Tags are literally categorizing the content, the blacklist let's you pick what tags you do not see, if you do not like horse men add "horse_boy" or "furry_male" to the black list, if you do not like seeing giant penises add "large_penis", "huge_penis" and "gigantic_penis" to the blacklisted tags under settings.
Tags don't work, neither here on Aibooru nor on Civitai. I still see gore, I still see amputees, etc. Besides, tags do not make distinction between tasteful and tasteless, natural and grotesque, confined and sadistic. Fat people can be depicted tastefully and tastelessly. Sometimes tags are indiscriminate like "huge_breasts" - D-cup will be included that are acutally not huge. This is the big delusion that editor's job can be automated or replaced by automated censorship. No, it is impossible. AI is not enough, to get cheap editing, we need true intelligence. (Although aritificial true intelligence might ask even bigger salary than a human editor does, if things get so far). Automated censorship is a total disaster. It frequently removes faultless material and can also be easily cheated.
These posts make me regret there's no option to filter out from my feed the users who flood Aibooru with unpleasantness. Seeing what is happening to erotic galleries on the internet, it looks like there's a coordinated effort to denigrate hentai so that the public will develop revulsion against what is natural to be attracted to.
Yes, some people are into sadomasochism, some like grotesque anatomy, some like scat. So far, they were boxed into separate categories. But now, anything that is 'of legal age' gets thrown into public space. This experiment of brainwashing people to like toxic shit by mere exposure effect might succeed. What a 'beautiful' world it will be, leaving only one option left to fix it: Great Flood.
PS For those who would suggest blacklisting tags - it doesn't work. My feed still contains images with blacklisted tags.
