Probably inspired by online support group norms, ASD and ASAR also build a culture of trigger warnings, which require warning for intense material, and “splats,” the censoring of words that might be triggering. (In the course of my researches for this essay, I found everything from “rape” to “trauma” to “parents” disemvoweled—written as “p*r*nts” or “tr**m*.”) One rando on Fanlore describes the atmosphere as “constant lengthy discussions, often involving vituperative language, refractive accusations and dogpiling, about who had triggered whom and which members were ‘unsafe’” (Unknown, n.d., paragraph 8).
Some multis get so sick of these endless trigger fights and smothering “safe space” debates that they leave and create their own groups.
Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Have you seen how most plural Discord servers are set up nowadays?
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Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Have you seen how most plural Discord servers are set up nowadays?