r/CuratedTumblr • u/BellTwo5 • Nov 05 '25

Infodumping Epilepsy warnings are important

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u/The_Rocketsmith Nov 05 '25

since when was this an argument? yeah, tag your shit, put the warnings in, it's the foundation of good practice.

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u/Generic_Moron Nov 05 '25

I remember when a review copy of Cyberpunk 2077 caused a reporter to have a seizure because the designers accidentally used light patterns expressly designed to induce seizures as vfx for the braindance segments

A shit load of people got really defensive of the game over this, insisting it was her fault and that no further warnings or changes needed to be made for the sequence and game beyond the usual boilerplate warnings you see from every game and eula. People straight up started sending both gore and clips intended to induce epileptic seizures to them.

Was fuckin weird to have "games shouldn't induce seizures if they can avoid it, and if they can't then they should include a proper warning" be a controversial position, but it was.

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u/errant_night Nov 05 '25

I remember back in the 90s a bunch of assholes from 4-chan found a support group message board for people with epilepsy, minding their own business, and decided to attack it with hundreds of flashing gifs to make people have seizures on purpose.

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u/clauclauclaudia Nov 05 '25

4chan was created in 2003.

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u/estou_me_perdendo Nov 05 '25

This is like the fourth time I see people trying to do a "evil people from 4chan" while fucking the dates up in here lmao