chesticles
balls as breasts
testicle breasts
breast balls

recently had the second tag brought to my attention while trying to respond to a tag-related query on the Discord. after further searching and looking at further posts it occurs to me that these tag names suck balls

without looking at the wikis, i want you to guess what each tag means.
* balls being raised to the chest to give the appearance of false breasts
* same as the first one, lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
* balls being directly attached to the chest like breasts are
* breasts being directly attached to the groin like balls are
how'd you score? probably 2/4 or lower, right?

so, while i'm perfectly fine with aliasing two of these tags together, i've already had to fix a mistag. i think the mere existence of these tags is going to introduce multiple problems if they catch on with the userbase. currently, they don't even make up 100 posts collectively, but i know there's at least one other image of a tanuki guy doing this (it might not currently be on e621?) there's every reason to believe that all of these tags are, well, undertagged.

TL;DR: we have a bunch of balls/breasts-related tags (breasts between legs, testicles on chest, testicles being pushed way up to chest region) with names that are too similar to each other, how do we make them more distinct?

Oh yeah the balls as breasts and chesticles similarity were brought up recently in topic #45597, though the other two are new to me.

One way to make them more distinct is to give them implications to unusual_*_placement, and rename them to something like *_in_place_of_* for the other two.

lafcadio said:
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balls as breasts
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breast balls

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without looking at the wikis, i want you to guess what each tag means.
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* same as the first one, lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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* breasts being directly attached to the groin like balls are
how'd you score? probably 2/4 or lower, right?

Or how about
* actual balls (tennis balls, basketballs, soccer balls, etc.) being used as fake breasts

post #1055767
after looking, fake_breasts certainly has a lot of content to that effect.

guess who found another way to interpret the concept of "balls as breasts", though.
post #3680295 (young female, gore-ish)

lafcadio said:
breast balls - breasts being directly attached to the groin like balls are

Would that be akin to crotch_breasts in some regard?

The bulk update request #10805 is active.

create implication balls_as_fake_breasts (52) -> fake_breasts (324)

Reason: alias balls_as_breasts -> balls_as_fake_breasts (currently blocked by alias #71708)
alias chesticles -> balls_as_fake_breasts (currently blocked by alias #72712)

7 months with no real activity/suggestions on this topic, in spite of the tags still being used regularly, tells me that we'll probably just accept any half-decent bullshit, so here's an easy tag merge. Adding "fake" to hopefully distinguish from the unusual anatomical placements.

A whole bunch of posts will need manual cleanups if this passes, but ~chesticles ~balls_as_breasts ~testicle_breasts ~breast_balls seems to only include 118 active posts, that's something easily fixed in less than a day.

See the next BUR for how I want to handle the remaining two tags covered by this topic.

EDIT: The bulk update request #10805 (forum #444425) has been approved by @spe.

The bulk update request #10806 is active.

create alias breast_balls (14) -> ballsack_nipples (19)

Reason: After asking on Discord, the presence/absence of nipples seems to be the only truly notable feature for this kind of post, and anything else (e.g. head directly above testicles, balls in bra) is a different concept. So let's cut out the middleman and make it so this tag reflects balls with nipples on them.
Other features like a scrotal raphe or scrotal flap can be tagged/searched separately, so ballsack_nipples -scrotal_raphe -scrotal_flap should serve to find posts like post #4226938.

The combination of these two BURs should leave only testicle breasts unchanged, and honestly, I think that's good enough to prevent confusion if the only other tags are ballsack_nipples and balls as fake breasts

Posts like post #3680295 or post #5209029 will have to find their tags someplace else.

EDIT: The bulk update request #10806 (forum #444426) has been approved by @spe.

The bulk update request #10805 (forum #444425) has been approved by @spe.

The bulk update request #10806 (forum #444426) has been approved by @spe.

The bulk update request #10891 is active.

create alias balls_as_breasts (0) -> balls_as_fake_breasts (52)
create alias chesticles (6) -> balls_as_fake_breasts (52)

Reason: final part.

EDIT: The bulk update request #10891 (forum #445655) has been approved by @spe.

The bulk update request #10891 (forum #445655) has been approved by @spe.