SPOILER ALERT... Deal with It

Booker T's appearance was spoiled for some
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If you were on the Internet this weekend and were looking in all the right places, i.e. Twitter, you were spoiled as to the surprise entrants into the Royal Rumble before they appeared. Yeah, for those who found out, it may have ruined the surprise for them. It sucks, I get that. I would never post a spoiler on here without using the appropriate jump tag. But that's the thing, if a spoiler juicy enough comes along, as a newsmonger (I'm not a journalist, no way), I feel the need to provide the portion of the population that wants to be spoiled to have those spoilers.

That being said, yes, I do think it's a dick move to spoil people who don't want to be spoiled. I understand why people want to have surprises kept for them. However, I want to ask an honest question: Did knowing that Booker T and Kevin Nash being in the Royal Rumble ruin the impact of their inclusion in the match? If it did, then that's alright, but my guess is it didn't. It didn't for me. I knew they were going to be there, but I still marked like crazy to see their placement and what they did and most importantly at least for Nash, how they came out.

The nature of wrestling news is that people want to be first with surprises and the first with the big news, and that news usually involves a surprise. The genie cannot be let back into the bottle, so it's unreasonable to expect people not to post spoilers online. Again, it's a dick move to do it without any kind of warning or hiding hyperlink, but really, is it the end of the world to find out a spoiler beforehand?

The way some people carry on, it's akin to genocide. I mean, I understand being pissed, but for me, execution is always better than surprise. The way Booker and Diesel were introduced last night gave so much impact to their appearances that it didn't matter that I knew they were going to participate in the Rumble match. Honestly, that impact outweighed any bad juju coming from the spoilage.

That's why I think all this spoiler indignation is overblown. We're in the age of information, and you can't spoil a good feeling. I can understand being disappointed, but carrying on about the spoilers ruining an experience to me is just demonstration for demonstration's sake. It's unnecessary bluster. Again, someone spoils something publicly, they're a dick, but there's no need to let that inconsideration ruin your day.

All you need to do is deal with rude people and be done with it. Shit happens. It's not like someone stole your identity or kicked your puppy or even took a dump on your lawn. It's nice for people to respect others desires for surprises to be maintained, but to quote Jason Mann from Twitter, it's not your constitutional right not to be spoiled.

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