heartbeat

📅 Updated:2026-05-03

🕒 Created:2018-10-16

🆔 ID:21861

Description

This tag applies to when a character's heartbeat is audible in an animation, or displayed through images or text within a still image.

A heartbeat can be conveyed visually by pictographics, such as a cartoon heart with motion lines around it, emanating from the character's body
heartbeats can be displayed through an electrocardiogram
most often, heartbeats are conveyed through sound effects in text (e.g. "bu-bump bu-bump", "ba-thump", "ba-dump")
- written sound effects may be joined by emanating lines and possibly heart symbols coming from the character's chest, or in some cases, a character's throbbing genitalia, indicating blood pumping into the organ