Trigger Warning or Content Warning or Mature Genre?

[Eldoria]

Trigger Warning or Content Warning or Mature Genre?​

Especially for heavy, sensitive, and mature content, which marker do you use to warn potential readers before reading your fiction?

For example:

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Drama, Mature

Trigger Warning:
Contains graphic violence, emotional trauma, child abuse (implied), execution scenes, and dark psychological themes. May include offscreen references to sexual violence. It contains no fanservice, ecchi, light romance, or harem. Not suitable for sensitive readers.

Content Warning:

• Gore
• Strong Language

My question is, do you have all three warning signs or just one or two?

 

[Snake99]

Do you really need a warning label if the most intense scenes are only implied or off-screen?

 

[Eldoria]

Do you really need a warning label if the most intense scenes are only implied or off-screen?

Yes, maybe I am too honest with my content.

 

[Kitsuna]

I put everything and call it a day. I doubt most readers even look at it lol

 

[NapLovingImmortal]

Uh. The Mature tag should be enough tbh. Maybe put a small warning in your blurb.

 

[Kurayami]

Tags and content warning should be enough. I personally dislike when people put a warning in the chapter name or at the start of the chapter. If I didn't want to read something with sexual content or gore, then I would not have opened the novel with those warnings.

If you open a novel without reading warnings or tags, that's on you.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

I experienced my first overly dramatic, wizard story time-esque, chapter 0 content warning manifesto.

Just simple tags will be enough.

 

[VanVeleca]

I use the content warning and some tags~ Just enough to warn anyone more soft boiled without spoiling the mysteries of NeaNight

 

[Anonjohn20]

Trigger Warning or Content Warning or Mature Genre?​

Especially for heavy, sensitive, and mature content, which marker do you use to warn potential readers before reading your fiction?

For example:

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Drama, Mature

Trigger Warning:
Contains graphic violence, emotional trauma, child abuse (implied), execution scenes, and dark psychological themes. May include offscreen references to sexual violence. It contains no fanservice, ecchi, light romance, or harem. Not suitable for sensitive readers.

Content Warning

• Gore
• Strong Language

My question is, do you have all three warning signs or just one or two?

Basically all of these are for the benefit of the reader. The genre is so that readers who want to see stories like yours have an easier time finding it (very beneficial to have those). Content warnings are so that the reader is aware that the story might have things they don't like (a story should be honest with those). Lastly, trigger warnings are for authors who want to go the extra mile to warn their audiences (not necessary, but I suppose if anyone is the type to get triggered, then they'll appreciate it).

 

[Terrate]

If you put trigger warnings, even if they expect that "something" will happen, they still won't be prepared to read through it. So I find trigger warnings extra redundant, especially when it has mature themes already on the tags and the content warning... like, why are you here? You clicked on something that has a proper gore or sa tag, and now you're crying because it hurt your feelings?

 

[MFontana]

Trigger Warning or Content Warning or Mature Genre?​

Especially for heavy, sensitive, and mature content, which marker do you use to warn potential readers before reading your fiction?

For example:

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Drama, Mature

Trigger Warning:
Contains graphic violence, emotional trauma, child abuse (implied), execution scenes, and dark psychological themes. May include offscreen references to sexual violence. It contains no fanservice, ecchi, light romance, or harem. Not suitable for sensitive readers.

Content Warning

• Gore
• Strong Language

My question is, do you have all three warning signs or just one or two?

The only warnings you'll ever find on any of my works are those necessary for website rules and legal compliance.
I'm firmly of the belief that it is the responsibility of the consumer to self-moderate their own "triggers", and not the responsibility of any creator to give tailored warnings, especially those that might spoil plot and narrative twists or character development by lessening the intended impact of emotionally charged or otherwise 'sensitive' scenes.

These are my own personal feelings and beliefs however, and nothing more. If you feel the same, great. If you don't, also great. Do what works for you in your own works. Just don't expect me to change my approach or beliefs just because you disagree or think I should.

Genre is necessary for posting and literary classification of the creative work.
Content Warnings are, to the best of my knowledge, required for any works containing the relevant content in accordance with the site's hosting rules, and most will be on by default for any of my works since none of them are written for children or young adults.
R-18 content warnings are required by law especially when the hosting service allows minors and adults access.
Trigger Warnings however, you'll never see anywhere near any of my works, and that's never going to change.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Nah. They got to rawdog it.

 

[pangmida]

I use all three, to be honest. Mature tag and content warnings are great in my opinion to set the general tone. But if I were to have any scenes that could potentially be triggering, such as domestic abuse or worse, then in the beginning of that chapter I would write “Content Warning” in bold, then put the warning such as “domestic abuse” in spoiler.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Trigger Warnings trigger me so never see use. The rest I use when I feel it is appropriate.

 

[c37]

Trigger Warning or Content Warning or Mature Genre?​

Especially for heavy, sensitive, and mature content, which marker do you use to warn potential readers before reading your fiction?

For example:

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Drama, Mature

Trigger Warning:
Contains graphic violence, emotional trauma, child abuse (implied), execution scenes, and dark psychological themes. May include offscreen references to sexual violence. It contains no fanservice, ecchi, light romance, or harem. Not suitable for sensitive readers.

Content Warning:

• Gore
• Strong Language

My question is, do you have all three warning signs or just one or two?

Two actually, one in description and the other in tags.

 

[Little-Moon]

I put in the Content warnings and add Trigger warnings at the top of specific chaperts in question.

I figured at some point that might be a good way to go about because people who are actually uncomfy with the content know which specific chapters to jump and still can read the story if they want to.
Worked surprisingly well so far for me.