WHY DO SPOILERS SUCK? THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND THE ANGER ABOUT THE ESCAPES OF GAME OF THRONES.

April is going to be a month of fear of social networks. And no, I do not mean all the political propaganda to which we will be exposed due to the upcoming elections. Although this should scare us more than the latest offer of the horror genre, "We".
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I'm talking about two phenomena that will finally culminate within two weeks of each other: Game of Thrones (April 14) and Avengers: Endgame (April 26). Fans should be prepared to face all these events because the Internet is dark and full of terror, and even the Assembly of the Avengers cannot save him from his social media habits. In fact, you would have noticed how the recent filtration of Season 8 of Game of Thrones, Episode 1, puts in this cruel world a large number of developers of the most anticipated televised event.

It turns out that someone posted the episode on YouTube, which was later removed by HBO. But the damage was already done, and the crows, once released, cannot be removed. From Reddit, the spoilers started to burn our food like a forest fire (do you see what I did there?) And we had to save our skin and our sanity.
Now, notice, people are angry, AF.I'm not sure what the person who leaked the episode though. Spoilers do not really please the fans. Or do they do it? I know I was tempted to look (it was not).
So, what about the spoilers that piss people? If not, why do some people like them so much? And a spoiler really spoils you?

To answer these questions, I looked for the Grand Master of the Knowledge Citadel. Or as we all like to call it, Google. In fact, few studies have been done on this subject that deserves to be mentioned here. However, I found an interesting explanation given by Thalia Goldstein, a professor of psychology, at The Atlantic. According to Goldstein, our brains sometimes blur the line between what is real and what a story is when it comes to things we like.

For example, we love superhero stories, because in our real life we also value heroic deeds. At the neurological level, while the logical part of our brain knows and understands that Avengers: Endgame is a story of fiction, some primitive part of our brain convinces us that it is real.

So wait, how does that make the spoilers a pain in our ass? Well, because they end up breaking our illusion that something is real! It is scientifically proven that the element of surprise tends to elevate the whole experience and make it more euphoric. When you do not know where you are going, your imagination takes the wheel, because it fills in the blanks with the destination you choose. For example, although I do not know how the Avengers plan to reverse the Thanos tendency and if everyone manages to stay alive, I can live in the illusion that this story ends well.

But when you know what the final destination is, the emotion diminishes a little. The trip is always fun, but it loses this element of emotion. With millions of fans of Game of Thrones, I knew the theory of R + L = J about Jon Snow's true online bloodline. So, although we hope Jon finds out, it's not that exciting. Now, it's more as if we want history to rush to look at that part instead of extending it further.

That said, not everyone is upset. The people who read the Song of Ice and Fire books knew a lot about the story, even if the creators of the series had modified it slightly. The "red marriage" was not a big surprise to many of them, but seeing it on the screen was able to maintain its shock value. In my desire to review all the episodes before the new season, I had trouble attending the beheading of Ned Stark, even if I knew it for years.

I always wondered why I could reread my favorite mystery stories, even though I knew the monster at the end of the book. Here again, psychology is slightly different. But most of the time, it shows that detractors do not really spoil the appeal of a particular story.
A study conducted by Leavitt and Christened in 2011, with a large enough sample, concluded that people enjoyed more spoiled stories than stories intact.

    "Writers use their artistic talents to make interesting stories, to attract readers and surprise them, but we found that giving these surprises improved the reading quality of the readers. It is possible for spoilers to improve pleasure by increasing tension. It can exacerbate the pleasant tension caused by the disparity of knowledge between the omniscient reader and the character that is directed to his destiny. "

However, one of the weaknesses of this study is that, although it seems to be valid in theory, it does not take external application into account. In general, spoilers encounter anger, not pleasure, unless it is the one that spoils. Again, there are also those who jump at the end of the book or enthusiastically persecute the detractors because they would like to avoid the pressure and anxiety of FOMO.

So, where do we go from here? Are the spoilers still empty? Well, always without flavor, and divulge them always makes you a gigantic option. The pleasure of experiencing something for the first time is unique. I would have listened to people say how much they really wanted to go back in time to be able to relive the emotion of a cinematic phenomenon or a forceful book for the first time. The first time is special, no matter what happens.

So, be a doll, and say do not screw up. Or the combined power of the snapshot of Thanos and Dracarys will be unleashed on you!

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