/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7001774
"Barrier of entry" becoming easier is a good way to explain how the entire anime fanbase has gotten assbackwards stupid and immature over time.

Pulling out my own old lady cane, but there's good reason why cons in 2000 weren't full of kids. There was little anime available on tv and those of us who pursued it had to go to the effort to order and purchase or trade vhs tapes. It gradually got a bit easier when Napster came out, but now you can fucking stream anything anywhere and there's piles of shit like Naruto on tv that pulls in young idiots.

Cosplay is much the same, all these kids just cosplay to have even more fun acting idiotic while unsupervised at a con. Teens in general are a different group of people from the teens of 10+ years ago.

And yeah you also have all those attention whores otherwise.

I only still cosplay because I get a chance to get together with friends and I can act like the character. I love the artistic elements of the hobby. We are so ridiculously hermit-like at cons though. Almost every time I talk to a new person I'm disappointed.

And I'm out of pictures.

I want to pull together a local cosplay/lolita meet up sometime this summer, but I've never been to one. So I have a couple questions (also: general meet up story thread).

What all goes down at a meet up? I have no idea if it's organized or if there are little events, do you throw a cosplay competition, buy/sell/trade area? I mean I have no clue, but I'd really like to pull one together. Where are some good places to hold one? There's a mostly emptied out mall that is still running, but the food court is dead and it's a really neat place with a lot of natural light and this huge boat thing coming from the ground. I thought that might be a nice place to have one, but again, I have no idea.

Any suggestions?

Gif's welcome, I presume?