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The Evolution Of Spoiling
How spoiling films or books was such a minor case to now being part of mainstream culture.
My brother and I have a rule that if one of us sees a film that we wanted to see and the other hasn’t we won’t spoil it. It’s an unspoken rule that we have that we completely respect.
Even mentioning one minor point of a movie can ruin the experience for us.
In my eyes spoiling is simply a bad move but also I feel it wasn’t mentioned all that much in the world. It was as if for many, if not all the world, spoiling a movie or a book was a bad thing.
But these days it’s completely different.
With amazing films, TV series, and books, it feels like any type of content that is covering any of those things comes with a disclosure at the beginning.
Spoiler Alert
Not to mention there are several extreme cases that have occurred in recent years revolving around spoilers.
Back in 2008, Dan Kois proposed statutes of limitations for spoilers, prohibiting writers from publishing content pertaining to popular media for a certain period of time upon that media being released.
A man got physically beaten after spoiling Avengers: Endgame
