>>the president

cannot
stop
laughing

wow, you guys will be jealous of anything

>>2653452
>Some of his advisory work is as Chairman of Studio Red Rock, a Tokyo-based company specializing in international cosplay brand management.
Wait... so... one of this guy's jobs is telling Japan what's popular in cosplay in the rest of the world? What?

>>2653479
Not jealousy, it's kind of been a mystery as to what exactly Admin does for a living. Now we know. I think. There's got to be more, right? A real day job? Or is that really what he makes a living on?

>>2653524
between cosworx and cosplay.com ad revenue he makes plenty, at least enough to sponsor conventions, travel, and employ hot cosplayers

>>2653626
That is insane, it doesn't seem like it should make that much!

I've always wondered something.

Cosplay.com has multinational support, right?
Do they have at least one forum moderator for each supported language?

Wow you guys are gay lol

>>2653638

You would think they would, since they have country-specific boards.

>>2653638

Like most of the worlds Major Customs and Border Services.......no.

This thread wreaks of jealousy

Go make a bunch of money and maybe you can have hot cosplayers around you all the time too

lol and this is the guy Adella sucked the dick of for 5 years just to get ahead in cosplay. Seriously? Hahahahahhaaa.

I wish I could work with this every day

I always wondered what Admin did aside from what little information has leaked around coscom. Interesting.

in after Ginny selfpost

You guys didn't already know that Kyle is an entrepreneur for a living, and a small business owner (cosplay.com/Cosworx)?? Really??? I thought that shit was obvious.

>>2654235
What's obvious is that he made cosplay.com as an afterthought as a way to pull people to his wig shop. God knows it doesn't have enough variety or low enough prices to bother with unless you're a click away.

>>2654256
Didn't Cosworx open in 2006 or something? That's four years later. He probably was looking at all the traffic on coscom and figured a wig shop was a relevant way to make money from it.

FFUUUCK that is hot

>>2654256
cosplay.com was around way before cosworx

>>2654515
that's fine, nobody cares

>>2654531
wow, owning cosplay.com, cosworx, and rpgchat

so exciting no one cares

Although if I could be around Ginny and Jia all day I would

>>2653633
Admin said at AX last year that he's had some offers to sell the site in the past and said he turned them down. Also that the amounts were pretty high but he enjoys what he does. And that someof the offers came from places who would probably do it to take advantage of the sites domain name to just switch the site into a huge licensed imported-costume shop and take advantage of the growing younger USA cosplay market, which he strongly opposes happening. So he sells wigs at Cosworx.com and advertising on coscom, travels around the world visiting conventions all year and sponsors a bunch of places with masquarade prizes as he goes along.

>>2654678
and only hires hot, popular cosplayers

>>2654685
yes he should definitely have ugly unpopular cosplayers

>>2654738
Just like ACP.

>>2654770

ACP doesn't have employees.

Ginny and Jia are both pretty amazing cosplayers. I wonder if it really is required to work for cosplay.com or you have to be good at something else also.

>>2653759
i would fuck the shit out of her too bad shes engaged

>principle web programmer
this is the only thing i have a problem with; he fucking sucks. hire a code monkey already

>>2654910
Way to be classy.

ginny is ratfaced, but I'd do her

i'd fuck her raw, no rubber

Stop self-posting Ginny. No one wants to fuck you. You're ugly in the face and you have no ass.

Ginny and Jia are not hot. They are not really that popular either, they're small time. Yaya is an example of a truely popular cosplayer (she's extremely well-known world-wide) as well as Lillyxandra, Francesca Dani and Kipi. Ginny and Jia are simply not on that level.

Plus if Kyle really wanted a _hot_ cosplayer he would hire Miyu, not Ginny or Jia. They are very average looking.

I'd fuck her up against the wall and everywhere else, tiny chicks are great fun

>>2655405
your jealous female is showing

>>2655405
i'd add Omi to that list, maybe also Namada if it were a few years ago, but besides that I agree with your list.

>>2655441
Why would a "jealous" girl make a post like that? A jealous girl wouldn't praise someone as incredibly hot as Miyu. I actually agree with that anon. Jia and Ginny aren't famous like Yaya, aren't talented like Lillyxandra, and they aren't super attractive like Miyu is. I don't really get why Kyle settles for them...they're kind of mediocre.

>>2655446
miyu "super hot"? not to straight men.

>>2655405
i'd hire alodia or nigri. the fuckers on coscom would eat that shit up like a hot dog with mustard

sure is troll in here - wait, what? you're just dumb kids who can't agree? aww, shucks.

>>2655454
trolling. jealous fatty. breaking out the old standards I see.

>>2655450
Agree.. Miyu? plastic one-expression face, dead eyes, tits too far apart, fergie stomach muscles = no thanks. I'd prefer the "ratfaced" girl with the perfect tits and tight body.

>>2655461
...jealous fattie, eh? now who's breaking out the old school toys?

>>2655461
>thinks I'm defending anyone, rather than making fun of all of them.

>>2655450
Obviously you would know absolutely nothing about a straight man's preference seeing as how you are female. As a guy I'll assure you that yes, Miyu is indeed /super hot/. She is most certainly way way way waaaay better looking than ginny or Jia.
Saging for my own rant because I know I'm about to be trolled for it. No doubt in my mind that it's probably Ginny herself on here.

>>2655471
Bang on about Miyu. 100% man approved.

>>2655464
Miyu has a tighter body than Ginny, nicer tits with prettier nipples and a much prettier face. She wins hands down.

Yaya is more popular than these girls. Why isn't she in cosmode?

>>2655470
green text too? and implications? come on, bro

Is Ginny that fake blonde up top? (Sorry, been out of the scene a few years and I don't know the name.)

Shit's pretty nasty, definitely nowhere near Miyu-tier.

>>2655475
hint: what the fuck does Japan need with ASIAN foreign cosplayers?

superior

Miyu has no talent, Ginny does

Why not just hire a proper model instead of Miyu if looks are all that matters?

>>2655486
BWAHAHAHAHA

>>2655482
wait, Yaya is Chinese? I thought she was American.

>>2655490
She's not an American citizen, just a resident.

>>2655490
CHING CHONG CHONG NIP NONG

Kyle needs to work with Lillyxandra, Yaya, Miyu, PL, Ichigokitty and a few others I can think of. I'm sick of seeing the same two girls over and over again. Ginny's face bothers me especially. He needs to branch out and get better models/cosplayers so we can show Cosmode what we really got here in America. Ginny & Jia don't represent us well. Like Anon said they are both mediocre in looks and skill. We need to show the Japs that we have hotter girls than them <I.e. miyu> and more skill than them <Lilly and Yaya> etc.

>>2655492
ah, you're right. there was the whole drama about green cards and what not.

>>2655495
... or, you could stop sucking Kyle's dick, and imagining you understand what's good for the japanese market better than the japanese.

>>2655499
You must not be familiar with the Internet, where anyone with an opinion is suddenly an expert.

>>2655495
AGREED! Fuck. I don't feel comfortable with Kyle's choices for Cosmode. I did enjoy seeing Lillxandra and LM in there awhile back but you are 100% right about Ginny and Jia NOT being good representitives of American cosplay. We have cosplayers with more talent and better looks than them and those are the people Kyle needs to work with.

>>2655499
I'm pretty sure the Japanese would appreciate Kyle using hotter and more talented cosplayers than the ones he's using now. Ginny probably looks just as unattractive to them as she looks to us.

>>2655508
I have to say something now. I agree with your assessment of the situation 100%, but you need to start thinking like an adult. The world is not going to dance around until it fits your desires; reality is not democratic. Don't like something? Change it! Start photography, start your own magazine - get an affiliate in Japan if you have to!

Not trying to get you down, you can DO all these things. Now, does it really matter to you, or are you just talking out of your ass?

I thought COSMODE chose the pics themselves, and Kyle is essentially the middle man or broker

>>2655513
Puh-leese.

If I was Kyle I'd probably use Miyu and have Lillyxandra dress her and do the styling.

If I was Kyle, I'd know how to start my own business and run a website. Badly.

>>2655486
How much talent does it take to wear clothes?

>>2655514
That would be nice and all but most of us don't have the money to start a cosplay magazine. You would have to get investors, and since most smart businessmen would probably not see a great deal of profitability coming from something like cosplay I doubt it would be easy to acquire them.

>>2655525
> I'm 12 and wat is this

>>2655527
so you're not even going to - alright, forget it. No wonder you see Kyle Johnsen as some kind of legend - you can't even go out and try to get what you want. At least I've started a business and finished my schooling, and I'm a coward.

>ITT: /cgl/ discusses srs bsns, oldfag wanders in gets confused

>you can't even go out and try to get what you want.
how many people really want to run a cosplay website or magazine? and when did that become a prerequisite to give analysis and critique for those that do?

>>2655577
fine, be an armchair commentator for the world around you if you want; I just figure you might get more fulfillment out of something productive... I must be getting old. go back to it, brave cosplayer! *salute*

>>2655582
thanks for the advice grandpa! too bad i have interests in more than one thing, and don't feel a need to be an expert in all of them

ITT people try to tackle subjects they have no clue about.

>>2655588
> well-rounded interests are an excuse for mediocrity
sigh

>one of the most recognized names in cosplay photography worldwide

Please tell me this isn't actually true. His photography, while excellent back in 2003, hasn't progressed and is now pretty bog-standard.

>>2655657
This is actually one of the few correct statements in this thread. Kyle was outright good a few years ago; now he's stale. I'm not psychic, I dunno if he's simply fallen out of love with the process and he's just going through the motions now because it keeps him afloat, if he is actually at the extent of his ability or if he's just gotten lazy for any reason, but whichever way it's happened, he has definitely gotten stale. If you look at his highlighted and featured photos and photoshoots on cosplay.com and other places and compare them to what many other photographers are putting out, there's really sod-all difference now. Kyle /was/ the best, no doubt about that; but everyone else has now caught up and he's doing fuck-all to stay ahead.

>>2655508
>>2655495
>>2655446
>>2655405


wow, jealous much? sorry to tell you Ginny is much more well known and talented as a cosplayer and has been for years

newfags who only hang out on cgl might not know that but everyone else does

>>2655652
>mediocrity
breadth and depth buddy. good at many things. very good at a select few. i know it's a hard concept for you to follow.

besides, i don't have to be a good politician, or even aspire to be a politician, to tell Governor Patterson or Senator Bunning they're fucking up.

Reading through this you can obviously tell there is a lot of jealousy fueling this. Two very attractive and talented cosplayers have a job and you think bitching about it will make you feel better. And you think bitching about a company sponsoring a convention will make you feel better.

This is why you are probably sitting at home in a basement somewhere and these people are out doing things.

>>2655839

Actually, Coscom isn't what it used to be. The layout is old and stale, and people are right -- Kyle's photography *isn't* what it used to be. Now, the only people he really takes photos of are Adella (who from what I hear still sucks his dick, even after "leaving" him), Ginny and his other little friends who work for him. Yeah sure, there's some jealousy but people are making good points. The only thing about Coscom that keeps it where it has been for the past few years is the fact that so much time was spent building its reputation. There are other cosplay sites out there, some of which have better layouts and are more active in places other than just the west coast. Supposedly Coscom was also built around the idea of "negating east coast versus west coast rivalry" but all its done is fuel it even more. It's total crap.

>>2655853
valid points about wanting the website to work better are fine

but calling very talented cosplayers ugly and whatnot has nothing to do with it, as you can see in most of this thread

and really if you don't like coscom then don't use it no one is making people do it

>>2655853

Which is why you don't see them hosting any contests for their members, or any anime companies using Coscom to sponsor events at conventions to promote anime. Aside from that one utterly failtastic D. Gray Man crap that no one even remembers.

Jealous?

>>2655884
is that Jia on the right side?!

>>2655891
obviously

>Aside from that one utterly failtastic D. Gray Man crap that no one even remembers.

Oh wow, I totally forgot about that! Did they ever even post winners?

>>2655893
When has she become so fat in comparison to last year? D: Or is this just a bad picture?

>>2655896

No idea. I doubt it though. At least ACParadise has some decent contests, and gets corporate sponsors to back them up. FUNi uses them a lot to help promote anime releases at Cons as well. They used Coscom once and never again. I think that says a lot about the quality of the cosplayers on the site and how the admins run things there.

>>2655914 I think that says a lot about the quality of the cosplayers on the site

are you joking??

>>2655920

Over 90% of the cosplayers on Coscom are shitty, or have no idea how to post decent photos of themselves, unless they're well known.

>>2655924
90% of ALL cosplayers are shitty trying to argue ACP has better cosplayers is stupid

>>2655940
At least they know how to keep up with a decent layout for their site, so its not stuck in the stone ages of the early 21st century for coding.

>>2655914
They posted the winners a couple of weeks later but then it went off the front page a few days later I think.

Interestingly I remember the rules also said that they didn't give out any prizes because the law stated that if prizes are used he'd have to post a public list of real names and the towns everyone lived in to comply with the law, and Admin didn't want to post them.

>>2656026
Do we have any lawyer-anons here that could confirm that? Because ACP doesn't do that with their contests.

>>2656079
IIRC, in sweepstakes and contest law where anything of any tangible value is involved then the list of winners has to be obtainable by anyone who makes the request to see them. Otherwise there is no way to legally verify that the prizes were handed out to real people. This can be done by posting the winners online or by having an address where a list of winners can be requested from in writing. But the winners of anything of value must be verifiable and that must include real names, sometimes just a first name and last initial is ok, and it is usually required the have other identifiable information, such as the name of their city and state.

>>2656187
I wonder if they get around that by not having their prizes be anything of value (really, a figure ain't worth much), or just that they will, if asked by writing, supply that information.

Does this change from state to state? Maybe they get out of it that way.

>>2656202
Even if it is worth 5 cents, it's considered an item of value in the eyes of the law because it is a tangible good. The laws regarding contests are intended to protect the people who don't win anything so they can make sure they didn't spend all of their time entering a contest that could have been rigged because there is no way to physically verify anybody actually won anything. If you do a google search for contests with prizes almost everyone you see will have something in the rules saying the names will be published and the others just probably don't know any better

There are also distinctions between randomness which are sweepstakes, versus regular contests based on skill but in all cases the names must go with the winners for it to be legal.

>>2656271
In other words, ACP doesn't run a legitimate business? Would make sense, they are too busy jacking off.

>>2656271
Someone should probably forward this thread to ACP.

The difference is as much as cgl probably hates the idea, cosplay.com probably has legal staff and ACP doesn't make enough money to even pay themselves

>KYLE IS CHAIRMAN AND CEO AND PRESIDENT AND FOUNDING EMPEROR AND HIGH RULER OF SOME WEBSITE.

Gosh, I guess throwing big titles around in a blurb about somebody reall means they make lots of money.

>>2656323
he probably does make a lot of money
I don't think titles have anything to do with it

>>2656323
if they can do all they are doing I bet they do have a lot of money

>>2655924
You do realize that most cosplayers have accounts at all the major cosplay site like coscom, ACP, cure, and some have cosplaylab too.

>>2656388
coscom shows somethin like over a million ads each day I hear. What is scary is that would be before he counts the cash each night from the Cosworx wigs. Well at least it is enough to hire hot cosplayers as employees and sponsor conventions, but I dunno how much that costs him.

Spoiler: Kyle made a lot of money in the 90s running porn sites. He then put that money into cosplay.com and here we are.

>>2656761
that rumor gets dumber every time I hear it

>>2656761
[citation needed]

I'd love to see proof of this!

>>2656767
Not a rumor, bro.

>coscom shows somethin like over a million ads each day I hear.
does that include people that use ad-block?

I doubt he's really making that much money. Took him forever to update the site and he seems to try out a few cosplay related business ideas to see if anything works, like that international cosplay consultancy. If he earned lots of money he would have long ago allowed bigger photos on the site and damn the bandwidth costs.

>>2656849
what are you talking about?

and do you know how much running any kind of business with employees costs? if they can afford to sponsor whole conventions Im going to guess they have extra cash

>>2656917

Admin posted a couple years ago that the cosplay industry is estimated at worth over 1/2 billion yearly worldwide, if he is in the middle of everything then you can bet he's making money somwehere

>>2656849
He doesn't make a lot of money. Running coscom isn't even his full time job.

This thread is full of idiots that think that running a website or being known in a community automatically means youre successful.

>>2657171
Uh no. Why would Ginny and Jia lie about living in Las Vegas to work for cosplay.com?

>>2657343
This.

she makes money doing porn

I am not so sure Miyu would be popular in Japan. Her features are way to hard and masculine (large nose, squared jaw, , blocky body shape) , whereas obviously the japanese are used to small, petite features. So I don't really think they'd be all about her or find her very attractive at all.

>>2657424
WHY IS MIYU BEING MENTIONED IN THIS THREAD?

>>2657469
because Miyu can't stand it if she isn't mentioned with real famous cosplayers

>>2657469
I mentioned her because people were saying Ginny and Jia were not good international reps for cosplay and someone more attractive like Miyu should represent America.

>>2657505
aside from one TV show, Ginny and Jia never "represented" the US in anything

though honestly they are talented and I don't know why anyone would object to them doing so

>>2657516
Because no one knows how "good" Ginny is at sewing, and Jia's methods are quite, noob'ish (check her tutorials sometime).

>>2657526
Are you kidding? I've seen both their cosplays and they are some of the best I've seen. Much better than 95% of the crap here

>>2657540 is lying.

>>2657526
Jealous much?

Why would you think coscom doesn't make money??

>>2657582
maybe they think if they say it enough it'll become true

Unless proven otherwise I think evidence suggest coscom makes bank.

>>2657393
did coscom pay for THAT?

>I doubt he's really making that much money. Took him forever to update the site
If the latest site update cluster fuck is any indication, maybe it's better he doesn't update more often.

>>2658004
Or maybe he just sucks at his job.

If I'm calculating this correctly, on a conservative estimate Cosworx has made... at least around 1.5 million? Not counting shoes sales but I have no idea how that goes.

All very subjective. I'm estimating they're right at about 50,000 orders (I'm guessing they're going numerically since my order in 2005 was in the quadruple digits and my latest was a quint). Going only by wigs, I'm estimating... 75,000. Not every order is for a wig but people tend to buy in multiples, it seems.
Average price, $35 (price range is about $25-50 with much more on the higher side, most $30-40). I'm going to take a shot in the dark and estimate wholesale at $20 a wig. When cosworx runs a clearance, wigs are $12-22(?) and I'd doubt they'd dip below what they paid... $20 a wig is probably an overestimate.

Calculating that out you get at LEAST $1.5 million.
Then you have to factor in make-up, shoes, the clothing/bjd stuff they used to do and all these people who order 6 and 10 wigs at a time... Plus their convention sales numbers are apparenty quite good.
$2-3 m wouldn't be unbelievable for the wigs alone.

Plus advertisements, etc etc etc.

This is all waaaay shaky math... Not thinking too hard. But it'd be ridiculous to think they're not making a passable amount of money.

The URL Cosplay.com is worth six figures.

>>2658212

And how easy would it be to hijack the domain and then cybersquat on it?

>>2658567
Not easy at all since there's a grace period between renewals, and most domain hosting companies automatically renew well before it's up.

>>2658111
In that case, they're not making that much. The cost of their web hosting must be insane + the cost of staff.

>>2658567
Or just get a bunch of people together and offer to buy it, though rumor has it he turned down low seven figures at least twice

worlds weirdest perv/nerd

>worlds weirdest perv/nerd
woah, now you've gone too far

>>2653452

forgot to add

>Mr. Johnsen is also still a virgin and will be until he dies

>>2659047
I think you're getting him and EBK mixed up. Admin was dicking down Adella, which was the reason he created cosplay.com in the first place; so he could show off his sweetie's cosplay.