While I’m At It, An Updated Spoilers PSA
Friends, with just a short amount of time left before the next movie opens, a reminder/update on my spoiler and spoiler-tagging policies around here:
- spoilers will be tagged with both “tros spoilers” and “ix spoilers”
- I am seeing the movie opening night in the US
- I do NOT consider trailers, promo shots, advertisements that, say, run on national TV and pictures of official merchandise you can find in any old random Target to be “spoilers” (if you are THAT spoiler-averse, I recommend leaving the internet entirely very soon).
- I do NOT consider short reaction posts that give away nothing about the story (e.g. “We had fun!”/ “I’m so disappointed!”/ “The ENDING OMG”) to be spoilers, though sometimes I will tag them as such if I think someone else is likely to reply with something spoilery
- I DO consider still shots/gifs/videos of stuff shown only in the film, descriptions of the story/plot to be spoilers, of course, and will tag accordingly for about two weeks post-release. It’s been my experience over the years that by that point, the cat is pretty much out of the bag all over the internet, and anyone who was deeply invested in not being spoiled has found a way to see the actual film by then.
For Mando, TCW, anything else coming our way in the near future:
- spoilers will be tagged with [show name] spoilers, e.g. “the mandalorian spoilers”, as I have been doing
- same policy applies here as far as what I do/don’t consider a spoiler
- since people watch these on very different schedules and there isn’t the same immediate rush that there generally are with the movies, I will keep spoiler-tagging things for ~ 3-4 weeks post-release. I’ll try to keep it up longer than that if I can, as I know not everyone has Disney+ (or has gotten the content however they’re going to get it yet) and/or prefer to wait and binge-watch everything at once, but the longer it’s been since something’s come out, the harder it may be for me to remember/the more pointless it may be (case in point: pretty sure The Baby was EVERYWHERE before I even got a chance to get over here and post anything about The Mandalorian that first day.)
If there is something in particular you are concerned about re: tags as a reader of mine, please let me know. I can’t promise I can accommodate every reasonable/polite request, but I will try.