Gotta say I’m just a little bit tired of the debate over where to draw the boundaries of “NSFW.”

Those who are claiming it’s just “all things that you literally wouldnt want to access at work, because your boss would get upset” – what the hell workplace are you in. Ask a real-life boss which websites are and aren’t okay for employees to access at work, and you’ll get a very short whitelist, probably limited to sites owned by the company and required for that specific employee’s job. A literal OSHA workplace safety site is not safe for work, as far as they’re concerned. (“What are you looking at that for? Next thing you’re gonna be reading about unions.”)

Those who specify, “well, it means you’d get in trouble if your boss saw you looking at it on your phone in the break room while on your break”– Listen. in my experience there are 2 kinds of bosses. 1. The kind who would absolutely never in any circumstances be in a position to spy on you looking at your phone in the break room, and 2, the kind who WOULD, which is the same kind who’d probably write you up for looking at a picture of a rainbow flag.

And I’ve never seen anyone claiming all rainbow flags should be marked NSFW just because some bosses are homophobic jerkass control freaks like that.

I guess I just don’t even think it’s a useful term.

At least not in the edge cases. I guess probably it’s worthwhile to tag actual porn as NSFW, because sure, that protects people from accidentally opening it someplace they wouldn’t want porn to be seen.

But the moment you’re in the gray areas where you start debating whether NSFW means “porn” or “anything too possibly risque to be safe showing around in a literal workplace”…. then you’re also in the gray areas where the boundaries of that second definition are gonna depend HUGELY on which workplace.