So apparently telling people something about the content they are about to consume is a bad thing, I've known that people hated that for a very long time, but I never understood why.
As in, I do not have a grasp on how anyone could possibly think that spoilers are a bad thing despite how obvious it is that many hate them, especially on things they like.
Because people are bad at explaining the obvious I looked up on the internet, and found the following link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/learning/how-do-you-feel-about-spoilers.html#commentsContainer
There is no point going through the reasons people do not hate spoilers, so here are some words that people use to describe them, or, just how they feel towards them/people who have spoiled media:
And the reason they feel all these stuff is because of one thing:
And I just do not understand the feeling of people who cares about experiences while consuming media, or even just experiences in general.
You see, when a person wants to experience something, chances are that they want to see how things go, all by themselves. But what I'm confused about isn't how people prefer having experiences themselves, but more so the fact that they treat it as if the way they feel towards their own experience is all that matters when they consume media.
Like what makes it so upsetting? Why are you letting yourself get so upset about how you perceive something that you enjoyed when the spoilers themselves wouldn't have mattered if you actually do care enough to understand and appreciate the media itself?
This isn't like people telling you how you're "supposed" to look at something, this is more like how you simply knew about something before you see it yourself, so is the shock so big that you need to feel angry about how you now don't feel maximum enjoyment?
If that really is the case, why are there just so many people who would hate someone just because they now don't have the highest possible amount of enjoyment while they could've used this as an opportunity to understand the media they supposedly loved even better?
The culture of hatred towards spoilers feels
like a bunch of people having consumed a bunch
of stuff that is purely for their own feelings’ sake. The hate comes from the fact that people
forcefully stopped them from overdosing on drugs, and the tantrum is as if a person who no longer has drugs tries to cope.
Originally I thought I was the one who needs to change my mind but the more I think about it the more it feels like I was just being content while others are being manbabies who rather crash out mindlessly than to actually try to use their brain for once to consume media beyond trying to receive an excessive and unhealthy amount of dophamine.
Also, originally I thought I would tone it down because maybe this isn't that terrible, but the more I think about it, the less of a reason I have to not explain why I think people are the way they are.
There comes a point where people should respect how they want to be communicated with, and this isn't and will not be a way for me to justify telling people who don't want spoilers spoilers, but my point is that talking about spoilers about something you like shouldn't be treated as me not having any decency. And if you just don't want them, regardless of the amount of measures you'd take, it should instead be treated as a warning where you have given up control of yourself as a person. "Letting yourself be" isn't the same as "being yourself", it's the same as "removing yourself", because you are only you when you actually decide and take control of yourself. And so, as long as you stopped trying to use your brain to care for the things you like, you're just willingly being a puppet to what you consume. And if you actually dare to be yourself, at least try not to lose control over yourself when someone tells you how the Roaring Knight appeared in Deltarune Chapter 3.
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