Image extracted from the current season of "Koh-Lanta". - © Philippe LEROUX / ALP / TF1

  • Each week, Friday evening, 20 Minutes publishes an interview with the eliminated candidate from Koh-Lanta .
  • Some internet users are thus made aware of the outcome of the program they had planned to watch in replay.
  • We are faced with a dilemma.

"It's over, I'm tired of it, I will never come to your site again. "

"What you are doing is disgusting, you should be ashamed. "

"Delete. "

"  20 Minutes , what are you doing other than spoiling people's little pleasures?" And all this for what ? To make money! Rots! "

What is this torrent of reproaches and angry messages worth at 20 Minutes (we only kept the less vehement)? An article on the Middle East? A critical analysis of Professor Raoult's theories? A fake off on a quote from Pliny the Elder by Jean-Luc Mélenchon? No, for a long time, but even more with confinement, it is our articles on Koh-Lanta which arouse resentment.

But not just any article. These are interviews with the eliminated candidates that we publish a few minutes after the end of the Friday evening broadcast. Many viewers watch the TF1 program in replay, by taste or by necessity. And by learning about the 20 Minutes site, they find themselves nose to photo with the eliminated of the week. And that annoys them, it's quite normal.

This phenomenon became more marked as the audiences of Koh-Lanta beat audience records this season, and the game became more and more addictive. It culminated last Friday with the elimination of Jessica (oops, you did not know?).

Incentive or informative?

So we did our self-criticism. Is it right to publish these articles? Should we do without it? Or should we not give the identity of the eliminated in the title? Or show her face? We asked our colleagues for advice.

"We ask ourselves the question every time," says Kevin Boucher, editor-in-chief of Puremédias. But too bad, we assume. So of course, we have complaints, which we take into account, but we say that 90% of the people who come to the site have seen the episode. We continue to wonder about the best way to do it. When we can avoid spoiler, we do it. Unfortunately, often the information goes by the name of the candidate and must be used. "In another famous site that publishes program reports, a journalist is annoyed:" Anyway, when we make incentive titles like "Find out who was eliminated", we are accused of being putaclics, to seek the audience at all costs. However, the articles make much more audience if we give the name of the eliminated candidate and his photo… ”

And yes, because internet users are not the only ones reading the articles, there are also the search engines (through which a large share of readers can access) which highlight informative articles…

Spoil pain

If that can relieve you, know that we too, journalists, sometimes suffer. This is how it goes. In the middle of the week, we receive the episode, which must be watched quickly, sometimes in conditions that are not optimal, in order to be able to interview the defeated person before Friday, and prepare the article. So we too, sometimes, we are spoiled. This season, our journalist has been told the incredible twists and turns of two entire episodes by telephone so that he can do his interviews knowingly. Imagine…

There is also Paul, our digital editor in charge of the site on Friday evening. Poor of him, who must put online the article which spoils the episode without having been able to see it… "Last week I did everything to avoid it, but I read" Régis "from the corner of the eye and I wanted you very much, he says. In fact it was Jessica who was talking about Régis… I was disgusted to have been spoiled, then doubly disgusted that it was not the right spoil! He understands you. “Watching Koh-Lanta knowing the eliminated before is really like watching a match where you know the result. It is losing all its salt… ”

TF1 pressing

Here we are. The famous comparison with a football match. Some netizens, who accuse us of spoiling Koh-Lanta, would they understand that we do not give, from the title, the result of the football matches that we analyze? To resolve the matter, we interviewed So Foot journalists who, each week, do live broadcasts, then give notes to the adventurers. "We've been doing this for several years," says Swann Borsellino. We use the two most popular formats of the site for football and we adapt it to Koh-Lanta . With us people don't complain too much about being spoiled. They do not come for the same reasons as at your place ... "The journalist believes, however, that it is a bit the responsibility of the readers:" My parents, who are fans of Koh-Lanta  and my articles, they will wait until '' saw the episode before reading the notes I put to the adventurers. "Smart.

Kevin Charnay, other liver of Koh Lanta to  So Foot , sometimes overreacting fans - including the media address - are understandable: "Oddly, its twists and turns, the supporter side it creates, Koh- Lanta is the closest thing to a football game right now on TV. "And Swann Borsellino to recognize the talent of TF1:" It is a written and edited program. We know it but it still works. The production found a great recipe for the show to irritate us, annoy us, arouse reactions. "

So, after all this, does 20 Minutes really deserve the wrath of some Internet users? Far be it from us to blame the over-invested viewers (although ...). Anyway, this Friday evening, there is no elimination in Koh-Lanta. So we won't spoil you no matter what. We talk about all this with a rested head next week with the elimination of Claude (oops *).

* This is a joke, the author of the article did not see next week's episode.

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