Trigger Warnings: A Tale of Two Communities

Anne Marble
5 min readSep 2, 2023

Many in the horror community despise the very concept of trigger warnings. Yet fans and readers in the dark romance subgenre thrive on using trigger warnings.

Rows and rows of yellow CAUTION tape wrapped around and around. “CAUTION” takes up most of the foreground, and the tape (some of it seen from reverse) is visible throughout the background.
(Source: Photo by Jessica Tan on Unsplash.)

Trigger Warning: This article discusses trigger warnings. Some people are triggered by that.

Trigger Warnings in the Horror Community

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Anne Marble

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