An idea for merch/cosplay i.e. "character pictured"

While I agree with Pup’s stance that characters being merely pictured or cosplayed as should not be tagged the same (e.g. this image should not just be tagged “Toothless”), I think it should be possible to search for some of it somehow in connection with HTTYD, so here’s my idea:

We split this stuff in a parallel tag. So there’s, say, a “digimon” tag and a separate “digimon fandom” tag. Anything indirect is tagged as, say “Miles prowers body pillow”, “kumamon cosplay”, “Toothless hoodie”, “101 dalmatians shirt” etc. and all of these feeds into the relevant parallel copyright tags (or possibly even a separate tag category, depending on what Pup decides).

So if you search for just “toothless”, you find only pics with the character toothless present and posing/interacting. But “toothless*” would find “secondary” presences, like someone drawing an image of toothless, wearing a cosplay of him, a poster of him of the wall etc.

This is a proposal, but I think it’s worth considering while we still have a relatively restrained amount of content.

Sounds interesting, I have no objections.

I found that if I search “pokemon*”, it gives some results that aren’t even tagged “pokemon”, “pokemon (series)” or “pokemon something”. I have no idea what causes such behaviour.

Unrelated. That’s because of an unintuitive aspect of Philomena aliases: partial search will return the “corrected” form of a matching alias even if the canonical tag has not a single letter in common with the aliased one.

And as it happens, “pokemon fusion” is aliased to “hybrid”…