drakonis

idk wahts goin on

heavy metal scientist. sometimes literally. fountain pen enjoyer. queer and more than old enough to remember when you couldn't use the internet and your home phone at the same time


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ewie
@ewie

kinda annoyed that since the tumblr exodus i’ve seen a lot more content warnings on posts that could just leverage the great tag filtering system that cohost has. idk it’s just annoying to have to click through so many content warnings for things as minor as “eyestrain”, “anatomy”, and “eye contact”. like these are things that 99% of people won’t have problems with and the 1% that do can just muffle or mute the specific tag they have problems with. idk just annoying


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in reply to @ewie's post:

at least it's out of the way, i think.
idk how things are for everyone, so maybe it goes a little beyond just an itty bit of overstimulation for people who'd go out of their way to muffle them.

i’ve also heard that people will use the read more feature on tumblr to act as a content warning, which is certainly a way of doing things.

but i think a good idea is to know your demographic. if a lot of people who follow you struggle with eyestrain on your art then i’d say that it’d be good to reach out to your audience and try to work out what solution is best for them, which can range from “hey maybe we should bump this up from a tag to a proper CW” to “maybe some of y'all shouldn’t be following someone whose art causes you so much pain?”

everything has more nuance than we first take it to have, even my rushed out half-baked post (which is how you know it was destined to take off) is lacking a lot of parts of the conversation that is either outside of the scope of the type of post it is or outside of the scope of my own lived experience, in which case i am not the right person to talk about this stuff.