diff --git a/db/migrate/20171018034551_drop_default_tag_name.rb b/db/migrate/20171018034551_drop_default_tag_name.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f28b891f5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20171018034551_drop_default_tag_name.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+class DropDefaultTagName < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.1]
+  def change
+    change_column_default(:tags, :tag, from: '', to: nil)
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index f42c03989b..d231ff72fd 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20170713195446) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171018034551) do
 
-  create_table "comments", id: :integer, unsigned: true, force: :cascade, options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4" do |t|
+  create_table "comments", force: :cascade, options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8" do |t|
     t.datetime "created_at", null: false
     t.datetime "updated_at"
     t.string "short_id", limit: 10, default: "", null: false
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
   end
 
   create_table "tags", id: :integer, unsigned: true, force: :cascade, options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8" do |t|
-    t.string "tag", limit: 25, default: "", null: false
+    t.string "tag", limit: 25, null: false
     t.string "description", limit: 100
     t.boolean "privileged", default: false
     t.boolean "is_media", default: false