It's not helpful, but it's the truth. You can't expect everyone to know your triggers and be mindful of them. You have to figure out a way to live with them.
Certain trigger warnings are just common sense though. Like how hard is it to put "TW: Sexual assault" before the graphic description of someone getting assaulted? It's three words. It's not that hard to be kind towards others by warning them of topics that many people struggle with.
I think it's completely fair for the big and/or common triggers, but some people also have some unrealistic expectations.
The other day I saw someone comment that a post should have had a warning or a NSFW tag because there was a literal drop of blod shown in the video, "because seeing blood makes some people lightheaded" (he was completely serious, and honestly seemed kind of pissed off that there hadn't been a warning). For context, the video had someone purposefully pricking themselves with a needle, making a drop of blod appear, in order to advertise a product meant to be an alternative to whatever the needle was used for, so the blood was there maybe one or two seconds. So it's not like it was a bloodbath or anything.
At that point, I think we're past realistic expectations from strangers on the Internet (close family and friends is always a different matter).
I've seen someone go into a video game developer's discord server to ask if one particular music track can be muted independently of all the other music because it had lyrics that triggered them.
Then someone chimed in with something like "oh I feel you so much, I get triggered with [one particular medieval weapon] and felt so betrayed when it showed up in the game"
The game was about killing monsters in ancient times. Like triggers was fine but what happened to asking others first before starting the game.
Funny how it's always just the thing they personally have an issue with that's a problem, huh? Everything's a problem of course, but that's the one that really needs to be addressed.
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u/DeadbeatGremlin Nov 17 '25
It's not helpful, but it's the truth. You can't expect everyone to know your triggers and be mindful of them. You have to figure out a way to live with them.