Topic: The Dacad Issue: Change "young" -> "chibi"

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I am not suggesting that Dacad be unbanned, nor do I care about the artists' intentions or canonicity in the slightest. If TWYS is to be followed, young is an inaccurate tag for much of Dacad's work. When a character is small and cute as a result of a person's art-style, but has no other characteristics of being young, the correct tag to use is not young, but "chibi".

Its meaning is of someone or some animal that is small. It can be translated as "little", but is not used the same way as chiisana [小さな] (tiny, small, little in Japanese) but rather, cute.

Example:
post #3282816
This post contains a character drawn as small and cute due to the artist's style (as seen here and here ), and it is properly tagged as "chibi" instead of "young".
I propose that the same tagging convention be applied to Dacad's art, so as to ensure that Dacad is not exempt from TWYS.

Apologies for not being able to find SFW examples. Thank you for your time.

Updated by Donovan DMC

Chibi is also criminally underused. While I was checking to make sure I was correct in it's meaning, I ended up having to add it to like 100 posts just to make sure they were properly tagged.

sanestvaporeonfan said:
I am not suggesting that Dacad be unbanned, nor do I care about the artists' intentions or canonicity in the slightest. If TWYS is to be followed, young is an inaccurate tag for much of Dacad's work. When a character is small and cute as a result of a person's art-style, but has no other characteristics of being young, the correct tag to use is not young, but "chibi".

Example:
post #3282816
This post contains a character drawn as small and cute due to the artist's style (as seen here and here ), and it is properly tagged as "chibi" instead of "young".
I propose that the same tagging convention be applied to Dacad's art, so as to ensure that Dacad is not exempt from TWYS.

Apologies for not being able to find SFW examples. Thank you for your time.

Admins don't really like that tag. There was another post that would've made more sense being tagged chibi, but it was tagged young, locked as young and chibi was locked out.

Although, I feel like yur example looks more youngish than chibi. chibis are cartoonishly disproportionate, your example isn't however.

wolfmanfur said:
Admins don't really like that tag. There was another post that would've made more sense being tagged chibi, but it was tagged young, locked as young and chibi was locked out.

Although, I feel like yur example looks more youngish than chibi. chibis are cartoonishly disproportionate, your example isn't however.

There are plenty of examples of chibi meaning "small and cute" without being cartoonishly disproportionate.
post #2868653 post #3618210 post #3134717 post #3562091 post #3536608
And I trust the administration to make reasonable decisions about tagging without their personal preferences getting in the way.

I'm not sure what wasn't clear about the last two topics getting locked. The tags are valid, nothing is being changed. That decision is final, and there is no discussion to be had.

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