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Image Booru

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 An Image Booru (pronounced "BOE-roo") is a new breed of Imageboard and is essentially a tag-based image archive. The name is derived from Danbooru (which means "cardboard"), which was the first site of this type. Most of the current boorus are based loosely around anime. Because the idea is still relatively new, there are not that many of them around compared to standard forums or more traditional imageboards. These sites cater to those who want the Pixiv experience, but don't feel like sifting through Japanese; fittingly, a very large majority of the images you see on boorus came from Pixiv first.
These sites often have a tagging system in which users sort the images into categories while uploading: e.g. [X character], [X show], [X artist]. They also have pools where certain images that are related to each other in a way that the tag system doesn't allow for can be collected for viewing, and is the primary means for works hosted on the boorus to be compiled. Most boorus have standardized tagging...but each might have slight differences in how they're standardized, which is something to be aware of when going from one booru to another.
Image Boorus often differ from Image Boards— but are still closely related— by nature of simply viewing many images and occasionally commenting on them as opposed to starting a comment thread with an image and continuing in the same thread with more images. The main advantage over Image Boards is that the images remain in place indefinitely unless deleted by moderators, whereas on an Image Board this is rarely the case. Because Image Boorus also have much the same attitude regarding censorship that other Image Boards have, the content of many boorus is Not Safe for Work. You Have Been Warned.
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 Temmie Village, a booru dedicated to fanart of Undertale. Dead for some time.
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 Ponibooru: A booru, and one of the first fan-based websites, dedicated to fanart of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The site has since been shut down due to a Creator Breakdown.
Derpibooru is taking up the torch of Ponibooru with most of the images and fans moving there. It is considerably close to Equestria Daily in terms of fandom popularity. Currently one of the most feature-laden pony 'boorus, it features both Image spoilering and hiding for filtering purposes, tag watchlists, and the ability to directly retrieve and upload images from some websites like DeviantArt. Unlike the latter pony boorus, neither Derpibooru or original Ponibooru hosted Shockwave Flash files and both are also known for (over)allowing meta posts. Derpibooru eventually added forums (to phase-out aforementioned meta posts) and embedded livestreams to its list of features.
In April 2020, the management of Derpibooru launched Furbooru, which is focused on the Furry Fandom instead. It is operated independently from Derpibooru and uses a fork of its backend software Philomena.
The booru had several mirror sites, such as pbooru (NSFW), created before its death. They seem to retain little to no of the user activity the others were known for, however. Pbooru has no image filtering (but has a tag blacklist), and retains a Gelbooru clone look.
Octabooru, their direct competition from /mlp/ on 4chan launched in November. Has many unique additions such as Sweetie Bot, who identifies ponies automatically and tags for you (currently only the main cast, but planned to do all the most popular bg ponies eventually), and its own synctube. However, as of March 25, 2017, it appears to no longer exist.
Fluffybooru is notable for not only being a repository for fluffy pony stories and art, but for being the main hub of the fluffy pony fandom. Died some time ago.
20 Percent Cooler is another pony 'booru archive, which also features some image filtering and image pools. Dead for some time.
Bronibooru, a work-safe-only and quality-controlled pony archive unaffiliated with any of the above. Uploads are screened by moderators. As of March, 2021, the site has shut down, leaving the option of a torrent link for the archive.
Rainbooru, with a somewhat bare-bones interface booru and minimalist posting policies.
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 The MiShimmie, an imageboard with an active community based entirely around the Western doujin game Katawa Shoujo and its universe. Has been dead for a while.
Cripplebooru (NSFW) is a currently active imageboard used for the same purpose.
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 ProtonJon has the Protonbooru, which is featured on his streams in segments known as the Art Block. Since the art posted is showed on stream, NSFW is discouraged in order to comply with Twitch policy. The art would either reference the games played and/or feature antics from residents of the Jonaverse.
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