/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10658240
>>10658240
You reaction is totally valid, and that's another option for sure. If conventions are no longer your safe space to destress emotionally, then you shouldn't go.

However I was thinking like long term like decades long or years as you have mention.
The ways conventions are ran changes over time. Do I like having to go through security and bag check even though I know that it does very little in actually capturing contraband? Do I want to stand in the hot sun for hours waiting to get in? No, but that has become the norm due to many influences, social, political, economical, financial, legally, ideological and etc. factors. Even if its BS, there's weight behind it when it actually changes behavior and reactions, whether the origins are aunthentic or not (which I totally disagree with it just being a "flu". But I'm not here to argue that since I have no interest in changing your beliefs).
I hesitate to assign blame to any one reason for the current situation we find our selves in.

If anything, I hope that this brings back more community events like cosplay picnics and gatherings outside of conventions. Especiallly since cosplay is more accepted now.