Stream Etiquette Pt 2: Spoilers

I enjoy a good story and challenging puzzle mechanics in a game.

But what I and plenty of other streamers don't enjoy is someone spoiling coming events in a game or giving away the solution to a puzzle, let alone being a 'tour guide' to every step being taken in a game, regardless of if we played the game before or not.

Because people in the chat may not of played the game themselves and are truly intrigued by the mythos of the game, or seeing how a puzzle/plot mechanic will be resolved.

How would you feel if you paid money to go see a movie you've been waiting months for, just to have some dude in the audience who already saw the movie start talking about what happens next or who lives/dies at the end a row in front?

The next season of your favorite show is here and you have the season premiere DVR'd. Then Ted at work tells Claire of that big juicy plot twist at lunch time.

If you feel like smacking that obnoxious movie goer in the back of his head with your overpriced cup of soda and box of Jujubes, or Falcon Punching Ted through the water cooler, then guess what? That's how a streamer you spoiled the gameplay for may feel about you, the same with his/her viewers.

The streamer you're watching paid money for (or a viewer may have even gifted them) the game to enjoy, and if streaming it? Its obviously for enjoyment with his/her viewers.

If you beat the game? Cool, but respect those who haven't and let them do it their way, at their own pace.

Be it if you played the game in your own playstyle or you want to see the game played a certain way, the streamer has their own way to play. And they're going to regardless.

In all, in terms to backseat gaming in itself? Personally, my rule about it is that if I'm stumped on a puzzle and want a hint? I'll ask, but otherwise I want to figure it out myself.

And in regards to trying to tell a streamer every single step to what to do as they are playing a game?

Getting technical here, if they could make an account on a streaming platform, set up software for their streams, speak fluently in their native language, let alone everything else they have done in life aside from picking a controller up? They can manage navigating geographically speaking in any particular direction for more than two seconds without their hand being held.

Seriously guys, as a fellow fan of a game who had their first experience with it, don't take that from someone else.

Whatever streamer it is that you're watching, let them play the game on their own and let them have their immersion in the meat and potatoes of the story without ruining what they are savoring with the salt of spoiled plots/puzzle mechanics.