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[ SECRET POST #5907 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5907 ⌋

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Love them? Hate them? Don't care?

Mostly don't care. There are very few spoilers that genuinely wreck the thing being spoiled.

Personally love them. They actually enhance things for me because when I know the plot I can pay more attention to the details. And knowing the plot doesn't ruin something for me.

That being said, I never force spoilers on anyone who doesn't want them. But this whole mindset of "spoilers are evil" is such a major overreaction. Spoilers are bad for those who don't want them and okay or even good for those who do. They aren't objectively bad and don't objectively ruin anything.

I wouldn't say 'objectively' but there are things where the experience of watching it for the first time is fundamentally different and worse if you go in knowing the twist. Like The Usual Suspects - although I guess that one's been ruined for other reasons anyway

Eh. Not for me. Honestly if something isn't going to be equally enjoyable every time I watch, I'm not really interested. Mysteries aren't really my thing unless there are other things to hook me like characters, worldbuilding.

Re: How do you feel about spoilers?

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Re: How do you feel about spoilers?

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Re: How do you feel about spoilers?

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Spoilers are good. There's an actual scientific study that shows that people enjoy whatever the media is more when they know the ending going in. I love spoilers.

I am in this camp (even though I'm not super involved in any typical fandoms anymore).

Sometimes I read themoviespoiler.com because I want to be able to interact about a movie I know I don't care enough to see. Like Quantumania and MEGAN. LOL.

I usually like spoilers, with a very few exceptions.

I like spoilers, especially if they tell me who dies.

I also want spoilers about the dog not dying.

I find them very helpful sometimes and mostly don't mind the rest of the time (they neither add to nor detract from my experience in any meaningful way).

That said, I don't like it when people try to spoil others maliciously. Of course, I also don't like when people get huffy or vitriolic about someone unintentionally spoiling them in a discussion about (or while giving information about, like in an article) that piece of media.

I love spoilers because they help me gauge whether or not something is worth my time.

Really depends on the thing and the individual spoiler. There aren't a lot of things that will GENUINELY LITERALLY SPOIL something for me. Sometimes I hear a thing and it just makes me more interested.

Though playing through FFXIV with only the bare minimum knowledge of "there are these characters and they're called the Scions of the Seventh Dawn not that that means anything to me" has been really, really enjoyable and I would be happy to go into all games as blind as this. It's been a long time since I had that opportunity.

I grew up in the early days of the internet and sometimes spoilers was the only way I could consume things due to lack of video players like YouTube or some kind of anime channel. So I don’t care for them really.

I tend to avoid them, but for most things they're not a super big deal for me. However, they matter a LOT more with books, I guess because I'm a slow reader, so I have a ton of time to just sit in the story and feel engaged and wonder where it's going. And so knowing where it's going really changes the experience for me, much more than it does with a 95 minute movie where I'm basically strapped in and hurtling forwards through the plot with only enough time to take in what's going on.

So yeah, I definitely don't want to know spoilers for novels or book series.

I'm pretty blase about film spoilers most of the time, but if the movie has an important twist, or it's a whodunit, then I would much prefer not to be spoiled.

And then with horror movies specifically it can go either way. Being spoiled can help make them more bearable for me. But OTOH, a horror movie will never hit even a fraction as hard if I go into it knowing what's going to happen, so sometimes (if I'm feeling brave) I'll choose to go into a horror movie totally blind.

Some things I want to go into without spoilers... but I'll check doesthedogdie for major triggers. If I don't care about seeing an accidental spoiler, I'll check the work's page, if I want to go in blind, I'll just check the trigger and see if the work comes up under it.

But, there have been times that getting the spoiler means getting to look for foreshadowing on the first viewing, and getting to watch the people I'm watching with when they see the twist, so it's not always bad. Plus, a spoiler sometimes lets you know not to bother with something, if the big twist will ruin it for you-- wish I'd had one for The Lodge, which I was told to go into blind and hated.

I like them for the hype and discussion they generate.

I like them when the Your Movie Sucks guy does them because he warns for them and he usually only does them for movies I'm not planning on watching anyway. (Besides, he's funny!)

I mostly don't mind them. But there are a few things I've watched or read where the ending or a plot twist sort of retroactively ruined the story up to that point for me.

But it wasn't knowing a twist or ending or spoiler specifically that was the problem, but that I hated it. If I love or am okay with new info, I'll probably enjoy the story regardless of when I find it out.

Ex. "Darth Vader is Luke's father."

"Oh, awesome, I want to see how Luke reacts to finding out!"

Vs

"Damn, what a stupid twist, I had this whole other story in mind where Vader and Anakin were bitter rivals and now it turns out they're the same person? Fuck that!"

It's not being spoiled that's the problem.

Depends. Sometimes I look for them, sometimes I regret looking because it's fun to make theories about twists. Sometimes I want to know if the plot goes for things I don't care about. Some shows are better without being spoiled. Some shows whatever.

I don't care for them. There might be some things where I want to know the spoiler ahead of time or where I actively choose to avoid spoilers, but in general I don't care.

Love 'em, give me 'em. How else am I gonna find out if something is worth my time?

OH WOW it seems like I'm in the minority here since I HATE spoilers. They usually ruin the experience of the media. I want to be surprised!!!
It obviously depends on the spoiler itself, but I usually enjoy going into a media completely blind. I don't even watch trailers for the same reasons. I just read what genre it is (dramatic? comedy? horror? thriller?) and a little bit of the synopsis and then I fire the movie/TVshow/game/manga/whatevah.

OH and if I'm not enjoying what I'm consuming after IDK one of two hours maximum of engagement I spoil myself. If there is nothing that piques my interest I drop it. I got no time to waste.
Obviously I spoil myself the stuff I'll probably never see, like all the recent MCU movies. I'm never going to watch them proably because I'm completely burned out, but I'm still vaguely interested in the overarching story.

I don't care that much about spoilers in fanfiction tags, though. They are usually very vague and they help me sorting through the kink or whatnot I want to enjoy.

Don’t care to positive, mostly.

However, I have noticed that the more people are freaking out over spoilers, the less likely it is that I’m actually going to like the media in question. Plots that hinge on big twists are not that appealing to me these days, particularly because creators tend to be more interested in shock value than telling a good story.

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