Phobias are often misunderstood as "just being scared" but are actually incredibly debilitating and life ruining. The word 'Phobia' gets thrown around like 'OCD'. Everyone claims they have it, so then people stop taking it seriously. Then you end up with tweets like this one.

@SplatterSpree Or you could just not play the game with the scary spiders or the big snakes or the extremely deep ocean diving.

@mdnmugienjr Or you could not give a shit about an optional setting someone has on their instance of the game???