Hi! There are some things about cosplayers and the cosplay community that really
annoy me, so I thought today I would tell
you about these annoyances!
Here are five of my top cosplay pet peeves.
Now I started cosplaying when I was 14 years old so it has been eight years!
I have been in the cosplay community for eight years
and i've seen it kind of like grow
throughout the years kind of become more
like a smaller thing to becoming super
mainstream.
OK, here's one of the things
I have a cosplay Facebook account and that
means I have a lot of cosplayers
friended on there but I'm also part of
these cosplay Facebook groups and
convention facebook groups, and I see
this post on there and ohhhmagawd
cosplayers love to whine, it's incredible!
But I see these posts that people have put up and they're like,
~I can't believe I can't
cause play this one character because
someone in the community is also cosplaying this character and that means
that people are going to compare us and
blah blah blah blah blah~
I remember this being a thing,  when I was like 15 or 16.
I was like, "I
really wanna costs with character but
someone else, one of my friends is
cosplaying them which means that I can't cosplay them!"
Nowhere  in the giant official rulebook of cosplay does it say that you can't cosplay a character because someone else does.
No! Who cares about that?! Honestly cosplay who you want! Go out to the convention, take your photos,
have a good time, don't concern yourself with
someone else who's doing the same costume.
The next two pet peeves kinda of have to
do with actually being at a convention.
maybe this is just me being too
concerned for other people's welfare but
I see a lot of cosplayers or people
who are circle lenses that don't change the solution!!
Don't do that!! That is gross!!!
People literally take their little lens case and they pop in their circle lenses and they keep their gross old solution
in there and then they take out the
circle lenses and put them back in that
same solution and they just keep on
taking them out and putting them in at the end of the day, whatever.
~THAT IS GROSS~ because there is bacteria in there!
Especially pieces of make up or glitter that get in there and then they get on the lenses
get on the lenses and then you put them on your eyes, and then you damage your eyes.
I hate seeing cosplayers that don't clean their
stupid circle lenses.
Do you want to go blind? Because if you do, keep doing what you're doing.
Clean your damn circle lenses!
And the next thing! If you're sharing a hotel room with other people,
please keep your crap in your own area
and not spread out across the hotel room.
I understand this can sometimes be a
little bit difficult because I've shared
two-person hotel rooms with eight to 10
people so there are a lot of people
crammed in there and there's not always the
space to keep things in certain areas
but especially in the washroom. People
get ready and they get their cosplay stuff on.
They put their makeup, brushes, wigs or whatever, and then they leave
and then they leave all their crap across
the countertop and it's disgusting.
There are wig hairs on the floor, false eyelashes everywhere.
I don't know if it's the neat freak in myself, but when people just spread their
makeup and cosplay stuff everywhere...I can't do it!! ;_;
Ok, so peeves number 4 and 5 kinda have to do with Facebook and the online  cosplay communities.
Alright, so number 4 is basically when people having conversations as to whether or not
someone's boobs are fake or real. There lots of female cosplayers out there that like to do
costumes with their boobs out. There is no problem with that.
You can contour and do latex boobs and all that fancy stuff to make your ~tatas ~ looka little bit bigger.
but when someone has
put a lot of effort into a costume and they're really proud of uploading photos
And you start a comment chain that says
~0mg r ur bewbs fake or real????~ Did u get them done???  Are they photoshooped??
You're just ruining the
experience for the cosplayer!
If I put a lot of work into a costume and the first thing you want to comment about
is whether or not my boobs are fake or real,
then you have just invalidated all the
hard work that I put into that costume
and that is not cool!!
And the final pet peeve has to do with
Facebook pages. Now I'm sure every cosplayer
that has a Facebook page just heard that and they know what I'm going to talk about...
And that's basically just
creepy messages!
It doesn't matter if you've done a revealing costume  or not,  or what your gender is or any of that stuff.
At least once in your
lifetime if you have a cosplay Facebook page,
you will receive a creepy message from
someone who wants to fetish you.
Who wants to talk to you, or ask you
to send nudes, or ask you to pose for them.
or just generally just be creepy and I
hate that.
This is why I have disabled the inbox on my Facebook page,  and I can't imagine what it must be like for
really popular cosplayers that have
their inbox open because must be a treasure chest of creepy PM's
and I really hope they submit them to the r/creepypms subreddit
because you might as well cash in on the karma!
Do you know what it's called when you repeatedly send creepy messages to a cosplayer,
or anyone that has a Facebook page or anyone that has an online account?
It's called harassment and it just sucks.
I have a friend who just started her own cosplay page
and she's kinda getting into the community, and she just made a
page and she wanted to connect with
other cosplayers and photographers.
Then she eventually started getting
these creepy messages and now she
doesn't feel like cosplaying because
she doesn't feel safe about it,
even though these guys are probably just like
sitting in basements going like,
~show me your boobz!!11!!~ That's not cool. Restrain yourself if you want to make
an overly sexual comment about
someone's body or asking them to pose a
certain way. Don't do it. Just just leave it.
So anyway, that was my little rant about my cosplay pet peeves.
Make sure to go in the comments and tell me about yours because there are so many things that
I just want to ramble on about, but this video would be a million years long if I did
I think cosplay is meant to be fun, so I just want everyone to be safe and healthy and have
eyes that won't go blind because the dirty
contact lenses, or drama over hotel rooms
because people have been trashing their stuff everywhere, or any of that stuff.
Make sure to leave a comment below and I will catch you guys around later! Seeya!
