New Year's Issue Spoiler Avoidance Experiment

2019-04-01 New Year’s issue to be announced today 11:37

• I saw a statement on Twitter to the effect of “how long can you not know?”
• You’ve piqued my interest, so I decided to avoid the information too.
  • I don’t usually care about spoilers for movies, etc., but I thought it would be interesting to experience a position where I do care.
  • And, if you miss out on the experience of avoiding the information in the new year issue, you’ll never know when the next one will be if you miss out now.

11:44

• When I hastily informed my wife of this, she replied, “I learned about it on TV, I’ll keep quiet about it.

11:53 - Tomoya Tachikawa says, “I see you’re avoiding info on the new Genesis!” and speaks to me via messenger

12:18

• I saw on Tachikawa’s wall that he wrote “The New Year issue is XX!” but since today is April Fool’s Day, it might be a lie and I decided not to check if it is true or not
• I thought it would be okay as long as it was April Fool’s Day, and at that time I was fooling myself.

15:03

• I saw the Chief Cabinet Secretary holding up the New Year’s issue on the monitor attached to the elevator at work.
• End of experiment

impressions

• It was too difficult to avoid information while living in the city center in this era.
• If you really want to do this, you’ll have to travel… I thought about it, but maybe when I get on the Shinkansen, I’ll know it from the electric board.
• I might have to go overseas yesterday and block out all news in Japanese.

memo

• 15:20 A breaking news email from Nikkei arrived in my mailbox at 12:32 p.m.

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