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AIBU - spoilers!

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FairfaxAikman · 04/05/2017 22:35

Am I BU to think that it's not a bloody spoiler if it's posted after a tv show has been broadcast?

Getting roasted for posting about MasterChef on Facebook by people who haven't seen it - despite me waiting an hour after it finished to post.

Surely if you don't want to know you avoid social media? One person was even checking Facebook while watching it on catch up!

Surely it's their problem not mine!

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ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 04/05/2017 22:36

YANBU.

MooseAndSquirrel · 04/05/2017 22:39

Their problem completely - I watch most shows on catch up so avoid social media until I have.
I get really annoyed when a show or movie has been out for months (or years) and I get told off for spoilers ..... If they care that much, they should bloody watch it in a normal amount of time!

neonrainbow · 04/05/2017 22:41

What if theyre at work and they're going to watch it when they get home?

At least have the decency not to post whatever spoiler you just feel you HAVE to share on your actual wall and do it in a comment instead.

People who spoil tv programmes on the day they're broadcast are twats, on the whole.

PurpleDaisies · 04/05/2017 22:43

I think it depends. If it's in the thread title or posted on a thread where people have specifically asked for no spoilers is inconsiderate if it's only been broadcast very recently.

TheHiphopopotamus · 04/05/2017 22:45

I agree, yanbu

Especially people who complain about spoilers when someone starts a thread about a book/tv programme/film 5-6 years after it was first released.

But you see it all the time on here, especially the tv threads. The emphasis seems to be on the spoiler not to spill, rather than the spoilee to avoid, IYSWIM. If I was that bothered, I'd just avoid the internet altogether.

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FairfaxAikman · 04/05/2017 22:46

Neonrainbow surely they shouldn't be on Facebook at work?

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harderandharder2breathe · 04/05/2017 23:08

YANBU

Once it's broadcast on network tv it's fair game for discussion in public. It's mean to deliberate spoil it for people (e.g. If they post they're waiting to watch it they get home and you reply telling them who won), but posting on your own fb is fine.

If people don't want to or can't watch it as it airs and really want to avoid spoilers then the onus is on them to avoid social media til after they've seen it.

paxillin · 05/05/2017 00:18

Fair game except with children. Surely no adult is so glued to a tv show that knowing the outcome spoils it for them? That said, don't tell me the solution whilst I am watching a whodunnit.

Twofurrycats · 05/05/2017 00:44

Made me laugh tbh. Many moons ago ex, his brother and a friend went abroad to watch a bike race (gp or superbikes can't remember) and assiduously avoided finding out the result of the other (superbike or gp race) on the same weekend. Didn't watch tv, listen to radio etc. Dropped friend off on the way back from the airport and his dad said to them 'well you can't beat that Rossi can you?'. They were fuming!

Iwasjustabouttosaythat · 05/05/2017 00:46

If it's a big thing I have a complete media blackout. This includes social media. I then watch the show as soon as I possibly can.

I would be annoyed if someone on here started a thread title with "omg can you believe just did on GoT". I would think that's incredibly rude. I would never click on a thread titled "GoT tonight - spoilers" and would be happy.

I think the onus is on the person who wants to avoid the spoiler to make the effort, but I think it's a nice thing to not spoil things for others by being really obvious about it.

melj1213 · 05/05/2017 01:59

Personally I try to give 24hrs before I post explicit "spoilers" to the likes of Facebook (ie "OMG the final of MasterChef was intense! Glad they picked the right person in the end though!" would be OK, but "OMG I can't believe Joe Bloggs won Masterchef!" would be too spoilery for me) because I know I have been caught out in the past when I've been at work and planning to catch up on a TV show, yet got notified about something else on Facebook - and since my app forces you to open up onto your homepage and then go to notifications - I got a huge spoiler right there before I had chance to do anything else in the app.

However, with things like Twitter, where everything is fast paced and much more "real time" I see that as totally OK for spoilers, bc invariably more than one person is already livetweeting an event and I know it's almost impossible to avoid spoilers so if I really don't want to know I avoid the site, and if I do go on Twitter I know I am risking being spoiled.

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 05/05/2017 02:03

YABU. Wait a couple of days at least, for people who weren't able to watch it at the time.

seoulsurvivor · 05/05/2017 02:06

YANBU it's easy enough to avoid. I live abroad and miss a lot of sport stuff so I just avoid social media if I want to see something.

Teabagtits · 05/05/2017 02:47

I find it really odd that people get so invested in tv shows that they get annoyed when they read spoilers. Surely more important than the end result is how they got to that point? The build up? Plot twists or recipe disasters/successes.

Scrumpernickel · 05/05/2017 02:55

I got in trouble recently for telling spoilers about ET! And that's nearly forty years old!

YANBU though, if people are desperate enough they'll watch it 'live'. And if for whatever reason they can't and are then desperate to avoid spoilers surely it's more sensible to avoid the Internet than to expect the world to take a vow of silence.

WhereYouLeftIt · 05/05/2017 02:56

"despite me waiting an hour after it finished to post."
wow - a whole hour!

Why do you need to post about Masterchef (or any programme)?

seoulsurvivor · 05/05/2017 03:17

Well where what should people post?

crazywriter · 05/05/2017 03:27

Personally I try to give 24hrs before I post explicit "spoilers" to the likes of Facebook

That's the rule I follow. It's just a little more respectful for those who don't get to see something when it's live.

Working in Entertainment news the general rule is anything from most recent episode is a spoiler until the next episode airs. It covers anyone who is waiting for the weekend for example.

Although I personally just avoid Facebook if I'm going to miss something and don't want to be spoiled (usually the rugby or the f1). But not everyone does that so I wait 24 hours before posting anything and stick to fan groups to discuss with those who are caught up.

TaliDiNozzo · 05/05/2017 05:46

YABU I think. An hour is nothing. I certainly wouldn't post same day about something like that. I think the 24 hour rule is probably best to not piss anyone off.

sailorcherries · 05/05/2017 05:57

I remember once someone went off on me on a Facebook post because I had commented about being upset when Snape died in HP and the Deathly Hallows part 2.
I hadn't mentioned anything in my original post about it, just about enjoying the movie. The death part was mentioned in the comments, where I was talking to a friend who was saying the same thing. The person who took offence had went out their way to do so.

Now, it didn't matter to this person that the death was common knowledge as the boom had been out for over 4 years at this point.

Yanbu.

MrsTrentReznor · 05/05/2017 06:08

I delete friends on Facebook that post spoilers for shows like game of thrones, the walking dead etc.
Nearly everyone I know watches them on some sort of box service rather than live. I honestly think you have to give people much longer to catch up these days, I certainly don't have the ability to clear my diary for a TV show.

melj1213 · 05/05/2017 10:48

sailorcherries that's a different case though - once a book or movie has been out for more than 4 years then they are definitely out of the "spoilerfree zone" and your person went looking for your comment ... if you had posted "OMG Snape's death is so sad!" 4 hours after the book/movie had been released, it would be a different situation.

TipTop333 · 05/05/2017 10:51

As an avid watcher of Masterchef, I find it hilarious that anyone would feel hard done by that they found out who left before watching the episode. It's hardly the end of the Half Blood Prince now, is it?!

TipTop333 · 05/05/2017 10:52

The exception to all of these book references though is Cursed Child. I have tickets to the play in July and have avoided all spoilers. If somebody read the script and ruined it for me I'd probably have to use an illegal curse on them.

melj1213 · 05/05/2017 12:07

The exception to all of these book references though is Cursed Child. I have tickets to the play in July and have avoided all spoilers. If somebody read the script and ruined it for me I'd probably have to use an illegal curse on them.

But it depends what you class as a spoiler in this case - some people regard knowing anything as being spoiled, others class spoilers as plot twists/deaths/key character info etc. If it's just the latter you're classing as spoilers then as long as you do the "sensible" thing of avoiding places that would talk about it and potentially include spoilers and/or inferences to them - so definitely no HP fan sites/podcasts etc - then you should be fine as most places are sensible enough to know that some people haven't had chance to see the play yet (esp for example the US audience where Cursed Child won't open on Broadway until next year) so if they do post things about Cursed Child, they are generally good about keeping spoilers out of the headlines of their articles, at the very least. Also fans who go and see the show are pretty respectful of the #KeepTheSecrets campaign so don't post spoilers.

I am a huge Harry Potter fan, and I have tickets to see Cursed Child at the end of the year ... I knew there was no way I could avoid any kind of spoilers until then and I knew that the possibility of going 18 months from the script being published to seeing the play without being spoiled about something was extremely slim - not necessarily the big "Snape killed Dumbledore" plot twist kind of spoilers but stuff that is still relevant to the plot like "Harry and Hermione spend practically half of DH camping" (which infers they are without Ron and therefore something happens with/to him) - so I read the script publication so that I found things out on my own terms, and in context, not someone else's.

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