How to avoid spoilers online in 2023
There was a major event in a buzzy TV show on Sunday night. I’m not going to say more, because a) that’s not what this post is about, and b) the internet is getting quite heated about other people discussing it on social media. Instead, this opens the door for an important conversation we need to have together: How to avoid spoilers online in the year 2023.
Listen, I get it. You don’t always have time to watch the water-cooler TV show on the night the episode airs, and sometimes there’s a whole work day (or more than one!) in between you and when you can watch it. But there’s one neat little trick that will save you from getting spoiled before you’re ready.
Just log off. Just log off!
Think about the different areas of the internet you go where such a topic is discussed (social media, news websites, push notifications from apps), and do not go there!
Twitter is not what it used to be, and one of the few remaining valuable and fun aspects of the site is people rapid-fire reacting to a big television event. The Red Wedding wouldn’t be the cultural touchstone it is without thousands of people crying on Twitter when it happened. We saw it more recently with The Last of Us, and House of the Dragon, both of which were far more enjoyable because it felt likeeveryonewas watching it at the same time.
Sports fans have experienced this for years and have had to come up with their own methods and solutions to avoid scores if they’re watching later. I can not stop laughing at the idea of dozens of people insisting everyone else couldn’t tweet about the unbelievable final at-bat of the World Baseball Classic just because they hadn’t watched it yet. Watching people react together in real time is a joy, and it makes TV (and Twitter) a
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