Been seeing a lot of this happening. Things like foxgirl and catgirl appearing on posts. Is this the way they should be tagged because I assumed that it was more general than that as they seem to be entirely new tags that don't have many posts associated with them.

Pasiphaë said:
Been seeing a lot of this happening. Things like foxgirl and catgirl appearing on posts. Is this the way they should be tagged because I assumed that it was more general than that as they seem to be entirely new tags that don't have many posts associated with them.

They used to be fairly common, but got voted out. Check out this thread for some details. (Pretty sure it's come up multiple places though.)

It seems a few of the tags got missed in the clean up.

Those are all to be removed and retagged if found.

• If the character is basically a human with animal ears/tail, use cat_ears/fox_ears/etc. and the gender.
• If the character has fur and other animal characteristics as well, use anthro, the species, and gender.

Halite said:
It seems a few of the tags got missed in the clean up.

I'm not sure why, but it almost seems as if these weren't aliased yet on purpose. Possibly because it may get mistagged if it went to one of species/animal ears/gender/etc. for various reasons.

I still don't see the purpose of separating kemonomimi from other species tags. I'd think using either humanoid+cat (for animal ears) or anthro+cat (for non-animal ears) would be easier to sort and less confusing in general than trying to use either the Japanese terms (neko) or their *_ears equivalents.

If we were to keep the animal_ears tags, they should imply the species of "ears"+humanoid and be done with it.

I thought the decision was to use the term kemonomimi as an umbrella term, but surprisingly, it appears that it got aliases to animal_ears, which seems a lot less fitting to me. Anybody know when that decision was made, and why?

Furrin_Gok said:
I thought the decision was to use the term kemonomimi as an umbrella term, but surprisingly, it appears that it got aliases to animal_ears, which seems a lot less fitting to me. Anybody know when that decision was made, and why?

Well, the alias was made by Arcturus, which means it was a long time ago. As far as I could tell the discussion kind of stagnates every time it's brought up.

What I can tell:

• *girl/boy is on it's way out, but not all have been invalidated in the system.
• The various *mimi types are inherently related to the *girl/boy tags, and are confusing things.
• Whether something is human/humanoid is inherently related to the various *mimi types and are confusing things.
• English terms are preferred over non-english terms whenever possible.
• Japanese fan/subculture always muddles tagging for some reason.

Personally,

• Very glad *girl/boy is on it's way out finally.
• I see no problem with the animal ears tags, but they should all be species tags and imply humanoid (and possibly the species but I'm not sure) to make it clearer what they mean.
• Human should imply humanoid
• cat_ears should imply feline, dog_ears should imply canine, etc.
• Humanoid probably shouldn't imply mammal (in case of something like dragon_ears)

Furrin_Gok said:
I thought the decision was to use the term kemonomimi as an umbrella term, but surprisingly, it appears that it got aliases to animal_ears, which seems a lot less fitting to me. Anybody know when that decision was made, and why?

Kemonomimi was aliased very very long time ago to animal_ears. Long before cleaning of *girl tags has begun. Reason was probably the same one why we don't have yaoi or yuri tags - japanese tags are generally aliased to english equivalents.

Also thread about girl tags is here It looks like it was forgotten because not everything on the list is aliased.

Humanoid probably shouldn't imply mammal (in case of something like dragon_ears)

There's strange tag dragon-kin it's used for draconic species between *ears and anthro. Something like Granberia on my profile pic.

There's no equivalent of such tag for other species, and it implies dragon. I have no idea if it is valid and should it get any ears or anthro tag.

Granberia said:
There's strange tag dragon-kin it's used for draconic species between *ears and anthro. Something like Granberia on my profile pic.

From what I remember, It was an attempt at introducing a gender-neutral tag instead of dragongirl. Kind of draconic equivalent of harpy.

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Looks like it's still tagged consistently, so I suppose there's no harm in keeping it. As for classifying them, I'd say that they're slightly more humanoid than anthro: they look like humans with dragon traits, not anthropomorphized dragons.

As for the main topic of this thread, those tags have been debated for over four years now. Can't we just finally be done with it and alias those away? I mean, seriously? Why do these topics need to be rehashed every month, when the consensus was reached years ago?