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My experience is recent and only with local cons. It seems to me that most people have stopped cosplaying. I don't know if they are too lazy, too intimidated, too busy or if it hasn't occured to them. The few people who do cosplay are either Luffies or Tanjiros without wigs and toystore katanas. Then there's the dedicated cosplayers with the wigs, the suits, the props. There's a big gap between the two.
Say what you will about the costhots. I've said a lot. They buy their stuff, they filter themselves like bad coffee, they paint themselves like whores. But the end result is there inbetween the pros and the casuals. They look better than the average cosplayer, they sell sex appeal and they are a novelty.