Danbooru

\m/ versus \n/ mistagging

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Honestly I never actually search for them, but when I come across an image tagged \m/, probably half the time it should have been \n/ and I correct it. Just to check my suspicion I searched \m/ and on the first page I instantly see numerous examples of \n/.

Is it really worth having them as separate tags if no one remembers which is which? Also some of them are kind of halfway with the character's thumb making a circle with the middle and ring finger.

I didn't even know there were two tags for this gesture - but I feel like it's pretty redundant with how little the difference is between the two.

Flandre5carlet said:

I didn't even know there were two tags for this gesture - but I feel like it's pretty redundant with how little the difference is between the two.

One is making horns or a kira~ and the other is making a fox. It's a finger difference but the overall shape and intent is fairly different. It's like saying lowleg variants are unnecessary because it is ultimately worn the same way.

There's also the fox_shadow_puppet tag, which means there are at least three tags involving raising the index and pinky finger. There's also the rather similar looking \||/ tag, when every finger is raised instead.

Tags are like that. I hammer away at greyscale just about every time I'm online in the hope more people will pick it up. Some people still haven't realized putting in "nails" turns into nail instead of fingernails. Just gotta garden until the fruit is borne.

GiantCaveMushroom said:

There's also the fox_shadow_puppet tag, which means there are at least three tags involving raising the index and pinky finger. There's also the rather similar looking \||/ tag, when every finger is raised instead.

I didn't even know about the fox one (which would be the answer to the case I wasn't sure about), the wiki for \m/ didn't link to it which I'll fix now

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