A new feature on the social media platform hopes to protect users from seeing entertainment spoilers.
If you’re one of those people who refuses to look at social media out of fear of spoilers, Meta’s Instagram-adjacent Threads app has a solution it hopes will keep you doomscrolling anyway. The new tool will let people mark words in their posts as “spoilers,” preventing eyeballs who haven’t yet watched, say, a certain episode of The Last of Us from learning a certain beloved main character’s grisly fate.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the feature “let users hide text or images that spoil a piece of entertainment (or anything that can be spoiled), simply by marking it as a spoiler.
