Danbooru

alias black_vs_white -> dark_vs_light

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BUR #20156 has been rejected.

create alias black_vs_white -> dark_vs_light

Making it a bit more inclusive for stuff like "black vs light pink", "dark purple vs white", or conceptually "dark vs light". Alternatively this can also be an implication to preserve strictly black and white posts.

Edit: This turns out to be more complicated than I thought. There's polar opposites which is like the umbrella tag, but there's currently no implication between any of the tags. There's also opposing sides which is just on its own. And that's where a lot of the posts I described end up.

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Do you have an example of dark vs light that doesn't utilize the color theming of black vs white? While dark vs light can be broadening, it also runs the risk of potentially becoming a "good vs evil" theming and make the tag too overly broad.

Black vs White is going to be the most common, so'd make sense to retain a tag covering it specifically regardless of making a broader tag, but I think some of the examples of "not Black vs White" are coming off as being overly nitpicking.

If you're really insistent on a Dark vs Light, then the naming would make more sense as Dark tone vs Light tone, because otherwise you're leaving it nebulous on what it means to be dark or light. Colors like blue are also frequently color coded to being "light" aligned while colors like red being "dark" aligned, so someone could easily place red vs blue images under a dark vs light tag, when what you're trying to define it as darker tones (black/dark based colors) vs light tones (white based colors).

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