Tagging and reposting

• Who can tag whom

  The post creation screen shows different tagging options depending on your account type. The rules are:

  • Practitioners (tattoo artists, piercers, laser practitioners, PMU artists, body-mod practitioners) — tag the collectors who received the work, tag fellow collaborators of the same discipline, and tag the studio where the session happened (one studio per post).
  • Collectors — tag the practitioners who did the work, tag the studio where it happened, and tag others (friends, additional people in the photo, additional studios) via the Tag others (optional) section.
  • Studios — tag the clients who appear in the post (collectors only) and tag the team members who appear in it (any practitioner discipline). Studios don't tag other studios; the studio is the venue.

  Every post can have one studio. The collectors, practitioners, and Others sections accept multiple tags.

  The Tag others picker is collector-only and lives in the description step of every collector posting mode — Showcase a piece, Showcase without a practitioner, and Collection / Model — so it's reachable from every collector path. The "Tagging others on your collector posts" section below covers what it does and why it matters for reposting on the non-Showcase modes.

• What happens when someone tags you

  If a practitioner or collector tags you in a post, the tag doesn't show up publicly straight away. You decide first. The tag lands as a Featured card on the Collabs page (tap the orange Collabs pill on your own profile). Three buttons sit at the bottom of the card:

  • Accept — confirms the tag. You now appear in the post's tag list, visible to anyone who taps the team icon on the post.
  • Reject — declines the tag silently. You don't appear on the post; the original author isn't notified of the rejection.
  • Accept & Repost — accepts the tag and publishes a repost to your profile. The repost editor opens so you can rewrite the description in your own words before publishing.

  If you do nothing, the tag stays pending and you stay invisible on the post until you decide.

  When the Featured card appears. The timing depends on the post's review path. On practitioner posts, the card lands as soon as the practitioner publishes — there's no in-between review step before tagging. On collector posts, the card appears once the post is validated:

  • Showcase a piece (the practitioner-tagged path) — Featured cards fire to everyone tagged on the post (practitioners and Others) once the first tagged practitioner approves the content check.
  • Showcase without a practitioner and Collection / Model — Featured cards fire to everyone tagged in Others once a community moderator approves the post.
  • Trusted Collector posts — Featured cards fire immediately on publish, since Trusted Collectors skip the review step.

  On a collector post, the Approve button on the practitioner's validation card is the content check ("is this post fine for the platform?"). It's a separate decision from "do I want to be publicly tagged on this post" — that question is asked on the Featured card that arrives after validation. Tapping Approve does not automatically tag you; you still get the Collab card to decide.

• Studios are added automatically

  Studios are the exception. When a practitioner or collector tags a studio in their post, the studio is added to the post immediately — no Featured card, no Accept / Reject, no notification. The studio appears in the Studio section of the team icon modal as soon as the post is published.

  We made this choice on purpose. A popular studio could be tagged dozens of times a week; a Featured queue would just be noise. Studios are the venue rather than a participant who needs to vouch for the work, so passive inclusion is the right default.

  Studios don't get a Featured queue (passive receivers means no Accept step), but they can repost posts they're tagged on via the paper-plane icon on the post itself — see "Reposting anytime from the post itself" below. Studios also get a Reposts tab on their Collabs page to see who has reposted their gallery posts.

• Tagging others on your collector posts

  The collector posting screen has a Tag others (optional) picker in the description step, present on every collector posting mode. Use it to tag people who appear in the photo but don't fit the "practitioner who did the work" slot — a friend in the frame, an additional collector, an additional studio, a non-practitioner you want to credit. The picker is capped at 10 entries per post.

  Tagged others go through the same Featured-card flow as tagged practitioners: each one receives an Accept / Reject / Accept & Repost card on their Collabs page once the post is validated, and only those who Accept appear in the post's team modal afterwards. The picker excludes you (you can't tag yourself), anyone already in the practitioner-tag list (no duplicate tags), and anyone you've blocked or who's blocked you.

  This is also what makes the non-Showcase modes repostable. Until this picker existed, only Showcase a piece posts could be reposted, because reposting required an accepted tag and only Showcase had a tagging affordance. Now that Showcase without a practitioner and Collection / Model posts can also carry tagged others, anyone you Tag others on those posts can Accept & Repost them too — same chain-of-credit, same paper-plane share-sheet entry, no Showcase requirement.

• The team-icon modal

  Tap the team icon in the top corner of any post (the small people icon, only visible on posts with at least one confirmed tag) to open the team list. There's one icon per post regardless of how many roles are involved — author, practitioners, studio, others, collaborators, clients all share one entry point.

  The modal shows sections in a fixed order that depends on the post's type:

  • On a collector post: Author → Practitioner(s) → Studio → Others.
  • On a practitioner post: Author → Collaborators → Clients → Studio → Others.

  The Practitioner(s) section uses a discipline-specific label that matches the work — "Tattoo Artist", "Piercer", "PMU Artist", "Laser Tech", or "Body Mod Artist" (pluralised when there's more than one). Sections with no confirmed members are skipped entirely; if no one in the Others picker has accepted their tag yet, the Others section doesn't appear.

  If the post's Author is also the tagged Studio (a studio publishing one of its own gallery posts), the Author section folds into the Studio row as an Author badge — the same studio doesn't appear twice in the modal.

• What Accept & Repost actually does

  Tapping Accept & Repost does two things in one step:

  1. It confirms the tag. Same as a plain Accept — you appear on the original post going forward. 2. It publishes a repost to your profile. A new post is created with you as the author and a link back to the original. Your followers can find it on your profile. The team icon on the repost shows the original author so the chain of credit stays visible.

  The repost editor lets you write your own description before publishing. The image is the original; the framing is yours.

  Reposts only live on your profile. They don't appear in Discovery, Following, or any category feed (Studios, Collectors, Lifestyle, Tattoos, Flash, Piercings, Laser, Body Mod, PMU). The original keeps its place in those feeds under its own author. We made this choice for two reasons:

  • No feed duplicates. If a studio's post is reposted by ten tagged collaborators, the main feeds would otherwise show ten copies of the same image. That's a feed-quality disaster. The rule keeps every feed clean: one post, one entry, regardless of how many people repost it.
  • Repost = vouch, not republication. A repost is you putting your name on someone else's work as an endorsement. That belongs on your profile, where your followers see what you're publicly backing. It doesn't belong in the feed ranking algorithm, which is meant to surface original work.

• Reposting anytime from the post itself

  The Featured card isn't the only way to repost. If you picked plain Accept the first time around — or you're a studio and never saw a Featured card to begin with — you can still repost any post you're tagged on, anytime, from the post itself.

  Open the post in any feed and tap the paper-plane / share icon. If you're tagged on the post (and haven't reposted it yet), the share sheet shows a Repost option at the top alongside "Share externally" and "Send to…". Tapping it opens the same repost editor as Accept & Repost — write your own framing, then publish. The result is identical: a profile-only repost with the original author's credit intact.

  The Repost option is only visible to people who are tagged on the post. Untagged viewers see the regular share sheet (Share externally / Send to…) with no Repost row — that's intentional. The eligibility rules are the same as the Featured card: collectors and practitioners must have already accepted the tag (so the row appears once the validation is confirmed, not before); studios are eligible immediately on any post that tags them. And you can only repost a given post once — after that the Repost row stays in the share sheet but is greyed out with the note "Already reposted — visit your profile" so the affordance stays discoverable.

• Tracking who has reposted your work

  Open your Collabs page (orange pill on your own profile) and switch to the Reposts tab. Each row is one person who tapped Accept & Repost on one of your posts. Tap a row to open the resharer's profile.

  The Reposts tab also drives the badge count on the Collabs pill — unread reposts add to the badge alongside any pending Featured tags. Reading the tab clears the unread state.

Frequently asked questions

I tagged someone two weeks ago and they still haven't accepted. What happens to the tag?

It sits pending on their Collabs page until they act on it. There's no expiry. The post is fully visible to viewers from the moment you publish it — the tagged person just doesn't appear in the team icon modal until they accept. On a collector post, the Featured card lands once the post is validated (see "When the Featured card appears" above), so a new collector post with a slow first reviewer can delay the card landing too.

Why is the **Tag others** picker missing from my post creation screen?

It's collector-only. Practitioner and studio post creation flows tag people via their own dedicated fields (collectors / collaborators / clients / team members) rather than an Others picker. If your account is a practitioner or studio account and you want to tag a non-practitioner who appears in the photo, the existing collectors / clients picker covers that.

Can my friend repost a **Collection / Model** post I made?

Yes — as long as you Tag them in the Tag others picker when you create the post. Once the post is validated by a moderator, your friend gets a Featured card on their Collabs page and can pick Accept & Repost. The same applies to Showcase without a practitioner posts. The Showcase-a-piece path is no longer the only repostable one.

Does Approve on the practitioner's validation card also accept the tag?

No. On a collector post, Approve is the content check ("is this post fine for the platform?"). The tagging decision ("do I want to appear on this post publicly, and do I want to repost it?") is asked separately on the Featured card that arrives on your Collabs page after the post is validated. Hitting Approve does not silently tag you.

Can I repost a post I already accepted plainly (without reposting)?

Yes. Open the post in any feed, tap the paper-plane share icon, and pick Repost at the top of the share sheet. The same editor opens — write your description and publish. This works for any post you're tagged on, anytime, as long as you haven't already reposted it once.

Can I undo a repost?

Yes. A repost is a normal post on your profile — open it, tap the menu, and delete it. Deleting your repost doesn't affect the original. Once it's gone, the Repost option re-appears in the share sheet so you can repost again with a different framing if you change your mind.

Will my repost show up in the Discovery feed if it gets lots of engagement?

No. Reposts don't enter the algorithm — they live only on your profile, regardless of how many likes or comments they collect. The engagement counts (likes, comments, bookmarks) belong to your repost, not to the original; the original's score is unaffected by what happens to reposts of it.

Can someone else repost my repost?

Reposts aren't taggable, so the "Accept & Repost" path doesn't fire on a repost. The original is always what the chain of credit links back to.

Why doesn't tagging a studio require the studio to confirm?

Studios are venues, not participants who need to vouch for the work being shown. They're added passively — no notification, no Featured queue, no Accept step. If a studio doesn't want a tag on a particular post, they can ask the original author to edit it.

What if I'm tagged in a post I'd rather not appear on at all?

Tap Reject on the Featured card. The tag is silently dropped; you don't appear on the post and the original author isn't notified. If the post is already public and the tag is wrong (say, mistaken identity), Reject is the right action.

Does Accept & Repost count as a separate post on the Ranks competition?

No. Reposts don't compete on the monthly leaderboard — only original work does. This stops anyone from gaming Ranks by mass-reposting trending posts they were tagged on.

Where can the original author see who reposted their work?

Same place: the Collabs page, Reposts tab. Practitioners, collectors, and studios all have it. Each row is one repost, with a link to the resharer's profile.