/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8026529
>>8026529
Well. Some of my cosplaying friends have liked her page. It's time to die.

But to be serious people like this make me extremely sad. They've taken something that has existed as a form of escapism, meeting people with similar interests, crafting and expressing your love for something and turned it into a way to make a quick buck and satisfy their bottomless thirst for attention and vanity. It's not a dear hobby for them, it's a cheap alibi to make money and power off of people who think you're into something they love and to gain depth to your brand by not being a generic camgirl. They also harness people's good intentions and cry misogyny/slutshaming when called out for their actions and don't even bat an eye at how they're ruining something that has a much deeper meaning than showing your tits for donations.

They're the reason I'm finding myself less attracted to cosplay as a hobby, because they're the ones who get thousands of FB likes and shares, act as the face of cosplay and get featured on cosplay-related articles. It legitimately saddens me.

>>6961534
I know of a girl who has done two (2) costumes that are both painfully ghetto, you know, clothes straight out of the closest H&M and a wig. And even then her costume is inaccurate. Her photoshoots are messy and the person handling the camera obviously has no idea what they're doing. She has over 1500 likes on her facebook fan page and tons of fans and everyone loves her "WIP" pictures which are mainly her showing off the wig/contacts/makeup tests. Let that sink in.