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There's a spoiler-hiding button on Lemmy but since this discussion is about spoilers, I'm not sure how useful it will be.
Does any time in your memory particularly stand out as a truly regrettable spoiler?
examples:
- warned of a Spoiler Alert while scrolling on YT comments or threads, but clicked anyway. You regretted it.
- watched weekly-released shows with friends and you weren't caught up but needed to know what happened before you watched it, and you regretted it.
- haven't seen the movie, thought you weren't going to, you spoiled it for yourself by finding out the plot, and came around to watching the movie and thought to yourself "It would've hit better if I didn't know before hand".
- podcaster gave a spoiler alert, you proceeded to ignore it, you regretted ignoring it.
It's such a specific feeling of regret, so I am curious how others' experiences were and how they compare.
For me,
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I keep spoiling myself with the show Bleach, reading into the lore and finding out info before actually chronologically watching it (TV)/ reading it in the manga. I come to regret it when I didn't experience the creator's (Tite Kubo) work myself first, then follow up with reading into it for background info. In the earlier part of the series I didn't spoil myself and I feel it was a richer experience because of it.
Also sometimes I listen to "Get Played" which is a podcast about gaming, where they frequently enter "spoiler country" and I love to hear them talk so I get my cowboy hat on and follow them in. I regret it only part of the time.
I've always avoided spoilers. To me, it seems that someone is displaying a lack of self control if they read/see them. Be patient and enjoy the thing when it's released, don't ruin it for yourself in advance.
I seem to recall that there was a game release over the past couple years where the players were angry that the game was what they saw in the spoilers. People actually ruined it for themselves and then got mad at the studio for not miraculously having new content that wasn't spoiled.
I have very nearly accidentally spoiled an episode or two of Doctor Who. I try to avoid any place that talks about the cool thing just before the cool thing comes out.