- Notice: spoilers de The Last of Us Parte II
Spoilers are something uncontrollable on the internet. What is a spoiler? Where are the limits? Where and when can we talk about the news without annoying others? It is a delicate topic and it is difficult to live on social networks without ending up harming or being harmed. It is something we must accept. But there are cases without malice and others that will definitely cause harm.
When I talk about spoilers, I mean big revelations. Information that really destroys the experience. Because I have read in 2024 that “Bruce Wayne is Batman” is a spoiler… and it goes without saying that these cases are exaggerated. It also depends on the person. Still, I don’t think I have to explain the kind of gutting I’m talking about.
They stole my big moment from The Last of Us Part 2
I remember the release of The Last of Us Part 2 was a really exciting time. The end of The Last of Us
Then I worked in another video game medium and I was in charge of running the networks, among other tasks. It was cannon fodder for spoilers, although I didn’t want to admit it then. I used Twitter tools to silence words and accounts, both with my personal profile and with the medium. It was a temporary measure… and a way to create a false sense of security for myself.
There were only a few days left for the launch of The Last of Us Parte 2. I was turbo excited. It was mid-morning and I had several notifications in the media account. I clicked on “Notifications” and it was like shooting myself in the temple with a gun loaded with spoilers. Someone decided it was a good idea to respond to a random news tweet with an image (without text to skip word muting) showing the golf club and Joel’s face battered and bloody. Dead.
I can never remember the exact feeling when I recall the moment in my mind, but I do remember clearly that I started to cry before reacting and ending up cursing the heartless man with all the words I knew. What hurt me the most was not the spoiler itself, that too, but that it was a completely premeditated action. The stab wound in the chest would not have been a quarter as painful if it had been a mistake or a mistake. And on top of that, the image was of terrible quality… it’s just that he didn’t have the courtesy to grant me a clear revelation.
My next reaction may seem ridiculous to you: I turned off the screen, covered the area with a book, turned it back on and reported the post trying not to see it again. According to my logic at the time, it would hurt less if I never saw her again. But it didn’t matter: they had already stolen from me one of the most brutal, cruel and shocking moments in recent years.
Most of us sensed that Joel was going to die, but seeing how in a spoiler completely destroyed the experience for me. It is a thorn that can never be removed. I will never know what my reaction and my feelings would have been if I had arrived at that scene without knowing anything.
Despite everything, I cried like a baby upon arriving at the scene for my game on launch day. And during the days following the spoiler I managed to deceive myself that it was an edited image and that it did not correspond to the final game. You may laugh, but that nonsense was key so that to this day I have a very emotional memory of that moment… even knowing how the thing was going to end. It hurt a lot, but not a quarter of what it should have destroyed me. And it’s something I can never get back.
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