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This is crowd-sourced detective work. When a trailer drops, fans analyze frame-by-frame. When a script leaks, digital forensics verify metadata. Communities like the Marvel Studios Spoilers subreddit have developed rigorous "provenance checks"—tracking how a leak moves from a 4chan post to a major outlet.