So ronery

Wasn't there a "ronery" tag, used on photos of sad lonely otaku doing "so ronery" stuff such as eating with their laptop? What happened to it? Or am I imagining things?

The tag is "lonely".

But wasn't it "ronery" before?

I remember it being ronery too. I don't quite see the point in renaming it to "lonely", since the engrish is needed for it.

Maybe I have fuzzy memory, but I'm pretty sure it's always been just "lonely". That, or I've been subconciously reading ronery to lonely.

But shouldn't there be a distinction between characters who are lonely, and stuff like (most commonly) people trying to eat with characters on their computer screens? "ronery" being the memetic name for this...

I agree, lonely and ronery are different.

"lonely" in the non-"memetic" meaning of the word seems subjective to me, so I don't know if it's supposed to be used. Anyway, I also agree it should be "ronery" or perhaps even "so_ronery".

(I don't remember ever being anything other than "lonely" though.)

Don't worry LaC, it was definitely "ronery" before.

I agree with the others above me that there very much is a difference between "ronery" and "lonely", no idea why anyone would change that as the engrish is intentional.

Perhaps an alias [so_]ronery->lonely was added, and then removed, leaving no trace of the change? Changes caused by aliases don't get recorded in the tag history, do they?

I'm pretty sure that alias changes do show up. They are just arbitrarily given to whomever next updates the post's tags after the alias is set up.

Dare I ask whether such pictures are suitable on danbooru..?

Lonely is not ronery, ronery is lonely.

Ronery is a much more ronery, so ronery and arone form of lonely.