If you are old enough to know Garchomp is not a real thing, you know why a Kitsune (Japanese mythological being) is not a Fox(real-world animal).

So whose bright idea was it to program the Kitsune tag to autocorrect to Fox?

phoenixrisesinbed69 said:
If you are old enough to know Garchomp is not a real thing, you know why a Kitsune (Japanese mythological being) is not a Fox(real-world animal).

So whose bright idea was it to program the Kitsune tag to autocorrect to Fox?

Because in Japanese, its not just lore/mythology. Kitsune literally means fox

The kitsune -> Fox is an ancient alias that's been discussed in the forums plenty of times. Feel free to search the forums for the older threads on this, otherwise IIRC the reason why it's aliased away is because people used kitsune for non-mythological foxes far too many times to justify keeping it. The tag we use instead is fox_spirit, and the reason it isn't aliased to that is because it would be mistagged en masse, something that should be avoided whenever possible.

phoenixrisesinbed69 said:
If you are old enough to know Garchomp is not a real thing, you know why a Kitsune (Japanese mythological being) is not a Fox(real-world animal).

So whose bright idea was it to program the Kitsune tag to autocorrect to Fox?

It is not a bug, it has been brought up time and time again over the years: topic #9257, topic #6981, topic #15887, topic #15835, topic #26047, & topic #26822.

In short, Kitsune means fox in Japanese. A lot of Kitsune posts end up being just foxes with multiple_tails with no regard to the mythical lore whatsoever.
In actual Japanese lore, Kitsunes (i.e., the spiritual kind) are fox spirits that possess magical abilities, they may or may not have multiple tails.
For the mythological being in Japanese lore, you should use fox_spirit bearing in mind that it should "explicitly depict a mythical, eastern asian, and/or magical fox spirit being" and NOT "normal foxes and/or foxes that happen to have multiple tails."

As for why it is a general tag as opposed to a species tag, see topic #30623.