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Remember my bogglement yesterday at a picture of Karl Urban's face needing a trigger warning? Well, today, I received an explanation:
“Some people are uncomfortable with pictures depicting faces looking at them. It’s a recognized phobia, and tagging for it allows people with this phobia to be able to be on tumblr and control their exposure to what triggers their phobia.”
Well, okay, but…how does putting a trigger warning for the creeping horror of a face help when tags are usually posted at the BOTTOM of a post, which means that the face-phobic person would have to…scroll by the horrifying face to reach the ostensible warning meant to protect them?
Really, if people looking at them in pictures is so anxiety-inducing as to necessitate trigger warnings, then maybe Tumblr is not the platform for them.
“Some people are uncomfortable with pictures depicting faces looking at them. It’s a recognized phobia, and tagging for it allows people with this phobia to be able to be on tumblr and control their exposure to what triggers their phobia.”
Well, okay, but…how does putting a trigger warning for the creeping horror of a face help when tags are usually posted at the BOTTOM of a post, which means that the face-phobic person would have to…scroll by the horrifying face to reach the ostensible warning meant to protect them?
Really, if people looking at them in pictures is so anxiety-inducing as to necessitate trigger warnings, then maybe Tumblr is not the platform for them.
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