Probably, now leave before it happens again and you get buttenraged and cry.

Yeah, but it was a complete vendetta and the thread 404'd within hours.

If that happens to you, the best thing to do is ignore it. Because if you try whiteknighting yourself, you just make things a thousand times worse.

>Has it ever happened to me?
Yes.
>Do I let it bother me?
No.

/cgl/ is like high school. If you actually worry about the things people say about you there, you are retarded.

At least you get all of this:

>Everyone loves my cosplay, cant go 5 feet without pictures taken, compliments and praises everywhere
>Put pics up in gallery. People comment right and left and love it
>Feel happy and that the cosplay was a hit

That's more than some people ever get, Anon.

>>4348635
So agree~ that is because most trollers are retarded and have no life anyway :)

yep, and I'm black, so mix in armchair racism.

Forget about it if you can in fact don't even read the thread even if you are curious, then there is nothing to remember. That is what I do.

Jealous Fatties gonna Jealous Fatty.

In most cases, you just can't win on /cgl/.

Be fat,get bashed.
Be ugly,get bashed.
Be pretty,get bashed.

>>4348635
But the rest of life is like highschool t-

Oooh, I see what you did there.

Yes but only once, thankfully. And I kinda deserved it that time (my costume was rushed)

Usually though if I'm posted here no one says anything. So that's nice.

I would think it's just an acquaintance you either knew beforehand or met at the con who had a vendetta against you. I notice that the people who do get bashed on in some way draw attention to themselves somehow (attention whore, snobby bitch, etc). Like that one Samus cosplayer from some con, someone mentioned she was ugly and a bitch and she went in a WK'd herself, and all this drama ensued. Even if you do have a shitty costume, most likely cgl will just laugh and move on.

OP, if you need validation, you're looking in the wrong place. /cgl/ hates everyone. Cosplayers have drama. Lolitas are catty bitches. Skinny girls are anorexic. Not skinny girls are jealous fatties. All women are whores. All men are either gay or misogynists. The list goes on and on.

>>4348673
>>4348673
>>4348673
>>4348673
THIS! Why would you want/need validation from the internet? The only people who really care about you or your life are your friends and family, let them do it.

>This ever happened to you?

Nope. Even /cgl/ loves me. It's weird.

>>4348684
>The only people who really care about you or your life are your friends and family, let them do it.

>Show cosplay (or any costume) to family and friends
>Ridicule never ends
>Every gathering stories about my costumes are brought up
>Forever the butt of all jokes
>"At least I have a normal hobby, unlike Anon's kiddie costumes/fetish wear LOLOLOLOL"

Sometimes the internet is the only source of validation to be had.

lol

I got posted by a vendetta-chan once. Saying I was fat and ugly and shouldn't cosplay as sexy characters. All because I argued with her on a different forum.

No one else cared, someone said I looked like Precious in the face and then the thread 404'd.

Shit like that happens all the time.

Sounds like you're hot, but make bad costumes.

>>4348704
Agreed. Pretty much everyone I knows thinks I'm nuts, but getting a ton of favorites on Cosplay.com was a major boost to the ego.

Fuck /cgl/, though.

o you must be new here

No

>>4348662
yep
unless it's horrid, most of us laugh off the vendetta chans

cgl will pick up the tiniest things on a nearly perfect costume to be contrary. don't take it personally.

Damn Cosplay Snobs.

>>4348975
This.

I was posted because one of my best friends is a bitch, and likes to make fun of people she doesn't know.
Someone thought I was the same way, posted me here.
Got really upset at first. Not gonna lie, I cried a bit.
Actually read posts, laughed because they were all generic insults. Said I had a pretty face, but the costume looked like shit. Button not the right size, used black lining instead of brown, I didn't bind correctly. Just some silly, petty things.
404'd quickly.
Get posted again. Everyone flips a shit because OP kept posting my pictures and bumping to front page. 404'd even faster than the first one.

Vendetta-chans are easily smelled out

Honestly OP /cgl/ isn't as bitchy and catty as people tend to think it is. Sure there are vendetta posts but you can fine lots of good advice and encouragement from general con threads and progress threads. I mean I've had more than my fair share of good comments thrown my way and my outfits are nothing special construction wise.

Nope, I'm not well known enough. I also don't go out of my way to make drama and I'm just way too shy. I'm worried it might happen but what can you do?

Besides everything else said in this thread, good cosplay tends to stand out in the limited setting of a con. But on cgl we are spoiled with good stuff, so you get compared with the best all over the world.

This.

Yes, and it bothers me slightly. The person had enough info to be considered a friend by me, and still hasn't come out about it. I'm not paranoid enough to just start dropping friends because "it might be them." But still having that person inside my friend group does kinda bother me.

The only time I've ever been posted on here, I got called pretty by a couple tripfags, and then no1curr'd. everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

I'm neither good enough, nor shit enough to ever be posted.

Only time I've ever been posted was in a con photo dump thread, where no one commented at all, and in a self-post thread, where no one commented at all...

Yes.
But I had to laugh because one Anon was like

>"OMG U SO DAMN UGLY GAWDDAMN"

And I asked politely "Well, what about me is ugly, specifically?"

>"GURL U DON'T EVEN WANT TO TRY ME MKAY U DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW CAUSE U'D KILL URSELF IF I TOLD U"

"Well, obviously if it's something big, I already know about it, but you know go ahead and tell me so I know we're on the same page."

>"...You're a little fat in the face."

I'm all for criticism on my looks, because I know I'm not good looking, but really? Some people just get all kinds of mad when they're bashing. Atleast you know, offer some kind've constructive criticism like maybe "Contour your eyes more" or something.

But not all of /cgl/ is like this, like G said. Just the angry people.

>>4349468
Maybe you just need to lose weight.

I got trolled here badly over three years ago and had an anxiety attack to the point where I threw up. I was young and sensitive and felt helpless in terms of damage control. I still got trolled to a lesser extent for about a year after that but as I faded out of the spotlight people generally left me alone.

These days I only get posted in series-specific threads, and since it happens so frequently I'm used to it. Nobody ever says anything, or anything negative at least, and even if they did, I've grown a much thicker skin and probably wouldn't give a shit. Feels good man.

>>4349015
I never hear anything nice from progress threads or anything at all. Tripfags get like >9000 replies and no one ever says anything about my shit. Not even mean things.

>>4349657
I think part of it might be that with tripfags, people know what they look like, so even if they don't post their faces people will be excited to see their costumes on them. Without knowing who will be wearing those costumes, people will be less excited, perhaps.

that and a lot of it is just circle-jerking but whatever

>>4349657
>>4349668
Also keep in mind that a busy progress thread means that a TON of people post so your pictures might be lost in the crowd. Don't feel too bad though it just means at that particular time you've chosen to work on something that people aren't super interested in. Do not let the lack of comments reflect on your costume's quality. It's better to be ignored than to be yelled at. Also you're still being seen and one day you'll find someone who will take interest in your work.

The same thing happens in self post threads as well.

>>4349299
The pic is for you.

Don't let it get to you OP. It's better to ignore the thread because if you contribute, more trouble can start. Just sit back and watch the fireworks.

>>4349650
And who are you?

1/2, because I tl;dr:'d myself.

I know there's been at least one vendetta thread about me here, saying that I'm ugly and shouldn't be allowed to cosplay Touhou, and it wound up being "her construction is good," "she's nice," and "no1curr," and then it 404'd. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy to have people defending me.

When I was a cosplaying nooblet (three whole years ago, hurr), /jp/ did make me cry once. It was after my first AX (and first real cosplaying convention) so I was already overwhelmed, but the comments like "that Eirin is a dude!" "So ugly, get that man out of there" and so on were just too much.

I've gotten used to it, and since my skills with makeup and sewing have improved, I haven't noticed that kind of bashing as much. Then again, I gave up on /jp/ a long time ago so they could be bashing me every day and I wouldn't know it. It amuses me now, especially since I've realized the extent of the double standard against girls cosplaying Touhou, but at the time it really discouraged me.

If that pick is OP, I say DAMN! Hawt.

>>4350080
2/2

Honestly, though, the nastiest comments I've ever received have been from places like gaming websites when my /co/splays are posted in convention report dumps and things like that. Then it's a never-ending parade of "ololol #so-and-so is an ugly dude," "IT'S A MAN," "someone get Admiral Ackbar up in here!," etc. Marvel has cosplay galleries on their facebook, and the vast majority of the comments are from the type of person who honestly thinks they're being witty when they call someone an ugly whore. This boggles my mind because those comments are linked to your name and picture, for chrissakes! I just don't get it. /cgl/ at its worst is nothing compared to these comments, and they don't have the benefit of anonymity.

Other than just growing a thicker skin and letting it roll off of me, I take comfort in the fact that they're just bashing my looks, not the construction of my costumes. It does hurt, but remember that you're the one going out and having fun, and they're the ones hiding behind a keyboard getting their kicks from bashing strangers on the internet.

tl;dr: It happens, not much you can do about it. Just ignore the threads and let them die. The worst thing you can do is reply. Have a Blue Lantern corgi to make you feel better.

>>4349650
This. If you get posted in here a lot, you learn to not let their comments get to you. /cgl has been good with identifying vendetta threads though pretty quickly. It's always fun watching a hate thread backfire.

>>4350042
Nobody significant, honestly.

There was a Reddit thread about me once where somebody said that they would like to have a three way with me and my boyfriend.

It actually ended up archived.

Once, but I kinda deserved it because it was a self post. I learned to not do that anymore >>

>>4350216
>>4350259
They way I see it, if someone has a vendetta against you then that means you're important enough in their eyes to try to bring down. That is some silver lining with all the bitchy comments.

Another thing to think about is that /cgl/ in general looks down on self post unless its in progress threads, self-post threads or convention threads. Nine times out of the when someone makes a thread going "I just finished my cosplay what do you think?" they're going to get bashed on on account their actions are both arrogant and attention whoring. Western Fella and Berserk Armor Maker avoid such negative feedback mainly cause they post with humbleness and are asking more for constructive criticisms than just to say "HEY LOOK AT ME!"

If you hang around /cgl/ enough you'll notice that people who are generally helpful, supportive and make meaningful posts are less likely to get bashed on than someone who doesn't.

>This ever happened to you?
Nope, i expected some "HURRR UGLY COSTUME"
but it for some reason they liked it.

>>4350294
>Western Fella and Berserk Armor Maker avoid such negative feedback mainly cause they post with humbleness and are asking more for constructive criticisms than just to say "HEY LOOK AT ME!"

They're also male.

Just sayin'.

>>4348620
This happened to me. Soni and some anons offered some concrit. I still hate my face and the color is off but everyone at the two Otakons I've worn it to loved it.

Sage for blatant self-post.

Oh, you have NO idea.

I think it's safe to say that everyone who gets posted here gets bashed.

That's because 4chan is either filled with trolls or people who really know what they are talking about.

People at cons and online will call any cosplay amazing as long as they are a fankid.

for example, the picture on the left is on the third page of most popular when you search Roxas cosplay. Since Kingdom Hearts has a big fanbase, many people tell them how awesome they look. I'm sure at a con, they would get stopped every minute for a picture.

I'm not saying your stuff is terrible but just letting you know the reality.

I've been randomly insulted before in progress threads for non-construction things (ie. "fat" even though it was just a picture of my arm which is... not fat?), but that's about as much attention as I ever get.

The last few times it happened I thought I let it go but I realized it was getting to me and I had to swear off of cgl for a good 24 hours to get over it.

Guess I don't have as thick of skin as I thought I did, but at least now I can work on it.

One of my friends got posted on here about some Hetalia related bullshit.

But she was a real cunt about stuff so I see why she got attacked.

>>4350410

Is that Suiseiseki from Rosen Maiden?

>>4348620
who is the girl in the op pic and what character is she?

>>4351098

Simca from Air Gear

I get posted from time to time, its best to just ignore the haters. I did just that and was able to improve myself greatly!

Most definitely.
That's kind of how it goes. I can't really say anything that hasn't been said, like people being unnecessarily dicks just because they're anonymously on the internet.
Personally, I think my cosplay was the shit. I don't think anyone could have done it better, hardly. However, what I got called out on was my not-quite-ideal build, which was, admittedly, at least 20 lbs and quite a bit of toning away from perfection.
Sometimes people are assholes to be assholes.
But sometimes they're just more of an asshole than they need to be about something.
A non-anonymous person with the right to criticize your cosplay (i.e. a friend) would employ some tact. But you just don't NEED to over the internet.
So, basically, sometimes you just have to take it in stride and either learn from it (while trying not to take it too seriously since they were probably just being a dick because they don't have to NOT be a dick) or blow it off as douches that get a kick out of being douches.

>>4351252

Why does it have to be a friend?

Too scared to hear the truth?

>>4351269

I don't know about you
but personally I don't think offline it's normal to walk up to someone and say "you look like shit"

>>4351212

Wait hold the fuck up! The hell you posting in here for?

>>4351275
Wanna bet....

>>4351297

Um.
It's not impossible.
But that doesn't mean it's something people do.