How come it seems nobody really cared about spoilers as much before the 2010s?

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One of my favorite bits of Weird Al trivia is that he was able to write the song "The Saga Begins" before ever seeing The Phantom Menace based on leaked spoilers alone. It always seem like with those bigger movies like Star Wars many people actively seek out information - they just can't wait for the movie to come out, they have to know what happens.

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Originally Posted by starsteam

One of my favorite bits of Weird Al trivia is that he was able to write the song "The Saga Begins" before ever seeing The Phantom Menace based on leaked spoilers alone. It always seem like with those bigger movies like Star Wars many people actively seek out information - they just can't wait for the movie to come out, they have to know what happens.

With bigger films like that, there's also the temptation for others to spoil films for others, just for fun. I remember getting home from the midnight showing of The Force Awakens, and every comment I saw on Facebook was about Han Solo, on posts that had nothing to do with Star Wars. Had barely been an hour since the film finished, and already people were ruining it for others.