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saspa posted...

Both those things you mentioned were either before the internet or before social media, and it was pretty easy to avoid the pop culture zeitgeist back then.

Eg I'm glad I never got spoiled on the thing in Harry Potter book 6, because years later I saw a youtube video of an ass who was driving around yelling the spoiler to people waiting in line.

Basically it comes down to getting off the internet, and simply not being interested. I'm not interested in star wars, so any spoilers are meaningless. If you don't know the original reference material, you won't even register it as a spoiler.

Sixth sense came out in 1999. I got internet in like 1997

But ill admit Sixth sense is not as big as star wars. You didn't need internet to hear about star wars. As I said, I accidentally heard many references to empire strikes back

You may have not remembered the 80s but I do. I was in grade school in the late 80s. And I was aware of the big ESB scene. I didn't really understand the full story but I knew about the line

The biggest offender for spoiling ESB was Spaceballs. If you saw Spaceballs before star wars, you got spoiled of the big ESB thing