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@CruFox  
But the point is that this happens because “morbidly obese” is ambiguous and it implies a level of realisticness (hence the “morbidly” moniker), but if you use “hyper fat”, then it easily clears up this confusion. “hyper” is already automatically added to posts labeled “morbidly obese”. Why not just further connect the two with “hyper fat”? Sure. You might have a few people who still overuse the tag “hyper fat” but I suspect that those people represent only a fraction of the people who overuse the tag “morbidly obese”

@SynthRavu  
Wow that first one managed to get tagged with male/male despite being solo. I thought that problem got solved after gay was aliased into male/male and yet it still pops up from time to time. Impressive. hasvn’t seen that since I tagged there.
 
Tangent.

@SynthRavu  
I would use just “obese” for the first one. It might be just tagged wrong on e621.

@CruFox  
Yea. I assmed that was the case but I still think it’s ambiguous. Plus the problem with e621 is that both realistic and unrealistic levels of fat get counted under “morbidly obese”.
 
This gets counted as morbidly obese
 
And so does this

@SynthRavu  
The reason why it’s called like that is because tags related to the “scale of fatness” were based on e621 system: https://e621.net/wiki_pages/1088
 
I have no preference about which name should be used.

So one thing that’s confusing is the “morbidly obese” tag. Mostly because “morbidly obese” is a medical classification for a real life level of fat and it seems like here, it’s mostly applied to characters who are in the unrealistically fat range.
 
I think “hyper fat” would fill out this role much better without ambiguity. Not only that, but it has a nice symmetry with the other “hyper“ tags. It’s clear that it refers to unrealistic fat. It’s not like F-list where there’s nothing in between “chubby” and “hyper fat”. We already have “obese”, but “morbidly obese” sounds more like it’s straddling the line between hyper and obese