• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    331·
    16 hours ago

    Do you think that they think every other creature has a fucked up looking face, or do they have no idea they look the way they do? Every other time they meet another sand boa are they like “Jesus Christ, what happened to him??”

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    813·
    11 hours ago

    Please, please use a spoiler tag or cw for close-up pictures of snakes. A lot of people suffer from ophidiophobia and this is a big jump scare. Thank you for understanding!

    E: That includes me. I had to cover up the post to reply–it’s that bad. I’m neither mentally prepared or wealthy enough to go to therapy. Not sure why the downvotes for advocating for some sympathy.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
      141·
      10 hours ago

      I appreciate what you’re saying, and did not downvote you. I think you may be underestimating how many phobias exist in the world, though. It may benefit you to have an app that filters images on your device. I’m pretty sure that exists. Everyone trying to add spoiler tags or whatever to every image that might trigger a common phobia would hide more images than you might think.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        8 hours ago

        Why is it all-or-nothing? If it was a partial image I’d understand but the image blatantly spans the entire screen on both mobile and web. this is far from every other common phobia depicted as an image and quite a common one at that.

        • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          It’s an all or nothing unless you want to be the ruler who decides whose phobia is common or sever enough to justify a content warning.

          Sorry, Jane Doe, but your xanthophobia just isn’t common enough to warrant a content warning.

          I don’t mean to demean you, but saying that your particular phobia is bad enough to warrant a cw, but then saying that someone else’s isn’t, comes off as quite a poor take.