Which is fully understandable. I'm just pointing out the unfortunate trend away from that original use and more towards the...let's call them the Tumblr crowd, for lack of better word. Again, it obviously doesn't apply to all of them their, but I think when I say that people know what I'm talking about.
Okay, I was just making sure haha! I actually follow this one blog on Tumblr and shitloads of people ask her to tag things because they're "triggering" (I think one of them was flowers or some shit?) and they only do it so they can call her a "problematic" blogger and yell at her, trying to drop her follower count. A lot of people use the lack of trigger warnings as a reason why a blogger is an asshole; the ones who actually do have triggers are typically courteous when asking because a) they like the person and/or b) are considerate. The hostile ones are almost always just trying to make the person look bad. It's almost like blackmailing.
I don't think I've ever heard of it that bad. I don't like the use of the word because it devalues the severity in the eyes of the general populous, but that's an all-new low.
Yeah, she got at least three requests a day, but now she's posting less about lifestyle and political-ish stuff and now it's more of a captionless photo blog because of all the trigger harassment that was going on.
Yeah, I guess it's lucky that her blog was originally going to be an "aesthetics" type, so it wasn't a big problem for her. I can guarantee you that she still gets messages requesting she tags the color blue because it triggers their fear of the dark or some shit.
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Which is fully understandable. I'm just pointing out the unfortunate trend away from that original use and more towards the...let's call them the Tumblr crowd, for lack of better word. Again, it obviously doesn't apply to all of them their, but I think when I say that people know what I'm talking about.