Cons Are Taking Advantage of Cosplayers
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legit all your videos are negative…..look at the last 4 video titles…..like are you always dealing with crap? try to be find the best in things and make some positive videos…….just my opinion
I've volunteered at the biggest anime convention near me as staff for a couple years, and just from what I've seen from behind the scenes gives me very little faith in how it's run. What a crap show. I've mostly sworn off conventions at this point, because why would I spend all this money just to go to a subpar event run by a bunch inept money grubbers?
I've been going to SF conventions for…a long time. The enshitifiation (See Cory Doctorow essay about the term) of SF&F Fandom has been going on for a while. Like all corporate entities, the companies that make money off conventions will do everything they can to increase shareholder/owner value over what the people who created the whole genre want. It all started when people began running conventions for profit, rather than for the love of the genre. As long as people are willing to pay to attend events liike Comic Cons, corporations will exploit the good nature of people who love the genre enough to volunteer to help with these events.
I got tired of this, and having watched Corporate Cons destroy fan run events with typical corporate tactics (see any book on how Walmart destroyed Mom & Pop stores all over). Don't support those events, put together your own events, and run it like fans used to run conventions. You may not get 10,000 attendee events, or super-well known guests, but I can tell you from experience, you will have both a lot more fun, and get a lot more satisfaction putting together your own style of non-corporate conventions to support whatever aspect of Fandom you enjoy. I know I did, and the event that I co-founded has been going on now for 30+ years.
Conventions are not conventions without cosplayers, normies only would be whack.
11:50 EPEL??????? FROM THE HIT GAME TWISTED WONDERLAND?????? IN THE OUTFIT THAT IS CURRENTLY GETTING A RERUN RIGHT NOW??????
I will never go back to NYCC. I went back in 2013, and its not anything on the con itself. As it was back when I was a youngin and didn't know much about conventions myself back then. Its more on the fact that the convention was so crowded on its own and just made me very uncomfortable. But hearing that Jack was at NYCC and that con already having a crowd problem to start with because of its large population to start with. It was honestly a surprise to me that they didn't handle any of that better.
But i also only ever really went to furry conventions and that is a totally different experience compared to a comic convention.
Funny enough the only reason we went to NYCC in 2013 was because my mother entered the cosplay competition back then. I don't believe she placed but I like watching your videos and kinda actually understanding what was actually happening because my mom never actually explained that to me back then and was just like 'you need to meet back up at this spot at this time' and it wasn't till watching your videos i realized it was because of the prejudging aspect of the contest lol
but we did that and a skit and i messed up my part when it came time to it but i mostly remember just talking to other competitors at the time and just having nice conversations with those people. Honestly only thing i remember about that convention besides feeling like i wondered to far and finding really random spots that i didn't know where part of the convention but turned out they where lol
God bless isekai anime con in Utah for trying to be a light in the void of hell that is the Utah convention scene. Fanx has a chokehold on fandom in Utah because obviously that MUST be the best con anyone could ever want. Fanx completely side lines cosplayers (who are their biggest money makers) and constantly shove panels aside. Isekai is a con for cosplayers and although small I hope it grows one day to be able to take over the salt palace convention center
Oh the lunacy is also for the entertainment guests as well! My local anime convention in canada hired our orchestra for a show, and we had almost 2000$ worth of equipment stolen WHILE we were performing!!! The con did nothing to compensate us and we faught like hell to even try to get $ back :') and thats just ONE of the MANY stories I can tell of that con in particular XD
Having been a convention person since 1979, in every position from con-com, staff, publicity, security, and now author, I've seen so much of this stuff. I remember cos-play when it was just the "costume contest" that you threw together an hour before the contest. It's come a LONG way since. Unfortunately, I have a dislike of the big corporate conventions (called pro-cons by those of my generation). Fan run ones have always been a lot of fun. And the cos-play is always so much fun to do. I've run into the same type of treatment of the Lit-tracks at pro-cons. Shuffled up on the top floor of the con in the back corner. Not highlighted on the schedule, etc.
And yes, I'll fill out those surveys for y'all, I LOVE cos-play folks, been there, done that, my second ever costume was a gold statue. Wore a black plunge-neckline-high slit dress (oooh, racy for 1981), a black turban with a big jewel (created out of paper and glitter dipped in Elmer's) and the body paint created out of mineral oil and (no kidding) car-paint metal flecking). Got third place in that silly getup.
I also appreciate your talking about ramps (and omg, who the hell zip-ties a cane, seriously??) I'm in a wheelchair and I've been in panels where, as a panelist, I wasn't on the dais because they didn't think of putting a ramp in. So, I'm off to the side on the floor trying to talk to a room. No mic for me, it was too short to reach, etc. It's just so hard to do these things with a disability at times.
I love watching the caliber of cos-play work now. I have grown grandchildren who do it, and it astounds me the work they put into it.
Thanks for being "that voice" of those who are just having fun and doing it for the love of the characters and the work. You're awesome.
as soon as theres money
it will be gobbled up by capital
I only a Month ago realised Snarky Jay is a Cosplayer too, until then I thought she was an actual Movie critic and not a Professional one
The fact the crappy local mall’s free entry anime con that is basically a drop shipping fair with crappy street food and inexplicable sumo wrestling that blocks half the walking area of that tiny sucker and lion dances that deafen everyone has legitimately better cosplay contests when it’s usually just a bunch of college students and high schoolers in amazon costumes and they had a whole kerfuffle last time when someone who actually made their costume got pissed a vibes-and-looks-only competition and their costume was hit glued together and they visibly (and smelled like) had not bothered to bathe in days… is still run better than these cons. A quarterly weird thing in a weird college town that’s usually just drop shippers all over the place with some activities on the stage in the middle and the smell of sweaty fat guy and bad street food does better than this.
skit competitors are essentially indie actors who create ALL their assets and it’s terrible that they aren’t treated as such when they probably put in more effort than REAL industry actors
I think it’s very offensive that vtubers, who are likely at home chilling, are put above cosplayers that are flying out to support and attend these events and have been doing so for decades. I’m sure the vtubers work really hard as well, but it’s so unfair to me that they did that.
This was the first time I heard of Jack…
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A large convention near me once wouldn't let the screenplay writer for Dr. Strange into their green room. He was very very upset and vowed never to come back. He was a joint host with several authors for a panel on World building (and other panels too). They have lots of great panels and talks for aspiring authors, illustrators, comic creators, etc. But they wouldn't let him in the green room. Jim Butcher (in the same panel) was let in, but not him. He threw a fit. This kind of drama is not good for a convention. I know writers are not the main focus of this Con, but you took the time to bring in such talent to support it. Respect them! All of them!
Just did a contest for the first time in Northern Florida and I was also disappointed. Just took a picture and asked questions. Didn’t even inspect the work or offer any feedback. Also they only did a 1st place and an honorable mention for each category. Then they had all of the other contestants walk in front of the stage in a pseudo walk of shame. The con also was dissatisfying because most of the panels are talking with voice actors, discussing comic books, or surprisingly how to become a writer (because yeah this con thought that it would be great to instead of invite ANY cosplayer guests to invite authors of books, many being self-published authors—which great for them but what about the cosplay?). I think the only panel that related to cosplay was how to do cosplay makeup on a budget. Disappointing. I’m not even sure I even want to go back to this con even though it is the closest to me.
On a different note, I would like to say thank you to Sarah for giving me the courage to even attempt a cosplay contest and fully make a costume for the first time. The Kokomi and Strawberry Miku were what made me first think “Hey, maybe I could do this too”. I have severe social anxiety and this was something I did to challenge myself. So thank you again!
I love watching your videos and I usually never comment but how your described how cons have no idea how to handle any big named that isn't from Hollywood or a big VA reminds me of Supercon waay back in either 2015 or 2016 (it's been so long I don't remember which) the creator for Homestuck came to do meet and greets. The con 1) was FAR too small to handle the crowd it got, 2) it was the middle of florida summer and because the line was so long they had us swing the line in and out of the con and out the doors in the hot sun with no water, chairs, or shade. (Thank the heavens my parents were nurses because I started to yell at the staff to hand out water to people because cosplayers decked out were dropping like flies in the heat and myself and a few others were doing our best to help were we could, 3) while we were waiting in line our line went in front of the stage for like Q and A's for VA (again very very little room) and we had to listen to MORE THAN ONCE of VA's joking that we were waiting in line for a no body because the VA's didn't know who Andrew Hussie was.
By the time we finally got to meet him i got like a quick signature from him and got to chat for half a second before the staff all but shoved us out of the way for the next person. It was nuts and completely soured my view of the con. Not to mention the artist ally that year was put in a second with no ac and had like ZERO space to walk for anyone let alone stand in front of an artist booth and shop. I left that con that year annoyed and disappointed with how the con was run for not just the con goers but how the artist and the cosplayers, and people like Andrew Hussie must have felt with how lack luster the con handled the whole thing. I wish cons did even like a small bit of research or have idk anyone talk to them about big names outside of Hollywood and VA's when it comes to other people attending their con.
I once went to a con in Indiana where the panel of judges had decided it was okay to put their 6 year old in a Halloween batman costume on the panel of judges. This would not have been a problem if he was just there for funsies and had no actual voting power, but he did, and also had the ability to give away his own award, which wasn't like a 'oh and also Little Batman (yes they called him that) thinks your cosplay is cool, here have a ribbon on top of the actual placing' but an actual thing. We got to watch a cosplayer in a full armor build with a nearly flawless floor length wig not even place because the kid's award counted towards the win limit and he picked her. Get a babysitter, ya'll.
There's also, like-…. disabled cosplayers. This is crazy not to think about this beforehand!
Genuine question, I live in Utah, and though I've never gone to a Con, I have friends and family who have, and the story that was going around years ago when Fan-X first came to be (mostly told to me by my sister in law, who worked there for several Con seasons) was that they went by Salt Lake Comic Con, but the original Comic Con was going to sue if Salt Lake didn't change their name, so then they changed to Fan-X. Has something happened in the years since that happened? You mentioned that Fan-X is the parent company of ComicCon in the video and I'm confused.
(Honestly, I should probably look this up myself 🤷)
What's a Con without Cosplayers?
Seems like shooting yourself in the foot.
That's like Nascar without racecars.
I'm not really into cosplay and havent watched anime in decades, but your videos are really interesting and entertaining. Great story telling. The christmas con videos are really fun.
As a cosplayer turned AA artist, I feel this! Higher table cost + worse vending conditions. More attention is given to merchants who are increasingly bringing in more bootleg and AI merch, even though more attendees are saying in exit surveys that AA is a main draw/ what they look forward to. We are asked to be open 8-10+ hours a day while only given one badge, cons waiting till 1-2 months before to tell you you're in (even though you applied 6-8 months ahead of time), and treatment gets worse (we didn't even have a trash can in the hall my last show, vendors had trash piles we cleaned up end of night while attendees left trash on our tables). I also highly avoid the chain comic shows, as they will put the artist in the furthest back corner and then stuff the hall with people just wanting autographs. Those shows I actually just feel like the bankroll that funds the show, as few of us will do better than break even. Then they ask to re-book you with a 20% table cost increase!
Sounds to me if you don't dress up in crazy cosplay costumes, you won't have this problem
Hi! This is TheAsterio2 here and I’ve been wanting to ask this but are you attending Louisiana comic con? I’ve been meaning to ask this because on the official website, it states that “The Strangecat would be a guest/ or a judge I really didn’t know what it was trying to say 😔 And I really hope you are! This is TheAsterio2 signing off!❤
i understand why you would assume the vtuber guests all have corporate management, but that is not accurate! the vtuber section of HolMat seems to be operated by a team quite separate from the main con organizers, which might explain some of the weird discrepancies in their treatment compared to the IRL guests
if its not free, its a scam.
all cons should be free. they should be about celebration, not profits.
>Tampa Bay Comic Con mentioned
Oh god, I didn't even remember them having cosplay stuff, I was mostly involved in panels, even hosted some and I can tell you it isn't great either
Just barely starting this video and boy I could do a whole video on just how badly mistreated we were as featured guests for a year with Galaxycon. Whew. Bucking up for this though. HMU if you want more galaxy con stories ever
Did not think I would be getting a historical list of grievances. This seems like ahhhhhh oh nvrm.
Not preparing properly for somebody like jacksepticeye is like setting up a large, international, convention, and then being shocked when the crowd is massive because you literally managed to have somebody like… Idk, Robert Downey Junior or something.
"You have no respect for knights potion seller!"
In Finland most of the cons are held and build by the community, so they are really cosplay orianted. Now we have gotten our own Comic con and yeah i can definetely see the difference when the oranizer is making the con to make money rather than to build the community. I have compeated aroun the world and i can also see there what competitions are held in commercial conventions.