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Seems to me their purposes are identical: pics where otherwise normal human eyes have spirals (or, sometimes, rings) instead of pupils. Unless I'm missing a fine distinction, which is quite possible, @_@ looks the more popular and intuitive tag.
Updated by NeverGonnaGive
Absolutely not.
Though we need a better term than al_bhed_eyes. But absolutely not the emoticon.
Al_bhed_eyes should've been used where the swirl is a natural trait of the character, not for characters that have a crazed or dazed expression in their eyes (which is what @_@ covers). Rikku is probably the only character on Danbooru that has this trait, and it doesn't help that people seem to have different interpretations of a tag.
Even though al_bhed_eyes is more or less a Rikku-exclusive trait, it can still be useful since artists rarely draw the eyes consistently on her. It just needs to be clear that it shouldn't be synonymous with @_@.
Changed the wiki; is that an agreeable definition (even if the tag is changed later)?
FWIW, the blue-haired girl in post #479738 seems to exemplify it.
