/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7469276

I'm sorry Anon. I really am.
I've been around the hobby for a while and I've watched it become what you described.

I feel the same way and it's frustrating as hell. I tell myself that "You do this cause you love the show, it doesn't matter if no one gives a fuck." But in the end if the new flavor of the month is touted as the best thing ever while I see someone in amazing corsertry with meters of fabric that had to be hand dyed and beaded to within an inch of its life get totally ignored you feel like it's not worth it anymore.
It's just human nature.

I keep hoping the fad will pass and everything will calm down but then someone hits a new low of self promotion that makes my head spin.

Just know that I care. If I see something really well made/really spot on I will say so. I make it a point to praise the clear work someone did because someone needs to be out there doing that. Someone has to counter the people who spackle on the make up and photoshop with their boothbabe costume.