@Confetto: > AngryZapdos said: > > The reason you can't...

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2025-04-30T12:09:26-04:00

AngryZapdos said:

The reason you can't shake off that feeling is because it is weird to tell people this. I think we should use tags like disney_(company) and nintendo_(company) for posts explicitly referencing said companies, which would then allow users to actually find what they're looking for when they search disney or nintendo.

I think we can all agree that from a technical standpoint, grouping a bunch of thematically unrelated media together makes no sense - users can just search for individual copyrights, or make saved searches with combinations of different copyright tags. However, the majority of our userbase doesn't care about this. In the real world, games and other media are grouped together based on their parent company all the time; it is exclusively Danbooru that takes issue with acknowledging this connection. If you ask someone "what's your favorite Nintendo game", they're not going to turn around and tell you "that doesn't make any sense. it doesn't matter if Nintendo made it or not," they're going to say something like Smash Bros, or Mario Kart, or Breath of the Wild.

Because of this disconnect between what our users want and expect, and what we decided should be the case instead, Nintendo is and has always been one of the most mistagged tags on the site. It is constantly being gardened because of this, and at some point it makes you wonder - are we so out of touch? Because personally, I don't think it's the users who are wrong.

I agree with this, tbh, at leadt for these kinds of companies where there are very much fans of the company as a whole. The same way there's dedicated Sanrio fans, there's also very dedicated Disney and Nintendo fans who are interested in everything they put out.

I think the companies themselves are marketed as a cohesive brand as well - most companies don't do this, but you see multiple crossover type products marketed as just "Disney" or "Nintendo" all the time, which I think also plays into why this feels odd.