/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9357714
>It's foolish of all these SJW thinking Blacks don't get any cosplay recognition. Get good at it, and people will share the photos.


I will agree that a certain degree that you have to git gud for recognition.
One thing you don't seem to understand about the human psyche is how much we need something to resemble what we already know. There are precious few well known dark skin characters in pop culture that are recognizable on sight. So that's a problem to even find someone you look like.
Humans have such varying noses, lips, eye shape, cheekbones that are prevalent in each race. By and large, black folks aren't gonna have the facial features of (insert white character here) so even if you have an affinity for a character there is a slim chance you're going to look like them.

Add that up, less characters to chose from that could look like you sorta and not even having the facial feature of white characters.... no one is going to notice you even if you did do a good job. Because you don't look like what they remember.


I can attest to this cause I've been cosplaying for 17 years and I'm damn good. The only cosplays of mine anyone ever lost their shit over.... when there is a brown character everyone knows and I happen to look like them.
The rest of my stuff is nice and people like it. But they don't share those pics. They only share the ones that I look like the character too.