Something I've noticed is that a lot of people on the Internet end up incorporating really weird things into normal conversations, like using "ppl" all the time instead of people, or putting trigger warnings for literally everything. Why people can't just speak formally is beyond me.
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I mean, trigger warnings make sense, until you use them for things like bread, shovel, watermelon, water, fire, earth, wind. . . People use those in insane ways.
I've seen it before, it is definitely real and I can barely believe it, I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it myself.
naw, that's really weird
however, some stuff, like Christmas and ice cream would make sense
(I'm actually triggered by ice cream)
I think it would be better for websites to usually include a way to blacklist words, so people wouldn't have to add trigger warnings, you would be able to control it yourself. Who knows if someone didn't think about something that somehow triggers someone else.
Also I have absolutely no clue what it is with ice cream. I can't even think of it, it's probably something very personal though.
The Internet is terrible. When you're on it you have to be as tough as possible, which sounds really corny and stupid but it's true if you want to avoid being completely shocked by all of the crazy stuff there is. Now, I'm not sure I use the right word there, but I really don't know how to describe it. It's like, trying your best not to react too much to something.
Yeah, I understand it's possible for very specific things to trigger people, but it's a little bit silly for people to be able to predict these things. If people where to attempt to create trigger warnings for any potential triggers in their post, it would likely take up a good fraction of the post, using a beeeg amount of space. Perhaps this is why people use weird abbreviations to replace words, to save the space that they just used.