Spoilers. (Patreon)

Hello everyone ✌🏼 good time to post about my take on spoilers. Given that the Shingeki Early Access comment section has been a write off for two weeks running. Though this post doesn’t apply just to Shingeki, it can pretty much apply to all the content.

Of course there is the definitive spoiler, which is someone just spoiling something because that is their intention, that bit is pretty clear cut. I wanted to outline the other types of spoilers, the more subtle and perhaps even accidental ones, and those ones are not as definitive for everyone. There are certainly some cases where one person might think what they are posting simply can’t be a spoiler, but it could be a spoiler for another person. It comes down to a matter of preference.

These are some of the things I consider a spoiler

• Hinting of any sort. Trust me, no matter how subtle you think you’re being, that hint will linger in my mind and it will eventually ruin scenes and major story revelations. Because once something like that is stuck in your mind, it will constantly come up and eventually fit into a scene, which will then ruin the scene ahead of time and cause a domino effect.
• Specifying certain episodes as key moments. This usually happens through comments like “can’t wait for you to get to episode ___” that establishes expectation for something major, which then also pretty much changes the thought process on the episodes leading up to it.
• Explaining or mentioning anything ahead of the story itself. This one is pretty straight forward.
• Defending or speaking out against characters based on info you might have through source material, but Hasn’t been revealed to me yet.

I know a lot of you can understand where I’m coming from. I’m sure that like myself, many of you have also been consuming storytelling in all forms for most of your life, and can understand the picky nature of this post.

Once again, a lot of this comes down to preference. I’m sure there are other content creators who don’t care as much about hinting and info, and I’m sure there are others who are just like me in that regard.

Thank you ✌🏼