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This is a list of common triggers, phobias, and sensitive topics that people often ask to be tagged, and I thought would be a good community thing to put together.
I want to preface this by saying this is just a compiling of information from being on practically 100 different social media websites since I was like 12, my experience with trauma/triggers/and the like, and from what I've seen people asking to be tagged. This is not in any way, shape, or form, telling people they absolutely have to tag these things if they are not stated to need to be tagged under TOS, but as a friendly reminder that these are things that may be sensitive and/or triggering for people to see.
Disclaimer: This is the best list I could manage to put together. Obviously people have other triggers than this and have full right to ask people to tag such triggers or things that squick them out, etc, however these are just the most common ones that I know of.
To start this, when something is just mentioned and isn't outright present in a post, many people will tag things like "#tag mention" or "#tag ment".. for example say you mention you used to have an eating disorder, but you're not going into detail or talking about it more than that it'd be good to tag as "#ED mention" however if you go into detail or actually talk about what your eating disorder is or that you're struggling with it, you should stick to just tagging it as "#ED" so people are fully aware that there are details about it and not just an offhanded remark.
It's a good practice to use both tags at the same time if you don't go into deep detail, or just the mention tag for things that are very briefly mentioned, and the outright tag for things that have any actual details.
Also keep in mind, you shouldn't put "#tw: tag" or anything like that as it makes it harder to blacklist things.
In regards to trauma, mental health, etc.
This includes talking about mental health, depictions of trauma/mental health realted stuff in visual or written media, and so on.
In regards to body horror, gore, violence, etc.
For both visual media and written media. Obviously the visual media in terms of gore would all be art and not irl stuff since that stuff isn't allowed, but I figure I'll go over the entire list.
In regards to common phobias and triggers.
This is for stuff like scopophobia, the fear of clowns, horror in general, insects, things of that nature.
Other tags...
These are a bunch of other common tags to help people avoid content they're uncomfortable with, triggers, etc. There are also some general "tone" tags to help people who may not understand what is trying to be said or what the tone is [like in joke arguments and stuff]
Feel free to reblog this, and if there's any tags you want to add that you think are common enough to warrant being mentioned that I may have missed, feel free to.
Reblogging to add some more tags
i have ednos. calling food a potential trigger is kinda awful and triggers me more than talk or images of food point blank.
Might want to add "#unreality" to that list, I've seen people on other sites asking for it to be tagged fairly often. I'm not sure I can describe what unreality is succinctly, but it's like, posts acting like the person reading it is in a coma, and other things acting like our reality isn't "real" if that makes sense.