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Deviantart Staff: Ban “Seizure Icons/Stamps.” (Boost please?)

tw: Ableism, people intentionally making stuff that causes seizures and not warning for them, mention of death

There’s this subset of DeviantArt users who make stamps/icons that they actually call “seizure stamps”/”seizure icons”, and these are extremely bright and flashy.  They flash on search pages with no warning: (Major Seizure Warning) http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=seizure+icon
These icons can cause seizures in epileptic individuals, which can lead to death. To have these things on the site is very dangerous.
I implore DA to remove them and ban any others from being made.

Petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/deviantart-staff-ban-seizure-icons-stamps

Source.

Tags: signal boost disability ableism epilepsy seizure seizure disorder assholes submission
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    Yellow- getting upset at people for doing this....35 signatures so far! I queued this...
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    Reblogging for signal boost.
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    [The warning above is really serious. The gifs on that page are extremely fast and could be very dangerous for people....
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    I’d ask why people are assholes but I don’t think I want to know the answer any more. Fucking hell.
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    (for some reason tumblr shows only half the post when I try to reblog, so I’m copying the link to the petition here)
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    I actually tried to get them to ban these a while ago as there was a whole group dedicated to making them for the sole...
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    It’s one thing to unknowingly make an image that could cause someone to feel unwell, but when you’re not only doing it...
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    Major warning for that deviantart link, but I thought some of my followers might be interested in signing this petition.
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