As title? This isnt just lazy tagging, its like almost nobody knows this tag exists. As an example, there are 24 pages of images for "rachel_alucard". Add in the "vampire" tag and it drops to 4 pages. Thats 20 pages of a vampire character without the vampire tag. And this isnt an isolated occurence either.

This tag should not be used unless vampiric traits are clearly visible in the image. Demon wings alone don't count but add pale skin, fangs or drinking blood and it's a vampire.

If being a canon vampire was all it took to get this tag then we would have some 45000 in this tag from just the Scarlet sisters from Touhou.

Like what, red eyes? What is the tag for vampire characters that do not have any "obvious" vampiric traits visible in the image?

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We tag what we see. If it is not visible in the image, don't tag it.

I should add that this tag is still very under-used.

The fairy tag is similar. Not every image of Daiyousei shows her fairy wings but those that do should also be tagged fairy. There may be dozens of other tag examples.

Right, but for people who want to search for ALL images of vampire characters on the site, what tag do they use then?

You'd have to search the character tags to get all images.

We don't tag characters; we tag specific traits visible in an image.

Objection!

I saw shemales (yes, with visible big boobs and visible long hair) tagged as 1boy/2boys, with tags locked and mod comments insisting it's a boy, "because the artist said so". By that logic, if Blazblue says Rachel is a vampire, I don't see a reason to not tag her as such. Besides, she does look vampiric, even if just a bit.