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Trigger Grumps

A place to screen Game Grumps episodes for each other to make the fandom experience more pleasant and accessible for everyone.

Run by Mod D/Dalad, Mod F/Fern, Mod L/Lorelei, and Mod R/Raz.

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Anonymous asked: thanks so much for everything you guys do!! i know you help out a lot of people in the fandom and it's really really important and wonderful and i love you guys

that’s ok chum! we want to make the grump experience accessible to all :)

- Mod F

Anonymous asked: in context, who is "insane" meant to offend when Arin says it? the virtual gingerbread house in katamari damacy?

the word doesn’t have to be targeted at anyone. the word “insane” is ableist regardless of how it is being used.

- Mod F

Anonymous asked: Please explain to us how triggers work.

sigh.

a trigger is something that elicits a negative response in someone usually as a result of something that has happened before. if someone has an eating disorder, it is likely they will be triggered by certain things to do with food. THIS DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE THEM COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF LEAVING THE HOUSE BECAUSE FOOD IS EVERYWHERE.

- Mod F

Anonymous asked: okay, 'gay' isn't a slur. let me give a better example: is "let's smoke a fag" homophobic although 'fag' is used to mean 'cigarette'?

"fag" in that context, isn’t offensive. it’s being used as slang to describe something else. the word "insane" is SPECIFICALLY ableist. 

- Mod F

Anonymous asked: This blog is shit, because you're hurting the people that these warnings are attempting to help. You're making them as sheltered and weak as they can possibly be by giving them warnings on everything from food to parents. They won't be able to handle walking outside and seeing someone with a breakfast burrito or a kid with his parents if they continue to stay as sheltered as you're making them. Eliminating all discomfort will only hurt people when inevitable bad moments happen in their lives.

i don’t think you understand how triggers work.

- Mod F

Anonymous asked: That's fair. You're doing what you can without crossing a certain line, I can appreciate the foresight. But man.... what a time we live in.

- Mod F

Anonymous asked: wouldn't "insane" only be ableist when used to describe a person, and not when using the word in its evolved meaning of 'sick'/'gnarly'/etc to describe a SITUATION? that's like giving a homophobic trigger warning for "deck the halls" for using the word 'gay' when it means 'fun' in that song.

except “gay” isn’t a slur? the word gay is used to describe a homosexual person. “insane” is SPECIFICALLY an offensive word.

- Mod F

I also want to add that gay also is an adjective. That’s what it was before used to describe a homosexual person. Insane has always been an offensive word, not something that has developed into a “bad” word over time.

-Mod L

freezeflare asked: How best would you try to explain this blog to the Reddit people? I don't think they're bad people or anything, I just think maybe they don't quite understand why you're doing this blog or why certain triggers need to be tagged.

triggergrumps is a blog that people who are triggered by certain things can visit to find out if they should watch out for anything that may trigger them in certain episodes they want to watch. obviously, this blog is very new, so we have a lot of gaps, but eventually we hope to have a complete archive of episodes with an easy-to-use search system, so lovelies can watch a let’s play of their favourite game safely and with reduced likeliness of being triggered.

- Mod F

Anonymous asked: In response, Mod F, do you guys give or suggest resources for those kinds of people to get help? If you can't listen to a conversation that food comes up in, that is a serious problem. I'm not shaming those people or hating on them, I am concerned to hear that people can't handle topics of such common things, especially a substance that sustains life. I really hope those people find some help, because my heart breaks to learn about that specific of a trigger.

we don’t offer resources for people because i don’t want to suggest that people with triggers need to be “fixed” and, chances are, if they want to get rid of their trigger, they are finding resources to help themselves. i appreciate your concern, but i don’t want to force help upon people who don’t need or don’t want it. 

- Mod F

Anonymous asked: honestly curious: how is "around 2:55, Arin describes the rolling up of the gingerbread house as 'fricking insanity'" ableist?

yes, “insane” is an ableist slur.