/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[Anonymous No.9763056]

Whatever happened to Yaoi Paddles? How did they ever even take off?

[Anonymous No.9763073]

>>9763056
Ah man, I don't think I've seen someone carrying a yaoi paddle in nearly a decade.
I started going to cons in 2007 and by that time, they seemed to be extremely popular and I just never really questioned it. Haven't even thought about them in years and now I'm pretty curious what happened to them, too. Maybe the autistic fujoshits just grew out of em?

[Anonymous No.9763085]

>>9763056
Widely banned from conventions because they were mostly used to assault bishonens. Practically the same as hitting someone in the ass with a baseball bat.

[Anonymous No.9763135]

>>9763056
They're sexual harassment sticks. They're banned.

[Anonymous No.9763147]

>>9763056
They got banned cuz fetishy fujosji that bitch about men being creepers at them thought it would be a okay to fucking ‘paddle’ people without their permission. Smh.

[Anonymous No.9763157]

>>9763147
i doubt that those women who used those things and those who bitch about men being creepers are the same people

[Anonymous No.9763175]

>>9763157
They are the exact same people, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.9763280]

What about "free hugs" signs?
I hear some events banned them for different reasons

[Anonymous No.9763304]

>>9763056
I only started going to cons recently so I haven't seen yaoi paddles at all. Feels like I didn't miss out on much reading up on them

[Anonymous No.9763308]

>>9763280
I guess they got a stark reminder that cooties still are the number one killer of white males, so they banned the practice?

[Anonymous No.9763322]

>>9763135
>>9763147
>>9763304
>be bishonen
>cosplaying bishonen schoolboy
>someone hits me in the ass hard with a paddle
>its a group of not one but THREE fujoshits, two have paddles
>all with masks on because theyre ugly
>second girl in group with paddle asks if she can hit me too
>they all cackle as if its funny
>walk up to the "leader", yank paddle out of her hands forcibly
>"apologize or im keeping it."
>the no paddle girl says "you can't STEAL that from her."

I did end up getting her to apologize once she realized con staff would take it away, but I didn't want to totally ruin her convention just because her autism got the better of her. The same group approached me later at the con to try chatting me up, under some bizarre assumption that I wanted anything to do with underage fujoshits who hit me in the ass with the equivalent of a bat.

>>9763304
>>9763308
"Free hugs" signs were being used for solicitation. For some conventions, it was police issuing the ban instead of convention staff.
Also, people would get verbally aggressive when offering hugs if they were declined, and hug people without asking. Cons just didn't want to deal with it because it's pretty silly to dedicate security or a staffer to watching over someone offering free hugs just to make sure they aren't being aggressive.

[Anonymous No.9763327]

>>9763322
I asked some mexican dude from another thread about the free hugs. Apparently, parents there got paranoid about creeps using those signs to touch kids, so some events banned those signs. I'm glad I was never around for Yaoi paddles, though, that sounds so fucking dumb.

[Anonymous No.9763393]

>>9763056
Probably because stupid weebs would hit random people's ass with them because "if they do it in animes it's ok in real life too xD" and everyone sane of mind agreed it was an annoyance. I wonder how they started though.

[Anonymous No.9763448]

Oh man I was in Michael's the other day and they still sell these damn paddle bases. First flashbacks now this thread, what does it all mean.

[Anonymous No.9764686]

>>9763448
Frats/sororities sometimes have them, I guess it's a reference to hazing? Not sure if it's just a joke or if they're actually used. I wasn't part of the greek system but my college had a ton if it, so I would see them around. They usually paint or put wooden Greek letters on them.

[Anonymous No.9764692]

>>9763280
I see them at every convention I go to

[Anonymous No.9764701]

Banning Hen Da Ne seems to have worked for us to eliminate them from our con

Good riddance

[Anonymous No.9764711]

>>9763448
either frats or a return to the good old days of child abuse, as folk art.

or they're miniature oars for nautical decor.

[Anonymous No.9764896]

Fucking yaoi paddles man.

I've not seen any since all the major cons in the UK became 18+. It's amazing what banning kids can do to reduce the fucktardary levels at a con.

[Anonymous No.9765384]

>>9763448
It's definitely a frat/sorority thing. I had a roommate who joined a sorority and customizing a paddle to give to your little was part of it.

Actually that sounds really creepy now that I think about it, haha

[Anonymous No.9765426]

>>9764692
Same here in Spain. Thank god I've never seen one of those yaoi paddles here.

[Anonymous No.9765435]

Did basic google-fu and found this as a backstory to their origin. Not sure how legit it is, though.
I would've thought it was actually FROM doujin/anime etc.

[Anonymous No.9765640]

>>9763085

Thats hot. But scaring away bishounen cosplayers is a big nono.

[Anonymous No.9765641]

>>9765426
Why did those spread around?
I mean, I get why they'd be around in american cons, but I'm in south america, why would they do that here? Sure, the crowds here are mostly very young, but even then, you get the occassional adult fat neckbeard

[Anonymous No.9765661]

It's always been a stupid dream of mine to get smacked with one of these. I started going to cons a couple years after they got banned from every con near me and I feel like I missed out on an important bishonen initiation rite.

[Anonymous No.9765682]

>>9765661
I'm sure if you ask enough fujoshit gremlins one of them could arrange something.

[Anonymous No.9765754]

>>9763056
>How did they ever even take off?

Girls have sex drives too.

>Whatever happened to Yaoi Paddles?

SJWs got them banned and told girls that yaoi is problematic and evil.

[Anonymous No.9765765]

>>9765754
>T. Never been hit with one

I'd be fine with them coming back if we ever got cons to take sexual harassment of male cosplayers seriously. As it stands they were used to hit guys and harass them with no consequences

[Anonymous No.9765952]

>>9765765
>tfw never bishie enough to get harassed by fangirls

It stings

[Anonymous No.9766093]

>>9765952
Speaking from experience, you're less likely to get harassed by fangirls and more likely to be aggressively sexually assaulted by older homosexual men ghosting the convention. They'll think you're a twink, and are only there to cruise for underage boys. They may or may not try to drug you, or follow you into elevators as a group to tell you about how much they'd like to rape you. Maybe you're into that kind of thing too though. I'd say of all the harassment you get, maybe one out of four will be a fangirl and the rest will be old dudes.

Also, fujoshits don't tend to be people you'd even want to keep company with. Don't think they grow out of their autism either, they'll be just as pimply faced and even more overweight in their late 20's. Once they evolve however, they'll walk around drunkenly and look at you right in the eyes while announcing how they're on their way to the yaoi panel because they "love staring at young boys dicks".

Life ain't easy when you're a bishie.

[Anonymous No.9766101]

>>9766093
>Life ain't easy when you're a bishie.

Being occasionally (even frequently) hit on by creeps still sounds way better than never being hit on at all.

[Anonymous No.9766104]

>>9766101
Sexual harassment is not a compliment.

[Anonymous No.9766113]

>>9766101
Jesus, you need to love yourself, anon. Being blatantly hit on doesn’t mean you are attractive or desirable. It means some sleazy arsehole is trying to get laid and is just looking for a wet receptacle.
Listen to >>9766104 here.

[ValleLator(mobile) No.9769706]

>>9763280
They’re banned at a few, some because they just ban all signs.

I think the free hugs one is okay because you’re not actively attacking someone.

My one encounter with one was at colossal a couple years ago where some girl came up to me with one, seemed too shy to actually ask and just held it out to me. So I just hugged her and she meandered off.

[Anonymous No.9769766]

>>9765435
I was literally thinking about what happened to the guy that would screech at the yaoi booth "HOT BISHIES HERE!! GET YOUR YAOOOOIIII!" since I saw these paddles being sold in that booth, all under the great big gay pride flag with YAOI in big black letters. Here he is in the origin story of fujo assault, ver. 2.0. What a time to be alive.
>tfw cringey fujoshit in the mid 2000s that always wanted to buy one of these at anime expo but never had the balls to go full rotten weeb woman

[Anonymous No.9769820]

>>9769706
Alrighty, then
After going to a few events in my country, I've determined that they're only a thing at events hosted by a certain group. Outside of that, no free hug signs or anything like that.

[Anonymous No.9769925]

>>9763280
better than Free Foot Massage

[Anonymous No.9769932]

>>9765952
Better your ego to sting than your ass. People didn't playfully hit you. They wound up and went for a home run because for some reason being at a convention meant that was ok

[ValleLator(mobile) No.9769947]

>>9769925
What if it’s not for sex reasons?
Can’t a neet just rub some feet

[Anonymous No.9770279]

>>9769932
>hitting with full force

Sounds more like they have anger issues with men (which everyone who's dated them does) and they're taking that out. If they were doing it for titillation they wouldn't be wacking guys to leave bruises, but just to make them jump and look all cute and flustered.

[Anonymous No.9770283]

>>9770279
>implying plenty of sexually frustrated teenage girls arent budding degenerates

[Anonymous No.9770299]

>>9770283
I keep trying to get the local dungeon to hold Lolita night.

[Anonymous No.9770301]

>>9770299
A lot of them are fucking vicious. And strong. And the outfits go very well with a dungeon background.

[Anonymous No.9770303]

>>9763280
The cons I go to don't allow "Free hugs" signs because that implies something could be potentially exchanged for a monetary value which isn't allowed unless you're a registered vendor

[Anonymous No.9770317]

>>9770303
So a sign just saying "hugs" should be OK, because it doesn't have any monetary implications at all?

[Anonymous No.9770319]

>>9770299
Please don't
Its hard enough to keep onlookers from getting weird with my girls I don't need a sudden surge of newbie itas that are also fucking degenerates

[Anonymous No.9770324]

>>9770319
>please keep the horny teenage girls out of my dungeon

When did we turn into grumpy old men?

[Anonymous No.9770326]

>>9770303
what if you are a registered vendor, does it mean you can offer free hugs?

[Anonymous No.9770331]

>>9770324
Oh no, by all means bring in all the girls to your dungeons, I do miss the scene some days
But please please don't take a bunch of horny young teenagers and convince them Lolita is a sex thing, we already get enough "DDLG" comments as it is I don't need that shit coming from within or spreading to interested girls that tried it once because they fucked a couple of strangers wearing bodyline

[Anonymous No.9770343]

>>9770331
Jesus christ no, I can't stand the DDLG lolitas. I was thinking the vicious, aggressive dommy lolitas. They're still a plurality on the scene.

[Anonymous No.9770377]

>>9765661
I don't think I have ever seen someone at a con who could truly be called a bishonen.

[Anonymous No.9770385]

>>9770279
No. They just don't think about things because lol its a con. Do you remember glomping? Something tells me gleefully tackling someone dressed as a character they like isn't about anger issues

[Anonymous No.9770501]

I don't think I ever saw those at cons here.
Then again we have strict weapon laws so I wouldn't be surprised if those things were banned by law.
>>9763280
I still see those pop up

[Anonymous No.9770503]

Yaoi paddles are used as torture in the sixth pit of hell. That's what happened to them.

[Anonymous No.9771383]

Anime cons used to be all about asking people for hugs and it's less about that now which is kinda sad but also understandable in a way. I'm actually really interested in anime cons over time and the culture switch or whatever. But there's like... I don't know, only a couple decades or so to go off of in America I guess.

[Anonymous No.9771389]

>>9769766
I remember that shit. What time indeed. Man he was so loud too you could hear him across the room

[Anonymous No.9773673]

>>9765641
Somehow that shit made it's way to the UK events too.

[Anonymous No.9773852]

>>9771389
Hen Da Ne was grouped as a special booth in the section of the booklet with Crunchyroll, Viz, etc. at this last Otakon. Had a terrible spot on the floor but still.

[Anonymous No.9774021]

do you think you'd get reprimanded for having a sign that said something like "free 'hugs' " at a con that doesn't ban signs

[Anonymous No.9774022]

>>9769766
yeah that dude was always pretty creep when i'd look at stuff at that booth

[Anonymous No.9774023]

>>9765384
>It's definitely a frat/sorority thing. I had a roommate who joined a sorority and customizing a paddle to give to your little was part of it.
>to give to your little

does "little" mean something different in frats/sororities that i'm not aware of

[Anonymous No.9774024]

>>9765661
trust me, it's way more fun to get a set of firm smacks on the ass by hand than it is to be hit by one of those things by some nerd who doesn't know anything about kink stuff

[Anonymous No.9774039]

>>9773673
I can understand that somehow. The free hug thing started with an american campaign that involved a music video, so it wouldn't surprise me if another english speaking country got in on that.

[Anonymous No.9774054]

>>9774023
Little sister/brother. I’ve never heard guys use “little” on its own though, calling someone your little/big is mostly a sorority thing in my experience

To explain in weeb terms it’s the same thing as senpai/kohai

[Anonymous No.9774532]

>>9774054
yeah most of the time people online are talking about a "little" they're talking about kink play like dd/lg, dd/lb, md/lg, md/lb, etc (daddy dom/little girl, mommy dom, etc). like, the person who plays childish in such play is called the "little"

[Anonymous No.9774969]

>be 2007
>be 16
>new to cons
>anime detour
>alone
>elevators jammed, long line waiting
>use empty stair case behind doors
>walk up one set
>doors open and close behind me
>turn my head to look with my back turned
>a man with the near exact look and even pose and facial expression in OPs picture grinning at me.
>that paddle
>kek
>turn back
>begin to walk steadily up
>stomping behind me
>and snickering
>did..did he take my small laugh as a challenge?
>anxiety begins to take hold of my body
>real fear
>begin to run up with trauma in my eyes
>burst through the doors to a now loud crowd in relief.

Have not used the stairs since.
I look back and wonder if it really actually happened since it was just so bizarre, it was like a nightmare.

[Anonymous No.9774990]

>>9763280
Still allowed at most cons around here

>>9770303
Nah, the ones that ban it are because in some cases those free hugs also come with a side of free gropings so it became an issue.

[Anonymous No.9775038]

>>9763322
>>9765661
>>9765952
>>9766101
Post bishie butt or GTFO

[Anonymous No.9775106]

>>9774023
it's your inductee you're supposed to play the "big sister" to so you can be sure that not only will she not get hurt but also so she doesn't make the sorority look like a bunch of assholes. A lot of bigs that just use it as an excuse to be a dick and/or give themselves a personal servant without any huge consequences
though in the weirder/tougher sororities it plays out a lot like how you're imagining anon

[Anonymous No.9775109]

>>9775038
>FUJOSHIT DETECTED

[Anonymous No.9775452]

>>9763322
and then the fujoshits clapped

[Anonymous No.9775716]

>>9765640
It's really not hot

[Anonymous No.9777306]

>>9775038
he's not going to be young anymore you baka
like this "paddle" shit would fly these days

[Anonymous No.9777308]

>>9766104
>>9766113
I dunno I look back on some harassment and still have a self esteem boost over it
I'm told it's wrong to feel that but I'm sure not going to be harassed when I'm 30 or whatever

[Anonymous No.9777312]

>>9763280
megacon in orlando banned them because I think people were using it to lure people in for pick pocketing. have to hand it to the thieves tho, it's a genius tactic for stealing from lonely nerd faggots.

[Anonymous No.9777349]

>>9777312
Clever little shits, I'll give them that
Granted, that's the first thing I thought of when I saw those signs in my country, but I used to live in a really shitty area, so I'm always wary of that.

[Anonymous No.9777352]

>>9777312
Would be even easier from a girl's bag :)

[Anonymous No.9777425]

>>9777352
>implying that girls go for the 'free hugs' guy

[Anonymous No.9777466]

>>9777425
not at all, but the idea of two girls hugging is a beacon for the attention starved

[Anonymous No.9777641]

>>9775038
Go to /cm/ or /y/ if you're looking for bishie butt. Unless you're talking about real bishie butt. I'd selfpost because idgaf, but /cgl/ shuns costhots.

[Anonymous No.9777650]

>>9777425
I think you underestimate how sad and horny fujoshi at cons are

[Anonymous No.9777651]

>>9777650
yeah, obviously the super hot chicks with great costumes aren't going to go for the free hugs dude. but the chubby teenager in some ebay anime cosplay? much more likely, and probably brought way more money to the con anyways