Could someone have actually spoiled an entire season of Survivor? That was the question everyone was asking back in January, 2003, an entire month before the season premier of Survivor: The Amazon. On January 9th, I started an Internet message board thread under the assumed alias of "ChillOne," and debriefed my intelligence, "would-be" confidential information that I uncovered while vacationing in the Brazilian Amazon, including contestant names, game dynamics, location details, and Tribal Council "boot order." In that report, I named Matt Von Ertfelda and Jenna Morasca as the two finalists and pointed to Jenna as the player who was better liked of the two, providing a tantalizing hint of a possible final outcome! Over the next four months, my information would be under the microscope; picked apart and analyzed piece-by-piece by thousands, while at the same time gaining national attention. In the end, ChillOne became one of the most talked about, if not the most talked about, informants in Survivor spoiling history.
Similarly, if I strike my boat with a bottle of champagne and say “I christen you 'The Spoiler Alert',” then my doing so makes it the case that it is now and forever known as “The Spoiler Alert.”2 When you issue a spoiler alert your ...
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... World: On “The Know-It-Alls” by Noam Cohen,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 11, 2018, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/peter-thielsunfortunate-world-on-the-know-it-alls-by-noam-cohen. Return to note reference. 19.