Anonymous #1 20h

Yes you can, and it would be valid, it’s unreasonable to just assume someone has seen every major movie ever made

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Anonymous OP 19h

So no one should talk about any movie ever unless it’s in person and you have pre written consent from all parties heard

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Anonymous #1 19h

You should always give a warning before you spoil anything and unless someone is okay with spoilers or if they’ve seen the movie you shouldn’t mention any spoilers

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Anonymous #1 19h

And I think movie theater websites and streaming services should have a warning if a movie or show contains a spoiler for another thing

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Anonymous OP 18h

alright I was with you at first but the second part is just silly lol

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Anonymous #3 17h

Yeah but it’s ignorant to just assume that someone already knows about major plot details like that

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Anonymous OP 17h

Like I said, cultural osmosis doesn’t help, especially since a lot of phrases from those older movies have become common parlance. I think we can all say we know “Play it again, Sam” is the truncated version of what’s actually said in Casablanca, even though most people these days probably haven’t actually watched the movie. I think people just don’t really care anymore.

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Anonymous #3 17h

But lots of people do care. The thing that really instilled this within me is when I went to see The Fall Guy. That was a really good movie, but the third act was ruined for me because in the movie one of the characters blatantly spoils the ending of Thelma and Louise, a classic movie that I had not seen at the time but had it on my watchlist

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Anonymous OP 16h

Don’t get me wrong, knowing Snape whacks Dumbledore after I dipped from the Harry Potter movies after 5 was disappointing, among other spoilers over the years. But realistically, I don’t think there’s anything we can really do, unless you really want to no-life the Top 100/250/500 movies lists before browsing the internet again/watching new movies.

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Anonymous #3 16h

See that right there, you could have and should have put a spoiler warning before that

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Anonymous OP 16h

So what, I’m supposed to say “oh spoiler: Ebeneezer Scrooge wakes up after being visited by three ghosts and becomes a better person” because I shouldn’t assume someone has seen at least one version of the Christmas Carol? I don’t spoil plot twists or the solution to mysteries in older movies because that’s part of the fun but there’s a line.

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Anonymous #4 16h

Yes you should say “spoilers for A Christmas Carol” before you go into that

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Anonymous OP 16h

You seriously want someone to give a spoiler warning for a book that was written in 1843, with screen adaptations dating back as far as 1901, on the off chance someone hasn’t even heard the gist of the story in the past 183 years?

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Anonymous #4 16h

Yes, it’s unreasonable to assume people who haven’t seen A Christmas Carol just don’t care about spoilers

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Anonymous OP 16h

Dude you are seriously overthinking this.

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Anonymous #4 16h

Yeah, at some point, you gotta cut your losses and figure out time management if you’ve realized you want to expand your film palate with the hundreds of movies and tv shows you want to catch up on, dating back to a literal century.

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Anonymous OP 15h

If the Fall Guy wasn’t going to spoil Thelma and Louise for you, The Simpsons or Lady Gaga would’ve. It’s almost a trope at this point. Look just because you had one bad experience doesn’t mean the whole world needs to censor themselves to protect your feelings. If you watch anything nowadays you run the risk of seeing a “spoiler” for something you haven’t seen. It’s on you to protect yourself from spoilers not everyone else

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Anonymous #4 15h

That doesn’t make sense. How is one person supposed to have seen all of the thousands of movies that exist?

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Anonymous OP 15h

There comes a point where you have to accept that people are going to spoil things whether you’ve watched it or not. From there, you’re gonna have to figure out if you’re gonna have to no-life a literal century’s worth of media or make exceptions for a lot of these older movies since they’re still part of the culture after all this time. I get everyone should put the kibosh on spoilers for something that came out on Friday, but something as old as WWII is pushing it.

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Anonymous OP 15h

That’s simple: you can’t. All you can do is learn to let go and accept that the world will never be 100% spoiler free. The most you can possibly do is watch the movies that you really care about being spoiler free before you watch anything new.

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Anonymous #4 15h

I’m just saying we should be more considerate when we talk about plot details

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Anonymous OP 15h

That’s great when you’re with your friends, but you literally cannot expect the entire world to cater to you.

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Then either no-life all of visual media, or get off the soapbox, if you can’t make these basic exceptions.

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Anonymous OP 15h

That’s not a very nice thing to say

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Anonymous #3 15h

I’m the highwayman

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Anonymous #4 15h

I’m the highwayman

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Anonymous #4 15h

Also for the record I didn’t delete that, yikyak deleted it for me

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Anonymous OP 15h

Yeah probably because they consider it a death threat

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Anonymous #4 15h

That is a fair assumption to make

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Anonymous OP 15h

And why are you calling yourself a robber that targets travelers on public roads?

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Anonymous #4 15h

Because I’m the highwayman

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Anonymous OP 15h

Ah, a criminal. Very well, then.

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Anonymous OP 15h

So you’re admitting that you rob travelers on public roads?

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Anonymous #3 15h

I’m the highwayman

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Anonymous #4 15h

I’m the highwayman

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Anonymous #4 15h

I make ends meet just like any man

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Anonymous #4 15h

If you cross my path

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Anonymous OP 15h

Oh, I get it. You think spamming us with the same message over and over again is going to make us say death threats like you! It’s not gonna work all it does is make you look unhinged.

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Anonymous #4 15h

Steal your shoes from off your feet

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These threats aren’t going to help your case with YikYak

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Anonymous #4 15h

I’m the highwayman and I make ends meet

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Anonymous OP 15h

I was a highwayman Along the coach roads I did ride With sword and pistol by my side Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade The bastards hung me in the spring of 25 But I am still alive

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Anonymous OP 12h

I couldn’t disagree with you more about spoilers, but I appreciate the Over the Garden Wall reference

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Anonymous #6 11h

Apparently this was all because OP watched the Fall Guy and it “spoiled” the ending of Thelma and Louise.

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Anonymous #4 9h

0_o the ending to that movie is so iconic im honestly shocked that THAT’S the first reference they’ve heard towards it.

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