How to use spoiler tags on Reddit

As discussed in our Discord spoiler guide, it’s never fun to have something spoiled for you, whether it’s the ending of a book or an Easter egg in a video game. Additionally, if an audience is too young to see certain content, it’s important that they do not accidentally glance over it. In cases like these — all of which occur on Reddit daily — it’s important to know how spoilers work on Reddit.

How to spoiler text on Reddit (desktop)

Reddit has allowed you to add “spoiler tags” to almost everything you can think of on the platform for a long time. Of course, it all starts with being able to spoiler comments.

Method #1: Using the Spoiler button

1. Go to the Reddit post you want to comment on, or create a new post. Write out your text, but don’t publish it yet.
2. Highlight the section of the text in your comment or post that you want to mark as a spoiler. If you’re going to spoiler the entire comment, highlight everything.
3. Click the exclamation mark-shaped Spoiler button to mark the selected text as a spoiler. If you’re commenting, you have to click on the Aa icon for this option to appear.

Method #2: Using Markdown Mode

The Spoiler button is just a shortcut for the Markdown necessary to create a spoiler shadow over your text. Markdown is the virtual language used to format elements on Reddit.

1. To use Markdown to spoiler text, click the Switch to Markdown Editor button.
2. In Markdown Mode, type >! at the beginning and !< at the end of the text you want to mark as a spoiler.
3. Click the Comment or Post button.

How to spoiler images on Reddit (desktop)

You may know that you can only upload images and videos to Reddit as posts. Comments, or responses to an overarching post, cannot contain images or videos.

Regarding Reddit posts, you can have Text posts, Images & Video posts, Link posts, Poll posts, and Talk posts. All of these can be “spoilered” by adding the Spoiler tag. Let’s go over how to do that.

Adding the Spoiler tag to Reddit posts

This works the same way for all five different types of Reddit posts. To demonstrate, we’ll upload an Images & Video post to our profile.

1. When creating your post, click on the tab and decide what you want to add. Fill out all necessary fields and get your post ready for publishing.
2. Once you have it ready, click on the Add flair and tags button.
3. Under Flairs, select Spoilers.
4. Toggle on Spoiler and hit Add.
5. When ready, hit Post.

Your post will now be hidden behind a CLICK TO SEE SPOILER shroud. Nobody will be able to view your post unless they specifically click it.

How to spoiler text on Reddit (Android and iOS)

You can only really spoiler text on the Reddit app by using the same method you would use in Markdown Mode on a computer. This means, you can add >! and !< around the text in your comment or post. After this, just label the post. Here’s how:

1. Select Add tags & flair.
2. Tap on Spoilers.
3. Toggle on Spoiler to label the post accordingly.
4. Hit Apply.
5. Lastly, tap on Post.

How to spoiler images on Reddit (Android and iOS)

This process applies to all five different types of Reddit posts.

1. Open the Reddit mobile app, then tap the + icon in the center of the bottommost toolbar.
2. At the bottom, you can select if you want to add a link, image, video, poll, or AMA.
3. Fill out all fields for your selected post type, then tap Next. In this example, we selected Image for our post type, so we gave the post a title and uploaded our image.
4. Once you have it ready, click on the Add flair and tags button.
5. Under Flairs, select Spoilers.
6. Toggle on Spoiler and hit Add.
7. When ready, hit Post.