A Lesson I Learned

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My most "Guilty pleasure" TV show would be the Masked Singer (UK). Most of the time, when the celebrities are revealed, I'm like "Who?" but I keep watching for the of-chance that it is someone I actually know of (usually after completely failing to pick up on the clues.

Now, I was away in London over Christmas and I was too busy to have time to watch the Christmas special right away. Which wouldn't be too much of a problem, except one account I follow on Twitter was posting spoilers. And I'm an impatient person, I still wanted to look at my Twitter feed, I have a custom feed because there were certain accounts that clog up my main feed but I don't want to unfollow them.

But the problem is, Twitter's filter system ONLY works for the main feed. Which I learned the hard way when I saw a post from that account and I looked away too late and already saw a celebrity's name and their costume name. So that put me off watching for the next several days, until this morning, when I realised the next series was going to start so I needed to get the Christmas episode out of the way.

So I watched it, and I tried to suspend my belief. I told myself that maybe I panicked too much, maybe the celebrity's name I saw was just a guess from one of the panelists, or maybe a non-masked guest who appeared that the account thought one of the costumes was. But no, it really was a spoiler that I'd seen, and to make matters worse, this WAS actually someone that I actually knew of, while the other 3 were either people I'd never heard of or people I didn't know enough about for any of the clues to matter.

Well anyway, it's over with now, and I've learned an important lesson: Don't look at the Twitter app if you want to avoid spoilers, instead use the browser version where you can use extensions that will block spoilers more effectively!!!

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