Now there's a shocker (not really)...
Trigger warnings have been flooding every type of media since the late 1990s, beginning with cautions about news items including graphic descriptions of sexual assaults. Some of these warnings were actually quite useful, particularly for people who might be easily traumatized by disturbing news. In the modern era, of course, trigger warnings have expanded to include any opinions that content moderators might disagree with. But a recent study out of Australia claims that all of this hemming and hawing has really been for nothing. That’s because trigger warnings don’t actually work. In fact, the warnings may be creating more trauma and stress than the content itself.-
[hotair.com]
"In the modern era, of course, trigger warnings have expanded" because the generations since the greatest generation have never known hardship, and everything that they see as even a minuscule slight is a trigger for them.
It seems to be the purpose of those trigger warnings to trigger the emotions the "moderators" desire.