/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10365016
>>10365447

I also just turned 41.

And yeah cons are way too perfection centered now. I just want to talk about the show you are cosplaying from and maybe want to know how you did some nice looking part of your cosplay.

But now it's a crapshoot on if you are talking to a diva who doesn't know how to talk to a person outside their friend group or if you are talking to someone who just bought their cosplay and so has nothing to say about the construction at all.

>>7770486
>Social media really has ruined that cosplay bond a lot of us were able to form so easily.


Yeah.
Cosplay had divas and asshats sure. Before it used to be contained within the time and place of the con. But then suddenly they could broadcast their shitty personalities to hundreds and then thousands of people.

Then you had the influence of the young for whom real life hadn't started yet so all life was so far was trying to be the most important/most liked/most popular person in your high school. Or course that carried over into their cosplay.

Combine those things and you have the perfect storm of people not wanting to bond over shared love of anime but be better than whoever they are talking to.