The bright sides to a spoiler

Spoilers are something we avoid like the plague and any mention of them results in riots, pitchforks, and a whole lot of hate.

However, as with plenty of things in life, you'll find exceptions to this. Unbelievably, there are people who enjoy spoilers (yes, you read that correctly). These people see the hidden "bright sides" to getting movies, games, or books spoiled. 

The first and most obvious bright side is that you no longer have to wait to find out what freaked out everyone later on in the story. That annoying suspense that's been bothering you 24/7 is gone (unless you like suspense, in which case, sucks to be you).

Again, as strange as it sounds, it's scientifically proven that, on average, spoilers actually give the story an edge, especially if it's THE spoiler. You just won't go around telling people about it no matter how cruel you are (but then tell them anyway because "wild draw four" cards from Uno aren't the only thing that ruin friendships). You've got the normal type of curiosity while reading a story, or, you've got this alternative curiosity: the incredible obsession that comes along when someone spoils it; this urges you to read with even more enjoyment, trying to figure out how the story progressed to that point. I would point out that, as a result, you forget to eat, sleep and tackle all your daily responsibilities. But that's not exactly a bright side unless everything is already falling apart.

Now, how many times have you read a story that started off pretty good before understanding that this is going to be a bad train-wreck? A good example of this scenario is when I was quite besotted with "The Inheritance Cycle" by Christopher Paolini before coming to the conclusion that this is an incredibly clichéd fantasy series with nothing new. Normally, I prefer to finish a series no matter how bad it is. However, thankfully, I received the final spoiler in the book which saved me the bother of reading it. If you ask me, I think not wasting already-limited time on a series that wasn't very interesting to me certainly makes for a bright side.

Okay, I admit, when I started this off, I feel like there were a lot more bright sides, but strangely, these seem to be the three major ones. Some minor ones, I suppose, would include getting a spoiler and not resulting: in losing friends, weeks of depression, or becoming a hermit until the world is spoiler free, etc.

Now that we've gotten the bright side out of the way, time to bring out that pitchfork again.

Rasheed Khan is a hug monster making good music but terrible puns and jokes where he's probably the only one laughing. Ask him how to pronounce his name at aarcvard@gmail.com