Thread 10959877

This is for the older con goers. How does it feel to go to cons? Do you feel out of place? What is the average age at cons do you feel, and when do you feel like you've aged out of the con scene? I'm early 30s myself and I'm starting to notice the age difference, and have been interacting with people a lot less at cons

>>10959877 (OP)
I feel like I've seen this same thread about 10 times

>>10959878
I've just been to this place before

>>10959878
No that's just you

I just- im finally in a decent grown up place finacially where i can afford to cosplay and buy shit without going broke- its just apparently i look way younger than i am ? I was at a con thisweekend ,had the time of my life met some chill people who all gave me thousand yard stares as they all seemed to be in the early to mid 20s and im 38. Its the first time ive felt too old for this shit.

>>10959878
It's a topic that comes up a lot, and things move slowly on this board. You've seen the previous thread 10 times where this was one of the things mentioned.

>>10959877 (OP)
I'm the same age range as you, but contrary to what you've seen I'm instead noticing the average age of con goers going up because millennials never ended up filing out of the scene due to having kids like what usually happened with scenes back in the day. You're seeing cons posting record attendance numbers because new blood through zoomers and genalphaers is coming in but the old charge of millennials isn't leaving.
>have been interacting with people a lot less at cons
This is another topic that's been discussed on this board a lot lately. My take is that anime cons are no longer the place to meet weebs because everyone everywhere is now a weeb with how popular anime has gotten, so cons have changed from being a place to meet weebs to being a place for you to go to to hang out with weebs you met outside the con somewhere. There's simply less reason for people to interact at cons now unless you're at a meetup or some panel where you have to interact with people (speed "friending", some game panel, etc.).

>>10959898
>My take is that anime cons are no longer the place to meet weebs because everyone everywhere is now a weeb with how popular anime has gotten, so cons have changed from being a place to meet weebs to being a place for you to go to to hang out with weebs you met outside the con somewhere.
you hit the nail on the head, it's for your existing group to hangout for a weekend. also a lot of people are asocial nowadays so trying to befriend strangers is considered kind of weird nowadays

>>10959940
I disagree about meeting people. Simply by wearing my cosplay and socializing with others of the same fandom and getting instas swapped, in the last year I've met so many new people. Its always interesting and fun to see the process going from strangers who met at 10pm with nothing to do, to discord chats, to rooming together at cons like AX, to being close enough that I'm happy to have them in my life.

Cons are genuinely SO good for that and just meeting like minded autists who share your passions

>>10959942
I genuinely have no clue how to text people, like I'll vibe perfectly fine with people irl, people approach me, I get invited to room parties and all that jazz, except that when it comes to texts, I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall, literally nobody reciprocates my effort and I inevitably end up left on read or delivered, my messages not even read at all

>>10959945
The thing is everyone texts different, and people don't realize this, so everyone expects people to text like them. And if they don't they think something is off

Some people just text like they talk, so they do short statements and answers for the most part. That might be the issue you're encountering, where there's a lot of people like us who see talking online like it's a separate thing, and develop a unique way of speaking

How to know when you are too old;

>When the 2 inches of hotel space for free isn't worth it anymore, because you actually can afford a room for yourself.
This is the kiss of death; once you can actually afford it comfortably then you only have a few years left of enjoyment.

>Free Hotel AND Free Pass in exchange for being an unpaid con gopher no longer sounds like a great trade-off
The day you WANT to pay, when you know it can all be covered, marks the fatigue setting in; in less then ten years you will stop going all together.

>You are over 25, but you haven't made an impression with your cosplays yet
If people have recognized your talent by now, you are safe but if you still haven't started yet then it's too late (not about physicality; just saying by now it should have amounted to some small notoriety)

>You hit 30 and you're not a professional with a product to market at the con.
You're at an age now where the question becomes "what are you adding to the con experience?" for everyone else. If you aren't somehow involved by now in the showrunning process, or aren't selling a product then likely your time is drying up simply because you have better things to put your time into.

>>10959978
Hmm, according to your logic rich kids never get to enjoy cons, and Im pretty sure they actually can

>>10959978
I don't think this person is very fun at cons

>>10959978
Dude you just legit sound like a brokefag who weasels any kind of BS that "paid for the con" just to say they attended them.
>f you aren't somehow involved by now in the showrunning process, or aren't selling a product then likely your time is drying up simply because you have better things to put your time into.
Anon, I work my ass for 40hrs a week and sometimes I want to plop my ass down to a con in the area or a city over and forget all that.

You must be the life of a party

>>10959979
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>>10959986
>You CANNOT do X unless it's done with very specific criteria that I decided
Can we agree this type of poster is the biggest faggot of all, and unworthy of a (You) unless it's to call them the biggest faggot of all?
>>10959978
t. biggest faggot of all

You will feel old and out of place when you see less of what you grew up with and dont connect with the current anime landscape. it is bad with mid to small sized cons where mostly teenagers to giggle wearing their aliexpress MHA, Chainsaw man cosplay.

>>10959889
when you're old enough to buy all the candy and nobody can tell you not to eat it but you don't want to any more...

I read about senior con goers experience that they have arrived to the point where they don’t even go inside the convention hall and just go out for drinks at a bar outside.

>>10960327

You only have to connect with one recent thing to fit in at a con. You don't need to wear more than one cosplay at a time.