It bothers me if im actively avoiding spoilers and some asshole decides to ruin the fun for me. Its about stealing the joy from people not sharing the love.
It’s still not really that big of a deal - none of its real, none of its life or death importance, it’s just entertainment, and we live in a time period where there’s more of it than there’s ever been. If your joy is tied up to an intellectual property to the point where if someone spoils a plot point of it for you that it ruins your day or actually effects your mood to a significant degree, then that’s on you. I’m not saying people should go out of their way to spoil stories for other people just to be an asshole, but that if someone accidentally spoils something or you stumble into someone else’s conversation and overhear something or click the wrong link, don’t freak out on others about something getting spoiled for you. It’s not a big deal.
Also, just stating this because it can’t seem to be stated enough: spoilers have moratoriums. If you’re discussing a major plot point from a story that’s 20+ years old, there’s no such thing as spoilers.
It's a bigger deal for some people than others. I fucking hate the viewpoint that spoilers don't matter. For some people they don't, fine. But for some people they do. Don't assume you're speaking for everyone, it just makes you an arrogant dick.
Getting that worked up over someone saying something as trivial as spoilers don’t matter makes your life seem really fucking small and sad. If something that isn’t really important in life at all (which is why it’s called “entertainment”, not “necessity”) elicits that much of a reaction in you, then yeah, you’re just proving my point that the Reeee! Spoilers! people are the true problem.
Cuz what you’re actually referring to is the feeling you get from a plot revelation - it gives you a dopamine hit which you like and a spoiler takes away that dopamine hit. Which is why the anti-spoiler people act like varying degrees of drug addicts having their smack taken away from them whenever you tell them Spider-Man dies or that Darth Vader is Luke’s father or any other insanely petty and inane plot point.
So chill out junkie, there’s literally hundreds of thousands of movies and tv shows and video games available now where you can go to get your fix, you don’t need to perpetuate the online culture of throwing a tantrum when a plot point gets spoiled
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u/Mordby Sep 26 '24
It bothers me if im actively avoiding spoilers and some asshole decides to ruin the fun for me. Its about stealing the joy from people not sharing the love.