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Tag question: o_o

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The tag o o says it is restricted to eyes which are white circles.

In spite of that, some black circles are found there: post #1004831, post #997945 and more.

Maybe a new tag should be created for the 100% black round eyes? (Or, perhaps, the description of o o should be changed to be less strict, allowing both white and black eyes, indiscriminately, together?)

If this question is answered, post #1005090 will gain a proper eye tag; it does not have any, now.

Updated by jxh2154

New tag.
Because as far as I've seen, when you type o_o and 0_0 they are known online as 'surprised / shock' eyes and that is commonly white (as the font only allows) for emphasis.

Maybe o_o_(filled in) or dot_eyes

lol

unicogirl said:
Maybe o_o_(filled in) or dot_eyes

+1 for Dot_eyes though i like solid_black_eyes. short, simple, and easy to understand.
just have to make sure no one gets these black eyes confused with ._.

I don't like these suggestions, for their use as discussed here is unintuitive:

  • o_o_(black) and o_o_(filled_in) look like they could be perfect subsets of o_o instead (based on the untrue but very intuitive assumption that o_o could be used as a tag for both white and black round eyes)
  • dot_eyes looks like a great alias for ._. instead; dots and filled circles are different things - they have different sizes

I like black_circle_eyes very much, as it is accurate and understandable enough. Yet, this other, big, long name would be the most accurate of all:

  • solid_black_circle_eyes

I think these to need to be distinct concepts (no aliases or implications). The open o_o eyes indicate shock or suprise, the scribbly filled ●_● (not a good tag name) eyes generally indicate chibiesque deviousness.

Does this even occur outside of Yume Shokunin's chibis? I've never seen it, if so something more general might be in order.

It's common with Churuya-like chibi characters. I think I remember it being used in Azumanga Daioh and/or Negima as with mischievous chibified characters.

It's a similar style expression (both in design and usage) to the deadpan Þ shaped empty eyes (see post #997314, post #371724) employed in say Pani Poni Dash! with Ichijou, in Negima with Ayase Yue, in To Aru Majutsu no Index with Misaka imouto, etc.

The ●_● is more or less the same thing except more hyperactive, less deadpan, and more universally black. The Þ eye thing is generally just a flat color version of the original eye color.

While we're on the topic, maybe there's a better way to tag the Þ style eye thing rather than just empty eyes since that covers multiple styles and moods.

Updated

Þ = flat_gaze
Þ

We could also call them

  • bullet eyes
  • bullet point eyes

since they resemble the bullet points of unordered lists.

Updated

I keep my previous opinion that solid_black_circle_eyes would be a great choice, for its perfect accuracy, despite it being an excessively long name. However, now I also think that bullet_eyes would be another great choice. It's less intuitive, but it's easy to learn, and it's shorter.

Nope we have a policy of only using tags that can be typed. It's why we have no umlauts or ñ anywhere.

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