Announcement Regarding a New Flair: Short Films

We are rolling out a new flair called Short Films. This flair will be used for the posting of animated shorts of a wide variety. It will primarily be used for stand-alone works, while serial works will either receive airing discussion threads or fall under the Official Media flair (such as chibi shorts that air alongside a main series).

Examples of posts that may receive the Short Films flair include indie animations, student films, commercials, music videos, and basically anything else that can show the variety and creativity one can find within Japanese animation.

Shorts may be reposted, but we will be implementing restrictions to prevent the same videos from being spammed. Each time a specific short is posted must be separated by 180 days and the top 75 most popular shorts cannot be reposted at all. These restrictions are the same as the Clip, Video Edit, and Video flairs restrictions.

Dialogue-heavy shorts must include subtitles and shorts with an official online release (such as on YouTube) must be linked directly to the official upload. Shorts without an official release may be hosted on Reddit in the same manner as clips.

We hope that with this new flair that it will be easier for users to post and discuss anime in all forms that it can take.