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I have recently discovered that there is whole wast segment of human population to whom the concept of spoiler is as alien as the actual aliens. Apparently know

by Yizahi 2y ago

I have recently discovered that there is whole wast segment of human population to whom the concept of spoiler is as alien as the actual aliens. Apparently knowing the finale of the book or a movie in advance is not only ok for them, but actually a thing to strive for, like an optimization puzzle. "You, foolish author, thought I would spend 2 hours on this? Haha, I did it in 15 minutes!" I don't even argue about that nowadays, those people are from different species, not possible to communicate between us :) .

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Spoilers aren't generally an issue for me. If the content is good enough it doesn't matter knowing what happens at the end. Obviously some things are better unspoiled, maybe like the Usual Suspects, but that rewatched just as interesting as the first time I saw it. I think you actually have more in common with the people you are lambasting than you think. You seem to all think the specific plot events are the point of the content.
- Yizahi 2y ago
  First of all there are whole genres which don't make sense with spoilers. Second, there are "normal" typical movies of different genres which can incorporate plot twist to make a much heavier impact. For example kids fantasy movie Bridge to Terabithia, which even spawned some memes about child slave labor, because they went 100% in role. Sure, it's not worse now that I know the plot and it's not even the main point of it (as you correctly say), but initial impact was influenced a lot by watching it blind. Or the more recent firefighter movie Only the Brave which I randomly stumbled upon without knowing nothing about the basis of it, also made a huge impact. And again, it wasn't the point of the movie, but it made it much more impactful. This is all my personal opinion of course.
catlikesshrimp 2y ago
Not about a puzzle. Neither me nor anybody in my family gives a rat tail about spoilers. I am not denying your argument, only several decades ago I hadn't met anybody who cared about any spoiler. My first exposure to the fact was a Simpsons episode where Homer spoils some movie ending in the theater. But nowadays the antispoilers are everywhere. Coming out of the closet or a fancy?
- Yizahi 2y ago
  If I had to speculate about your question, I would guess that a) there was almost no digital video to matter a few decades ago, b) there was different culture regarding digital media (or maybe I'm misremembering), trailers were more tame and there was less of them overall (I'm not from USA btw), like maybe 1 or 2 before the movie, not 5+. There were much less story based TV shows with contiguous plot, which are all the fad now. Making a trailer for Seinfeld can be done easily. Now making a trailer to say Game of Thrones will most likely involve some major spoiler (or a dozen). So my guess answer is - the social pressure finally rose high enough that there is now critical mass of people who care about spoilers and got spoiled a few times by official media. That's why there are more posts about this. More instances of the issue multiplied by vastly bigger market due to cheap internet and streaming.
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by Yizahi 2y ago

IncreasePosts 2y ago

Spoilers aren't generally an issue for me. If the content is good enough it doesn't matter knowing what happens at the end. Obviously some things are better unspoiled, maybe like the Usual Suspects, but that rewatched just as interesting as the first time I saw it. I think you actually have more in common with the people you are lambasting than you think. You seem to all think the specific plot events are the point of the content.

Yizahi 2y ago
First of all there are whole genres which don't make sense with spoilers. Second, there are "normal" typical movies of different genres which can incorporate plot twist to make a much heavier impact. For example kids fantasy movie Bridge to Terabithia, which even spawned some memes about child slave labor, because they went 100% in role. Sure, it's not worse now that I know the plot and it's not even the main point of it (as you correctly say), but initial impact was influenced a lot by watching it blind. Or the more recent firefighter movie Only the Brave which I randomly stumbled upon without knowing nothing about the basis of it, also made a huge impact. And again, it wasn't the point of the movie, but it made it much more impactful. This is all my personal opinion of course.

catlikesshrimp 2y ago

Not about a puzzle. Neither me nor anybody in my family gives a rat tail about spoilers. I am not denying your argument, only several decades ago I hadn't met anybody who cared about any spoiler. My first exposure to the fact was a Simpsons episode where Homer spoils some movie ending in the theater. But nowadays the antispoilers are everywhere. Coming out of the closet or a fancy?

Yizahi 2y ago
If I had to speculate about your question, I would guess that a) there was almost no digital video to matter a few decades ago, b) there was different culture regarding digital media (or maybe I'm misremembering), trailers were more tame and there was less of them overall (I'm not from USA btw), like maybe 1 or 2 before the movie, not 5+. There were much less story based TV shows with contiguous plot, which are all the fad now. Making a trailer for Seinfeld can be done easily. Now making a trailer to say Game of Thrones will most likely involve some major spoiler (or a dozen). So my guess answer is - the social pressure finally rose high enough that there is now critical mass of people who care about spoilers and got spoiled a few times by official media. That's why there are more posts about this. More instances of the issue multiplied by vastly bigger market due to cheap internet and streaming.

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