I understand the idea of shielding people from content that would be upsetting, but my own experience is, that I feel a little anxious as soon as I read Trigger Warning […].
How is your experience with it? Are you happy with it, or do you thing there are better ways to address dark topics?
Most people like to be coddled, few with admit it but it’s clearly a preference. They don’t bother me but I do my best to ignore them.
I prefer to go in with a little foreknowledge as possible, life doesn’t have trigger warnings, why should art? Bumpers are for children.
And this is not a, “I am very bad ass, nothing bothers me!” there are things that will consistently ‘trigger’ me, literally nope out but I’m a “buy the ticket, take the ride” type of person.
I also have a tendency to automatically dismiss groupthink. Occasionally to my own detriment but I’d rather maintained my agency rather than hand it off to a human void I rarely agree with.
To each their own. They don’t benefit me because they aren’t for me.
To answer the second half, if I had the wherewithal, my improvement would be for people to predefined their triggers and allow the medium to alert only when a trigger matches.