when will the online realize ‘just because this specific thing doesn’t particularly work for me doesn’t mean it’s universally useless’ like this entire thread is how one (1) person feels about this & declaring it representative of the whole issue https://twitter.com/velvetcais/status/1295058883098996737

i absolutely do not even understand how you reach this conclusion. twitter collectively has not achieved the theory of mind

this mentality exemplifies such a brand of selfishisness to me. imagine making an entire thread on why a TW that has become normalized doesn’t benefit you and thus should not be norm. i don’t freak out when i see things i don’t require to be TW’ed with one. my reaction is not

to insist that it should no longer be the borm because if i don’t need something trigger warned, i will just continue scrolling! but for the people who do benefit from that warning, you are ACTIVELY taking that away from them. for what reason? i feel like in general, we should

opt for doing the thing that does not inconvenience anyone and directly benefits the people who need it most. instead of catering to the group of people who don’t require a warning, and going out of your way to harm the people who do