“Curate your own experience…”
… Really? How can I, if ya’ll don’t put trigger warnings on your sexually violent content?
I’ll be going on hiatus for awhile.
Coming on this site has started to feel more like sticking my hand into a bucket of barbed wire than a fun time. Curating your experience is impossible when dark content is posted without trigger warnings. It makes protecting your mental health impossible. A content warning the least you can do to avoid dragging up trauma for your followers. Yet, some blogs are so causal about their content - even though it’s extremely disturbing - that they don’t label it. I can understand that to them it’s normal. But to some of us, it’s disturbing and harmful. No one else is going to look out for my mental health for me, so I’m going to take responsibility for what I can control (my experience) and take a much needed break from Tumblr. Indefinitely.
This hiatus is because I need to take a step back, and re-evaluate my relationship with this website, it’s content, and it’s creators. I’m beginning to recognize that it might not be the best idea for me to continue on here, given what I’m exposing myself to.