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stainlessMentioned this on tumblr but want to save it from the dumpster fire, so:
Does anyone remember years ago when people were first talking about trigger warnings becoming widespread and everyone said they were great and I said I had doubts
And then it became tag your content
And now it’s easy to purge the tagged content, and people are pissed about the purge so they’re not using tags or using #sfw for as long as it works?
I wasn’t sure what I was worried about then, but in hindsight… sometimes labeling what you make is painting a target on it.
If everyone agrees tws and content tags are a courtesy, as the powers that be at ao3 do, it’s all fine.
If not everyone does, the things to zap are neatly categorized for the censors already. By you.
”Chose not to warn”/“I don’t tag triggers” isn’t always just a formality, guys. Sometimes it’s insurance in case the wrong people get power.
Does anyone remember years ago when people were first talking about trigger warnings becoming widespread and everyone said they were great and I said I had doubts
And then it became tag your content
And now it’s easy to purge the tagged content, and people are pissed about the purge so they’re not using tags or using #sfw for as long as it works?
I wasn’t sure what I was worried about then, but in hindsight… sometimes labeling what you make is painting a target on it.
If everyone agrees tws and content tags are a courtesy, as the powers that be at ao3 do, it’s all fine.
If not everyone does, the things to zap are neatly categorized for the censors already. By you.
”Chose not to warn”/“I don’t tag triggers” isn’t always just a formality, guys. Sometimes it’s insurance in case the wrong people get power.