/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Best advice

If you are doing this to get famous stop doing it. Stop it. Just fucking stop it.

I just want cosplay to go back to be about meeting people who like the same shit you like and not about stupid whores wanting fifteen minutes of attention.

Volunteer at a hospital and get attention from needy patients, or volunteer at an animal shelter and get attention from pets in need. Do something because you genuinely love it, not just you loving the way having a thousand cocks up your ass makes you feel.

go away

>>7702397
I'm not doing it JUST for attention, but I'm proud of my work and I gave myself the goal of being an elite cosplayer. I know I'll need the craftsmanship skills to get there but the rest of it, the social media stuff and how to get my name out there, it confuses me because it seems like a "lightning strikes" happening of things going viral but if /cgl/ has any advice on how to make that happen, I'm curious to know!

Do you have big tits or ass? No? Then get some surgery.

>>7702406
Oh! Well then in that case just do what >>7702400
said.

>>7702407
I'm a guy... so no. Can only female cosplayers be cosplay famous? I'd never heard of the HoC guys before that show so I'm worried I'll never reach that level since I can't exactly do a sexy Pikachu or a genderbent AssCreed costume to use the "sex sells" technique.

If you're in it just to be e-famous then you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Cosplay is supposed to be an expression of fandom and being part of a community, not to use conventions to be the princess of instagram.

With that said, if you want to get noticed, being sexy is your best bet. The simplest route to popularity is exposed skin and having a hot body with a nice rack. The mainstream cares more about how you look then about how great your costume is. All of the cosplayers you named got known by posting hot pictures to their facebook, deviantart, etc.

Also, you have to promote yourself. Put out content on a regular basis, go to as many cons as possible, participate in contests, make your presence known in the community on social media, twitter, etc. Put out stuff that impresses people and then keep the hype engine going.

You also have to be able to assess yourself realistically and know your weaknesses. A lot of girls, frankly, don't have the looks to be an admired female cosplayer but falsely believe they can brute force it. If your body isn't beautiful or your face is kind of less than ideal, learn proper makeup techniques/photoshop and hit the gym. Otherwise you're just going to be another pixyteri.

>>7702410
Do fujobait yaoi fanservice then, fag.

>>7702410
>I can't exactly do a sexy Pikachu or a genderbent AssCreed costume to use the "sex sells" technique.

yes you can

>>7702407
This.

As shallow as it might be, T & A is what gets you e-famous for cosplay. Jessica Nigri became famous solely for this and even Yaya Han, who has been cosplaying seriously since the 90s, didn't really get noticed until a few yeas ago when she got her double Ds and flaunted them in costume.

Sex sells, the less clothes the better.

Even the "legit" female cosplayers like Kamui have to wear sexy outfits for their fame.

>>7702387
>I have a boyfriend
Not anymore. From now on, your relationship status is based off of rumors only. Never go into photoshoots with your boyfriend so that people are under the assumption that your single.
>Sexualize your outfits
Cosplaying someone who isn't generally sexy? Too bad, now they're sexy. Cosplaying an already sexualized character? Not enough, sexualize them even more.
>Body
If you don't have big boobs now, get them. Also make sure you're really damn photogenic.
>Why are you cosplaying?
From now on you are cosplaying because you want to "inspire girls everywhere to be confident in their bodies". Also, take a picture with a male weeaboo every now and then to make yourself not seem too picky.
>Social Media
Make a Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, etc based solely around your own cosplays and then advertise them directly and indirectly everywhere. Also, get in every photoshoot you can possibly do. If you're at a convention and there's some big event going down, make sure you somehow get center stage.
>Tumblr
By the way, you're now a huge feminist. A hugely vague feminist too. Also, familiarize yourself with Tumblr terminology so you can appease the psychotic SJWs and keep them from attacking you like the crazy bitches they are.

Some other anon can continue this for me.

>>7702410
>I'm a guy...

Full stop. Not going to happen then. Thanks for trying now leave. What makes the current crop of ~famous~cosplayers popular are the dudes willing to buy their photos. Women just don't seem to buy prints or run to cons unless your actually famous.

Maybe if your gay? Or become Trans you could try to monopolize on the tumblr crowd but otherwise your doomed.

>>7702420
he would need to look like this

If you don't have Zyzz's body with a cute face then let me laugh at your stupid unattainable dream.

>>7702387
Is this a troll?? This has to be a troll because the stars of HoC aren't "cosplay famous" no one gives a fuck about them.

>>7702420
Who are they cosplaying anyways?

>>7702486

pretty sure it's professor layton and the little kid form the game (luke??)

>>7702486

How are your dick sucking skills? That is the best way to get cosfamous.

You have to go fast, but not too fast. You should use a lot of saliva, but be careful about making too much noise.

More than anything, be willing to suck all manner of dick, no matter how clean or dirty, no matter the location, and no matter what your boyfriend says.

Once you've got your foot in the door, you can switch to a more dignified taking it up the ass.

The sad thing about OP is that even if it's a troll a lot of little shits have the same attitude.

>makes 2 costumes and expects ppl to fall over themselves.

>>7702494
That's super gross.
Leave my husbando alone, creeps. ;_;

>>7702420
>>7702497
This reminds me of a puzzle....

>>7702528

>>7702476
unfortunately this isnt true, the newer cosplayers on hoc actually do have a fanbase

>>7702497

get some friends and be a bunch of tryhards together!!!

People keep saying "sex sells" but new cosplayers wearing bikinis to chase efame are a dime a dozen, they can't all be famous. It's just bitter jellyfats trying to justify why they'll never be efamous and why they're so much better than other people in animu costumes.
Anyway, here are my tips:
-wear sexy costumes, but make them actually look good. Don't do a whole bunch of "sexy genderbend Thor" and "swimsuit Sonico" but do do them occasionally.
-Cosplay a lot of flavor of the month, but occasionally throw in something "old school" but still popular to show your "cred"
-When you do flavor of the month cosplay, aim to be THE VERY BEST not just another generic school uniform Ryuko or whatever the FotM is.
-Buy facebook likes, but only buy a few hundred at a time so it's less obvious
-Make tutorials or youtube videos
-It really helps if you get involved in a controversy, but in a way that makes you not look like an asshole. But even if you do, hope that you'll at least have some defenders.
-Get photoshoots with top photographers
-Get a boob job

Get your likes up then someone might notice you #sofamous

Implants and riding coatails of those that are already big names.

I can't believe I'm actually giving advice on this. What's wrong with me.

Anyhow, as a guy cosplayer, you're going to have to accept first and foremost that you will never be as famous as those you mentioned, but I think the thread has made that clear. The most you can hope for is having a strong internet fanbase who will leave you comments and being well known at your local cons.

Moving on, you said you have a boyfriend in your first post, stop that. That entirely eliminates your fan base. Dudes won't want to be bro-fans and girls won't like you because they know they don't have a chance. You don't have to change your lifestyle at all, in fact you can even post something about gay rights, but as >>7702431
said, your relationship status as well as your orientation is now just a rumor.

Go to every convention in your area, make one costume for each one. By the end of the year you should have a respectable closet of costumes. Get to know people there and eventually you will make a whole new circle of friend/contacts.

There's two types of cosplayers, the ones that are moderately skilled and are very attractive, know how to pose and photograph well (Okageo, Elffi, Liui Aquino) and then there's the kind that aren't ugly, but their skill is outstanding and that's what shows.. (J.Hart Design, Voplin, Johnny N' Junkers). I named all guys, so look them up. Figure out which one you are and work ONLY that angle.

Lastly, when you get fans know how to work and keep them. Post progress, post selfies, but not progress selfies, especially ones with faces. If people have seen you in costume 80 times while making it, the final picture of the finished product is going to not be received well. You can post maybe one or two progress selfies, but don’t ever post costests on your social media. Post them here anonymously so you can get brutally honest con-crit.

And um, that’s it. Good luck I guess, just don’t try to make a career out of it.

>>7702655
Get good quality pictures. Preferably from those sexy costumes. With nice background and good posing, so when people google your name those will appeayr.

>>7702655
All this is actually pretty accurate. If you're attractive and follow most of these steps, you could gain a decent following. If you're unattractive and follow all of these steps to the T, you won't get anywhere. And I'm not even saying you have to be hot. Just somewhat attractive. Animia is a good example of a cosplayer who followed all of these steps and gained a huge following, despite being an average looking girl at best.

Relevant copypasta describing how Jessica Nigri got famous:

Cosplay popularity is based primarily on how well you can market yourself. That's why there are so many girls that look better than Jnig but aren't as popular.

Girls take note of Jessica Nigri's example: She got in the game at the perfect time (back when facebook was just starting to gain momentum) and knew how to capitalize on the people she met via her short burst of popularity from SDCC '09. She self-posted on 4chan frequently and used the nerd blogs that posted her pikachu pics to promote herself when she released new photos. Then she used her small but loyal fanbase to flood the vote for the Lollipop Chainsaw sponsorship contest. Once she won that, she had all the networking possibilities she needed to continue gaining more ground in the scene. All of what I've just said can be proven by cross-referencing the content of the /cgl/ and /v/ archives, blogs like sankakucomplex and kotaku, and the testimonies of people who know her and have watched this happen. I also have a suspicion that she was one of the first to buy facebook likes (so no one noticed or questioned it because she already had so many more than other cosplayers) but no proof to back that up.

Tl;dr - if you want cosplay popularity you don't need to be more than a 6/10 as long as you do the following:
- create the illusion of mainstream hotness with copious amounts of makeup
- be thin and get implants
- market thyself

It will be very hard to surpass her until someone else finds "the next big social media site" and commandeers it right as it's gaining popularity, ala facebook. I believe that will be very unlikely as facebook has established itself as the top dog and she rode that wave better than anyone else could at the time.

>all the people saying that OP should get a boob job
He already said that he's a guy.

As a dude, you will never reach e-fame level of one of the girls, even if your costume is amazing, and you whore out on tumblr/twitter/fb.

Or at least, you cannot subsist on cosplay alone.

My advice? As a guy (I am assuming gay guy, since you said you had a boyfriend), you are going to need to be known as something "else" besides just a cosplayer. Perhaps a dancer, or a singer, or something like that. Have a secondary skill that you do while in the costume that gets people's attention and screams "I'm an attention whore, look at me!"

Don't feel bad about that last part. That is what you need, if you want to get some fame. You can't be afraid to bug people.

Next tip: Take your gay relationship status and toss that shit right back in the closet. If you are "known" to be gay, girls won't line up to lick your abs or ask you to sign boobs or ask for prints (aka won't be willing to shill out dollars) because your are already off the table, as it were. Keep your sex ambiguous, or just say "bi" to keep the girls excited. Don't kill your marketability.

Also just an FYI, "e-fame" cosplay is the worst fucking reason to cosplay, and I'd ignore your ass in a heartbeat if I could at a con, you attention whore.

But if you are going to try and get e-fame, at least do that shit right with my above advice.

>>7702712
Thanks, this was what I was looking for. My boyfriend isn't a cosplayer, he just likes making shit- so it shouldn't be hard to keep him under wraps.

Is it better to have multiple new costumes for each convention? Or just one?

>>7702756
Just curious- would it be better to pretend to be straight, or work the "yaoi" angle?

>>7702784
Play up the gay part hard. Your not a sexy women so being in a relationship wont hurt you as much because you can be the qt gay couple. It will be your best marketing tool.

Cosplay with your BF.

Series suggestions:

Supernatural
Nightvale
Hannibal
Free
Avengers
Xmen


You have the serious potential of hitting a extremely untapped market especially since your actually male and not just a lesbian crossplayer. GO ANON. Don't waste this opportunity.

>>7702387
To become a "famous" cosplayer, you need to have the looks, and body to be able to pull it off. If you aren't physically attractive and don't have the body, your chances of becoming a successful commercial cosplayer is zero.

Looks and body type are everything in commercial cosplay. If you are male, you're gonna have to settle cosplaying as famous bishounen from some series with very revealing attire to attract shallow girls who only evaluate others based on their physcial attractiveness.

If you are female, you're going to need to "cosplay" in the most revealing outfit you can get to appease shallow guys who also evaluate others based on their physical aspects. Tits and ass are everything in commercial cosplay. Don't have those things and you won't be able to get anyone's attention.

I'd suggest you withdraw from this ambitions. There is nothing worthwhile about it. I wouldn't degrade myself like that if I were you. Even if you have the looks, don't do it, it ain't worth your time or effort.

If you're a guy, here's what I would do.
-Get on tumblr, in addition to all other relevant social media (facebook, da)
-Cosplay fujobait and get some of your guys in on it. I'm talking Free!, WTNV,
-Do gratuitous fujobait photoshoots (kissing not necessary but fanservice is good)
-Suck up to your fujoshit fans
-Occasionally reblog posts about feminism and maybe even fat acceptance
-At cons, lightly flirt with your fujoshit fans
-Win over guy cosplayers by making awesome pieces of armor (if you can) or anything technically adept
-win over /cgl/ anons by posting helpful advice and not being a dick
-win over Facebook guys and gals by posting selfies about doing everyday stuff, but not being a dick (ie don't post a whole bunch of /fit/ stuff)
You will probably want to do sexy costumes but also balance it out with technically advanced costumes, good representations of popular characters, and a little old school mixed in
You will also want to do flavor of the month stuff like others have said above.

There's another route, and that's picking a character and representing yourself _as_ the character. Not like some otherkin shit, but just a character that you look like, cosplay regularly and talk about a lot.
I.e. therealichigo, hot IRL Link, probably some others I forget
You could also just do multiple costumes from one particular franchise, and market yourself as "the Assassin's Creed guy" or whatever
Then you can use this as a jumping off to other costumes.
One problem I see with guy cosplayers is that they suck at branding themselves. They get one popular costume but people stop following them. Volpin branded himself very very well. He's probably one of the only guys to do that.

>>7702815
I would also try to be funny. But don't be sexist, even just a little bit.
Do shit like hold up "cosplay does not equal consent!!!" signs or whatever the hot topic of the month is.

not OP but any advice on female crossplayer? I feel like Im at the end of the cosplay food chain since I will never look as good as an actual guy

>>7702440
I don't think it's the same level as jnig, but there are definitely well known male cosplayers (all of whom work as models).

Basically, go be a model and do cosplay on the side.

>>7702789
Cosplay from the new Dragon Age game with your bf as the Inquisitor and Dorian. Get some cute quality shots of you and him and get bioware to notice. You can probably do this through Twitter by just being like, "Hey @bioware check out my partner and I new Dragon Age costumes! Thanks for giving me a voice in video games!!"

Guaranteed retweet and post to their FB. Maybe even a blog post. Bioware lately has been all about the pandering to the LGBTQ community so you will be an excellent marketing tool for them and get lots of exposure. Hell if enough people say stupid things on FB, like they always do, you could tip Kotaku and Polygon about your harassment and BOOM even more coverage.

>>7702789
>Just curious- would it be better to pretend to be straight, or work the "yaoi" angle?
Oh my poor friend, you really have no idea do you.
>it will be your best marketing tool
Ding Ding Ding

>>7702387
And this is why I have an amazingly negative opinion on the cosplay scene in general. Too many shallow people cosplaying for attention and fame. Not enough passionate fans. Jessica and Yaya Han proved how you can win people by just cosplaying in scantly outfits without much knowledge of the characters they cosplay.

Fuck Comic-Con for encouraging this trend and fuck all those shallow cosplaying bitches & whores who are obssessed with attention and fuck all the guys that like that crap.

>>7702819
Get a tumblr and pretend to be trans

>>7702823
lol this is brilliant, OP please listen to this person. You have an untapped goldmine here you just have no idea how to work it.

>>7702831
No one PRETENDS to be trans anon. People are whatever they want, fuck dysphoria!

>>7702819
You a lesbian? That could be a huge selling point for you.

If not then you need to stick to anime costumes only. A lot of anime dudes look like chicks anyways so I would say you have more of an advantage there. You need to go on tumblr and start whoring yourself out there and be fujobait.

If you could do a good Tuxedo Mask cosplay right now and be as fabulous as the actress in the musical you would see a huge boom in your views. Pic related.

Hey guys, I could use some advice on how to promote my photos and costumes better too.
I cosplay mostly from Sailor Moon, and most of my costumes are pretty good and I get decent photography. I also pull off Usagi's hair really well, and have done most of her costumes. Whenever I put out new photos they usually get some good attention, but it stops there. I think I do shoots way too few and far between and people forget about me. I've had people in the past assume that I had a lot of DA or Tumblr followers because of my cosplayers and they're always surprised to find out I barely have any.
I'd like some better ways to promote my Sailor Moon cosplays.. I have a bunch of SM merchandise and plan to get more, so I was thinking about doing photos/selfies of me dressed up with some of my stuff and put on Tumblr, or something? I feel a little silly doing that, but I think it'd work pretty well.
Any other suggestions are appreciated. I don't *only* cosplay SM, it's just my main interest and I think I could work it a lot better than I am right now. Is there any way to promote old photos of mine? Or do I need to focus more on new work?

>>7702844
Well you hit the SM market at the right time but unfortunately you will probably get lost in a sea of other SM cosplayers. You will need to pump up your photoshoots so they stand out. Some of the most well known SM cosplay shots that stick out in my mind are those Japanese ones of the Uranus and Neptune at the beach. Go more extreme with a shoot location. Everyone is going to have random con shots. You might wanna see if there are any photogs in your area outside of cosplay that have great composition and reach out too them.

Also cosplay from fanart. (Not just the lol punk SM!) Make your costumes have more of a wow factor. I saw some good SM mucha inspired art floating around the other day. Copy those and be really pretty/atherial add flower crowns. OR go more gritty. Maybe a battle damaged Usagi with cuts and bruises in fighting posses. Play up the GIRL POWER image.

>>7702869
I do have a lot of photoshoots in good locations, some of them got really popular actually. It's just they aren't being associated with my name and kind of got lost in a sea.
I was planning on cosplaying from a fanart, but I don't know if it's exactly what you're thinking, it's a really stunning and detailled art of Serenity. What's your rationale for fanart cosplay? It's not a ~tumblr famous~ fanart so I don't know if it will work all that well, I just really like the picture.
I had a couple of ideas for a battle damaged SM and maybe shooting in a rose garden or something. Playing up the ~girl power~ image is definitely a good idea. I'll try to get more "wow" shoots.

>>7702840
she sells it so well, I love her

>>7702869
>>7702956
Ehhh I should clarify what I mean by "lost in the sea"
So usually I'd post something and it would get a lot of notes, reblogs etc. and people asking for my next cosplay and talking to me and stuff. But I do photoshoots SO infrequently that by the time my next photos come out, nobody cares anymore.
I was wondered if maybe posting the silly stuff on tumblr would help maintain peoples interest without having to constantly make new costumes and do new photoshoots. I guess I should just try harder to find photoshoots.

>>7702789
>would it be better to pretend to be straight, or work the "yaoi" angle?

Work both.

>>7702982
Maybe release stuff slower? One shot here and then the next week another shot? Activity is probably your best bet. Tutorials, answering ppls asks etc.

>>7702956
>I was planning on cosplaying from a fanart, but I don't know if it's exactly what you're thinking, it's a really stunning and detailled art of Serenity. What's your rationale for fanart cosplay? It's not a ~tumblr famous~ fanart so I don't know if it will work all that well, I just really like the picture.

I think sometimes artist can add more to a design and it looks lovely and has more of a wow factor then the original. It also can make it more complicated and fun to make. Like the historical Disney princesses for example. Ppl can cry about it all they want but I think cosplaying fanart and adding a bit more to an original design can be really nice if you have an eye for design. And as long as its not hispter X character then people will appreciate it more. Some ppl will cry inaccurate but as long as you do it well most ppl will like it.

>>7702440
Or unless you're Nathan Fillion. I swear to god my mom stood in view of his autograph table at a convention he was at, with a group of other middle aged women. FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE CONVENTION.

>>7702844
If you want to promote on an unconventional site, do the pics with your merch as your idea, and post them on myfigurecollection.net tagging them with the correct items. In the description or your profile link to your main sites.

>>7702426
>tfw I made a comment about Yaya and Nigri to a friend and told her I think they over sexualized their cosplays

>She then rages at me defending them

>We have never been able to talk to each other since

I wish this shit would stop as well. I have noticed a rather large transition over these past 12 years of cosplaying. For a group that is all about Gay rights and fight to end racism and things people sure don't give a fuck about being anyone equal

>>7703237
That's a good idea anon. I already have a myfigurecollection account anyway

>>7703300
Holy shit, please do not do this. Cosplay on MFC is cancerous.

>>7703369
I've really only seen that one with the saber cosplayer and her saber doll/fig I forgot. Is it really that bad? Most cosplayers can't afford that many figures anyway if they're superhardcore into spending money on cosplay.

>>7702387
It cracks me up that Monika thinks she's as famous as JNig. She's the stupid coattail riding friend. The one that makes Jessica look even hotter by comparison and has better costumes compared to Monika's shit. Monika "the prop" Lee.

>>7702784
>It shouldn't be hard to keep the person who makes my shit under wraps. I should be able to reap all of the attention from it.

>>7703653
She looks like a cave troll next to Jnigger.
She has a big enough ego to match how "famous" she thinks she is.

>>7702426
I can't tell if she's naturally ugly or ugly from all the plastic surgery and bad makeup. Also dat nose.

>>7702827
>fuck all those shallow cosplaying bitches & whores who are obsessed with attention and fuck all the guys that like that crap.


Right there with you. I've been doing this since '97 and watching it devolve into high school popularity contest part II is maddening.

I want to talk to fans and be able to spot them by them putting time and effort into a costume they are wearing.
and I can't fucking do that anymore.


When I started nearly everyone was older than me at 21-25 and socially developed enough to speak to all types of people. Now the average congoer is 16 and balk at speaking to someone not their age.

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Tl;dr: please stop TRYING to be popular. Cosplay what you like and if you do a good job let the fame be a side perk.

>>7702387
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JUST PLEASE STOP BEING THE CANCER OF COSPLAY!!!!!

>>7702754
He could still get a boob job.

>>7702823
holy shit this is great

>>7704335
/thread

>how do I get noticed?

Are you hot? Then everyone wants to notice you.

Not? Then no one wants to look at you.

Implants.

>>7702387
boobs

boobs is all you need

>>7703911
she's pretty cute actually without makeup. someone posted pics.

>>7702756
>Inferring girls aren't crazy for gays
Silly boy

OP work the bi angle and work the yaoi it will bring you the yaoi fangirls, the gay crowd and so many others including sjws.

But like many others you are a disgusting pig and doing this for the wrong reasons so I hope when you do get any level of fame your man smartens up leaves you and everything else you hold dear turns to ash because you are part of the problem in this community.

>inb4 soooooo harsh
>inb4 fatty jelly chan

Just the opinion of a woman who wishes this community wasn't so sad and it's only getting worse.

Not OP and I'm not interested in being "cosplay famous".
However, having a cosplay page, I obviously want to share my cosplays with other people and would like to get more people to see my work and get more feedback.

What makes a cosplayer/cosplay page worth following? Wat kind of content do people like to see?

>>7710832
*What

>>7702406
You don't need craftmanship.
> Start a Cosplay Fanpage
> Pay for likes so you have a good amount starting out
> Post really sexually charged photos. Stuff guys can masturbate to.
> Post a bit about how you made the costumes so you look genuine, and talk about how you're so into "games" or "sci fi" or whatever you want to pretend to be into
> Post more of whatever is most popular.
> Ask your followers to ask cons to invite you so you can attend and see them. Also ask followers to fund your projects.

tl;dr you're trying to get a swarm of horny men to obsess over you and help you achieve your goals.

>>7702410
Appeal to the horde of women who get obsessed over yaoi, twilight and 50 shades. Find the flavor of the month and get in it. Once again sex does sell, but you need to balance a personality that the girls are going to like.

>>7710832
Tutorials. Good tutorials.

How do I becaome a famous respectable/rolemodel cosplayer?

I mostly do armored cosplay. And the only thing close to a rolemodel I found was Kamui Cosplay.

>>7710867
Make really good armor and tell other people how to make good armor too

>>7710867
Win a lot of awards for your work, attend many cons (outside of your local area as well), and hopefully get a spot judging as well.

Tutorials are so plentiful now it is hard to get respect for them alone, even if you are very skilled and the tutorials are detailed.

>>7702712
>Pose well
>Elffi
Hold on guys, let me pick the other one from my stack of two poses and one expression!

One of the key essentials of becoming cosplay famous is to keep yourself on the surface. You should be everywhere. Get a twitter, follow every cosplayer you know, compliment them every chance you get no matter how shitty they are.

Constantly tweet something, make updates, even though you don't have anything to say. It can just be a pointless message like "I'm watching the latest episode of ___, I really want to cosplay ___!"* or "I really love ice cream! Does anyone of you love ice cream?". Just make sure you're on all the time.
*Posts like this are mandatory. Even if you have no intentions to cosplay from certain series, just include their characters to your "to-do" posts if they're popular.

Kiss a lot of ass. People will like the one who compliments their costumes and personality. Ass-kissing is one of the most effective ways of becoming famous. Eventually you'll get connections so you'll have the best photographers, best cosplay groups and good relations with contest judges.

Make a facebook cosplay page and a worldcosplay account. Like&Follow every other cosplayer you come across and remember to compliment them. Every time they post something, be sure to like their update. Commenting isn't necessary because sometimes it can make you look desperate.

When you finally get close to people, open the shit faucet. Talk shit about everyone, but try to keep it subtle.

If you get called out for being a drama bitch, just accuse of people bullying you and make a whole lot of updates about how "thanks to certain people" you're depressed and sick of all these rumors and lies they're spreading. Defend everything you do and try to turn it so that your enemies will become the wrong-doers, not you. I made a non-canon sexy costume version of a male character, you criticizing the poor construction and lazy design of my costume is sexist and shaming! Why is that the cosplay community is full of bullies?!

And last but not least, kill yourself.

One of the key essentials of becoming cosplay famous is to keep yourself on the surface. You should be everywhere. Get a twitter, follow every cosplayer you know, compliment them every chance you get no matter how shitty they are.

Constantly tweet something, make updates, even though you don't have anything to say. It can just be a pointless message like "I'm watching the latest episode of ___, I really want to cosplay ___!"* or "I really love ice cream! Does any of you love ice cream?". Just make sure you're on all the time.
*Posts like this are mandatory. Even if you have no intentions to cosplay from certain series, just include their characters to your "to-do" posts if they're popular.

Kiss a lot of ass. People will like the one who compliments their costumes and personality. Ass-kissing is one of the most effective ways of becoming famous. Eventually you'll get connections so you'll have the best photographers, best cosplay groups and good relations with contest judges.

Make a facebook cosplay page and a worldcosplay account. Like&Follow every other cosplayer you come across and remember to compliment them. Every time they post something, be sure to like their update. Commenting isn't necessary because sometimes it can make you look desperate.

When you finally get close to people, open the shit faucet. Talk shit about everyone, but try to keep it subtle.

If you get called out for being a drama bitch, just accuse of people bullying you and make a whole lot of updates about how "thanks to certain people" you're depressed and sick of all these rumors and lies they're spreading. Defend everything you do and try to turn it so that your enemies will become the wrong-doers, not you. I made a non-canon sexy costume version of a male character, you criticizing the poor construction and lazy design of my costume is sexist and shaming! Why is that the cosplay community is full of bullies?!

And last but not least, kill yourself.

>>7712393
A++ would become cosplay famous again

>>7712393
This is brilliant and eerily accurate

>>7712393
Similar steps for becoming lolita famous? Which do you think is better and why? I'm assuming you can only do one at a time.
I understand your views completely but the idea of seeing how far this bullshit could take me sounds amusing.

>>7712393
I should continue this, because I forgot a couple of things to do.

Always and I mean ALWAYS take couple photos with other (famous) cosplayers. And post them everywhere. Tag everyone in the photo. Even if you don't know them personally, the photos with famous cosplayers are important. This will make you seem like a social, popular person who's included in the exclusive circle of famous cosplayers. Again, it doesn't matter at all if you don't actually know them, just act like you do. Namedropping is a good way to do this, just mention their names everywhere you can. e.g. "Had a great weekend at the con with @FamousCosplayer and @AwesomeCosplayer!! Thanks guys, it was great meeting you! <3" Even if you only butted in to talk with them in the bathroom line. If they reply to you, retweet their replies so everyone can see how close you are!

Of course, pick only popular or very attractive characters. It doesn't matter if you've never seen the show or only skipped through it to get the gist of it. Hell, even reading the wikipedia site is good enough. But in general it doesn't matter, just do the damn costume and post your plans to facebook with some fluffy paragraph such as "This character is really dear to me and I relate to her a lot because she's so _____ ! I love characters like this a lot and her design is just so perfect!". Keep it vague, you don't want to give away the fact you have no idea what the character is like. If someone confronts you about it, just throw a fit about how they're shaming you and not everyone can know the "every last detail about a character gah I'm not a NERD this is really offensive everyone should be able to cosplay anyone they want to!!!".

Writing this only made me realize how many people like this I know. Fuck.

>>7712550
If you know that many people they can't all be that famous, right?
But shit, you are really making me want to pursue cosplay fame. Too bad im more into lolita now because I don't have the time and will to make cosplays anymore. I already have a bunch of twitter followers for some reason too.

incorrect, to be a famoose male cosplayer, do the equivalent. sexed up cosplays, yaoi homo fujoshibait, bondage and kink shit. get abs and make sure your face is bishounen.

getting your bf in on the game will actually make you even more popular lold

>>7702387

Is it just me or does Monika Lee look like she's getting fat in the face. In all her photos that aren't shopped she got a chubby face.

>>7712560
>satiric text mirroring the stupidity of people who want to be KOSUPUREI FAMOUS
>But shit, you are really making me want to pursue cosplay fame.

Be nice, be in costumes lot, be nice, know your character, be nice,politely refuse pics the will be untoward, always thank people for taking the pic, help others when you can,be nice, look for random people in costume from your show.
And lastly be nice... Divas are some times famous but often alienate a LOT OF PEOPLE

Are there any well-known cosplayers who DON'T use drama, T&A shots, or kissing ass to become well-known? Are the days of gaining followers and likes because you have good construction gone?

>>7712742
Problem is those people keep low profiles online so its hard to follow their progress, Unless you're a close friend then you only really see them 1 to 2 times a year

>>7712742
Concidering how new facebook pages and social media are compared to cosplay in general there wasn't ever a time when you gained followers and likes purely for construction.

>>7712742
Most of the ones who did back in the day eventually quit, aren't well known, or became one of the ones you speak of.

Many of the people who win best in show often rarely hold 5K likes. No one cares about being talented in regards to likes because majority of the likes are guys looking at hot girls in costumes.

Becoming Cosplay Famous.

Practically no one is cosplay famous because of who they are or they're skills. Let's not kid ourselves and just admit that all the 'fame' is borrowed off of popular fandoms and sexuality.

In artistic spaces the easiest ways to get noticed are to either specialise in a popular fandom whether it's drawing Naruto doujinshi in a style the spit of the original or being that Demyx from Demyx Time (dated anology I know) or sexuality. Capitalising on skin.

But you could have your tits out and no one will notice. Despite hashtag and tagging systems you're still only available in a search capacity for about 10 seconds. This is where the lightning strike comes in and why it's so important. You don't get noticed otherwise.

In order to get noticed you have to rigorously self promote yourself. Post on forums, post on groups, post on anything you can get your hands on. Try not to dilute your page with too much share for share stuff.

Or get the lightning strike of being endorsed by someone or something that is vastly more popular than you. This can go one of to ways.

Either you hit the jackpot and your the next Jessica Nigri over night.

Or your shared by someone like Jessica Nigri and you get a hored of protective fans telling you how little you are by comparison to their god.

But don't ever kid yourself. Cosplay fame is borrowed fame. It doesn't matter how nice you are or how skilled you are. And honestly it doesn't even matter how attractive you are as long as your passable for skinny cause there's enough taste in the world for you to cater to a decent portion of it if you can only get it's attention.

If you want it you just have to keep promoting yourself and putting yourself out there until it hits.

Or just give up.

There's no shortcut.

Should also point out that with everyone having their own page and no one wanting to support anyone else because they just want people to adore them.....there's no one left to be your fans anon.

>>7712763
How about people who aren't ultra famous but still have name and cosplay recognition? I don't want to follow someone who has a million likes, just someone who has good cosplays. I know they have to be out there but CGL never talks about them.

>>7712773
And that's how they want it to be. Not to be talked about on CGL.

>>7712786
Exactly. Getting mentioned in cgl is the worst punishment anyone could get.

>>7712786
Exactly. Getting mentioned on cgl is the worst punishment anyone could get.

>>7702387
OP if this is a serious post, then you need several things. first of all from the words of a wise man on the internet "advertise like shameless whores" Obviously where appropriate. like cosplay forums, or places where it's relevant. like the forums to whatever fandom you are cosplaying from, go there "hey guys i'm doing a costume of (insert character here) and here's some pics! what do you all think?"
Get good. like, your skills, sewing, crafting, etc

Do what you can to meet many people. Regular people, industry people, VA's, artists. Get to really know A LOT of people. Maybe have some business cards. nothing in particular on them, maybe your name, email. general contact information, twitter, etc etc etc
Gotta work on your body too, "hey it's great you put all that effort into that armor thing, but your gut is hanging out of it. fix that."

And now after all of this, HOPE. have hope that you made a good impression with ALLLL of this. and maybe you'll start to get followers. but, you can't just stop once you've done it. it's a constant up hill battle. till suddenly you realize one of two things either "this isn't working" or "yess! i've done it!"

>>7712812
I would so much rather get posted here and called fat and ugly than get posted to Reddit or some other site. Reddit is even worse to cosplayers than cgl is.

>>7712772
>>7712393
>>7712550
This is al good gold, thanks for the incite. Gl to OP but I agree with everyone that you should do it because its your passion and not to be famous. Its just like people who follow careers just because it will make them money and not because they love it.

Here's where I'm at:

I've been cosplaying for about 6 yrs, started out as most (closet cosplay, making a few easy items) but I eventually went to school for fashion. My cosplay became good enough to have a small fan base. I briefly took up commissioning but after a lot of cheap and insulting inquiries (not wanting to pay the price for my time and work) took a break from sewing all together for about a year. I learned that without sewing my life was so drab and boring. I'm now back to cosplay with a fresh outlook and ready to get back into the game. Along my way I've made friends with some popular cosplayers and online personallities with larger following so I'm doing some collaborative work. I've also been hitting the gym and its paying off in all the right places (my dds have not been change lol). So far I'm feeling lucky but we'll see what the future holds :)

>>7702655
This. Also get a twitter/fb page and update the Twitter several times daily. JNig must do this shit as a profession or something, she literally spends her time grabbing attention on social media. She made the FB page thing what it is.

I disagree with anon about FotM having to be the best. Sometimes that is true like with Monika or Riddle (much as I hate to admit it they have some talent, though Monika thinks WAY too highly of her abilities). But in other cases like JNig you don't have to be the best. Just get a legion of pathetic fanboys thinking you're the best and it solves the problem.

I think OP is a troll though honestly, at least I want to believe they are. I really hate that the cosplay community has exploded with so many shit tier cosplayers looking for efame. I miss the good old days when people cosplayed mostly from stuff they genuinely loved. It has always been about attention, I just miss the quality. Then again, with all the amazing wig sellers and materials that weren't on the scene 10 years ago shit is looking nicer and nicer when people actually do put in the effort.