#i dont NEED to use it much because i rarely encounter a squick or even a trigger anymore

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Its less that "we don't use that word" and more "for some reason this word fell out of common use"

Trigger got misappropriated into the role squick filled because New Fandom has lost a lot of information that was common in Older Fandom.

There are multiple terms that went that way. Citrus scale isn't really used much but I think that's largely thanks to AO3 with more detailed tagging systems and no risk of being deleted for posting it (unlike FFN which would delete stuff willy-nilly).

Squee is another I don't really see used much or at all though it still is definitely relevant.

Or like how there are an entire generation of younger fans baffled by the use of disclaimers or people who mark gay content as don't like/don't read, not realizing we were originally writing fic in a time where we could get sued or where people would attack you for writing m/m depending on the fandom. (Speaking of, why did "dead dove, do not eat" get so popular when we already have "don't like don't read"? I suspect it's because "dl;dr" became such common practice it stopped needing a tag since it was just what you do and then newer, younger fans didn't know the terminology existed)

Flame, also, is a word I don't see these days though I say we bring it back because people 100% still flame fanworks.

Fandom wank got morphed into The Discourse which is so frustrating because calling it Discourse gives it an air of legitimacy when really its just classic Ship Wars and Fandom Wank.

Speaking of, Ship Wars isn't used as much these days because the current state of thing involves calling a ship you dislike Problematic and crucifying it for every minor flaw, but if you actually LOOK at the dynamics of what's happening and who's involved and what THEY ship, you can fairly often find the Discourse has roots in what we absolutely called Ship Wars back in the day.

Ive seen people do analysis before, i think the censorship crusades on LJ and fandom fragmenting and migrating has had something to do with it, because people LOST that knowledge because newer fans didn't have a wealth of older fandom peers to give example and teach them. It works well with the Purity Police campaigns which also contribute, i would imagine.

It may also be why we have younger folks who are baffled by the fact that adults in fandom exist, because they don't realize fandom was created by adults, for themselves back before the internet and then just widened to allow all ages into sections of it (and why they flip out finding sections that are blatantly labeled as adult-only), or those who are like "lmao what's this disclaimer thing nobody thinks u own canon lol" becsuse they don't realize that not all that long ago they COULD be sued for writing fic and that people DID get C&D letters and DMCA notices over fanfic--disclaimers didn't stop that but it was the only defense possible aside from not posting it at all, or posting to gates forums/websites that required vetting to get in and that went down when the creator lost interest or couldn't afford to keep the servers or domain running anymore. (And that OTW, which is behind AO3, is one of the major reasons we aren't living under that fear anymore--those same folks who call for AO3 to die because it archives everything rather than moderates content don't realize that they have lawyers specifically to help argue that fanfic isn't copyright infringement)

Basically there is a lot of Fandom History and Terminology that has been lost over the years that its been detrimental to lose, and squick was just one of those things rather than people actively abandoning it.

#bringbackSquick

Did I just see, in the year of our lord 2020 on tumblr dort com, someone use the term 'squick'?

Do we not use squick any more?

Did not get that memo

had I received the memo I would have lit it on fire