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Line 23: Seizure triggers are far more rare but are the other type of trigger that can cause direct harm: the viewing of a pattern or flashing lights or colors will induce an epileptic seizure in a small segment of the population, which may be life-threatening. The only people who ''intentionally'' post these with the intent of causing a seizure are [[Troll\|Trolls]], though inadvertent posting of a seizure-inducing video or image can occasionally happen when the poster doesn't live with epilepsy (or with epilepsy triggered by visual imagery) and isn't aware that the image or video could have that effect. Normally, if you are posting a video with flashing lights or colors (or extremely fast movement or dizzying patterns) it is seen as good Netiquette to post a seizure trigger warning and avoid autoplay. == PTSD Triggers == [[wikipedia:PTSD\|Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder]] is a very complicated mental injury beyond the scope of ~~[[TV~~All The Tropes]] in and of itself, but one interaction between PTSD and fiction is the concept of the PTSD trigger. Someone suffering from PTSD may be triggered by many things - and sometimes, sadly, some things in fiction may induce this trigger response. Someone who has been triggered by a trigger may go through more emotional discomfort than fiction is supposed to produce, physical discomfort, terror and depression beyond what the story was supposed to induce, [[Flash Back\|flashbacks]] to their experience of the traumatic event, or even a full [[Heroic BSOD]] or [[Freak-Out]]. The (very simplified) difference between [[Squick]] and a PTSD trigger is this: [[Squick]] is staring at a fictional [[Gorn\|disemboweled corpse]] and going "Ewww, I didn't need to see that." A trigger is staring at the same corpse and feeling oneself being disemboweled and tortured to death in [[Real Life]] or else remembering the [[Real Life]] disembowelment and torture of your best friend next to you. Triggers may be described as hyper-personalized [[Squick]] [[X Meets Y\|meets]] hyper-personalized [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]. Line 76 ⟶ 75: [[Moral Guardians]] and the [[Bluenose Bowdlerizer]] tend to assume that ''nearly everyone'' and anyone under a certain age automatically suffer from being triggered and often use this as a part of [[New Media Are Evil]] and [[You Can Panic Now]], which often leads to people assuming the legitimately triggered are in league with them - which is not the truth, for the most part. A legitimately triggered person merely wants to be warned of and avoid the triggering content, while [[Moral Guardians]] or the [[Bluenose Bowdlerizer]] are actively opposed to its mere ''existence''. [[Troll~~\|Trolls~~]]s tend to delight in trying to force people into viewing triggering content on shock sites or by posting nonexistent or [[Blatant Lies\|misleading]] warnings. A [[Flame War]] can erupt when a [[Fanfic]] writer or [[New Media]] artist refuses to provide proper warnings as warning for triggers is considered proper Netiquette and knowingly forcing someone to view them is considered [[Troll~~\|Trolling~~]]ing, yet at the same time some people are genuinely unaware of the concept. [[Internet Backdraft]] often results when the necessity of trigger warnings itself becomes a debate. See [[Too Soon]] and the [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]]. The [[Ban on Politics]] is arguably an attempt to deal with a nigh-universal [[Berserk Button]]. {{reflist}} ~~[[Category:Useful Notes]]~~ [[Category:Blog Tropes]] [[Category:Fora]]