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Gloomy tag

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By using the word "Gloomy" or "Dread"
I wanted to know, should there be a tag for when characters go into a temporary depression or disappointment (more often it's comical post #224382, post #6344).
And gloomy to describe a certain atmosphere in a picture.

Since Gloom is taken by a Pokemon.
Depression/Depressed is a bit too strong for me.
And Melancholy is something people don't really think about,
I thought Gloomy would fit a situation better.

In the wiki the Gloomy tag is being sort of- unused as a site plug in for Mori Chack's Gloomy_bear. Gloomy Bear would be the proper name for the character.

Or do you think it would be hard to use because of the black lines and shadowed eyes, which is often used when a character is not gloomy, but they are shocked or yelling. post #334268

Overall, do you think sadness falls into being gloomy?

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I agree that there should be a tag to describe those temporary depression depictions. Personally I have always leaned in favor of using "depressed" to describe the image, but I think gloomy would work. Dread would be the incorrect word to use, as that is about fear and not about being depressed.

I think there is enough differences between being gloomy/depressed and being shocked or angry, despite certain depictions that are similar. I don't think I could describe the differences, but I think the context (character's facial expressions + backgrounds) of the image tends to let one know if they're depressed or not.

I don't think sadness would fall into gloomy. Just briefly looking through the images, the images seem to have a more serious tone while I'd imagine that gloomy is more comical(at least imo).

H'h, I know that the "gloomy"-tagged pics (or at least two of them) were under "gloom" when I went on that poke-alias binge...

I think that "gloomy" describes what at least two of the pictures are going for: a doom-&-gloom lightning effect of the scenery and subjects. "gloom" would fit better if referring to the black lines, similar the the sweatdrop; with that in consideration, perhaps "gloom_lines"/"gloomlines" would work?

I'd be in favor of the standing "gloom" subject(s) to be tagged as "gloom_(pokemon)" (perhaps why a hold-off of aliasing to "kusaihana" occurred). I mean, if someone's looking for the pokemon anyway, they might catch on to generically-named creatures getting the "_(pokemon)" add-on. There's also those "maybe you meant" things, though I wonder how that would work for someone not in the know if "gloom_(pokemon)"->"kusaihana" was set... *boggles*

SHUMA-GORATH said: "Gloomy" just seems awfully subjective to me...

It's actually not subjective at all, if it's used to tag the specific visual gag used in anime, where dark vertical lines are used to indicate the feeling.

suggestions help ^_^

how about these? but they eliminate the atmosphere relation.
-dismay
-disappointment
-how_depressing
-comical_gloom
-tragic_humor

this one relates to both emotion and atmosphere.
-dreary

T5J8F8 said:
I think that "gloomy" describes what at least two of the pictures are going for: a doom-&-gloom lightning effect of the scenery and subjects. "gloom" would fit better if referring to the black lines, similar the the sweatdrop; with that in consideration, perhaps "gloom_lines"/"gloomlines" would work?

sometimes when a character is gloomy there are not always lines present, sometimes they are just hanging their head and there is a dark aura around them to show that they were upset, still the moment is comical since that is where you see it the most.

when it comes to the pokemon, i will still likely look for their American names.

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LaC said: In that case, you'll want to use a more specific name than "gloomy".

If there's a specific otakuism for it (isn't there for everything?) then I support using that. Otherwise, it's just a matter of picking something self-explanatory and easy to remember.

I kind of feel that it should either be "Gloom_(expression)" or "Gloomy_Expression." Beyond that I don't have any issues with it. I think since the definition is more or less concrete you should just go ahead and start tagging the images with one of the tags. If problems arise on the name of the tag, then I think it'd be something that could fairly easily be fixed later down the road.

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