@nonemouse: No one is going to be looking for Samsung and...

nonemouse
2025-09-26T23:01:21-04:00

No one is going to be looking for Samsung and expect to see post #9883086, or Kfc and see post #9210501. A lot of these are just character costumes with no real connection to the "copyright" of the collab. Nuking the costume tags and replacing them with copyrights just pollutes the copyright tags (which should, in my opinion, be reserved for posts with some actual representation of the collab brand) and makes the costumes harder to discover and search for.

If a specific costume is not notable or distinct enough to be worth tagging (like the mentioned recolors) or better served by a gen tag like plugsuit (evangelion) or school uniform, that's a discussion that can be had about those specific tags.

For instance, for some of these costume tags it seems like tagging with lawson and employee_uniform instead could be appropriate, because they aren't a unique outfit and they do visually represent the collab brand. But broadening that to a rule like "because a costume was created for a collab, don't tag it" doesn't seem justified to me.