Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27996636-20170814181056/@comment-31426952-20171005130642

Horus2297 wrote: CrossLeingod wrote: You just said "Some spoilers turned out to be fake". If it's fake, it wasn't a spoiler then, I don't get how you can argue against that.

A friend of mine decided to prank me once, and he spoiled a huge plot twist of a show just before the episode started. So I still watched the episode, but I was upset the whole time. I was waiting for that plot twist to happen and I couldn't enjoy anything else. In the end it turned out that the spoiler was fake, but the episode was still ruined for me :/

And funnily enough, that fake spoiler actually happened in the very next episode, and my friend apologized by saying, "I'm sorry, I didn't know this would actually happen", and I was like, "I didn't either, so this time you didn't spoil anything for me. You only did last week, when you made me think it was going to happen".

I hope this makes sense! If it happens, it's a spoiler. If it doesn't, it's not a spoiler.

Theorizing that something is going to happen is not a spoiler. Knowing it will happen is a spoiler.

I can't simplify it any more than that, your friend also predicted the future and should monetize that ability.