is being into cosplay at age 30+ cringe?
I don't mean token master roshi boomer

>>10843944 (OP)
Depends on your cosplay. A 37 yo man dressed as Naruto is a bit cringe ngl but if you're doing a Wesker cosplay from Resident Evil or something then thats extremely based

you're closer in age to a 3000yo demon loli that a 19yo is poorly cosplaying as, so no, not cringe

>>10843947
It's about your level of taste and acting your age. There are plenty of cosplayers over 30 who aren't cringe at all. Most people who are older also have more money to invest into cosplay and materials, so they can make more complex and sophisticated builds than teenagers.

>>10843944 (OP)
Anyone who's over 25 should frankly stop going to cons

>>10843944 (OP)
It'll be cringe if you try to cosplay young characters. Stick to adult characters and you'll be cool.

>>10843954
Cons are for 40 year olds to talk about episode production trivia
Soon you'll understand too

If you are a man its ok
If you are a woman its cringe

>>10843944 (OP)
>No you can't cosplay after a certain age its cringe!

>>10843965
>I took this picture
Zased. Here's hoping he comes back to Sakura again. I'll be on the lookout.

>>10843944 (OP)
If you LOOK 30+ irl yes.

nonwhites and gifted whites get a longer shelf life

>>10844128
Arabs and hispanics age even worse than whites and pajeets are just ugly.

>>10844128
>>10844135
Also black men only age a little bit better than white men on average and black women don't age any better and because of how dark their skin is and their facial features they make any serious cosplay look silly. Since south east asians are usually ugly and too short the only desirably races to be are chinese, koreans, japanese or pacific islanders, or gifted white.

>>10843944 (OP)

>>10844139
This, but not in any way ironically.

>>10844135
Only poor ones do. Poor whites age the worst of all

>>10844135
are you kidding? just look at all the gross old white people. whats with the old lady cut?

>>10844150
poor anything ages bad, and by poor I mean people who can't figure out how to do shit and just sort of "give up" on themselves. gross.

>>10844135
imagine when you discover that most of cosplayers that you follow are 30+ yo hispanics
''muh world noo she is not a korean but colombian? nooooooooo''

>>10844169
This. A lot of Hispanic people look younger than their age and also even Asian sometimes.

>>10844169
>>10844206
triggered latinos

>>10843944 (OP)
I dont think it's cringe unless you're doing cringe shit. It's not so much the costume, but the actual play part of cosplay that makes it cringe. Fuck I hate autistic cosplay skits and cringy faggots that think they're Kirito. Like bro, you're a balding 40 year old man, please develop yourself beyond a 14 year old.

Why would you be cosplaying after 25? You should at least be married and having a child or two on the way by that time, at the very latest 28 (if you look young). People don't want to see fat balding males at cons who failed at life.

>>10844576
con population used to be predominantly fat balding males respect your elders retarded zoomer because one day you will undoubtedly be a fat balding male who has failed at life

How many of these threads do we need? Just go you faggot. In my experiences, the coolest and chillest people I meet at cons are those in their late 20s to 30s.

>>10843944 (OP)
Only shitheads think that.

Are you a shithead?

>>10843954
Dumb , over 25 is the people who actually have money $ to buy stuff and sustain the CON, not the teenager who don't buy shit and don't use deodorant

>>10844138
>/pol/

Cosplaying over 18 is probably cringe.
Last time I cosplayed I was 16. Nowadays I only dig watching quality cosplays from japan and that's it.

>>10843947
It also depends on how old you look. Some people just don't age at all and are pushing 40 yet they still look like they're in college.

>>10844781
This. A lot of this.
>hanging out with someone at Katsu
>could have sworn they weren't old enough to drink was carded at every bar we went to
>turns out they were 34
>friends who are 23-25
>never got carded everyone thought they were closer to 30
>happened without makeup or cosplay on as well
>mfw I have no face

>>10843944 (OP)
How old do you think are the people running cons, genius.

>>10844579
>>10844591
These to be quite frankly desu with you, familia

>>10844591
this, most of my confriends are 20s to 30s. they most autistic peeps (not in a good way) are closer to early 20s and below

>>10844991
>they most autistic peeps (not in a good way) are closer to early 20s and below
We're even past the point of "Those goddang kids who just wanna look at their phones all day". Most of these types struggle to form a coherent statement anymore.

>>10844781
100%. Met my GF in college, same age as me. She still gets mistaken for high school/college sometimes, always petite including face. I look young-20s. We're both early 30s.
We just go and enjoy ourselves and have the funds finally to actually cosplay right. No one bats an eye, and we aren't creeps (both /fit/ and hygenic, just got for the fun, etc). We've had no problem just being part of the fun crowd, joining up with random cosplayers, all that good stuff. My brother is about my age, and he's just an obvious lovable fat nerd with his husband, super inoffensive and magnetic personality so everyone just loves the shit out of him no matter age.
Meanwhile I see mid-20s dudes who obviously don't take care of themselves, walked out of their man-cave in their moms basement for the first time in 3 years, greasy dudes with 0 social awareness creeping everyone out. And then I see a literal Rick Grimes lookalike to the point I thought it was Andrew Lincoln, like literal 100% identical, and he was cool as shit and everyone loved him.
It's all about who you are honestly.

>>10844992
not really what I meant, they're more "we love to stir drama shit up all the time and I act like a total bitch because I self diagnosed myself with autism"

pretty much every shitty fanbase is because there's too many tiktok/tumblr kids in it, like MHA, danganronpa, etc etc.

>>10845003
Impressive humbebrag, I wonder if you're truly as youthful and socially normal as you think you are

>>10845099
Fair enough. Of course, what you're describing is much worse, but it also seems region-specific. In one area, the younger types don't seem to indulge in much stirring of the drama pot, in others you'll even have the older crowds do it. Not a good look for either one, and yes, how mainstream a series gets seems to correlate with that perfectly.

>>10844135
I dunno bruh, I've seen too many Lebanese MILFs to believe this.

>>10843954
>Anyone who's over 25 should frankly stop going to cons

Its the over 25 people who really put money and manage everything about these cons

Don't care. Some of these people in those awesomely crafted Transformer, Darth Vader or Master Chief suits have 40+ year old men inside them

>>10843944 (OP)
people can do whatever the fuck they want as long as 1) it doesn't break a law, 2) they don't hurt others against their will.

"Cringe" is telling others what they can or should do.

>>10845866
Confirmed, but there's an important addendum there too: "Cringe" is also telling yourself what you can't do because of outside "judgment"

>>10845866
>>10845886
yes, but sometimes things are actually cringe

>>10843944 (OP)
yes you should be having kids not dressing as an anime girl

>>10843944 (OP)
no i am trying to be part of my own cute cosplay family with our future kids

>>10843944 (OP)
>30+
>looks 27

How? What magic water do people drink most people I know are balding by mid 20's and fuck trying to stay in shape that shit is too much work during your 9-5 job. I even live in one of the better areas of Cali where we get more fresh organic produce but fuck man it's so hard to keep weight off especially if you plan to have any social life. Do people like just use photoshop to look young? there is no way you can actuall look any good once you hit 30.

>>10849765
learn skincare
use sunscreen every day

>>10843965
>pic
that's fucking awesome lol
EEEEEVVVIILLLLLLLL

>>10849843
He's a SakuraCon regular

>>10849765
They are multi millionaires you retard.

>>10849765
Just dont be a fat whale, do skincare, and use filters. Apple phones already filter your selfies for you

>>10843944 (OP)
no, just do age appropriate cosplays
and by age I mean the age you look like, if you look like a skinny teen at 30 then you can pull off a shonen protagonists but otherwise just go for older characters

>>10849765
Avoid the sun like the plague. I rarely go out during day time, staying most of the days indoors, and I look really young, I'm 35 but I look like I'm in my early 20s.

>>10849871
Also; be fucking rich as hell. and start life with european heathcare

everything is cringe after age 30

>>10849765

Stay active everyday bro, especially cardio. It's not about doing hard or intense workouts, its just about getting the heart rate up and moving the body as many hours a week as you can. (Not implying it's always easy to find the time - but don't make excuses either!)

>>10843954
I didn't start going until 21, frick off

>>10843944 (OP)
I feel like you'd have to be near 30 or above to afford cons nowadays unless you pack your con room like a big sweaty clown car. I'm near 30 and just now have the income to enjoy anything at all and a lot of my friends are the same way. Enjoy your hobbies with income, dude, that's what your 30's have the potential to be.

>>10843944 (OP)
If your cosplays are quality and you look good in them, no. If you suck ass and your shits all fucked, yeah, but then young people look dumb too but they at least have the excuse of low experience.
>>10843954
>you have to stop having when you turn x years.
Fuck off.

>>10843944 (OP)
I has more to do with how you look than how old you are.
If you look good, you will look good cosplaying.
If you look like shit, you will look like shit cosplaying.

>>10843944 (OP)
It doesn't matter, you're going to die, life is short. Have fun as long as you're not hurting anyone.

>>10845866
God, I wish more people were as sane as you. Thanks for restoring my faith in humanity an iota.

>>10849765
Americans really see a normal looking European man and think "HOW THE FUCK ISN'T HE BALD AND FAT IS THIS LE MAGIC!?!?!?" Fucking hell.

>>10850225
Well, the average American has no health care and no insurance and lives within a block of a meth shack.

where is the normal average European in that picture? That man is white

>>10850240
That's nice.

>>10843944 (OP)
If you are not doing it for money, then no. Cuz by that time, you're brain should've got out of the anime weeb phase which exists for teenagers. Although nothing wrong with having that as a fashion or doing it occasionally for yourself

>>10843944 (OP)
Only if you still watch this guy past the age of 23

>>10850240
You are making up fantasies in your head

>>10850549
Butthurt ameriturd. Tell me where you live and I will find a meth lab and a mcdonalds near your house.

>>10850550
of course a crackhead like you would know a lot about meth lab

MEDS NOW

>>10850551
I iust know how to use google earth. Im from luxembourg so we are rich and pure white

>>10850552
okay Mohamed

>>10843944 (OP)
Yes, cosplay is a "give me attention!" hobby and that's really only ok for young boys, girls, and very attractive slightly older girls

>>10843947
Thinking about going as this guy

>>10850563
That only works for other EU countries, not luxembourg. Try again NPC

>>10850609
t. Joao Gilberto Sousa

>>10850619
>t. Joao Gilberto Sousa
That's portuguese. Do you even know what languages we speak?

>>10850624
if its not english it doesn't matter

>>10850625
We almost all speak English here. I'm writing English right now. Are you handicapped in some way?

>>10850627
no one cares about your useless tiny country and all 10 people in it, go be insecure elsewhere

>>10849765
He literally looks like a man in his 30s. How fucking fat and hideous are all of you?

>Inb4 "it's because they're amerifags"
I live in a major American city where most people are slim and they don't age like shit.

>>10850630
So you agree that Luxembourg is a small wealthy country with almost no non-Christian non-white Immigration and we are all very well educated and better off than the average American?

>>10843944 (OP)
Very. Men should stop cosplaying - actually they shouldn’t ever, and women need to stop at about 21

>>10844206
Absolutely wrong. I live in Texas, and 15yr old girls having their quinciera or whatever look 30. It’s common knowledge that Hispanics age the worst for the most part of any race.
>>10844206
Yeah sure, Chileans look Asian at times. But Argentinians and Brazilians can look blacker than the night sky

I love me some Latina chicks but you gotta face the truth. They turn to goblinas pretty fast

>>10845115
people think im significantly younger than I am, and i am in my 30s lol

>>10849765
my mother looks noticeably younger than she is (in her 50s) and i inherited her genetics there apparently

>>10850185
i was able to go to local cons just crashing places cause i was local to it lo,l for a period of time

>>10851781
Dressing up as a giant doll doesn't count as actual cosplaying, therefore opinion disregarded.

>>10843944 (OP)
Its more cringe to cosplay thin characters when you're a fat lardo

>>10843944 (OP)
I'm not a cosplayer but one of my friends is. When we met in uni nearly 10 years ago I thought it was cool that she was a cosplayers sewing her own costumes and cutting her own wigs, and we went to cons together from time to time. Now we're nearly 30 and I can't help but cringe at everything she does that's more or less related to fandoms. It's like she never evolved or matured, it's hard to explain.

For example when she left her small town a few years after graduating to come get a job in our big city, she did it to escape her fucked up family who was stealing her money and she was looking for absolutely any sort of jobs, but she was living rent free for months at another friend's place until she found some retail job, wouldn't stop complaining about how her sister never gave her back 700€ she borrowed or about her previous shit jobs and at the same time she was spending a shit ton of money on fabric and accessories for her mediocre cosplays and and she spent several hundreds of dollars on official FF7R goodies in like one month. She did a cosplay of the female playable character in Pokemon Sun and Moon, participated in a cosplay contest, sent her the video of her skit to everyone in our friends' group and we were all embarrassed by how hard she tried to seem funny and kawaii in her ill fitting cosplay despite being a grown woman. She calls her much younger, barely legal bf her "husbando" irl, out loud, despite our first language being fucking French. Anyway I barely interact with her now for completely unrelated reasons so I have no idea what she's up to. She single-handedly ruined my vision of cosplay with her shit.

>>10853166
seething
i bet her cosplays get a lot of attention at cons, and her husbando creampies her regularly and will give her a good family to do fun arts and crafts and have happy halloweens and costume parties with

>>10853265
Sje doesn't get any success. She met friends that way but it seems they all stopped talking to each other. As for her bf, he's not cute. He's no more than 160cm tall, covered in acne, always has greazy hair, looks like he has down syndrome or is a caveman. I think they started dating because they're roommates and she met him when he wasn't even 18 just yet. He can't even hold a conversation normally.

>>10843944 (OP)
no. even if it was, why does that matter? no one will look back on their life once they turn 80 and think "i wish i hadn`t done what i enjoy 40 years ago because some randos online thought it was cringe"

>>10853319
>He's no more than 160cm tall
how absolutely vain of you anon

>>10853166
>>10853319
You sound extremely butthurt, especially about her boyfriend. Why are you even friends with her if you think so poorly of her? I hope she browses the board and drops your ass.

>>10853475
We met like a decade ago, at this point she fucked over a few friends of ours because of things unrelated to cosplay and since then I lost a lot of respect for her. She did some sketchy things to me too a few times. It's complicated.

>>10853475
>especially about her boyfriend
For some reason the very few times we see each other nowadays she brings him with us and ruin our plans. We want to go to a restaurant and we make a reservation a week in advance for 5 people? She'll bring him without asking, meaning that we can't get the table planned for us and there's no seat left for the boy. We're all nearly 30 in our friend group and she's dating a 19 years old who's less mature than the average 19 years old spoiled brat. He threw a huge tamper tantrum in a middle of a restaurant the very first time we met because a friend of mine didn't know where his tiny shithole was located because she literally was born and raised in a region from the other side of the fucking planet, it was embarrassing to see such behavior in public when you just want to relax. Meanwhile he didn't know where her region was roughly located on the map despite being an very famous touristic island. Keep in mind he was more than an hour late for lunch which ruined our plans for the rest of the afternoon. I think she noticed none of us wanted to babysit her ugly boyfriend so I haven't seen him in a while.

>I hope she browses the board and drops your ass.
I hope so too at that point.

>>10843944 (OP)
It doesn't matter how old you *are*, it only matters how old you *look*. Have you taken care of your skin, or are you wrinkled? Have you stayed in shape or have you let yourself go? Are you balding? If you are balding, have you shaved it and replaced it with a high quality hair system?
It all comes back to rules 1 and 2. If you're attractive, nothing you do is cringe. If you're unattractive, everything you do is cringe. It's that simple.

>>10845003
>I see mid-20s dudes who obviously don't take care of themselves, walked out of their man-cave in their moms basement for the first time in 3 years, greasy dudes with 0 social awareness


I always yearn to take these dudes aside, get them a haircut, wash them in something that isn't 6-in-1 bodywash, put them in flattering clothing as well one one semi formal outfit, and just a little make up to bring out a feature.

People have so much potential and it seems a real shame to waste your younger years not looking pretty good. Maybe not super workout man bro with 5 products in your hair but at least a good version of yourself before age comes along and robs you of your best potential.

>>10843944 (OP)
PewDiePie.

you people ask this every day

>>10843944 (OP)
all cosplay is cringe. all anime is cringe. anything not watching sportsball and drinking beer is cringe.
so why does it matter.

>>10844992
side profile of asians really look like monekys lmao

The hard truth is as long as you look hot, or at least good enough, and have some kind of personality that isn't "I haven't showered in 2 weeks and need to tell you about chris chan lore". You can honestly get away with so much it's almost unrealistic to people to tell them what can happen.

It's insane to me the amount of people I know in their 30's who still are better looking and far more welcome to the party than "well at least I'm young" people who attend my friends room parties. Simply being in shape, clean shave, respectful, and knowing how to have a conversation goes a long way in terms of things. Again I know people who are 35 still getting invited to room parties simply because they are chill and know how to have a good time without being a sexpest than those who are 22 with something to "prove" with mommies money.

>>10855551
>those who are 22 with something to "prove" with mommies money.
lel. I noticed this very early on

>>10843944 (OP)
I'll be 30 by the time i get back in shape and i would like to go at least to a convention once in cosplay. Right now i'm still a fatty :(

>>10843944 (OP)
I'm 29. I've always looked a bit older.
I exclusively cosplay as Kamen Rider or horror characters. Although I'm considering doing Uncle Dante (DMC5) for the fun..

>>10853475
>>10853558
bro do you just want to fuck this woman and giving us this blogpost as justification

if so you gotta tell her or it will eat you alive

>>10843944 (OP)
Yes
/thread

>>10843944 (OP)
Zoomer existential crisis thread. You'll be fine when you hit that age. Or you'll kill yourself.

>>10862730
I never had this problem when I was younger. It's probably the "Irony bro" mindvirus that's causing this more than hitting a certain age

t. younger millennial

>>10862731
I’m 27 and envious of the younger crowd, but faking hate Millennials. All their stupid skinny jeans, manbuns, hipster culture and MCR. God. Kill me. At least I know I’m too old to cosplay and not an ignorant retard

>>10862844
Your presence will not be missed.

>>10862869
Exactly

>>10843947
a 37 yo dressed as naruto is based

>>10844685
Based pedophile, watching those sexy under 18 lolis from Japan!

>>10863624
Based indeed desu

>>10843944 (OP)
Its cringle seeing 40 year old cosplayers with onlyfans

>>10867184
It's cringe to see unattractive people with onlyfans

There are some mythological 40+ scandinavian women who, if you passed them on the street, you wouldn't give them more than 28.

32 and still passing as a teenager!

>>10867334
I feel that one