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Arduinna ([personal profile] arduinna) wrote2010-07-05 01:20 am
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on warning at Vividcon

So, like many people on all sides of this issue, I've been frustrated by the recent discussion on warnings at Vividcon. Part of it for me is because I look at the list of things people want specific trigger warnings for, and I think about Premieres, and all I can think is: "warn for ALL the vids?"

I keep seeing what seem to me to be assumptions that of course many (or at least several) vids will be marked "no warnings apply," while some vids will have specific warnings and some will have "choose not to warn," and the end result will be that people with triggers will be able to enjoy a large portion of the show. And that just doesn't match my memory of what Premieres is like.

So I popped in my VVC 2009 DVDs today, and got out a notebook. I put columns for everything asked for in [personal profile] thuviaptarth's post on the subject, which seems to be the baseline people are now talking about.

This is the relevant part of her post, with the specific triggers she wants people to warn for:


  • Choose not to warn
  • Common PTSD triggers

    • Explicit violence (assault, self-harm, suicide, gore, explicit medical procedures)
    • Sexual violence (rape, sexual assault, noncon, dubcon)
    • Sounds of gunshots

  • Common physical triggers for migraine or epilepsy

    • Bright flash
    • Strobe lighting
    • Quick flashing microcuts
    • First-person "shaky" cam
    • Abrupt changes in sound volume

  • No warnings apply



I checked off each PTSD and physical trigger for each vid as I watched the Premieres show, so I could get a feel for what sort of things actually show up, and just how safe the show could be if properly warned for.

There were 38 vids in the Premieres show, including the intro vid. (This is purely a collation of numbers; I'm not naming any vids.)


Vids with PTSD triggers

  • Explicit violence: 30 vids

  • Sexual violence: 4 vids

  • Sounds of gunshot: 0



Vids with physical triggers

  • Bright flash: 32 vids

  • Strobe lighting: 27 vids

  • Quick flashing microcuts: 20 vids

  • First-person "shaky" cam: 5 vids (but see caveat below)

  • Abrupt changes in sound volume: 28 vids



Vids with no triggers

  • No warnings apply: 1 vid.





The breakdown

  • 1 vid had no triggers at all that I could see or hear

  • 37 vids had triggers, of which:

    • 30 vids had PTSD triggers, of which:

      • 1 vid had only PTSD triggers

    • 36 vids had physical triggers, of which:

      • 7 vids had only physical triggers

    • 29 vids had both PTSD and physical triggers

  • 146 total trigger warnings on 38 total vids




So here are the caveats:

This is my personal take these vids. I don't have any of those triggers, so some things probably slipped right past me, particularly things like fast cuts (I honestly don't know how fast "quick flashing microcuts" need to be to count, here, and cutting in general gets faster every year).

Someone else going through and doing this will come up with different numbers, because different people judge things differently.

"Shaky cam" is under-represented in my numbers, I believe, because there was very little actual source shaky cam like someone running, and I was going with that as my baseline as that seems to be what's being asked for in the above list.

But there were several vids where it looked like the vidder shook the footage in an effect that I wasn't sure should count, so I didn't. There were also several vids where the vidder accidentally exported the file with the wrong field order, so some or all of the vid was jerky. So while technically I think I reported an accurate number of source-shaky-cam, or vidder-shaky-cam if it looked sufficiently like that type of shaky cam, assume anywhere from 5-10 more vids that include jerky footage that could be similarly triggery.

For "strobe lighting", I may have counted things other people wouldn't, as it's my understanding that the sort of strobes that affect people can vary wildly (color, intensity, speed, etc.), and I wanted to cover as wide a field as possible. For what it's worth, in most vids, any strobey light is of very short duration, a few seconds at most.

"Abrupt changes in sound volume" was really dicey, because the sound volume changes throughout Premieres; each vid has its own volume, and there's silence between each vid on the DVD, but during the con the audience applauds at varying intensity and for varying durations. If a given vid has a lower gain than the surrounding vids, the VJ generally tries to increase it once the vid starts so as to even things out, but that means that there's an abrupt change within that vid even if the song itself stays relatively even.

Anyone attending with audio-change issues should be aware that really, the sound levels go up and down all night, and there's almost always a brief silence before a vid starts; sometimes a song fades up slowly, but it's equally likely to come in very abruptly, very loudly.

For the sake of this, I went with what a vidder would be able to warn for, and assumed the switch from silence to sound at the opening to a vid didn't count, even if the credits were over silence so the audience would also be silent; nor the switch from sound to silence at the end of a vid, likewise even if it included credits that the audience would be quiet for. If those things count, basically every single vid is affected.


This vidshow felt like a standard VVC Premieres vidshow to me -- not overly bright or flashy (in fact a little less flashy than some years), not overly violent (again, less violent than some years).

The weighting also feels accurate/standard to me according to past Vividcons.

On the PTSD side, there's generally a lot of violence, but fighting and such is much more common than rape or noncon, and I don't think I've ever heard a gunshot in a vid (doesn't mean there hasn't been one, but usually the audio is a musical source) (ETA per this comment ETA 2 per this thread) gunshots are vanishingly rare, with possibly only one two vids in eight years having one.

On the physical trigger side, vids are made with lots of flashing/flickering lights and fast cuts (faster every year), and lots of vidders want a song that has audio "motion" to it, which often means changing audio levels. I'm really not surprised that only 2 vids out of all 38 had no physical triggers, given the nature of vids.

I was going to wrap up with a comment about my own take on all of this, and my take on warnings on vids, but I think I'll leave it at this. I think this is information that a lot of people are lacking, and that might help. So here it is.

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[personal profile] par_avion 2010-07-05 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I've ever heard a gunshot in a vid

Flying Home.

But it's very rare, I can't think of another.
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[personal profile] deathisyourart 2010-07-06 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
There is also Haldyon_shift's "Natural Blues" which showed at VVC in 2008.
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[personal profile] klia 2010-07-05 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for doing that. The results don't surprise me, frankly.

Btw, here we go again over on [personal profile] astolat's latest post: ...I find it basically impossible to not read that as, "we have weighed it up, and we've decided vidder egos are more important than the accessibility needs of people with disabilities."

So, yep, no warnings = insensitive asshole.
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[personal profile] dragovianknight 2010-07-05 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it always comes back to that in every warning debate.
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[personal profile] anatsuno 2010-07-05 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I've also already seen a lot of pro-warnings = politically correct whiners and/or childish pwds with no sense of personal responsibility - it seems to me there are idiots prone to make offensive statements on every possible 'side', wouldn't you say?

Arduinna, this is a very interesting post, thank you.
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[personal profile] klia 2010-07-05 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The comment was addressed to [personal profile] arduinna specifically because of comments elsewhere basically saying because the commenters hadn't seen this attitude expressed anywhere themselves, Arduinna and I were more or less making it up.
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[personal profile] anatsuno 2010-07-05 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, sorry about that then. I find it odd people would assume these nasty things /have not/ been said - there's always nastiness at some point, sadly.
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[personal profile] zvi 2010-07-05 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but, when people say an effect of an official warning schema is that people who label their work Choose Not To Warn will be derided as bad people, people who are pro-warnings say, "That is ridiculous. That's not what people would think." So, I think it's important to acknowledge that, no, that is an actual effect that actually happens.
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[personal profile] anatsuno 2010-07-05 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods*

It saddens me that it does happen, because I am *completely* in love with 'Choose not to warn' myself, and it has freed me from all warnings-related anxiety (which I used to have a lot of, because I worried I would never do it well enough). I wish people - of all sides and all tripes - would embrace it. :/
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[personal profile] saraht 2010-07-05 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
In fact, I got accused of "showing my ass" merely for pointing out, deep in a comment thread, that it did happen over on the fanfic side. That was, apparently, "making it all about me."
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[personal profile] zvi 2010-07-06 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
*nods* I am increasingly frustrated by the insistence that the changes are zero cost/zero consequences. I mean, maybe we as a community will decide that the costs are, in fact, worth ostracizing the people who don't follow the new norms, or that we like the people who benefit from the new norms better than the people who lose something under them, but we can't make an informed collective decision if pointing out the costs is derided as immoral.
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[personal profile] saraht 2010-07-06 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Or even that it's fair to impose these costs on the community in the service of [x] goal, which is a choice that, for instance, American society has made with respect to disability and accessibility in some instances. That's a discussion that can be had. People can legitimately disagree. But I was startled to learn that I couldn't even *mention* something that was indubitably true *and* directly relevant because it had something to do with me. Well, I vid on occasion, I've shown a vid at VVC, and I'm willing to talk about whether the benefits are worth the costs to me, or people like me, but I'm not going to pretend that the costs just do not exist.

Oh, well, people have said nasty and stupid things on both sides.
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[personal profile] klia 2010-07-06 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Just... wow.

It's been really disconcerting to grasp just how many fans feel that anyone with a differing/contrary opinion or beliefs is a bad person/stupid/insensitive/selfish, or flat-out doesn't know what they're talking about.
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[personal profile] klia 2010-07-06 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! I'm seeing a staggering amount of intolerance and disrespect of others' rights to their own opinions.
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[personal profile] seperis 2010-07-06 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
They're saying that now.

Link.

I mean, when the argument seems to be set at if you don't warn you are directly responsible for someone's mental health, that's not a subtle way to say everyone who doesn't warn are bad people.
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[personal profile] klia 2010-07-06 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
And once again, the poster is assuming anyone with an opposing viewpoint is able-bodied, and that's just not the case. Disabled individuals have been making that point all over these discussions, and clearly it's still being ignored.
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[personal profile] klia 2010-07-06 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, excellent. *headdesk*

I stand by the comment where I said this is a lose-lose situation for vidders: you either warn or you're vilified. And that's not a real choice unless you enjoy seeing your name cursed all over fandom.
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Via the network

[personal profile] rydra_wong 2010-07-06 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
Well, no.

The post you're linking to is not in response to or about people who use "Choose not to warn" (which is, itself, a warning); it's in response to the proposal in [personal profile] astolat's journal that vidders should be able to censor and control how other people warn about their vids.

(See the thread [personal profile] lightgetsin links to here.)

So that, as I understand it, if a vidder didn't want any warnings on their vids, a VJ using one of their vids in a show would not be able to make a note saying "There is sexual violence in this show."

That's not about an individual's right to use "Choose not to warn"; that's about a whole lot of other things, including giving vidders the right to gag other people.
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Re: Via the network

[personal profile] seperis 2010-07-06 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
I read the original argument in context of [personal profile] astolat's post as well as [personal profile] therienne's response.

Specifically, this referred to the VJ, which I noted my objections of here. Short version: VJs as volunteers are extensions of the concomm and shouldn't, but private individuals can.

My specific objection starts with this phrase:
Which leads to the actual problem, which is that I find it basically impossible to not read that as, "we have weighed it up, and we've decided vidder egos are more important than the accessibility needs of people with disabilities."


It's becoming more prevalent to characterize anyone who isn't into warnings negatively--not as a difference of opinion, not even as just thoughtless, but in a way that casts them as bad people and the act of not warning in itself is an act of harm. The argument is being set that if you do not like warnings/do not want warnings/whatever == egotistical, mean, bad, viddres who do not warn are slurred, or in teh case of one entry Integriteee as Arteeests is used pejoratively. I can get more examples if necessary if I can run them down; that's how I ended up reading an accessibility discussion that spoke disparagingly of non-breastfeeders in the middle for no particular reason.

I say this as someone who argued for warnings in the last debate, who loves warnings, and changed my entire policy on warnings as a result of those discussions, it's one thing to disagree strenuously, but it's another when the argument becomes good people versus bad people. It's like that thread about breastfeeding; choice isn't a dirty word.
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Re: Via the network

[personal profile] klia 2010-07-06 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It's becoming more prevalent to characterize anyone who isn't into warnings negatively--not as a difference of opinion, not even as just thoughtless, but in a way that casts them as bad people and the act of not warning in itself is an act of harm. The argument is being set that if you do not like warnings/do not want warnings/whatever == egotistical, mean, bad, viddres who do not warn are slurred, or in teh case of one entry Integriteee as Arteeests is used pejoratively.

Yes. Thank you. This is exactly what I'm finding incredibly disturbing and distressing. So many discussions have devolved into being only tangentially about the actual issues, and way more about individuals taking the opportunity to finger-point, judge, shame, and vilify anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint.
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Re: Via the network

[personal profile] zvi 2010-07-06 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
So that, as I understand it, if a vidder didn't want any warnings on their vids, a VJ using one of their vids in a show would not be able to make a note saying "There is sexual violence in this show." You misunderstood. The intention was not to prevent a VJ from saying "There is sexual violence in this show" but to prevent them from saying, as a public statement as part of their VJ'ing, i.e. in their official capacity, that particular vids are whatever, if the vidder has chosen to present their vid as choose not to warn.
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[personal profile] morgandawn 2010-07-05 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I like this. Context! Real life examples. Something we can use to frame discussion. Thank you.
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[personal profile] ratcreature 2010-07-05 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
This is interesting. I watch so few vids that I have no representative ideas about them, but I'm surprised that so many have extreme violence in them. I mean, I assumer "extreme" means worse than PG violence? (which I think of as the regular action movie kind)
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[personal profile] melina 2010-07-05 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The original list Arduinna posted says "explicit" violence, which to me means any violence actually seen on screen (as opposed to violence which you infer from context but isn't seen). That would include PG-13 movie violence, such as Star Trek 2009 and Lord of the Rings-type fighting, since it includes "assault." Whacking someone with a sword or hitting them in the face, even if there's no blood, fits in this definition.

From my memory, the number of vids with "extreme" violence is fairly low.
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[personal profile] ratcreature 2010-07-05 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah yeah. I have somehow while reading smushed the "explicit" together with the examples in the brackets there to illustrate i.e. "assault, self-harm, suicide, gore, explicit medical procedures" and read something different than the letter. (Bad brain, no cookie. *g*)

I guess the level of violence one considers noteworthy varies a lot. I still remember my o_O reaction when I read a US comic book once (no mature or adult label), which had a half panel with someone sitting on a pile of naked tortured female corpses which prudishly had the nipples edited out, which frankly I found the most disturbing in the whole image, that there were these naked dead women and all had fake looking breasts.
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[personal profile] ratcreature 2010-07-06 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
It was actually quite a good comic iirc (it's been a while I think it came out in 2003). Arrowsmith by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco, and was a WWI alt history with dragons and magic being real. And the piles of dead made sense from what I recall in the context of war and dark sorcery. Just bizarro breasts did not.
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[personal profile] princessofgeeks 2010-07-06 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
this was exactly the question I wanted to ask: how did you categorize the violence? and how does that fit in with commonly known triggers.

thank you for exploring this.
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[personal profile] eatsscissors 2010-07-05 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a very interesting post, thank you for making it. It seems, based upon this breakdown, that the best that the VVC mods could do would be to put forward a blanket "Choose Not to Warn" policy over the entire con (EDIT: unless of course, the author hirself chose to get more specific, though I do not know what kind of practical difference that would make), which wouldn't be terribly helpful to those who had only one or two of the triggers on the list*.

*Several things directed not at OP but because increasingly an explication upon one's background and privilege is necessary in fannish debates: no, I'm neither a vidder nor an attendee, so I don't have an actual dog in this fight and have been mostly watching and reading a lot; yes, I do have emotional triggers, specifically towards gunshots and/or military violence, but no physical trigger issues.
Edited 2010-07-05 21:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] norabombay 2010-07-05 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Which was basically the entire situation in the first place. Choose not to warn unless there is a request for specifics, or the vidder chose.

Arduinna, thank you for putting this together.
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[personal profile] eatsscissors 2010-07-05 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the background; I've been viewing this debate from askance over the past few days, but have been mostly piecing it together through rlist or flists, but have been having some difficulty tracing it down to the starting point, let alone to the places at which it has started to diverge.
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[personal profile] dragovianknight 2010-07-06 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
This trend also makes me sad. We shouldn't need to produce credentials to have an opinion, dammit.

Some people apparently see it as a feature, not a bug.
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[personal profile] tieleen 2010-07-06 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, sometimes circumstances are context for the opinion. A person who's X knowns more than a person who's personally familiar with X knows more than a person who's read up on it knows more than a person who never thought of it before -- and yes, none of that is absolute, sometimes you can be entirely clueless about an issue that has everything to do with you, but generally it works.

I definitely reserve the right to think, at the end of the day, that another person is wrong, no matter what their knowledge/experience/involvement are. But if it's someone who has those things, I'll be much more suspicious of my opinion and much more careful when I make it, and much more likely to leave a window in my mind titled 'still possible that I just don't get it'.

I don't think credentials is an appropriate word here, but honestly, in some ways it's right. My opinion is not always as good as anybody's. I'm not always well enough informed. I haven't always considered things long enough to process more facts and let it sit and fine-tune my opinions. And sometimes how it actually feels to be something/live with something/etc really is a crucial factor.

Again: that doesn't mean those who have those information/experiences are always right. But yes, it's absolutely relevant information.
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[personal profile] eatsscissors 2010-07-09 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
On the first point...yeah, I haven't argued the physical accessibility aspect of the con (haven't been there, am not a vidder, mostly view vids as being fun visual talky noise, so I don't think that I need to be there when I can catch them a bit later) and am willing to bow to thems who have and who know, but the warnings debate...there is a real divide between what is physically possible for a small con as opposed to what's possible when we're on our journals and constrained by our brains and various typing devices, that I do not think is being addressed. The physical demands can probably be met (with notice). The warnings issues is a million times more subjective. EDIT: I really hate editing comments except for hardline fail, but the parenthetical came out much more victim-blamey than was my intent when I stepped back, so: I own my shit. I do not expect anyone else to own my shit, and allowing that my shit is much more unpredictable than most. (Dude, I am so sorry that i am dumping this into your inbox.)

On the second point: blergh, it took an anonymous meme to make me do it, but I'm officially at the point of fuck that noise and I don't care who hears me.
Edited 2010-07-09 02:11 (UTC)
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[personal profile] seperis 2010-07-05 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for this post. I like having concretes as well as abstracts to work with.
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[personal profile] lazulisong 2010-07-06 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
...I guess I'm mostly sitting here boggling at the thought that someone who has problems with flashy lights and noise choosing to take part in the section of fandom that specializes in them. I mean. That's just not common sense, dudes.

(My twin sister has epilepsy btw.)
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[personal profile] ariadne83 2010-07-06 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
As arduinna pointed out, the level at which people are affected varies immensely based on color/intensity/speed etc, not to mention how the person is feeling on any given day.

Like me, for example: I get severe headaches from blue-spectrum lights, so while there are a wide range of vids I can watch and enjoy I would think twice about watching a vid if it had a warning for strobe lighting.

And if I'm tired already, watching shaky cam makes me nauseous. It depends on what I've been doing that day, physically and socially. If I were already feeling worn out and the vid had a warning for shaky cam I'd probably choose to come back and watch it another day.

As for the label "chooses not to warn" sometimes I'd take the chance and watch anyway, but sometimes I wouldn't. It varies depending on how I'm feeling and whether I think I have the spoons to handle it.

So yeah, I take part in vidding (as an enthusiastic audience) because I love it as a form of expression, even though sometimes I have to be careful.
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[personal profile] heresluck 2010-07-06 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
This was fascinating to read, and also made me think about my own Premieres vid from last year. Had I been asked to label it, I would blithely have said "no warnings," because, hi, mellow vid about Shakespeare (and not even Titus Andronicus). But when I rewatched, there were those bright flashy lights! And this speaks to your point in the follow-up post, I think: vidders are not necessarily going to be reliable judges of our own work.

So now I'm wondering about my premieres vid for this year. Football tackle: explicit violence, definitely, but does it count as assault? In the context of the source, it doesn't; it's part of the game. In the context of the vid and the vidshow, I find that I no longer have any idea.
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[personal profile] morgandawn 2010-07-06 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
not to be flippant, but after reading this I feel like we need a warning on the warnings: Warning, YMMV. Or: Warning: (FP)TMDCT(FP) (Flips Page) The Manual Didn't Cover This (Flips Page).

The next logical step (and one I am *not* advocating no sireee, not me) is create a fan board that reviews fanworks to come up with warnings standards which they then apply. Only way to get reliable and consistent results.

Or we can keep doing what we're doing which is discussing & pondering and basically muddling about with the hope that our best efforts are going to be allowed to be good enough.

[personal profile] owlrigh 2010-07-06 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for going through last year's vids with an eye for warning and checking them off; this is a very valuable post. As [personal profile] heresluck says, vidders are probably not going to be the best judges of their own work, should they be inclined to warn. A measure of personal responsibility should come into play, if one *is* triggered by things in vids, because even if say, [personal profile] heresluck didn't think her Shakespeare vid was triggering, and so there was no label, but it had to potential to...and someone was? That raises the possibility of lots of other vids out there which might have the same problem.

Now that I think on it: have there been cases of people who've been triggered--not disturbed or hurt, but actually triggered, in a PTSD or physical sort of way? Or has this discussion been theoretical so far?
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[personal profile] zvi 2010-07-06 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Celli was. Her cut tag on that reads triggery for sexual assault and PTSD; please read with care, I am linking uncut.

[personal profile] owlrigh 2010-07-06 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for this--I was very much wondering. Off to read.
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[personal profile] zvi 2010-07-06 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.
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[personal profile] zvi 2010-07-06 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.
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[personal profile] wickedwords 2010-07-06 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The year that Ian showed his tribute to sexploitation movies, one woman was triggered and ended up crying in the onions and roses panel ant the end of the con. I remember that one pretty vividly. Sweetestdrains Dexter vid plus lum's women's work plus other violence against women vids all in the premier show ate my soul one year, but I wasn't trigger past nadeau and anxiety myself.
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[personal profile] sisabet 2010-07-07 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, please don't erase me - it is Lum's and sisabet's Women's Work. :)

And fwiw, if we are remembering the same crying woman -- I am fairly certain she had seen Ian's vid before the con. Not to say that no one was triggered or she wasn't triggered, just I don't know any way that person could have been protected from the vids since she had to watch almost all of them.
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[personal profile] wickedwords 2010-07-07 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry! My bad. I was replying on an iphone, and I spaced.

Yeah, we are remembering the same person and yes, she did have to see all of them at the time. I have no idea how to have handled that situation, but people were asking 'has anyone every been triggered?' and I can look at that episode and from her reaction say 'probably yes.'

Actually, I am kind of caught up in this whole 'okay, if we have have accepted that for some valid reasons, not every viewer is gonna want to watch every vid in a show, how do we make it practical for people to not watch in the premiere vid show?' Since one of the big things at VVC is for watchers to not disturb the viewings of others, are we gonna have to put everyone who thinks they might have an issue with a vid in the overflow room? What's the logistics of that?
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[personal profile] the_shoshanna 2010-07-08 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
how do we make it practical for people to not watch in the premiere vid show?

Well, if we're talking about specifically watching, avoiding visual stimuli rather than auditory, we give people a chance to shut their eyes. People have been doing that for years. Obviously that doesn't address questions of sound, but it's easy not to watch any vid in any show, so long as the viewer has enough warning to close her/his eyes before being triggered.

ETA: It's been pointed out to me that just "shut your eyes" is an insensitive response, and I want to apologize and clarify; I really did mean "so long as the viewer has enough warning to close her/his eyes." If someone is triggered by certain kinds of imagery, and knows that the third vid in X show will contain that imagery, then I believe they do have enough warning to close their eyes after the second vid ends and avoid seeing that imagery and that vid, without needing to leave the room. As I said, this does not work if the trigger is sound rather than imagery or if the viewer doesn't have enough warning.

Or am I missing something? Is there some way in which knowing ahead of time that the third vid contains a triggery image would not be enough warning, or that closing one's eyes would not be enough to avoid the imagery? Seriously and not at all sarcastically, if there's something I'm not getting, I'd like to learn it.
Edited 2010-07-08 11:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] elucidate_this 2010-07-06 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for posting this. I appreciate the concrete breakdown in what has so far been a very abstract discussion.
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[personal profile] hellpenguin 2010-07-08 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Because I am avidly curious, what triggers did my vid require? (Cassandra, the messed up version)

I'm guessing strobe lighting because I had chosen a filter that had a slight light flicker.