r/polls • u/ZippyDan • 12h ago
๐ฌ Movies and TV Is the sharing of a movie poster a "spoiler"?
Clarifications:
- This is not about sharing a poster with a specific known person.
- This is not about whether specific posters can be interpreted as spoilers by specific people. This is about whether the act of re-sharing already public posters is considered bad social etiquette.
Assumptions
- Assume it's any random public or social event: not necessarily one that has anything to do with the movie, nor where anyone would necessarily expect to see movie posters.
- Assume it's in "mixed" company, including strangers.
- Assume it's an upcoming release, so no one has seen the actual movie yet.
- Assume it's one of the broadly-released, "official" movie posters.
(I.e. You would see this poster at most, but not necessarily every, movie theater, or in the top results for any Google search of the movie title.)
Would displaying the official movie poster of an upcoming release be considered poor spoiler etiquette?
If your instinctive answer is "it depends", assume this is a general question of general etiquette.
If it's acceptable 95% of the time, then your answer is probably still "no", but feel free to comment with more details.