Chuck Thoughts: SpoilersBy Chuck VanHoose May 4, 2019With the final season of Game of Thrones here and with the release of Avengers Endgame people are trying to avoid spoilers. So the question is how should we go about posting spoilers and avoiding them.
Posting Spoilers
The biggest debate seems when is it acceptable to post spoilers online about a movie. Leading up to the Endgame the entire cast and crew started a social media campaign to not spoil the movie. Which I thought was really cool due to the importance of the film.
However, yesterday in an interview the Russo brothers were asked when will that ban will be lifted. They answered on Monday which will be May 6th. The reasoning behind it is because not everyone can go see it opening weekend. They created the movie so people could have conversations about it. They can’t wait to see what fans have to say. But want everyone to have enough time to see it. After two weekends of the movie playing is more than enough time to see it. The two weekends are a courtesy to those who missed the first weekend.

Now a major tv show is a little different. Because the internet is incredibly fast with creating stuff from the newly released episode. For example the internet exploded into chaos after the latest episode of GoT titled The Long Night. Instantly after the episode there were gifs and memes from the climax of the episode. I mean it happened about 5 minutes after the episode.
I was on Facebook and Twitter to see what people were saying. Even the NFL Memes page on Facebook made a massive spoiler meme and posted it shortly after. I must show at least a dozen memes about that one particular moment from the episode.

It’s hard to set a spoiler ban for a show. Because you can’t wait two weeks because there’s a new episodes once a week. For example I used to run a Walking Dead account to talk with other fans. I would live tweet every episode if I could. I would put out spoiler warning tweets.

There was a major character death that night. One of my friends who followed my account got on Twitter right at the climax of the episode. He was mad that I spoiled the episode. I didn’t have to live tweet the episode but fans would ask me questions during the show. Now I avoid posting spoilers right after the show airs. I may send a vague tweet but nothing that will ruin it for someone else.



Avoiding Spoilers.
It’s incredibly hard to avoid spoilers for tv shows and movies today. The easiest way to avoid spoilers is to stay off of social media. That’s what I mainly did because I could see Endgame until May 1st. If I got an notification I would check it or only post something if I was on my profile page. For Facebook I muted several comic book movie related pages. Because I had to be on Facebook for work. I work at a church as a Student Pastor and was promoting an upcoming event. That’s the easiest way to avoid spoilers is to avoid social media.

Especially if it’s right after the episode of a major tv show. It’s not just Facebook and Twitter you have to avoid. I would avoid watching YouTube. Because people will post clips of pivotal moments from the show or movie.

Another way to avoid spoilers is to not ask people about the movie. This may seem obvious but I have seen it happen before. Someone will ask for a spoiler then get mad that someone told them.

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