Hello, I am a huge fan of stick figure animation and art and I've come to make a suggestion about a very niche interest of mine.
I've been thinking about the circlehead tag lately and how it doesn't really have a very good name for the type of design it tends to represent. I wrote the wiki a while back to reference glorified stick figures, but there are a lot of circleheaded characters that aren't glorified stick figures that also suit the tag. I was also made aware of the round_head tag within the past day due to topic #61240.
My thoughts: I do think that glorified stick figures warrant a tag because they're a very specific type of design - extremely niche, and hard to search for under e621's current tagging system without a tag specifically for them. round_head featureless_feet, and round_head humanoid, two things most commonly associated with g-sticks, return nearly no results with g-stick designs.
The following posts are good examples of this type of design.
post #4127700 post #3979170 post #4070300 post #6076967 post #4137517
And these images I've uploaded contain different styled versions of the glorified stick figure.
post #3489277 post #4289127 post #2987873 post #6077578 post #6077646
From a glance they may just look like simplified human figures, but there are many nuances to a "glorified stick figure" design that differentiates it from a normal human. Featureless "boot" feet, low-detail stick-like bodies, round heads, often cartoony proportions are most associated with them. They're very common in the Alan Becker and Hyun's Dojo communities, as well as other series such as Marikin Online 4, Apocalypse Day, etc, and there's a pretty big community around these designs on Toyhouse and in east Asian countries.
Some contextual information for glorified stick figures as a name: "Glorified stick figure" is the most common and identifiable term for this type of design, as it looks like if you were to give a regular stick_figure 3D volume. They're also known as g-sticks and occasionally thickfigures. I think if there were a tag for this type of design, it should be glorified stick figure. Outside of this website, people do rarely refer to them as circleheads especially on toyhouse, but "stick figure" is the most common term for this type of design.
Would a countryhuman count as a glorified stick figure? The circleheaded ones usually are.
topic #61240 also makes me consider that circlehead should probably be aliased to round_head if there is a tag specifically for glorified stick figures.
TL;DR: While circlehead is a name that is in use for this type of design, it's not a very identifiable one and can be confused with round_head or any character with one. For the sake of searchability I think that there should be a glorified_stick_figure tag. Asking here for opinions and thoughts before I go through with making one/an alias from circlehead to round_head.