Not only do pomegranates look like gore at first glance to some people, but they also have a pattern of bumps/crevasses between the bumps that can, despite not being clustered holes per se, trigger some peoples’ trypophobia (I’m not one of those people unless I stare at a lot of pictures of pomegranates for a long time but I know some people who do have this problem).
So you say “well just unfollow.”
What if a blog is 99% stuff I want to see and 1% pomegranates? I can’t speak for other people, but I don’t usually like to unfollow people over 1% of their blog posts.
Now, I don’t know how the anon initially asked for the pomegranate to be tagged, maybe it was demanding, maybe it was nicely asked. And I understand that asking politely usually garners a better response than demanding, but if you simply unfollow when someone posts something triggering, you’ll never know if they might have agreed to tag that stuff if you’d asked them to.
So I don’t care if you don’t want to tag stuff (okay I do, I think you’re a bit of a jerk if you outright refuse to tag things for your followers because your blog may be your own but their dashboard is their own - I understand no one can perfectly remember what their followers need tagged but outright refusal to even hear why someone might need something tagged is a dick move but that’s just my personal take on the matter).
But regardless of whether people are obligated to tag content… no one should be shamed for asking. It shouldn’t be an anxiety-inducing exercise to send a quick ask of “hi there, do you mind tagging for x please? that would really help me out, thanks so much.”
So tag or don’t tag, but if someone asks you to tag something, for the VALAR’S SAKE, don’t put a picture of the potentially triggering thing in your answer! What the fuck. When someone tells you they don’t like the taste of bananas do you force-feed them a whole bunch? I hope not! So don’t show someone a picture of something that upsets them because they told you it upset them, even if you think “it’s just fruit”.
