you west coast? if so, Sailor Jamboree.
man, those were the days.

>>6303513
Always been on the East Coast and in the South. Even over here we knew of the Sailor Jamboree drama, though.

Some newer cosplayers in this thread would be fun, too. Ask an old cosplay fart anything you want about cons or cosplayers.

>>6303513
Down south we had Yaya and Michiru (Jaqueline), that girl who acted and dressed like Sailor Neptune all the time and even pretended to be a lesbian and always had a girlfriend to cosplay Uranus with her. Funny, but not near the level of Sailor Jamboree.

How does it feel to be old?

>>6303530
Didn't Michiru end up being the girl half of Assassins Inc and then start doing porn?

10 years myself, old fart club activate.
Ahh, back when I went around hitting every con I could, still enchanted by the newness of it all.

Northeast, we had Usagi Kou... we had Jezeroth... uhh... Man I don't even, so many that are/were my friends now or then that I don't remember who was popular

>>6303595
I'm old compared to the vast demographic of con goers today, but I'm not actually "old." I was just young when I started going to cons, which back then that was strange at cons. Most con goers were at least college age, most older than that. Now I feel like a senior citizen at cons. Everyone looks 12. I think most of them are 12.

But to answer your question, feels good man. Life is much simpler because your priorities become much more streamlined as you get older.

>>6303530
Ex-member of Sailor Jamboree here. Ask me anything.

>>6303625
11 years here. Ughghgg.

11 year club here. I was never a popular cosplayer though, so I don't have too many stories. I do think a lot of today's cosplays are both totally better and totally spoiled with availability, and I miss full skin tops.

>>6303623
You are correct! She was outed here on 4chan for being cray Michiru from the Georgia cosplay scene. Old fart cosplayers spilled her goofy ass past. I remember she came here and was SUPER pissy about it. She ended up deleting EVERYTHING off the internet...her cosplay site, wedding site, family site, personal pics on flickr...funny story, though, I actually found her on facebook a while back (she was commenting on a friend's post, so no I wasn't e-stalking). Turns out she write "LGBTQ science fiction" now (unpublished) and makes gay pride jewelry, and makes no mention of her husband on any of her sites. Gotta appear legit to her gay audience, I suppose.

>>6303631
Tell me about it!

>>6303513 >>6303631
I'm a new cosplayer. What is this Sailor Jamboree you're talking about? A quick google search says it was some kind of event, but...

>>6303638
I was and never have been popular, either. I've just always ended up friends with popular cosplayers. To tell you the truth, "popular" cosplayers never stay around for very long (Yaya is a giant exception). I think most of them tire themselves out on the drama, the constant work of whoring themselves out to stay relevant, and...ya know, run out of their parents' money or their sugar daddy breaks up with them.

>>6303641
What do you want to know?

For the record, I like and am still friends with (most of) the girls in the group (with a couple of notable exceptions), so you probably won't get a ton of shit-talk... but I'm nostalgia-ing hard, so ask away.

>>6303646
Not an event, they were a Sailor Moon cosplay group on the West Coast. On the East Coast we knew them as a cray group that got pissy at anyone else who did song/dance skits, and that ended up getting banhammered from conventions all over fucking California. I had no West Coast cosplay friends then, so I'd love to hear more from the ex-member.

>>6303634
I know you're an oldfag, cause I know you and you know me.

>>6303646

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdfBmqGLlc

>>6303674
Your memory is a bit off. We didn't get banned from any conventions, but we did get the JASPER banned from AX (they called in a fake bomb threat on our leader and what the fuck did they actually think was going to happen).

There were a couple of cons we were asked to stop COMPETING at because we were consistently winning prizes and they felt like it was time to let new people take the spotlight, but tbh, most of us had started to feel kind of guilty about it by then and it was an easy decision to make.

>>6303685
Oh god, lol. Possibly our worst performance ever.

Background: We had planned to do "La Soldier", and learned the dance months beforehand, and when we all got to the convention, realized nobody was capable of burning a CD with the song on it because how does technology work, we were all 12 and what is this.

So we had to invent and learn this dance in about 30 total hours. EXCITING~

>>6303687
Ah. Well, that was just what was circulating over on my end of the good ol' US. It feels like everyone knows people all over the US now (in cosplay, anyway). Back then people seemed more like they were in regional bubbles. Probably because we didn't want to pay long distance rates on the phone, lol.

>>6303693
By the way, Not Actually Kidding: TristenCitrine (Jupiter) was a legal adult, but Saturn was 16, I was 13, Moon was 12, and Chibimoon was 11.

>>6303704
So does that mean you're Venus?

>>6303721
And old, yes.

>>6303703
I think a lot of us have physically moved, too (for college, work, etc.), so the bubbles have started to disperse.

I'm not surprised you heard a lot of drama, though - I was too young to be involved with much of it, but from what I remember our leader was a gigantic drama llama on coscom and such.

>>6303506 (OP)
>>6303518
Hello Meredith Placko.

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this thread has prompted me to look through old fanime and anime expo skits circa 2000-2001

Can you die from nostalgia?

>>6303708 →
Looks like oldfag assistance is required here.

>>6303736
LOL I'm not her, but I do remember her. She came around every few years going by a new cosplay name...I guess trying to shed her dramu she was a part of under the tons of other names? I was a Georgia cosplayer, actually. Meredith was from Florida (or was in Florida by the time I actually met her).

>>6303742
I hope not, because I'm right there with you T___T

>>6303746
Are you still in GA?

>>6303756
Nope, not anymore. I moved four years ago.

>>6303769
Where are you these days, does it compare to the weird con scene of the south?

These are my questions from the Yaya thread:
I'm curious, how much money did she get from that settlement involving happy sun whatever korean company she sued for copying her cat ears? How does she make enough money yearly to support going to so many cons around the US and abroad? I can't imagine selling cat ears and accessories makes you that much money.

Can someone give me sauce on her old husband? The dude before Brian Boling that she apparently got her green card from and screwed over?

what is the drama between her and coscom/lilyxandra/yuna(coscom)?

please someone deliver

>>6303783
The drama between her and lillyxandra/coscom has to do with the cat ears, too. I don't know details, but it was basically

>let's invent cat ears together
>OK NOW THESE ARE MINE DO NOT STEAL

>>6303797
I thought she stole the molds from coscom? Cuz they used to sell them on cosworx (this was many years ago).

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Whatever happened to Angel AKA CosplayAngel?

Is she still even alive ...? She was clearly anorexic as fuck, but since it wasn't popular to be totes proana back then, no one talked about it.

I hope she's okay, though, I always loved her.

>>6303801
She and lillyxandra made the first set, and then decided to sell them through coscom (remember, Sara/Adella and her ugly photographer sugar daddy du jour ran it at the time), and then she pulled out over how much money she was getting.

>>6303809
Oh, and Tristencitrine, another friend of theirs, was the mastermind of cosworx. But I think she had left cosworx to Adella by the time of this event.

What do you know about the folks that seem to be in Yaya's circle like Riddle. She (and the others) all seem to be super cool and nice, which sort of amazes me given how much drama surrounds Yaya and her general attitude. Are they just less worn down/more polite than her or what?

>>6303809
speaking of adella I'd like to know what she does now since she broke up or got broken up with by admin/kyle.

someone needs to tell me the story of how admin and her started dating. what the fuck.

>>6303829
Speaking of Riddle, I'm kind of amazed at how she managed to drop off the face of the internet for a while and then come back to even more popularity under a different name, despite being older. Was it the genre switch? The implants? I liked her work before she was Riddle, and I've always wondered how any oldfags manage to switch cosplay names...

>>6303835
You've been out of the loop for a long time, dude. She started dating a guy named Anthony (the Link in her failed Zelda Project), and when they broke up, apparently she's with yet another creepy, homely, but rich photographer who worked on TZP with them.

>>6303842
Who is Riddle and who did she used to be?

Way back of the way backs?
- Tikki
- Alisachan
- H-chan
- Miyu
- Angel
- Eyes on Me
- Sailor JAMBoree
- CosplayScandal

>>6303849
What about Nessa/Yuna? let me get some sauceeeeeeeee of dat

Fellow old fag reporting in. This will be my 15th year cosplaying.

Seen lots of stuff from the COSP to Fansiew to Lindze's child.

It's been quite something to watch the fandom change from late teens and 20 somethings to 14 yr olds at babby's first time away from parents.
It's been something to watch us go from no wigs being ok with shitty satin being alright to OMG never use your real hair and you NEED $40 contacts for every costume you have.

I miss how close people were cause you knew your fellow cosplayers were serious fans . You had to be to find VHS subs of some show no one had heard of.

Now, the fans may be casuals but it's so much easier to find references and see shows the day they air in Japan.

>>6303858
Your view is skewed. There were tons of 11, 12, and 13-year-olds at those conventions back in those days (hello, we're the 24, 25, and 26 year old oldfags who still cosplay now, right in this thread).

>>6303844
What is the story of her and kyle/admin? She basically just fucked him for money?

>>6303849
Wow it' like '97-'98 all over again. Those girls all started even before Yaya/Adella/PikminLink.

Does anyone remember Diana Kou? She was my girlcrush for awhile when she was in SJ. Remember when Miyu was 15? Remember when Michiru from Eyes On Me was the idol of all the BSSM fangirls and everyone copied her? Remember when amateur voice acting was a huge thing? Oh man....

>>6303667
tell us about the notable exceptions. who are they? why aren't you friends with them anymore? what happened?

>>6303869
They had a long relationship, at least 2 or 3 years. Who can say what the real motivators were, but when an attractive girl with no ability to make money and an unattractive rich guy are together, there's generally only a couple of options. Either it's TWOO WUVV or else it's the other thing.

>>6303862

Haha no.

I started cosplaying in 1997 at AWA 3

The con wasn't huge and I know the youngest person I encountered was 16. Everyone else was 18, 19, and 22+

You MIGHT have had one or two 14 yr olds per con. It took money and knowing where to look to be a fan and kids back then just didn't have the connections and money it took to be fans yet.

But at AWA, it took three more years before I started running into more young teens. And about 3 more years after that before I started seeing more teens than adults

>>6303876
The leader spiraled from "slightly neurotic in a kind of adorable way" to "full-blown crazy" over the course of time. I left the group due to a falling-out she and I had about the psychotic ways she dealt with both outsiders and members.

A couple of the girls during the later years became SUPERCHRISTIANS who now do cosplay "for the glory of Jesus" or something. I didn't know them very well, though.

Most of us are still very cordial, if not particularly close (life and time have taken their tolls and not all of us live close together anymore). But there are exceptions - I still hang out with one of the girls I met in SJ once a week or so.

>>6303892
Maybe you should have gone to CA more, then. I can believe it that a little southern convention wouldn't have a draw for young'uns, but west coast cons (Fanime, AX, Animagic) were filled with us spoiled rich kids.

>>6303829
LOL Riddle is a nut and likes to tell people she did the costumes for X-Men First Class... She didn't.

>>6303847
She used to be called Lafiel. I actually have photos of her from 2005 when she used to cosplay at Canadian cons.

>>6303856
When Nessa was 14 or 15 she got drunk at a Citrine birthday party (Tristin gave her the booze personally) ripped off her Yuna costume and ran around naked for a few minutes before switching into a Tidus costume some guy there was wearing. For the rest of the night he was dressed as Yuna and she walked around with her tits mostly hanging out for Tidus. To reiterate she was not an adult and not of drinking age. TC is scum.

>>6303905
I don't think Nessa is as young as you think she is.

>>6303902
She did cheesy nudes and was a huge attention whore slut. Her re-vamped persona is pretty impressive considering how much of a pathetic lulcow she used to be. I'm amazed by the fact that she's taken seriously now. Kudos to you, Lafiel/Riki LaCotey(sp?)/Riddle.

>>6303905
>>6303910
There are Nessa nudes around here somewhere. Someone post plz!

>>6303910
This happened in 2002. I was there. My guess on her age might be wrong but she was under age.

>>6303916
Yeah, just based on when CharCon started (and stopped) happening I knew what years you had to be talking about.

You're right, she was underage, but she was more like 19 or 20.

>>6303916
I'm curious, tell me (in some way that only an oldfag would know) who you were! Unless you're still pretending to be her friend and don't want this to come back on you.

>>6303918
>You're right, she was underage, but she was more like 19 or 20.
LOL wat? You're either underage or you're an adult. Do you mean she acted like she was 19 or 20?

>>6303918
That's 10 years ago, exactly, and she's not 29 or 30 today, she's somewhere between 25-27.

>>6303924
Nope, because afaik she still doesn't do THAT. lol

>>6303924
Under the drinking age, idiot, but no she was under all the ages. ALL THE AGES.

>>6303934
Then she must have started college REALLY early or something, because I remember talking to her about some college classes she was taking in the summer of 2002.

>>6303920
Only an oldfag would know Citrine used to throw drunken hoebag parties, I lurk this place all the time and nobody ever talks about them. Yes, while I'm not still friends with her I'd like to keep the peace with that crowd, maybe that narrows down my identity IDC, but I am posting anonymously for a reason.

>>6303911
Don't forget she did hentai voice acting and is now in a shady relationship with a gross fat loser. Woooo!

11 years here too.

I didn't pay much attention to the drama. There wasn't much going on in my area (midwest) in the early 00's. But lulz? I have lots of that.

Anyone remember the short rotund guy that cosplayed as Tuxedo mask and had that remote controlled robot that carried around a rose around all the midwest conventions? I heard somewhere he had a camera up in that robot, so when all the sailor moon girls ran to it squeeing, he'd snap pantyshots.

I remember when everyone used halloween wigs and spray in hair color, and yes, the shiny satin seifukus.

>>6303960
Haha. Seriously? For which one(s)?

>>6303858
This. I miss how it used to legit be a closeknit community of people just excited to meet others with common interests. Nobody gave a fuck if your costume looked like a cotton garbage bag. There were just so few people (overall) that were into anime, even fewer who were into cosplay, that you were just happy as fuck to meet someone else who liked it. Now people are some evil bitches in this hobby.

>>6303871
Amateur voice acting was how I actually found out about cons and got into cosplay. MEMORIES.

>>6303977
I remember that guy! Didn't he get banned from some midwest cons because of that?

>>6303977
>camera up in that robot
>he'd snap pantyshots
And people wonder why I wear shorts under my skirts.

>>6303901
That was Miracole Bthat said she worked on the costume. .

this thread and kevin lillard. memories. what happened to cosplayfucks/catsonmars, they still around?

>>6304316
Cosfu's being run by Angel/4ng31 now, but both the .org/.net sites just show a GoDaddy advertisement at the moment. They still have a FB page and such but they're very different now. It's not really a snark community at this point.

Where are they now?

- Railiens
- Assassins Inc.
- Sana-chan
- Alaria
- Heidi
- Erika Door
- Beverly

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My first con was Otakon 2000, I believe the Mana on the left is Yaya.

>>6304316
Did you guys hear that Lillard is homeless and living in his car now? Poor guy.

>>6304356
I found Alaria on FB recently. She's doing her third degree right now to become a doctor of some sort (MDCM @ McGill). I have lots of respect for anyone who makes it that far in higher education. It's actually her birthday today, so happy birthday Alaria.

As for the rest, the only one I've seen cosplay in the past four or five years is Heidi.

>>6304382
http://acparadise.livejournal.com/195941.html
He's taking donations if anyone is interested. All you oldfags know him, and while he wasn't the best photog in the world (or good at all) he was an awesome guy and we should kick him a few dollars in his time of need. What do you guys say? Avoid eating out tomorrow and donate the $10 that would have cost to a guy who did us an awesome service many years ago.

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8 years here,
obligatory Ao post

>>6303905
.. that actually sounds par for the course for Nessa, I wouldn't say it was TCs fault. Nessa is, and always has been, out of fucking control.

>>6304407
Details? I only ever got to see her being crazy on Cosplay.com, where she'd bitch people out in a really unprofessional way and then lock the thread so nobody could respond.

>>6304414
And yet she's still a mod, at least Sarah was doing Kyle what's Nessa got going for her?

>>6304316
>>6304316
Cosfu quit being any good when Teng gave it up. 4ng31 got in a bunch of pissing contests with people and some left. And it just sort of...petered out. Last I went to it, there were forums that hadn't even been posted in for almost a year. It was good, now it's done.

Catsonmars...shit...quit going there FOREVER ago. I'm assuming it's gone now.

>>6304379
Yeah, that's her. Nadine in the middle, Elly down from, and the guy by her was Ashita. I dunno the other one.

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I remember miyu and kaneda went out or something and Miyu fought with him on cosplay.com sometimes. I mainly just remember that 'cause I had a crush on this smokin' hot Kaneda cosplayer.

>tfw when my bf look like a younger version of this kaneda cosplayer.

>>6304356
Assassins Inc - I mentioned the Michiru chick above and her weird LGBTQ sci-fi she writes and she makes gay pride bracelets, all while pretending her husband has never existed.

Erikadoor- Remember? It was "one word." WHOA talk about a chick who was full of herself. She did FFV Shiva (I think it was from V) and said that if anyone else did it she would "rip their spine out." She was not joking, either.

>>6304414
There's not really any examples I can give you, and I haven't spoken to her in a few years so this may not be true anymore but she's just a loose cannon. Totally nuts and over-the-top in everything she does. She's just .. extreme, I guess? It can be very grating.

>>6304414
>>6304452
Actually, how she acted on coscom is a pretty good example of how she is in real life lol

>>6304430
Man, Miyu was such a dirty slut.

>>6304356
Beverly's teaching now. Just got married. I don't think she does much with cosplay, but I think she still does a little here and there when she has time.

So many awesome people I met on Catsonmars, back before /cgl/. Fond internet memories right there.

>>6304439
the latest erikadoor shit I heard:

She was in an open relationship with this guy (Kev? I think he's cosplay famous) any ways
he's seeing this other girl on the side for over a year and finally the other girl was like "look, I can't do this open thing anymore, chose me or her" and he chose the other girl.

Anyways Erika when on this massive bitch fit and tried to turn everyone else against this girl for "stealing her man"

Sorry hun if you're in an open relationship you should be damn sure you're man won't leave you, and if he does it's kinda your own damn fault.

Things that were different back in the day

- People using wigs were a rarity
- Ignoring your body type for character selection was a common practice
- Kodac Disposable cameras were commonplace
- People with digital cameras were a rarity
- Getting a photoshoot off con was someone only really good cosplayers did
- You got comments on cosplay.com
- Anime had yellow subtitles
- Showing up in costume was more important than having the absolute best
- Eurobeat King took photos of guys as well as girls
- Anime screenshots were the only reference images you had to use
- For costumes you had to make them from scratch or raid your closet
- Shitty hallway photos of yourself was the norm

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>>6304542
check off all that with this pic.

>>6304542
I had a digital camera...the kind a floppy disc went in. I was the ONLY person at the first con I went to that even had one (it was top of the line at the time...lol). And cosplay.com didn't even exist.

>>6304583
LOL I used to rock out with my XBox-sized Sony Mavica with the disks. You could take and save so few pics. We are pretty spoiled these days with the technology out now.

>>6304532
That is true. Kevin came out to visit Erica in Chicago last year. Kevin is the bitter, bitter ex of Ginny who still makes it a priority to throw internet shit at her. Looooooser

>>6304356
Heidi finished college and got busy with a career/life, but she still costumes sometimes at cons like Dragon Con and Comic Con. I think the same goes for Beverly.

Erika tried to make a comeback a few years ago, but then fell off the face of the earth again.

>>6304470
She may have been crazy but she was never a slut. After she dumped that guy she was in an exclusive relationship with a photographer for 6 years. The girl had issues and dressed like a hobag but she was never known to be promiscuous.

>>6305148
and then Erika still moved to Philly despite everything, while Kev moved to NY for work and is still with 'the other girl'.
I'd say she's better off though.

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>>6306338
And along these same lines, Stripper Vash.

>>6306059
Hi Miyu.

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>>6306342
Somewhere there is a picture or two of him and his friend as Knives and my friend as Vash and myself as Legato from an otakon ages ago

Never did find it.

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>>6306355
This has been a favorite picture of mine for years. Is this the same knives?

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Also.. Rabbi Wolfowitz

>>6306357
Yeah that was him.

>>6306338
is that a wrestling ring he's in?

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>>6304542
>You got comments on cosplay.com
ZOMG! THIS!
I got 30 comments to a shitty photo with a shitty costume and now my costumes are so much better and I got max 1 or 3 comments... WTF! Why?

>>6306436
>436
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>>>6304542
>>You got comments on cosplay.com
>ZOMG! THIS!
>I got 30
not many people use cosplay.com anymore to my knowledge. the site is pretty dead from my experience

>>6306437
whoah wtf happened with my reply?

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>>6306437
>the site is pretty dead from my experience
Oh, wow! Really? I use cosplay.com and Cure in general. Sometimes I think to register of Deviantart but always to lazy and the site design is not so my taste and the site-mascot is shitty. lol

>>6306437
Coscom used to be an amazing site...then it got full of drama and a bunch of people were like "fuck this." A lot of cosplayers are just on facebook now. It's like no other big cosplay site can take off, and all the old ones have kicked the bucket or are dying.

Anyone remember cosplaylab and when it was relevant?

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>>6306437
>>6306445
>>6306756
I might have an explanation...

Since not many people had access to digital cameras, the whole concept of uploading photos online was a part of the hobby that people didn't really do. In general the amount of photo uploads cosplay.com got on a daily basis was very small so you could browse all the photos of a particular series and character in less than an afternoon.

Seeing how rare things were, we were more excited to see another person attempt a cosplay of a certain character and other details such as accuracy, photo composition or body type get in the way in our enthusiasm. Add to the fact that many of us were really young and impressionable so any sort of praise we got was instantly charished so of course we would return the kindless and comment back.

Nowadays the whole notion of leaving comments on photos is not so common anymore. Giving out compliments to a cosplayer is not as universal as it once as as sites with a lot of traffic such as Coscom and ACP don't see a lot of comments be given out. Nowadays that stuff is regulated on Facebook, Tumblr, LJ and dA.

>>6306883
Yeah, but comments on coscom were a common thing like, 4 years ago. In fact, the whole site was active. Digicams (lol remember that term?) were common then. I don't think the cosplay scene has changed THAT much in four years. It's still tons of teenagers, tons of bitchy people, lots of self-whoring, except all across various social media sites instead of just all on coscom.

You're describing the coscom of like...2003-2005. After that it was still a super busy site, but with more dramu. I feel like it's really bottomed out in the past two years, though. Or maybe that's just me.

>>6304356
Sana-chan was annoying! That's all I remember. I don't see a lot of California cosplayers anymore. What happened to them all? Adella / Nessa crew? Maryssa? Sailor Jamboree? Underground Cosplay? Coconut Bubble Sex Cosplay? Brilliant Moon Cosplay?

>>6307004
I think I said it earlier in this thread, but popular cosplayers and cosplay groups all come and go, constantly. Most of the popular ones make a ton of costumes, go to as many cons as possible, and post on the internet as much as they can so they can stay relevant. Barely any of them stay around. It's super expensive to keep that up, and most of them are in college. I think their parents shut the pocket book after a while/they run out of money/sugar daddy boyfriend breaks up with them. I think another factor is that cosplay loses all enjoyment when you're doing all that shit.

>>6307004
Sana finally figured out how to wax her eyebrows. Now she works for Disney or something.

Adella did TZP and went batshit

Nessa is still as psycho as she always was

Maryssa is in Angel Hearts Cosplay (an Idolm@ster group) but wont let you tag cosplay pictures of her to her facebook because of reasons

Sailor Jamboree imploded due to Gina's gigantic ego and Chrissy's getting married and not having time for kid shit anymore

idk about the rest

>>6307026
Almost everyone that person mentioned is in their late 20s/early 30s now. I would hope they've all finished college and gone on to Real Life.

>>6307064
I remember a while back there were pics of Nessa and she had gotten kind of...heavy. She said it was because she was on psych meds. Um??

>>6307064
Adella was always batshit, she used to lock threads for people saying they didn't like Aeris as a character.

>>6307128
Yeah she's chunky now and has been for a while.

>>6307130
Wait what? She used to tell people she "didn't even like Aeris"

>>6307130
That's true. But even compared to where she was in the old days, she's comparatively batshit now.

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Does anyone remember this kid? I THINK her name was Sara? Did she continue to cosplay after her mother stopped forcing her into costumes? I remember feeling really bad for her at the time, but I think it would be cool if she managed to make it her own thing.

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>>6307249
yup that is Sarah, we cosplayed together a few times and most of the time she seemed to enjoy cosplay and we had fun choosing some stuff together once in awhile, but she doesn't do it anymore. Right now she is doing school stuff. Heh, she was on The View in the first season too. Girl can sing.

>>6304542
I think I'm still stuck in old school mode. Like half this shit I can't even comprehend these days.

>>- Ignoring your body type for character selection was a common practice
It's fine if I'm modest, use supportive undergarments, corsetry, excellent craftsmanship, makeup and wig styling, right? OH HELL NO, LOOK AT THAT FATASS INSTANT FAIL.

>>- Getting a photoshoot off con was someone only really good cosplayers did
Almost all my costumes except for more recent ones and a couple photoshoots I did with Lionel are hallway shots. I still look everywhere for my pictures.

I used to have a huge ass gallery on my website where I stored all my con pics. I'd sit there and scan about 4-5 disposable camera's worth of pictures and edit them all. Then I got really into taking pictures, but not in a pro sense cause I just used a crappy digital camera that sometimes took good shots. I just liked capturing everyone and getting lots of pictures and providing them for people. There was a time I'd take about 500-800 pictures at a convention. Now I'm lucky to get like 25. I'm like, fuck it.

>>6303835
>>someone needs to tell me the story of how admin and her started dating. what the fuck.

They met on a forum that Kyle was running. He owns a few. They started talking and a relationship was formed. As much as people like to go on about how admin looks creepy and sucks and how crazy Adella is now from what I saw back then they had a sweet relationship and he cared for her a lot and so did she. If it wasnt for one the fact that I was one of his forums when they opened cosplay.com I wouldnt have even known about cosplay myself. So as much as I roll my eyes at Adella bullshit right now it is thanks to her I found out about cosplay.

>>6306756
>Facebook
FUCK THIS SHIT! I HATE FACEBOOK!!!!!!!

>Cosplaylab
Good old times... My first cosplay site for me in the year 2003. This site is really more dead, or?

>>6307605
Pretty dead. The admin sent me a friendly PM welcoming me to the community (although I joined in 2006 but never uploaded) after I uploaded a cosplay photo to my account. Said it was great to see another fan of the series. It's practically a ghost town.

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Been cosplaying for 13 years myself. I remember when cos.com looked like this. (This of course was not their first layout but I couldnt get a screencap of their first layout.)

12 years cosplaying. I love you my fellow old bitches. I miss the old days so much every time I go to a con overrun with fourteen year olds.

>>6307630
I must upload my cosplaylab account some time... lol
2005/2006 was my best time on cosplay.com because I got so many comments. But now very very rare I get only ONE comment. And my costumes are really better than in the past... why write in this time not so many people comments like in the past? In the past all people write comments, also to shity costumes with comments like "awesome!". lol
My first cosplays are so crappy and these have more comments than my new costumes. Just wtf! Whyyyyyy! Maybe is the cosplay scene in the mondern time more demanding than in the past, or? Cosplay photos are today more pro-shots, photoshop and what ever... in the old days just simple (crappy?) photos of a convention without super pretty setting.

>>6307635
Oh, yeah! I remember!

13 years of cons.. so..errr.. 'bout 15 of cosplaying
Ok, now I feel beyond old!

Hands up for those early days of ACP just starting up and derpy comments Henry would write on some photos if you let him. And the early ACP meets at cons too for a giant group photo!

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>>6307071
That feel I am in the mid 20s and finished NOTHING!
Forever a NEET...

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Good thread! Less newfags and all oldfags here! <3

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Man the old ACP site run through the internet time machine is a wealth of photos. And no I'm not posting these to make fun of these cosplayers because that would be stupid as some of these shots were from some of their first costume. More to show how everyone starts somewhere.

Ginny, Miyu, Yaya, TristenCitrine

>>6307810
You missed Michiru. She's next to Miyu.

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Young Yaya looks really cute!

>>6307823
I did! My bad. The site ate my first post so I messed up my retype.

>>6307810
>first thought at chunli:
OPPA GANGNAM STYLE

>>6303829
Riddle has always been nice to me, almost all cosplayers have been when I have gone up to them, despite how shitty CGL says they are.

>>6303901
she never said she made them she said she worked on the set of the movie.

>>6307004
Bubble sex won WCS this year.

Anyone remember Sailor Bacon & Manfaye and Man Yuna? It was always fun to see that shit.

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ring on that finger?!

>>6307984
yeah she used to be married... WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN. Divorced several years ago.

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blast from the past, anime expo 1997

http://www.chez-vrolet.net/~dennisthetiger/anime/con/

Man all these blast from the past cons make me miss AniMagic in Lancaster CA and really sad that the hotel is gone.

That was like cosplay camp every Autumn.

>>6306756
Cosplaylab! I had a paid account there for a long time, and... whatever features they had at the time for paid members were pretty useful. I remember joining and there not being many people there.

I remember joining cosplay.com when it was really new. It was a really fun community back in the day, and I'd hang out in the forums forever. Then at some point, everyone was posting "OMG WHO SHOULD I COSPLAY WHO DO I LOOK LIKE" I don't know? A human being. Pick a character you like.

I remember when KatieBair taught us all about the awesome world of wigs. Like, wow, I really shouldn't use a halloween wig. HOLY SHIT, I don't have to use neon pink cleo wigs, but I can dye them?!

Now there's like 80gillion places to get wigs, heat resistant wigs pre-styled in any character you want. You don't even need to part your wig for pigtails anymore. Just use a parted wig and some clip on extentions. FML.

>>6308003
ALA has taken over as that con. Besides, from what I heard: there's alot of shady circumstantial as to which the con was demised.

>>6307999
>the days when cosplay was something done just for fun and to show your fan spirit because you loved the characters so much

Good times.

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well.. if people want to feel old..

I still visit otakuworld.com every now and then to see if people are still making kiss dolls.

>>6308363
Just got slapped with a wave of nostalgia. Went to check on the site, but it seems to be down now. All the links on the Classic site are broken too, I think.

Man, I just went to coscom after years and my god it is as horrible as before. Was looking at the showcase costumes and photos...LOL

It is so hit or miss. Mostly just miss though. Who in the fuck picks those out? Some of the costumes are godawful tier. Same with the photos. By some I mean most.

>>6308363
The internet used to be such a small place...

>>6303844
Has she ever had a job...?

>>6306059
Seeing as she slept with said photog's brother while she was engaged and broke up said brother's marriage , yes, she's considered a slut.

>>6308419
None of that was ever confirmed. We all assumed he made it up because he was pissed that she left him. This is the same photog that lied about having lung cancer and working for Elite. Alot of us CO cosplayers had unpleasant experiences with him and his drama. Even though he took nice photos it didn't matter because he would never give them to you afterwards.

>>6306756
Cosplaylab went down the crapper when the owner went to Japan to try to convert the Japanese into Christians. Many cosplayers left then.

>>6308432
Holy shit I remember that! I stopped using my cosplaylab as soon as that happened. Weren't they like, Mormon or something?

>>6308429
Nope, it was confirm by Miyu herself. She wrote a tl;dr post about her stripper days and trying to support them both since they were unemployed.

>>6308435
Not sure about the Mormon part.

>>6308436
I know she admitted to stripping to support them but I don't remember her ever confirming cheating on him. If you have the screencaps you should post them so we can see what's what. I'll admit I'm biased because he screwed over two very good friends of mine who let him live with them for awhile. He could never keep a job. His compulsive lying was something we all knew about so we could never put much stock in anything that came out of his mouth. I'm not even sure if he still lives here and I wouldn't be suprised if he's homeless.

>>6308443
No, I don't have screencaps. It's been awhile. Somebody posted it on /cgl/ a couple of times though. Maybe there are others that have it. That said, they're probably both mental.

>>6308447
She must've been crazy. I would never ever support my bf if he refused to get a job.

>the owner went to Japan to try to convert the Japanese into Christians.

Wtf am I reading

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B-but anon-kun, drama is great.

>>6308432
That's when I left too- they used all the money from the paid accounts to fund the trip. There was this huge long letter they posted on the front page about it.

Ah the nostalgia.

I knew of cosplay back in the 90's, but at that point I was more into vhs fansubs and didn't follow the drama.

Wasn't until the 2000's when francesca dani was vomiting drama all over the SA forums (before the days of 4chan) and /a/ back when /a/ wasn't differentiated into all the anime subculture boards we have now.

Great thread.