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How Our Tagging System Actually Works

A behind-the-scenes look at the automated pipeline that tags every video on this site — and why it's built the way it is.

Every video here is tagged through an automated pipeline that reads the title and any existing metadata, then assigns tags and a category from a fixed, curated vocabulary — not invented freely per video, which is what keeps browsing by tag genuinely useful instead of fragmented across dozens of near-duplicate labels.

The performer-name rule

If a performer’s name is identifiable in a video’s title, it always gets tagged as a performer tag — this is treated as higher priority than generic content tags, since it’s what makes finding a specific performer’s full catalog actually reliable.

Why a fixed vocabulary, not free-form tags

Free-form tagging tends to produce spelling variants of the same concept — “ts on ts” vs “trans on trans” vs “tsonts” all meaning the same thing but splitting what should be one unified category into three thin ones. A controlled vocabulary avoids that entirely.

This runs continuously

As new content arrives, it goes through this same process — nothing sits untagged waiting on a manual review pass.