Donmai

Deprecate grabbing

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BUR #27090 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

deprecate grabbing
mass update *_grab grabbing -> -grabbing
mass update grabbing_* grabbing -> -grabbing

As a parent tag, grabbing doesn't really do anything. Our grabbing subtags are almost all for parts of the body or someone's clothing, meaning that by their rather intimate nature, users are always going to want to search for the more specific subtags like ass_grab over just ass grabbing, for instance.

Speaking of, a single implication from grabbing_another's_breast (61k posts) makes up over 80% of grabbing (75k posts). Going back to my earlier example, this has the amusingly infuriating effect of ensuring over half of the results for ass grabbing are actually just breast grabs. In order for this tag to have any use at all, every search you make with it has to exclude grabbing_another's_breast. Combined with the fact we already have specific grabbing tags for most body parts, grabbing's pointlessness as a parent tag becomes especially obvious.

A related parent tag with a similar purpose is holding, but holding has far more actual use in that you can often use it to find niche examples of someone holding a specific object, for example holding forceps. As someone on the Discord put it, you can hold so many different things, but there are only so many places on the body to grab.

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