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there are people who do reaction videos on YouTube for movies. There are quite a large number of them who somehow never knew the biggest spoiler in Empire Strikes Back, and Sixth Sense

I don't understand how someone has never accidently heard those. I knew the star wars spoilers years before I ever even watched star wars. I first finally saw the whole trilogy one Christmas day on TV when I was like 16

I knew the spoiler since I was a little kid. There are like a thousand parodies of that spoiler in pop culture

I'm suspicious of just about all of those "genuine" reaction videos. Especially if the thumbnail is a typical derpy YouTube face

I'm aware Empire Strikes Back is Stars Wars but I have no idea what happens in these movies beyond memes like "lol he has the high ground", out of context of course because I don't see how that even helps in that scenario.

Never even heard of Sixth Sense, I don't know what movie that is. Don't bother explaining, I generally have no interest in films.

I dont think anybody in China gets caught out by the twist in The Sixth Sense.

It's easy to right off hearing about some sort of spoilers you don't care about as a child. I remember hearing the "Luke I am you father " thing like a dozen times before actually knowing what it meant, and I had even already seen one of the starwars movies. I just assumed it meant that Luke's dad was gonna be in one of them.

Even as an adult, a lot of that stuff kinda gets filtered out if I don't really care for the series or whatnot. Just more likely to remember it if I see it later.

Someone was born today, and in 20 years they'll probably watch the Sixth Sense and not know what the twist is, because the conversation about it has passed. So why would they?

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.

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

Did you know that scene in toy story 2 is apparently a reference to the star wars one? I only know due to spending so much time on the internet

saspa posted...

Did you know that scene in toy story 2 is apparently a reference to the star wars one? I only know due to spending so much time on the internet

Well like I said, it sounds like you are younger than me, I'm saying in the 80s, I didn't know anyone who wasn't aware of the ESB spoiler. It was just a thing everyone was aware of