Amph The rabid, stupid anti-spoiler culture (current Breaking Bad, GoT TV, and Hamlet spoilers within)

Yeah, that's a separate rant.

Pity parties, sap fests ("I love my hubby! He spoils me so much!" Isn't that special. Have a cookie.), and vague booking.

I like the place, it's an easy way to keep up with a lot of people at once, but I do avoid it on days when something major airs on TV.

 

I think that was his point. Not everyone uses news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, etc. And for people who don't use these forms of social media, it is not any more "impossible to avoid information" than it was during the prequel era.

I only use Twitter for work so unless someone is posting Star Wars spoilers on the Twitter feed for the American Association of School Librarians, I'm not going to get spoiled through Twitter. I don't use Reddit or read entertainment blogs or visit entertainment sites.

I don't think anyone in this thread is saying this but I have seen this attitude in various places, that "it's impossible to avoid spoilers in this day of social media so I might as well discuss every major plot point that I've learned about any TV show or movie that hasn't aired yet, and anyone who doesn't want to know that major plot point should just unplug their computers and crawl back under a rock." That attitude is just as ****ty from the opposite end as the attitude that "nobody should post about this movie that has been out for several months or this book that has been out for several years because I haven't read it yet."

 

I don't like to be spoiled, I like seeing things without knowing about them beforehand. On the other hand that just means that I need to be careful when looking around social media sites, since due to timezones and and different air dates I tend to be behind on most things. I take it as my responsibility and I wont get angry about people posting about what they've just seen. It can also go the other way around. For example my tumblr-feed has been filled with posts about Graceland the whole summer, and now I'm starting to get interested in the series and might have to check it out.

One thing I can't understand though is when people go to the theater or opera, buy a program, and then read up on the whole thing before going in and watching it. I understand that it was necessary in older times, but nowadays plays/operas are either performed translated or at the opera houses you have text machines. That is not just knowing about a plot point or two, that's knowing the full story before watching it. I have actually made it a thing that I never read the synopsis in the program before watching an opera nowadays, on the other hand since I did the countdown of the top 100 operas on this forum there aren't many operas left that I can see unspoiled anymore.