An incomplete list of tropes that give me the squick

No moral judgments, only personal preferences

Perhaps I am Old™ and viewing the world through rosy-colored nostalgia, but I remember the days when we had a word that could express our dislike for something without passing moral judgment on the people who do.

And that word was squick.

I miss the word squick. When it did disappear from our collective online lexicons? Whither goest thou, squick? Whence didst thou turn into “problematic” or “toxic”? I miss thee, squick. Return to me, I beseech thee.

Anyway, none of the list below is necessarily a deal-breaker for me when it comes to the media I consume (a lot of media I like actually does contain many of these tropes) but their appearance usually makes me look like the photo of Jin above.

So without further ado:

🤢 an incomplete list of tropes that give me the squick

• Love triangles in which there is one girl caught between one br…