Hope this is the right section. It might generate a BUR or an alias request, so I guess so?
What should e621 do if an artist has made a new Twitter and it's fairly certain that it's them, but there's no concrete evidence of an offsite link between the accounts?
We track Twitter's @BD_Collie as tag bd_collie, but the more recent account @yoshino_halu seems to be them too. And it's getting more posts. Credit to user #152226 (three pronged fork) for noticing, btw!
A few scraps of circumstantial evidence point to the accounts being the same:
- Timing: @BD_collie has not seen any artworks since 15 Mar 2021, @yoshino_halu started up 26 Sep 2021 and has seen pretty consistent artwork posts.
- Quirk: both accounts spell ちゃん [-chan] in Latin script as "chang" sometimes (and sometimes they reduce it to ちゃ [-cha], it varies by degree of cuteness I guess)
- Style: hands of post #3576099 and post #3512017 are nigh identical
- Style: wrist tufts and angular "ribbon" hair of post #3576846 and post #3512017
- Style: similar eye styles, linework, treatment of fur tufts generally
I don't know the history of when they were fuu/frol, but I know they've changed names before.
What to do about it? Should we alias, or should we treat as two different alts/pen names for now, and thus tag them separately until things are more certain? I've tagged the ones from the @yoshino_halu account as yoshino halu in addition for now.