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I didn’t realize how bad some of this con behavior was until after I joined the 501st Legion. I’m standing at a 501st booth, in a trooper cosplay that went through the most stringent approval possible from a Lucasfilm-affiliated org and random dudes will STILL come up and criticize my cosplay to my face. If you’re a cosplayer reading this, I want you to know that your costume is awesome the way it is. It does not matter how much or little work was put into it, some people just wake up and buy a con ticket to be a-holes.
I've been cosplaying since 2014, and I absolutely love piecing my cosplays together. I guess it's a variant of closet cosplay, but I refer to it as a "thrifting style". I try to find base clothes and accessories that work with the character rather than straight buying premade cosplays (with a few exceptions). It gives them a bit more of a personal touch, in my opinion. And bonus if I can reuse parts of it for multiple other cosplays. And this year I decided to only rewear older cosplays (outside of two plans that have been on my list for a while) since I want to give them some more love. Also, I've luckily never had any creeper interactions at cons. I am a female cosplayer, but most, if not all, of my cosplays are male characters. I have a smaller chest, so it is easier to hide, especially since I've been doing a lot of danmei cosplays lately.
I was at this years Dokomi, Germany’s biggest anime convention, and I had the time of my life. I met so many kind people and I am happy that I didn’t experience anything bad. I hope nobody else had any problems, but with that many people it sadly keeps happening. But then again, I did find two friends who kind of took care of me and made sure I’m okay. Last year I was alone and it was fine too, but maybe it also depends on the convention. I know just because I had such an amazing experience doesn’t mean everyone else did too but I do hope there was more good than bad. The people I met were very respectful.
I’ve actually been to Dame Ningen before! I’m actually from Australia and was visiting London for a day before going to Italy so I didn’t really do my research on alt brands in London and just thought I’d walk around Camden with my mum since I’d only be shopping for half a day.
I’m usually pretty good at spotting drop shipped items and my mum was a fashion designer and used to have a store in Camden in the 90s but we both had bronchitis and therefore we’re not the most alert.
We saw the store and I begged her to go in because the clothing looked so cool. The guy running the store seemed pretty chill and he told me that he took secondhand kids clothes from Japan and upcycled them and altered them.
What I found odd at the time was how much the items varied in quality. The skirts I saw were good quality denim and the bows and lace did look hand sown. And my mum who is more knowledgeable than me in this area didn’t seem to question it however like I said she was extremely sick and not alert in the moment.
There were other items that I looked at and immediately believed they were dropped shipped but at the time I didn’t raise an eyebrow and thought “maybe just some of the items are dropped shipped but these skirts aren’t”.
The guy who I think is the owner was really chill and we talked a lot and we talked about how dry the fashion scene is in Sydney.
He seemed like a nice person so now knowing that he lied to my mum and I about his product and hearing about how abusive he is to volunteers makes me feel so ashamed and foolish. Especially since I spent over 150 pounds. I feel so stupid for being scammed so easily.
Buying used cosplays is literally my favourite thing. It’s cheaper and less wasteful. Also having cosplay friends so you can borrow stuff from them . Buying less. And trading cosplays! It’s the best
I was going to try and wait to comment until the video was done and I'd collected my thoughts more (as an otakon class of 2009 cosplayer lol) but I could NOT contain myself because STAR TREK MENTIONED YAAA!!!! I'm actually in the middle of my first voyager watch through rn!!! I loved tng for ages and ages, but last year I watched ds9 for the first time and my brain chemistry still hasn't recovered. Love your stuff on tiktok, excited to check out more of your youtube stuff!!
(4:36) I just am enamored by their voice, it's lovely!!! And this video is awesome, thanks for taking the time and effort to make something like this for others to see.
As a thick, POC, and transgender cosplayer I feel ashamed to cosplay at this point, but try my best to keep positive (as I've never received any hate) but am so scared of getting that first comment that I've been not making much content for a while–not to mention the weather in my state is crazy right now lol.
I aspire to be like the cosplayer at 24:14. People (mostly women tbh) joke about grossing men out so that they'll be left alone, but I've never seen someone put that to practice in real time. Watching someone have the tenacity to just start barking at the harasser, even on video, had me feeling the waves of confidence- nay, defiance, coming at me through the screen.
30:15 former Colossalcon staff (Ohio USA, the waterpark con that grew exponentially over the past decade), when the Colorado Joker movie theater shooting happened in 2012, all the core staff had a long meeting about what to do in case of a similar emergency. People like that TERF whose name I already forget and don't care to remember have a high risk of basically increasing the chances that an anime con will be a target for domestic terrorism here in USAmerica. I don't know how high those chances would be in the UK or elsewhere since you guys don't have our same… weird culture of Militarized Toxic Masculinity. I do know that the good cons would have her press pass revoked without a refund and have her banned from the con for harassment and antagonization. Convention Centers are private property and when you buy a con pass you agree to a disclaimer (many cons print them on the back of the pass) which says that there's no refunds if you get your ass kicked out, so we are completely allowed to do that lol. Sadly, many cons back in the day were horribly mismanaged (Including Colossal) or there's so much bullshit behind the scenes that the organizers either don't care to handle shit like this or have too much other nonsense on their plate lol.
Im not gonna lie and say I dont prefer certain body types for cosplays. However, attacking any cosplayer for any reason is fucking horrible. Like, how dare you. Let people enjoy what they enjoy and if you feel the need to criticize, have it be constructive criticism. I feel bad for all the people who get attacked just for not being a specific body type, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or ethnicity.
I used to have so much to say about cons and con culture. And then I moved to japan and wasn't able to go to one for half a decade. I was able to home and went to Holmat this past year for two days and it just overwhelmed me with the feeling. I miss so much of the community and the togetherness and the getting to talk to people. It's hard to explain if you don't know the differences between japans nerd culture and the west but God I miss it
it's so wild that people will try and grift during cons, like there's not enough evidence how much one guy grifting can fuck over a whole con. Thanks for putting a spotlight on people who try their best as well as putting eyes on people doing shady stuff.
As a "baby" cosplayer. I usually closet cosplay ! I choose characters with a similar dressing style to mine and search for something in my wardrobe that they would wear
I'm a black cosplayer and the racism is genuinely so dejecting. Like I already go through life wishing I was white and cosplay is supposed to be an escape from that. And then you get insulted just for what you look like. But white people can cosplay Asian characters no problem? Or even do blackface, it's not THAT serious apparently, nobody cares. I mean heck, we even get hated when we cosplay characters that aren't even HUMAN. Like excuse me??
I used to be part of a maid/butler dance group and got legit bodyshamed (I'm a broad shoulder and somewhat portly lad in the uk) on stage by a member and the others did fuck all about it. I looked up to that group since I started cosplaying, learned never to meet your heroes that day
as a furry we have the same problem of people blaming the sexual side of the fandom for harassment.. like no the person drawing furry pinups or posting risqué content is not the reason people r getting groped at cons. people that dont respect basic boundaries r the reason for that.
also yea pls shower i dont wanna smell BO flavored tactical gear….
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If you want to see my content early, BTS and exclusive videos, and shoutouts, then check out my Patreon! ✨
I love creating content, and making long videos like this is something I enjoy doing, but takes a LONG time to script/film/edit. So any support big or small helps make longer videos possible 🩵
not me watching the first clip (the black Jinx one) as a black woman literally working on a Vi cosplay while listening to this video 😰😰
I didn’t realize how bad some of this con behavior was until after I joined the 501st Legion. I’m standing at a 501st booth, in a trooper cosplay that went through the most stringent approval possible from a Lucasfilm-affiliated org and random dudes will STILL come up and criticize my cosplay to my face. If you’re a cosplayer reading this, I want you to know that your costume is awesome the way it is. It does not matter how much or little work was put into it, some people just wake up and buy a con ticket to be a-holes.
I've been cosplaying since 2014, and I absolutely love piecing my cosplays together. I guess it's a variant of closet cosplay, but I refer to it as a "thrifting style". I try to find base clothes and accessories that work with the character rather than straight buying premade cosplays (with a few exceptions). It gives them a bit more of a personal touch, in my opinion. And bonus if I can reuse parts of it for multiple other cosplays. And this year I decided to only rewear older cosplays (outside of two plans that have been on my list for a while) since I want to give them some more love. Also, I've luckily never had any creeper interactions at cons. I am a female cosplayer, but most, if not all, of my cosplays are male characters. I have a smaller chest, so it is easier to hide, especially since I've been doing a lot of danmei cosplays lately.
2:31 IG MOOT SPOTTED HEY FERN 😍😍
I was at this years Dokomi, Germany’s biggest anime convention, and I had the time of my life. I met so many kind people and I am happy that I didn’t experience anything bad. I hope nobody else had any problems, but with that many people it sadly keeps happening. But then again, I did find two friends who kind of took care of me and made sure I’m okay. Last year I was alone and it was fine too, but maybe it also depends on the convention. I know just because I had such an amazing experience doesn’t mean everyone else did too but I do hope there was more good than bad. The people I met were very respectful.
I’ve actually been to Dame Ningen before! I’m actually from Australia and was visiting London for a day before going to Italy so I didn’t really do my research on alt brands in London and just thought I’d walk around Camden with my mum since I’d only be shopping for half a day.
I’m usually pretty good at spotting drop shipped items and my mum was a fashion designer and used to have a store in Camden in the 90s but we both had bronchitis and therefore we’re not the most alert.
We saw the store and I begged her to go in because the clothing looked so cool. The guy running the store seemed pretty chill and he told me that he took secondhand kids clothes from Japan and upcycled them and altered them.
What I found odd at the time was how much the items varied in quality. The skirts I saw were good quality denim and the bows and lace did look hand sown. And my mum who is more knowledgeable than me in this area didn’t seem to question it however like I said she was extremely sick and not alert in the moment.
There were other items that I looked at and immediately believed they were dropped shipped but at the time I didn’t raise an eyebrow and thought “maybe just some of the items are dropped shipped but these skirts aren’t”.
The guy who I think is the owner was really chill and we talked a lot and we talked about how dry the fashion scene is in Sydney.
He seemed like a nice person so now knowing that he lied to my mum and I about his product and hearing about how abusive he is to volunteers makes me feel so ashamed and foolish. Especially since I spent over 150 pounds. I feel so stupid for being scammed so easily.
Shout out Hijabi cosplayers! I love how they modify their Hijabs to look like hair it’s so cool and creative.
Buying used cosplays is literally my favourite thing. It’s cheaper and less wasteful. Also having cosplay friends so you can borrow stuff from them . Buying less. And trading cosplays! It’s the best
8:50 damn how you look obese while being skinny thats so weird 😭
Thank you Addy!! This was so good to watch while I was just drawing ^^
I was going to try and wait to comment until the video was done and I'd collected my thoughts more (as an otakon class of 2009 cosplayer lol) but I could NOT contain myself because STAR TREK MENTIONED YAAA!!!! I'm actually in the middle of my first voyager watch through rn!!! I loved tng for ages and ages, but last year I watched ds9 for the first time and my brain chemistry still hasn't recovered. Love your stuff on tiktok, excited to check out more of your youtube stuff!!
(4:36) I just am enamored by their voice, it's lovely!!! And this video is awesome, thanks for taking the time and effort to make something like this for others to see.
As a thick, POC, and transgender cosplayer I feel ashamed to cosplay at this point, but try my best to keep positive (as I've never received any hate) but am so scared of getting that first comment that I've been not making much content for a while–not to mention the weather in my state is crazy right now lol.
Sorry, but cosplayers used to cosplay for the love of the anime. Now, they cosplay for validation.
I aspire to be like the cosplayer at 24:14. People (mostly women tbh) joke about grossing men out so that they'll be left alone, but I've never seen someone put that to practice in real time. Watching someone have the tenacity to just start barking at the harasser, even on video, had me feeling the waves of confidence- nay, defiance, coming at me through the screen.
30:15 former Colossalcon staff (Ohio USA, the waterpark con that grew exponentially over the past decade), when the Colorado Joker movie theater shooting happened in 2012, all the core staff had a long meeting about what to do in case of a similar emergency. People like that TERF whose name I already forget and don't care to remember have a high risk of basically increasing the chances that an anime con will be a target for domestic terrorism here in USAmerica. I don't know how high those chances would be in the UK or elsewhere since you guys don't have our same… weird culture of Militarized Toxic Masculinity. I do know that the good cons would have her press pass revoked without a refund and have her banned from the con for harassment and antagonization. Convention Centers are private property and when you buy a con pass you agree to a disclaimer (many cons print them on the back of the pass) which says that there's no refunds if you get your ass kicked out, so we are completely allowed to do that lol. Sadly, many cons back in the day were horribly mismanaged (Including Colossal) or there's so much bullshit behind the scenes that the organizers either don't care to handle shit like this or have too much other nonsense on their plate lol.
Im not gonna lie and say I dont prefer certain body types for cosplays. However, attacking any cosplayer for any reason is fucking horrible. Like, how dare you. Let people enjoy what they enjoy and if you feel the need to criticize, have it be constructive criticism. I feel bad for all the people who get attacked just for not being a specific body type, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or ethnicity.
I used to have so much to say about cons and con culture. And then I moved to japan and wasn't able to go to one for half a decade. I was able to home and went to Holmat this past year for two days and it just overwhelmed me with the feeling. I miss so much of the community and the togetherness and the getting to talk to people. It's hard to explain if you don't know the differences between japans nerd culture and the west but God I miss it
The black jinx was fine but to be fair, if I saw a pasty ekko then that would have me cackling
Too many people have gotten too comfortable not facing irl consequences of the words they say.
it's so wild that people will try and grift during cons, like there's not enough evidence how much one guy grifting can fuck over a whole con. Thanks for putting a spotlight on people who try their best as well as putting eyes on people doing shady stuff.
As a "baby" cosplayer. I usually closet cosplay ! I choose characters with a similar dressing style to mine and search for something in my wardrobe that they would wear
I'm a black cosplayer and the racism is genuinely so dejecting. Like I already go through life wishing I was white and cosplay is supposed to be an escape from that. And then you get insulted just for what you look like. But white people can cosplay Asian characters no problem? Or even do blackface, it's not THAT serious apparently, nobody cares. I mean heck, we even get hated when we cosplay characters that aren't even HUMAN. Like excuse me??
I used to be part of a maid/butler dance group and got legit bodyshamed (I'm a broad shoulder and somewhat portly lad in the uk) on stage by a member and the others did fuck all about it. I looked up to that group since I started cosplaying, learned never to meet your heroes that day
That's why Dream Con >
Lucky Star enjoyer. Ok I see you 🤩
The answer really is that normies and commercialization ruin everything
It's not just cons. Everything feels worse and less authentic now.
Horny Bonk?
as a furry we have the same problem of people blaming the sexual side of the fandom for harassment.. like no the person drawing furry pinups or posting risqué content is not the reason people r getting groped at cons. people that dont respect basic boundaries r the reason for that.
also yea pls shower i dont wanna smell BO flavored tactical gear….
This his lid to actor and VA community.