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I Made a Group of Stephen King Fans Mad By Having an Opinion on Spoilers
People take spoiler alerts seriously online
SPOILER ALERT: Not all people care about spoilers.
One hundred fifty-one comments and counting. That’s the result of sharing an opinion on spoiler warnings in a Stephen King fan group, that I guess is extremely controversial. What did I say? I dared to suggest that people should stop complaining about spoilers for books that have been out since the 1970’s.
My exact statement was as follows: “I’m a member of quite a few Stephen King groups on here, and it’s hilarious how often people complain about posts that “spoil” the endings of books like The Shining or The Stand.
Folks, those books came out in the 1970’s. I think they’re beyond their spoil dates.”
The responses to this are quite revealing about the prevailing attitudes of online fan culture. They amount to an expectation that the entirety of society, especially on social media, cater to the perceptions of the individual. This just isn’t a realistic expectation, and I’m afraid to say that if you are a young person thinking the world will conform to this notion, you are going to live a very disappointed life.
