@Damian0358: > nonamethanks said: > > I'm not sure there's...

Damian0358
2020-06-14T08:01:18-04:00

nonamethanks said:

I'm not sure there's a point in having both such a tag and their own channel tag at the same time. Otherwise the tag would effectively just work as an "indie vtuber" tag, and that's pretty hard to define and would have to constantly be removed en masse whenever one tagged with it explodes in popularity.

Considering I said "which can reduce the copyright clutter and encompass solo indie VTubers", they wouldn't have both tags, but only the proposed copytag. In the same fashion that original characters don't necessarily have their own copyright tags, but instead use original, so too would be the case here. And someone doesn't stop being indie just because they became popular, especially if 個人勢 and 完全個人勢 are used as examples.

At least, that's how I am proposing this tag. As said, if a tag closer to original is preferred, one that gets removed once an actual copytag is made, then that's fine! It would still ultimately serve the purpose of easing the tagging of new VTuber art on the website, helping them be distinguished from parodies of/references to/fake/concept art for unused VTubers, and making it more accessible for the well-versed to come in and give them the proper copytag they deserve (for this version of the tag at least).

It just seems needless to me to have all these indie VTuber copyright tags that, for the most part, are nigh-indistinguishable from the character tag, and share the same Other Names (and this isn't even mentioning how the policy for regular YouTubers applies). However, at the same time, someone could argue at which point my proposed tag applies, i.e. were this tag proposed earlier, would Mirai Akari apply under it? Probably not, due to being under the corporate ZIZAI Inc, but the argument still stands for other examples.

Alternatively, we could go with what Rampardos suggested a year ago, of just dropping chartags for VTubers, and having them just have their own copytag, "since as it stands using both is almost always redundant, and not having a copyright would make crossovers (which they often do) confusing," especially as functionally copyright tags encompass both and we've seen a preference for copyright request over character request for indies and smaller groups (since figuring out the former will lead to the latter, eventually).