I have the cub tags blacklisted but I still see a lot of very... cubby art. It goes beyond stuff that's just blatantly untagged/mistagged and I'm explicitly not talking about that stuff. I'm wondering how I should treat things that aren't blatantly cub- is it purely twys or does knowledge of the character- either through outside knowledge or context- come into play? I know that with gender it's always twys, but with species the artist's/character owner's say is what is tagged.

There are a lot of borderline cases due to style and what a species looks like by default. If an image looks like cub without accounting for style and/or species, should I tag it cub regardless of how style might affect it? And for cases that have childlike anatomy with features like developed breasts should I still tag them as cub or do the 'adult' features overrule the rest of the anatomy?

regsmutt said:
There are a lot of borderline cases due to style and what a species looks like by default. If an image looks like cub without accounting for style and/or species, should I tag it cub regardless of how style might affect it? And for cases that have childlike anatomy with features like developed breasts should I still tag them as cub or do the 'adult' features overrule the rest of the anatomy?

Noticeable breasts would be chibi territory.

If you're unsure but want to make it a little easier for others to find and check, tags like big_head tag may be applicable.

Cub is just a young animal (anthro or otherwise, and including not-real races/species). If a young animal is in the image, it should get tagged.

Cases where TWYK conflicts with TWYS is Gnar, whom looks like a child and acts like one, but is actually biologically one of the oldest yordles. Second verse, same as the first with Lulu, whom only has the body of a child because of lore (best given with comparisons, mind you), except she is a humanoid yordle and wouldn't get cub normally. Point from these examples: it's always TWYS, even if TWYK gives an explanation why.

I can't speak much about chibi, though.

Chibi means artwork where characters physical appearance has been simplified/deformed, head has been made insanely big and usually things like eyes are exaggerated or made really simple. Sometimes it is hard to determine age of the characters potraied because the whole idea is to make them small.
post #1127377 post #1165949 post #1174444 post #1167229
Google up nendoroid if you want examples of how chibi versions of japanese humanoid characters look.

This tag does seem to have many misstagging on it as there's not clear cut way to determine when something is chibi. Just by looking at the first page, I have absolutely zero idea why for example these are tagged as chibi:
post #1181061 post #1159572 post #1149206
toony and big_head are tags and they do not automatically mean chibi.

But this is why we do have TWYS rule. If the character does look young, then tag it as such on top of chibi. More often than not they do look young, but maybe not cub. But if it looks like cub, then tag it as such. For example following would have both chibi and cub:
post #1023952 post #856605

If you want to blacklist any chibi art which can look even slightly cub, I suggest blacklisting chibi young

BlueDingo said:
Noticeable breasts would be chibi territory.

If you're unsure but want to make it a little easier for others to find and check, tags like big_head tag may be applicable.

I'm not sure that 'chibi' works for all cases though, such as post #1087749 from one of the characters Siral used as an example. How I've been handling such posts when I come across them is using young but I'm kinda worried that's considered mistagging.