THANOS IS IN GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, THE INTERNET IS A SNAKE EATING ITS OWN TAIL

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BobbyRoberts said:
Guy posts a picture of Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy, titles thread "First Look at Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy."

Couple people say "cool," couple other people go "Spoiler right in the title bro?" Thus ensues the back and forth over whether or not it's actually a spoiler.

Duckroll comes in and clarifies this isn't a spoiler, expresses frustration at knee-jerk spoilerphobia making legitimate discussion harder to engage in. People then begin to debate whether or not Marvel's announcing that the character is in the movie counts as a spoiler or not.

The typical arguments over perspective and consideration break out as people demand others keep their spoiler-blackouts in mind when having conversations, and others expressing their frustration at having to tiptoe around spoilerphobes who are trying to expand the definition of spoiler to include things movie studios are promoting and making public themselves.

Adding to the evidence that shows Marvel doesn't consider this a spoiler, and that the knowledge of Thanos' appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy is months old, a thread is discovered with an even more blatant title, and within that thread are some of the most vocal spoilerphobes, none of whom are acting like the information about Josh Brolin as Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy is a spoiler.

Then, as a means to comment on the total absurdity of people who have literally forgotten the non-spoiler they didn't think was a spoiler, complaining about being spoiled with information they've already known and forgotten - some mods went and changed thread titles to be Thanos-centric, including the Steam thread on Gaming side - where complaints were minimal, and even the complaints that DID occur were nowhere near as vitriolic or strenuous as the ones in this thread.

As a result of the thread-title changing, Besada is demodded.
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That's for bringing me up to speed, Good Sir.
 
Jibbed said:
Wilson is Thanos.
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Just saying...
 
Just wanted to let you guys know that the besada de-modding process is in full-speed. Just takes a while. You know, vBulletin and all.
 
Randam said:
I am just asking to understand.
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Just to hazard a guess, some people just rather not have stuff revealed before they read/watch it. No matter how inconsequential it is in the grand scheme of things, it's something they can't get back. Some people watch/read movies/books just for the experience, not to examine the storytelling or production. Anyone still bringing it up that was looking forward to GotG is probably concerned with how people deal with spoilers in general. That's just a guess — can't speak for everyone — but does that make sense? it sounds like you weren't considering spoilers on a grander scale and were only focused on GotG itself.

I know I'd prefer to go into a movie without knowing what happens. An old Interstellar script is floating around and I wouldn't just tell someone who's looking forward to the movie what happens in that script unless I know they're okay with hearing it. It's not a hassle, I don't need to "tiptoe" in order to prevent me from speaking about it, I don't have Tourette syndrome.

You asking what are the effects of people knowing this going into the movie suggests that they need to prove to you it's worth the "trouble" of marking spoilers/thread titles/Etc. My question still stands: do others need to provide a good reason to you for not wanting to see spoilers for something?
 
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