I remember in Smallville was the latest time that I regularly saw warnings for slash, though I've seen it since then but not institutionalized.
There was some pretty, um, unpleasant stuff that happened to slashers then. I don't remember much about warnings being involved though they might have been.
Ratings have been as much a point of fannish polarization and politicalization as warnings; I remember, vaguely, an explosion over rating anything slash PG-13, even if a het equivalent would be like, G or PG. It was on a discussion list I was on, so the specific elude me, but it did get me thinking on my ratings a lot.
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There was some pretty, um, unpleasant stuff that happened to slashers then. I don't remember much about warnings being involved though they might have been.
Ratings have been as much a point of fannish polarization and politicalization as warnings; I remember, vaguely, an explosion over rating anything slash PG-13, even if a het equivalent would be like, G or PG. It was on a discussion list I was on, so the specific elude me, but it did get me thinking on my ratings a lot.