this isn't something like "i'm ~TRIGGERED~ by peanuts because i have a peanut allergy!" and various other things that have made people distrustful of a lot of trigger warnings to begin with; this is child abuse, which is something that at least some of the members of the comm may have experienced, it's a highly triggery subject and i have no idea why this wasn't made opt-in.

the problem i have with it isn't that it's being played out, it's that it's putting a lot of pressure on people for whose characters it would be OOC to not respond to it if it's broadcast to the network at large, but the player may be severely triggered by the material itself. the way it's set up isn't as easy to avoid as you seem to think it is.