Are We Afraid of SPOILERS!
DAY 230 - 26/18/8 - Spoiler alert! There will be no spoilers in this post. I didn't know about the whole "no spoilers" thing, until I started watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After that, I couldn't watch something without people telling me, "I didn't see it yet. No spoilers." Initially, I thought this meant, 'They just don't want me to tell them the ending,' but that was a mistake. I realized my error when I told a friend what my favorite part of a movie was. "Ahh! You spoiled it," she screamed. "No, I didn't. That was at the beginning of the film." Her response shocked me. "You spoiled that it was the only fun part! Now I know the movie is bad." That's when I realized how serious some people take their spoiler warnings. Roger Ebert, a renowned film critic, wrote this about spoilers in 2006: "Spoiler warnings" on Web-based movie reviews are a shorthand way of informing the reader that a ...