Timeline of Warnings Meta

This page lists meta on warnings in fanfiction over the years on fannish community.
Warnings are usually in the header or metadata part of fanworks that warn readers or viewers of potentially disturbing content, including but not limited to graphic sex, violence, chan, rape or non-con, BDSM or other kinks, foul language, character death, triggering depictions of mental illness, spoilers, slash, het, homophobia, or a host of other possibly offensive elements and squicks and triggers. Many fans also expect a warning for an unhappy ending, such as their OTP not getting together or breaking up.
==1990s==
===1997===
* Authors & Parents...please read. :), a post to alt.tv.x-files.creative (1997)
* Slash warnings, please write them!!!!, a post to alt.tv.x-files.creative (1997)
===1998===
* A Keychain in the Snow, an X-Files story which includes many comments about warnings (1998)
* Story Warnings (1998 meta) (June 1998)
===1999===
* Newsgroup governance and other myths :-), a massive discussion on a Sentinel mailing list regarding warnings (December 1999)
==2000s==
===2000===
* FANFIC WARNINGS: An Argument Against or The Case for Reading Death Fic by Nic (September 2000)
===2001===
* O Big Brother, Where Are Thou? Um, actually, right over here. In the Fanfic section (Fall 2001)
===2002===
===2003===
* Have You Noticed? It's Fandom, Not Wal-mart by K.S. Langley (August 18, 2003) 
* The Sliding Scale of Story Information by Lucy Gillam (June 16, 2003)
===2004===
===2005===
===2006===
* by Wolfling (October 30, 2006)
===2007===
* Often Unnecessary Warnings (And How They Cause My Brain To Melt); archive link page 1; archive link page 2 by jessicaqueen (February 9, 2007)
===2008===
* A Lifetime Commitment, a bandom fic; see the discussion in the comments (April 2008)
===2009===
* a few words on warnings, by thingswithwings (February 24, 2009) (96 comments)
* again? we're having this debate again? by thingswithwings (June 22, 2009) (91 comments)
* I suppose it's not suicide until I hit 'post.' by phoebe zeitgeist (June 22, 2009) (152 comments)
* Warnings (2009 post by zvi) by zvi, June 22, 2009 (382 comments)
* Sometimes, the obvious isn't.; by darkrose June 23, 2009 
* Fandom Warnings Wank: A Comprehensive Linkspam, by magicastles, June 23, 2009; WebCite
* Confessions of a Former Warning-a-phobe by Beth H, June 26th Archive. (22 comments)
* Trigger Warning Debate (2009)
*This is not OK, page 1, page two, page three, by some stars, June 24, 2009; WebCite, WebCite, WebCite
* On Being A Village Elder: An Essay On Community Responsibility by oliviacirce, July 25 (2009)
* warnings, spoilers, and everything; archive page one, comments expanded; archive page two, comments expanded by seperis (July 26, 2009)
==2010s==
===2010===
* fiction FIC: ALL THE PAINTED MASKS - AUTHOR'S NOTES, notes and meta by phaetonschariot regarding warning for "interracial relationships" and "slash," discussion regarding labeling certain subject matters as "warnings" (May 2, 2010)
===2011===
===2012===
* Slash or Gen -- The Great Irrelevance, by Charlotte Frost, posted March 7, 2012; WebCite
===2013===
* Why I Turned Against Labeling, by Charlotte Frost ; WebCite (2013)
===2014===
*How The "Trigger Warning" Took Over The Internet, a Buzzfeed article detailing trigger warnings and the role that Livejournal played in popularizing the practice (May 4, 2014)
===2015===
* (2015)
===2016===
* , post at Fandom Wank (August 2016)
* (October 2016)
===2017===
===2018===
* To the anonymous tumblr user who sent me messages regarding my fanfiction archive, where the author has retroactively gone back and changed their fanfiction.net summaries to warn for incest and underage. (August 15th, 2018)
===2019===
* The fic warning debate (February 17, 2019)
==2020s==
===2020===
===2021===
===2022===
===2023===
* Question from a Young People: why would dubcon, and even rape, be frequently unwarned for in the 90s?
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