list of commonly misused tags

Mutually exclusive tags

The following cannot be used to describe the same object or situation

• ambiguous gender <-> androgynous
• bare pectorals <-> (topless male, nude, breastless clothes or underwear only)
• bottomless <-> bare legs
• greyscale <-> grey theme
• hands in opposite sleeves <-> sleeves past wrists
• hairband <-> headband
• jersey <-> track jacket
• looking at viewer <-> (facing viewer or closed eyes or blindfold)
• nude <-> (bare shoulders or bare legs or bare arms or topless or bottomless)
• official alternate costume <-> alternate costume
• official alternate hairstyle <-> alternate hairstyle
• official alternate hair length <-> alternate hair length
• (off-shoulder shirt/dress/sweater) <-> (strapless shirt/dress or tube top) <-> (sleeveless shirt/dress/sweater)
• playboy bunny <-> (kittysuit or rabbit costume)
• solo <-> (solo focus or multiple views)
• striped bikini <-> white bikini
• topless <-> (nude or bare shoulders or bare arms)
• x-ray <-> cross-section
• miko <-> nontraditional miko

Specific mistagging

Places

• changing room/dressing room/fitting room/locker room
• Not to be used interchangeably for just any rooms where a character would get dressed and/or undressed.
• Changing rooms are the ones where people remove and store their clothes, usually when going to a pool or an onsen.
• Dressing rooms are the ones used by on-stage performers to change in and out of their costumes.
• Fitting rooms are the tiny ones in clothing stores where individual customers can try on clothes before buying them.
• Locker rooms are similar to changing rooms, but lockers must be visible.

Objects

• animal ears
• Do not use for actual animals, which have these by default.
• costume switch
• Applicable only if there are multiple characters, to be sure there is a switch.
• Not applicable on single-character cosplay pictures. Add the appropriate cosplay tag instead.
• Not applicable on parent-child pairs of single-character cosplay posts.
• Not the same as a "costume change."
• crescent moon
• Do not tag for just crescent shaped objects, e.g. crescent hair ornament
• goat horns
• Commonly mistagged on sheep horns. Goat horns traditionally do not curl all the way around.
• naked towel
• Character must be wearing the towel, not just having it on their person
• no humans
• Does not apply to human-like characters such as humanoid robots and furries.
• off-shoulder jacket/off-shoulder coat/off-shoulder cardigan
• Should be used when the jacket, coat, or cardigan is naturally designed with a low and wide-cut neckline.
• Do not use for open/partially open jackets/coats/cardigans that are simply worn hanging off the upper arms.
• red glasses
• See either red-framed eyewear or red-tinted eyewear
• see-through clothes/transparent
• See-through is for clothing, transparent is for other objects.
• short hair
• Not for shoulder-length hair
• silhouette
• Not for mere shadows behind objects; should be mostly featureless
• topless
• Only for female characters; use topless male for males
• vaginal
• If female character's genital is visible, tagging pussy is mandatory.
• miko
• Only to be used if a character is wearing the actual traditional outfit of a miko: a hakama skirt (almost always entirely red) and white kosode or kimono. Otherwise, use nontraditional miko instead.

Meta

• casual
• Not for characters that always appear in casual clothing
• contemporary
• Not for characters that always appear in contemporary settings
• humanization
• Refers to characters that were already humanoid to begin with being depicted as fully human; depictions of non-humanoids as humans belong under personification
• orc and ogre
• Orcs are commonly depicted with a green-skinned muscular or chubby body and sports a tusks, while ogres usually have a fat body and lacks any tusks.
• text focus
• Only when text is a major component of an image

Actions

• squirting liquid
• Not for female ejaculation
• facing viewer
• Only for characters with closed or covered eyes
• floating
• When on water, use afloat instead
• partially submerged
• Not for just sitting in shallow water
• air guitar
• This is for pretending to play a guitar without holding anything. Pretending to play guitar with anything but a guitar is using an unconventional guitar.
• riding
• Only for characters riding an animal or a motor vehicle, use girl on top or boy on top, and cowgirl position for posts depicting a person having sex on top of another person.
• takeoff
• Only for characters or aircrafts leaving the ground. Use undressing for images depicting someone taking off their clothes.

See also

• topic #14603 (Commonly misused tags)