create implication brand_name_parody -> parody

create implication brand_name_parody -> parody

reason: the former falls under the latter.

-1. "Parody" may be in the name, but it doesn't benefit anyone to dilute the main parody tag just because some minor item is called "Bocky" instead of "Pocky."

Hillside_Moose said:
-1. "Parody" may be in the name, but it doesn't benefit anyone to dilute the main parody tag just because some minor item is called "Bocky" instead of "Pocky."

If its a type of parody, it still qualifies for the tag. Most of the examples of parody are really no more of a parody than a brand_name_parody is.

No, it doesn't. Posts under parody are based on mimicking a scene or style from other copyrights. Unless if it's the main theme of the image (like post #784802), a brand_name_parody makes up a minor aspect of an image by changing the name of a well-known product.

I'm with Hillside Moose on this one. Moreover, calling what we use brand_name_parody for a parody at all is a bit sketchy in itself.

A parody is defined as "a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing", whereas a brand_name_parody as we use it generally contains no humor, satire, or wit, and is typically nothing more than an intentional typo to ward off lawsuits.

Futhermore, most parodies on Danbooru also typically combine two or more Anime/Manga "copyrights", whereas in brand_name_parody usually only a single real-world non-Anime/Manga-related company trademark is referenced and nothing more.

TV tropes' name for the phenomenon: bland name product while probably too tongue-in-cheek and opaque for a tag name here, is at least less misleading.

brand_name_imitation? brand_name_look-alike? I agree that 'parody' in the present tag is sort of misleading.

I'm up for aliasing brand_name_parody to brand_name_imitation, and have done so.

If we come up with something better than imitation I can change it.

Imitation sounds good to me.

alias broke.