more interested that you aren‘t blocking popups.

 

[Retros_x]

I am sounding like an old man yelling at clouds, but when I was young (I'm only 34 lol) everybody was spoiled about everything because the first one who saw something run into the class and told everyone - and nobody cared, we wanted it to hear. We did enjoy all the movies and games anyway. We wanted to see that major battle for ourselves. I think making the enjoyment of a work of art dependent on the level of surprise you get out of it just a recipe for disaster. But if you insist on it: nowadays you can control it much better, get off the internet and block those pop-ups, if you want to be completely unspoiled.

The other thing is that everybody has a different deception of what a spoiler is. For me the original definition was: something that spoiled a surprise or a twist. Like the ending of Fight Club or The Sixth Sense or a surprising character death like in Game of Thrones season 1 episode 9. But other people consider even the text on the back of a book, or the design of a character or speaking about the general themes of a story as a major spoiler that ruins their enjoyment. And thus leads often to two complete opposite discussion areas on the internet: the all spoilers area and the non spoilers at all area with no middle ground. Another binary in our binary life.

 

[cbwjm]

I long ago decided not to care about spoilers, I don't go looking for them but also don't worry too much if I come across them. So far, I haven't had an issue with spoilers ruining a movie or show so I either I haven't come across a show shattering spoiler or I'm chill enough about them that I just don't care.

 

[BrokenTwin]

I'm of two thoughts on this. On one hand, I remember going to see Deadpool & Wolverine in theatres after miraculously avoiding seeing anything about it beforehand, and being incredibly annoyed that the theatre played the spoiler-full commercial for it right before the movie started (I'm still baffled as to WHY).

On the other hand, I do feel like a piece of media only being good for the initial surprise factor to generally mean it's not that good to begin with. With the above example, I enjoyed D&W. But I'll probably never watch it again, because the novelty wore off quickly. But I've probably watched The Lord of the Rings a hundred times now, and I'll still watch the extended cuts even now. Knowing the plot (verbatim, for a significant chunk) hasn't ruined my experience of those movies.

 

[MarkB]

I am sounding like an old man yelling at clouds, but when I was young (I'm only 34 lol) everybody was spoiled about everything because the first one who saw something run into the class and told everyone - and nobody cared, we wanted it to hear. We did enjoy all the movies and games anyway. We wanted to see that major battle for ourselves. I think making the enjoyment of a work of art dependent on the level of surprise you get out of it just a recipe for disaster. But if you insist on it: nowadays you can control it much better, get off the internet and block those pop-ups, if you want to be completely unspoiled.

Depends on the circles you're in and the media. Avoiding spoilers was a thing even back when I was young, discussing Babylon 5 and Firefly episodes on Usenet as they came out.

The other thing is that everybody has a different deception of what a spoiler is. For me the original definition was: something that spoiled a surprise or a twist. Like the ending of Fight Club or The Sixth Sense or a surprising character death like in Game of Thrones season 1 episode 9. But other people consider even the text on the back of a book, or the design of a character or speaking about the general themes of a story as a major spoiler that ruins their enjoyment. And thus leads often to two complete opposite discussion areas on the internet: the all spoilers area and the non spoilers at all area with no middle ground. Another binary in our binary life.

It's tough to play in the middle ground when everybody's middle ground is different.

 

[aco175]

I recall the local radio person was into the original Game of Thrones and he would tell people that he would not talk about it on-air until Wednesday to give everyone Monday and Tuesday to watch it. But after that it was fair game. I think he meant that after that amount of time you were not a true fan.