[ SECRET POST #4514 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4514 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: The Spoiler Statue of Limitations

[(Anonymous)]

is that a real revelation from FB? because thanks you just spoiled me.

(I tease because I have no intention of seeing the steaming pile that is the latest movie but I did not know that information, so...)

it isn't a finite thing with a certain time limit. movies take differing quantities of time to pass from theatre to pay to see streaming to free streaming, so there's no hard and fast time by which a majority of people who would have wanted to go in spoiler-free have seen it. with tv series it's probably less time than a movie but that also depends on the airer - clearly a netflix series that is up all in one go that people can stream over a weekend and get caught up differs from an HBO or similar property that is extremely hard to get at unless you've ponied up for the subscription. video games are the hardest I think because there are those jerks who blaze through it two days after it releases and there's others who can't even get to it for a few months and then take another month or two to complete it.

but, I can't honestly think of a situation where you can just say things at random in public unless you're already fairly conscious that a bit of info has entered the public consciousness - your example has not but "Vader is Luke's father" has. Even if you've never seen Star Wars you've probably heard that. Rosebud is the sled. Snape kills Dumbledore. most of the time when people are talking about wanting to be warned about spoilers it's usually in a place where there is some kind of tacit expectation that fandom discussions might happen or someone might bring up last night's episode, in which case being polite takes very little effort.

that said, I don't have a facebook, twitter, or reddit so maybe there are places where people just spout off spoilers at random and I don't know about it.