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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2021-06-15 08:16 am
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It's possible the original purpose of sex act tagging has gotten away from fandom a little

Browsing bookmarks from 2011 and it's both hilarious and a breath of fresh air that the tags are like "modern AU, television, chess" and "fake dating, politics, architect" and don't all include a 15-item list of ludicrously specific sex acts including stuff like "face touching while kissing" and "anal fingering (two fingers)" and "shower foreplay". A novella with a total of three additional tags?! 😂
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[personal profile] krait 2021-06-15 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, the overtagging with incredibly minor details is such a nuisance! Some fandoms seem to have more of it than others, which is probably a (fan-)cultural thing; I suspect fandoms that are primarily active on Tumblr or Twitter tend toward heavier freeform tagging, though since I'm not on either platform I'm only guessing based on some of the tags.

Overtagging is annoying from both directions - people looking for
"blowjob"-tagged fics aren't going to be happy with two lines of blowjob out of 10K words, and people avoiding "blowjob"-tagged fic might miss a fic that they could have enjoyed by skimming one paragraph.
Edited 2021-06-15 20:39 (UTC)
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