/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20470535
>if you don't spend every waking moment in the community
What people usually complain about isn't how much time people spent in the community, it's the quality of the community and the mindset/motivations around it which are the main problems

>>20469097
>advertising or getting paid to advertise products all over their cars
>others painted it up to show off their likes and associations
These already happen though, just not on average citizen cars and probably not to big extent like Japan or China cause weeb stuffs don't have big enough market shares in other countries to make it justifiable

>>20475618
Yes it's huge, just that the amount of people who do it solely out of attention whoring like the ridiculously lewd or dumb wacky ones you mentioned above are very small. Attention whoring does play the part but it's still combined with genuine interest (regardless of whether the cosplayer is beginner or seasoned veteran), autistic obsession for whatever they like, and various spectrum of weirdos/autists

I dunno about pre 2000's ones but early 2000's in SEA are filled with Tidus/Cloud/Yuna/Tifa/Auron/Lulu (Final Fantasy), Ky/Jam/Bridget (Guilty Gear), Chun Li/Ryu (Street Fighter), various Dynasty Warriors, various Suikoden, various Ragnarok jobs, various angels (I can only remember one which is Chise from Saikano)/demons/deity/king/fantasy wizard-ish characters with elaborate outfits which I don't know what fucking series they come from