How do you avoid spoilers while staying anime-only on a currently airing series?

Battle-tested rules from someone who stayed unspoiled on AoT for four years:

1. Mute aggressively, don't trust discipline. Mute character names that haven't appeared in the anime yet, ability names, and phrases like 'manga readers know.' Names you don't recognize are the biggest tell — mute them on sight.
2. Only visit episode discussion threads explicitly labeled anime-only, like the ones here with spoiler-tag enforcement. Mixed threads always leak through 'wink wink' comments.
3. Never Google characters of an airing series. Image results and 'People also ask' will destroy you instantly.
4. Unfollow the official manga accounts — they celebrate manga milestones with cover art that spoils transformations, alliances and deaths.
5. The thumbnail rule: after a big episode, avoid YouTube for 48 hours. Reaction channels put spoilers in thumbnails for episodes you haven't watched.

And honestly? Communities with enforced spoiler tags (like this one) are the only sustainable answer. Report untagged spoilers, thank the mods, stay safe out there. ?