I'm curious if there are any hashtags that can be followed to help warn people with auditory sensitivities about painful high pitched noises that happen in movies, tv shows, video games, music, or any other form of media that incorporates audio into it's format.
Stuff like this warns about flashing lights and stuff for people that may suffer from epilepsy, but it doesn't warn for painful noises for people who would be sensitive to this, and knowing in advance whether or not something is going to feel like having nails driven into your ear lobes would be pretty handy.
If not, I think we should start a hashtag so that people can keep up with and update others when they encounter something that has painful sounds.
For example, the latest episode of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds was painful enough to make me scream in pain last night. So you might want to be on the lookout for Season 2 Episode 4: The Lotus Eaters.
Please boost this, because I think it's a good discussion to have.
@Moondancer That’s a great idea. I’m not even that sensitive to high pitched or loud noises, but I watched the episode with headphones and that high pitched noise was too much even for me. I had to take my headphones off every time I heard it. Extremely uncomfortable. Some advance warning would definitely be appreciated.
@Moondancer The site DoesTheDogDie (https://www.doesthedogdie.com) has two separate sound trigger warnings (Are there sudden loud noises? Is there misophonia?), and there is a warning for this episode - I know it's additional emotional labor to check everything, but when you have enough spoons, there is an option to do that.
[I'm putting this info here if anybody doesn't know about this site and this specific TW-they have A LOT of them and still adding new ones]
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