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neilv ◴[] No.42129981[source]
> I have seen many fans, in the face of being told the reason for these changes, say that it doesn’t matter because they aren’t personally epileptic. This is, as you might understand, incredibly personally frustrating, and yes, very ableist. In saying this, these fans claim that disabled people do not have a right to feel safe when watching their favorite series, and that their wellbeing doesn’t matter in comparison to a few brighter shots of teenagers using their magic powers to punch each other.

As a person who's never had a seizure, and who doesn't want to find out the hard way that I'm vulnerable, nor have anyone vulnerable be harmed, I get angry at filmmakers who throw in rapid strobe light scenes.

(Secondarily, it even happens in non-action movies, so you can get the sudden strobe lighting when you're just watching a movie at night, in a dimmed living room, to wind down from the day before bed.)

It's often a nightclub scene, but most recently it was a fight scene with gratuitous strobe light.

The strobing is usually a surprise, as evidenced by the startled note to my initial curse word.

An engineer solution would be to make a software filter that operates on video playback in real time.

A lawyer solution would be to wait for someone's family to be devastated, then sue the perpetrator so hard that US companies start caring.

A social media mob solution would be to downvote punish movies that did this, then go through the credits, and downvote all the other properties in which those people are involved.

A human solution would be for people to be more considerate and responsible.

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1. Vecr ◴[] No.42130341[source]
What do you mean by downvote? Has Reddit become real life? Given what people get away with for art a simple warning at the start is probably all that you need.
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2. neilv ◴[] No.42131063[source]
Downvote, loosely, such as on social media sites/apps that have up/down votes, and with minimal stars on interfaces that use those. I don't know a good term or phrase for it.