[ SECRET POST #6270 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6270 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that trigger warnings are so overused as to be totally meaningless these days and end up having the opposite effect of what they're intended for.

For example, I have a friend who needs trigger warnings for anything involving alcoholism. By that, I mean depictions of alcoholism or characters drinking to serious excess - alcohol abuse, in other words. But these days a ton of people will put "CW: alcohol" on fics that have stuff a couple of characters sitting around having beers together (and not actually getting drunk), so my friend has to sit there and try to guess whether that "CW: alcohol" REALLY means what it says or whether it's okay to read a fic that has that label. And that really ruins her ability to read a lot of stuff because people use trigger warnings (which serve an actual purpose) way too flippantly in situations that don't warrant them.

[(Anonymous)]

I sort of understand the authors who do what you described in your example, though, since we're living in a time when you can get criticized both by over-tagging and under-tagging. A lot of people seem to want to "play it safe" and over-tag. They themselves probably wouldn't need the trigger warning for themselves so they don't actually know if it would be needed or not for someone else, like in the case of characters just drinking together without abusing it situation.

There's probably someone out there for whom the "cw: alcohol" attached to such a fic made perfect sense because they can't stand even a throwaway depiction of alcohol consumption like that, whereas your friend has to deal with it in another way.

The problem is that there's no real gradation to these warnings and, if there were, I suppose a lot of authors would just have to sit down and describe their entire fic in a long author's note so a reader knows every little detail before starting to read... And walks away without reading because why bother now they know everything that's about to happen?

Idk, I think this stuff is a double-edged sword in a lot of cases. Me, personally, I don't go near over-tagged stuff... But I know that others do the exact opposite. At the end of the day, I guess we'll never really have a system that manages to please everyone.