EponymousBosh

Cognitive behavioral therapy/dialectical behavioral therapy are not the universal cure for everything and they need to stop being treated as such

OK but the point of ChubbyEmu videos isn't "this thing is GOING TO KILL YOU," it's "look at this weird thing that happened and the toxicology behind it,." In fact, he goes out of his way to reassure people that these things aren't likely to happen in the videos where viewers might get anxious, like the cases involving leftovers. There's been a couple videos where he's straight-up said "this was a freak accident."

More generally, the fact that the events aren't likely is part of what can make case studies valuable; i.e. "this sequence of events is highly unlikely to happen again in this specific way, so let's examine it closely and see what we can learn from it."

Where Is Bed

Just to head this off at the pass, because someone is bound to bring up exposure therapy: hi, hello, I am someone who has been through exposure therapy (technically Exposure/Response Prevention, or ERP). Yes, it is broadly speaking true that avoiding triggers increases anxiety in the long run. However, one thing that was stressed to me over and over in ERP is that exposures have to be VOLUNTARY to be beneficial. Meaning, just hucking a tarantula at someone with arachnophobia is going to do far more harm than good. Likewise showing them a bunch of pictures of spiders with no warning. However, putting a content warning puts the decision to engage back into the hands of the person with the phobia (or trauma, eating disorder, etc), which effectively turns it into a voluntary exposure should they choose to engage.

Content/trigger warnings are not about "being shielded from hardship;" they're about not springing trauma triggers or upsetting shit on unsuspecting people (or not causing actual physical harm to people, in the case of epilepsy warnings).

Like, OK, cool, you read Mein Kampf. I don't think that's a bad thing to do, for the reasons you did it. But you did that freely and knowing what you were getting into ("by Adolf Hitler" serves as an implicit content warning IMO). Suppose you were a Jewish student and your history teacher sprung a reading from Mein Kampf in the middle of a lesson with no warning. Or hell, just imagine having "Old Yeller" sprung on you the day after your dog died. I don't think it's babying anyone to warn them about something that could ruin their day.

Gormenghast. I got about 100 pages in, bored off my ass, saw that I still had like 1000 more pages to go, and was just like "...nah, I'm good."

Cooking With Jack just hasn't been the same since he had his third stroke

I was hoping it was someone doing a bit and the link would be a Rickroll, but alas...

This is just the Minecraft coordinates system and it sucks. "OK I'm at the coords, where's the--oh fuck, it was -3002, 108 not 3002, 108."

(Flashing imagery warning for the links in this post!)

Recently I've been into Yello. They're a really cool band who doesn't get nearly enough attention. You probably only know them for Oh Yeah and/or The Race, but they've done a lot of other cool stuff too, and they're still together!

The game Look Outside has a bunch of fake video games in it that your character can play to get XP and learn skills, and there's some funny character interactions with them. Likewise the Sims series has games that your sims can play.

There's also SBURB from Homestuck (which starts as a video game at least) and the various games from Kidd Radd, which I don't know if that's archived anywhere but I hope it is [EDIT: It is indeed!]