I Can’t Watch The Spider-Verse Movies

Here’s why…

Photo by Mehrpouya H on Unsplash

Turns out it wasn’t just me.

I found a bunch of migraineurs (people who have migraines) on various socials who can’t watch the Spider-Verse films either.

It seems to be light-sensitivity based — so MAJOR warning for epilepsy and other sensory-related conditions too!

See, for the past however-many-years it’s been since the first one came out, I thought it was just me being fussy and not liking the aesthetic -

I only started to wonder if it was migraine-related when I was looking for a gif to illustrate something about the Spider-Verse a few weeks ago, and couldn’t find one which didn’t hurt my eyes/head.

…I set all gifs to not play automatically on my social feeds, because if there’s a light sensitivity issue, I find it tends to be quite pronounced in gifs, so autoplay is actually quite hazardous to me.

I also — you may or may not have noticed — tend to go for gifs which aren’t too flashy or jump-cut-y, so that they’re easier on the eyes.

So, when the gifs were too much for me I was like, ‘…is this a migraine thing?’

And, looking on socials etc. I found a bunch of other people with the same issue — including people who had ended up having migraine attacks triggered by one of the films.

So — yeah. Looks like I won’t be getting over my issues with the Spider-Verse films, after all.

First published as part of a larger Comics Wrap-Up post on my blog, Dora Reads