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A booru (plural "boorus") is a style of online imageboard, a kind of internet forum which operates mainly for posting images. Boorus use a non-hierarchical post semantic structure in which users post content and add tags, annotations, translations, and comments.

The booru structure was popularized by Danbooru, which has spawned a number of derivatives, including Gelbooru and Mylmouto.

Structure
Boorus aggregate content mainly by users uploading images, animations, or other files and providing tags. Each image has a dedicated page, on which the tags are displayed, along with comments, translations, annotations, and other information. Boorus can usually be searched, locating images with a given tag or set of tags. Most allow for boolean searches.

Some boorus include advanced features for displaying or managing tags. Many allow one tag to imply another (meaning any image with the former will be treated as having the latter). In some cases, tags are sorted by category (such as copyright holder, what individuals or characters appear in the image, etc.) on image pages.

Booru softwares
There exist a number of different Danbooru-style imageboards, both those with shared source code and those that are not released for others to use. The two main Danbooru derivatives are Gelbooru and MyImouto.