A specific flavor of visceral discomfort or disgust at content — distinct from being offended or scared — used especially in fandom spaces to flag material that's uncomfortable on a gut level, often without being explicitly harmful.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Body horror doesn't scare me, it just squicks me out."
LORE & ORIGIN
Coined in early-1990s Usenet fandom circles (frequently traced to discussions in comics and media fandom newsgroups) to name a reaction that existing words like "gross" or "disturbing" didn't quite capture — a specifically visceral, gut-level recoil. It became a fandom staple, especially in fanfiction communities, for tagging or warning about content that might trigger that reaction without necessarily being a serious content warning.
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