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[ SECRET POST #2607 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2607 ⌋

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

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[Shaun of the Dead]

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13. http://i.imgur.com/Lnyxfbz.jpg
[link for porny, doujinshi]

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14. [SPOILERS for DRAMAtical Murder]

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15. [WARNING for rape]

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16. [WARNING for rape, pedophilia]

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[Gatchaman Crowds]

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19. [WARNING for molestation]
http://i.imgur.com/tm7SaaX.jpg
[Shingeki no Kyojin, molestation scene? in image]

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I will never understand why spoilers are such serious business. I avoid giving them (when I remember) but I still don't get it.

For some people, the emotional payoff is not as good or intense if they already know that something's coming.

I enjoy being surprised but if I happen to see a spoiler then I also enjoy looking for clues before the big reveal that I heard about. So a story being ruined by a spoiler is something I just can't relate to. I'm not trying to say that it's stupid to hate spoilers (though I'm going to keep laughing at the overreactions in this thread) but personally I don't understand it.

AYRT

I can understand that.

I think it depends a little bit on how the narrative is structured. There are some things I've been spoiled for that I haven't minded, because the story progressed in such a way that the impact was the same regardless whether I knew what was coming or not. But there are a few cases where being spoiled sucked the life right out of a scene. To give an example, there was a TV show I watched over a decade ago where the network actually spoiled the season finale in the ads for it. The ads showed the main character lying on the ground, dying. In the episode, there's a short dream sequence before it's revealed that she's been shot, and it's supposed to trick you into thinking that there's a happy ending. Due to the ads, I was sitting there going, "but wait. What about her dying?" Totally ruined the effect.

...damn, that was rambly, sorry.

Don't be sorry, I think this is an interesting topic. I can see how even I might be disappointed in a case like that.

People love to overreact. See the first poster to this secret.

In this case, probably because if you know which characters die, you know not to get invested in them, and that takes away most of the point of killing them off at all.

(And in other cases, spoilers for a twist ending can foster the feeling that the story is 'leading you on' in an annoying way, make you analyze the twist too carefully, and then it stops making sense. I know I hated The Sixth Sense, for example, probably because it was spoiled for me.)

I might just be weird. I still get invested in characters even when I know they're going to die. I don't choose whether or not to get invested. It just happens or it doesn't.

And I find things like The Sixth Sense even more interesting when I know the twist ending because I like to look for clues.

For me, I like both. I loved not knowing for The Sixth Sense and being all "OMG, what?!" when the reveal was made. I then watched it again so that I could look for clues and the lead up to it. Both are good ways to watch, but if I'm spoiled, I miss the former and jump straight to the latter, and I don't like that. I like getting the full experience of both options.

I understand preferring to have that first experience but the lengths that people go to in order to avoid spoilers are always surprising to me. It's nice when I'm surprised but I just don't care enough to go out of my way to ensure that it will happen. And then there's the fact that there are people who are against warnings for things that will likely trigger a panic attack in some people but who will tell you to kill yourself for not including a spoiler warning.

I do go out of my way to ensure it will happen. At least for some shows/movies. Tumblr savior/xkit are my friends. And I have gotten pretty good at seeing the name of a show and stopping myself from reading. However, I'm also for people warning for common triggers. I don't understand why taking the 30 seconds to warn for triggers and spoilers is such a big deal. It takes me/others little time and could help others a lot. (Then again, I would also never tell someone to kill themselves, so it's not like I'm one of the people you are talking about anyway. Rude people are rude, no matter which side of the spoiler issue they are on.)

You last line is very true.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to tell you you're wrong. I've just noticed that I seem to be different from most of the people I come across on this issue.

it's totally ok if you don't mind spoilers, but please try to remember that for some people they are really important.

I do try to remember. Like I said in another comment, I'm not trying to say it's stupid to care about spoilers (even though I'm going to keep laughing at people who go really over the top with their rage). It's just always something that kind of baffles me because People Are Different and this happens to be one of the ways that I'm different.

if you are so over invested in something that spoilers make you throw an internet tantrum and ruin everything for you

you need to take a step back and reevaluate some things

Why is the concept of being courteous to people something that you feel you need to fight against?

Nobody is fighting against the concept of courtesy. They're having a good laugh at the expense of people for whom minor things like spoilers are major.

People are different. For some people spoilers are major things. Get over it.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-02-23 03:46 (UTC) - Expand

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diet_poison - 2014-02-23 22:06 (UTC) - Expand

Spoilers don't ruin things for me, but they do bother me. As I just said above, I don't understand why people just can't be courteous enough to take the short amount of time to list things that they are spoiling. It isn't that big a hassle and it helps out others a lot. I know common courtesy isn't common, but it seems like some people are like "well spoilers don't bother me, so they aren't a big deal; thus, people are babies if they want spoiler warnings and I'm going to go out of my way not to comply with them" which frustrates me.

or, you know, get off the internet. it really is not the place for those who wish to avoid all spoilers (especially for a show like GOT).

I understand that I'm taking a risk by being in fannish places, but it is NOT too much to ask that people tag comments/posts with "spoilers" and, of course, that they don't go out of their way to intentionally spoil people with things.

i've learned the hard way that the majority of fans on tumblr and such don't tag or warn much at all.

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diet_poison - 2014-02-22 20:24 (UTC) - Expand

Why does "I care a lot about things and not being spoiled" automatically mean I'm going to "throw an internet tantrum"? And where did I say that a spoiler automatically ruined everything for a piece of media?

Edited 2014-02-22 15:11 (UTC)

i like spoiler... nothing can do about it anyway except from involvement personnel...

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