Tag: Drawfag

I started to add several tags to images that belonged to the drawfag combo threads currently on /a/ (For example: http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/38047747). Also added additional information in the tag description along with links to the archives.

However, is it still ok to group things together with the artist schroedinger?

I just add the tags based on what I read in those threads, hopefully everything is correct.

Not familiar with drawfag. Is it one individual drawing all of those images? If not, then an artist tag isn't correct.

anyone who draws is a drawfag

I guess the best description is "any anonymous author coming from 4chan"

That wouldn't be appropriate for an artist tag, then.

I don't think it needs anything, really.

it can be from any site, they're anonymous and it's usually oekaki, so I think drawfag isn't a bad way to identify works done by them. Or it could be just a tag instead of an artist tag too

EDIT:

but shouldn't we identify works by these people somehow?

Any site + anonymous = what exactly are we tagging, then? It'd be like making up a name for every unknown artist on 2chan. Or making a "fanartist" tag.

I just don't quite understand what the tag's core concept is.

There is a category of artists within the Western Chan community that are referred to as "drawfags" a tag will show that a piece of art was created on one of the chans by these people, rather than anywhere else.

Its 4chan, generally, + original art from 4chan users who are called drawfags, since they are generally anonymous.

Think of it like a circle whose actual identities are not known.

In any case it's better than no tag.

The tag drawfag was originally used for the artist that's shroedinger (sic) at deviantart and mercury at pixiv (same person). Maybe it should be edited to shroedinger in those posts, in fact that's what I'll do.

Well, it seems like schroedinger is one of the "drawfags" currently active on /a/, at least some of the pictures show resemblance to the ones he drew earlier.
Therefore, make schoredinger an extra tag and leave him as a sub category for the artist/circle tag "drawfag"?

jxh2154 said:
It'd be like making up a name for every unknown artist on 2chan.

"toshiaki"

I don't see the use for a general 'drawfag' tag. It covers too wide a range of stuff to really be useful.

Its a circle tag, essentially, that refers to art originating from anon. artists from a known location. Given 4chan's pension for anon. culture, it fits since otherwise there would be a lot of pictures without artists.

"Comes from 4chan" isn't useful information. It originates from a wide range of artists/styles, it defeats the arttags metatag, it can't be confirmed, and it isn't always true.

I'm bumping this because I came across a post attributed solely to drawfag, when a Find Artist on the pixiv source turned up an actual artist. Six other artists fell under source:*.pixiv.* drawfag before I cleaned that up.

Then it's the uploader's fault for not checking with image search engine. Lots of people don't know who draws what on 4chan anyway.

Otherwise I think the tag is okay.

You cannot blame the collective for an uploader's mistakes.

Having a generic artist >>>>> having no artist.

Log said:
Having a generic artist >>>>> having no artist.

Having a generic artist == having no artist. There is no useful information conveyed by this tag.

They're all by different artists, so why tag them as one? It's no different than all the other non-attributed posts we have on here. Supposedly coming from 4chan doesn't make them special, or give them any sort of common style.

This isn't just those 7 pixiv posts, or the 9 drawfag arttags:>1 posts. These "drawfag" posts could really be coming from anywhere at all, and maybe belong to other actual artists, existing or in the future.

Data loss. Who cares if their art looks nothing alike. If they want to claim their art as their own they are free to do so and get their own tag. Are you going to also argue every circle tag whose artists we do not know be nuked? It's the same damn thing.

Well, either people tag posts with drawfag, or mention in the source "from 4chan", "/a/ thread". Whatever, I don't care.

As long as they let the others know where it comes from, or else it's super disturbing.