Topic: The 2019 cowkini deserves its own tag. (unalias request)

The bulk update request #12834 is pending approval.

remove alias cowkini (0) -> cow_print_bikini (2297)

Reason: While the term has become genericized, it was originally created as a hashtag to refer to this specific thing, which is not actually a bikini, back in 2019. And while the hashtag no longer works because X is broken af, Searching FA for "cowkini" posts between 2019 and 2021 shows almost entirely results for this specific outfit.

In the meantime, I can try to hunt down all the posts with this outfit and put them into a set to make it easy to retag them afterwards.

errorist said:
this specific thing, which is not actually a bikini,

Don't see how that's not a bikini. It looks like a relatively modest sling bikini to me.

Conservative variations of sling bikinis may cover a fair amount of skin: some featuring a wide band across the breasts, or straps around the sides to hold the bands in place. Less conservative versions consist of "three postage stamps and two pieces of dental floss."

eightoflakes said:
Don't see how that's not a bikini. It looks like a relatively modest sling bikini to me.

Yeah, and a sling bikini is no longer classified as a bikini here because bikini is implicated to two-piece_swimsuit.

We could probably have a cowkini_(meme) tag, for this specific outfit, and then keep this alias in place?

The fact a sling_bikini isn't actually a bikini also means none of the representations of the specific meme outfit should be tagged as cow_print_bikini at all.