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No. 65781

What do you actually think of /cgl/?

It seems to have a fairly bad reputation among the rest of 4chan these days, as does the hobby of cosplay in general.

No. 65814

HoC and shitty janitors were the last bullets that finished it off. /cgl/ is dead.

No. 65815

>>65781
Are any of these tripfag whores even relevant or half as cute as they once were? Who are the ones still going strong?

No. 65816

>>65815
Sachie is still cute.

Lobitah I have no idea about, at the very least she didn't turn into a whore.

The rest….? Eh.

It's strange to me, even today, how cosplay as a hobby at first glance is these awkward nerds but under the surface, girls who cosplay are some of the most sexually fucked up, promiscuous, slutty chicks you'll meet.

No. 65817

>>65781
Janitors are too censor-happy. I have noticed posts from several threads just vanish for no reason. Tumblr has also invaded /cgl/ and it is getting too SJW-y.

No. 65819

>>65817
Agreed. I used to think perhaps it was just a case of nostalgia goggles when I thought it was going downhill, but it's actually declined. Janitors have killed it and allowed the proliferation of SJWs in the vacuum left behind.

As of last year there were still good/helpful threads now and then, but I haven't been there for months.

No. 65823

>>65819
The people who whine about oldfags having "nostalgia goggles" didn't see the old /cgl/. Back in the day /cgl/ actually had helpful threads, a lot of experienced cosplayers giving out advice, progress threads, drama threads, cosplay horror threads etc. It was kept interesting. Then these things happened:

>drama was banned so the post rate of the board went down as the drama was what attracted more cosplayers who stuck around for the other threads as well

>janitors started giving out irrational bans for no reason or for simply disagreeing with them
>tumblr found 4chan and settled in bringing their shitty SJW antics, tumblrcore fashion and artist alley/etsy bullshit
>Heroes of Cosplay attracted dudebros, beta orbiters and normalfags who stay for the sexy cosplay threads and feels/confessions/con story threads which are now just relationship issue counseling and venting threads
>Jfash went kill, only lolita stayed and lolita threads are mostly bitchy burandowhores crying how they spent the last of their student loans to buy a dress
>The horror story threads became just a collection of long-winded, non-plausible made up stories of everyone trying to one-up each other


/cgl/'s current state: just /g/ with more tumblr. It's just generic girls and con stuff. The only cosplay related threads I can see (and are not buried in the last pages on autosage and with 5 replies) are "Horrible cosplay thread", "cosplayers with and without shoop", "Famous cosplayers and cringe trends they inspired", the progress thread and "your cosplay type". That's seriously it. Even in the progress thread Temjin is the only one posting actual stuff.

Of course if you're just a generic tumblrina or a lolita you're fit for the board, but for cosplayers it's just dead. This whole hobby seems to have taken a turn for the worst as slutty cosplayers are actually putting up fucking patreons to gather money from their neckbeard fans to fund their luxury shit. Cosplay is getting so ridiculously commercialized and sexualized it's just sucking the fun out of it.

No. 65829

>>65823
When I say "slutty", I don't mean Jessica Nigri - she isn't really a slut.

I mean charms-type stuff. Stripping on cam, prostituting themselves, doing porn. It's a big part of the cosplayer community and always has been.

No. 65851

>>65829
She may not be a slut in the sense of the others, but she is definitely in large part responsible for attracting more of these types into the hobby and for attracting more dudebros/neckbeards who think that is all cosplay is. So she is responsible for a part of its deterioration. Being the most popular "cosplayer" doesn't help when she is mostly in titty cosplay/lingerie, or rubbing her tits/ and ass on Youtube.

No. 65854

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>>65851
>She may not be a slut in the sense of the others

From everything I've heard about Jess Nigri, she's the opposite of promiscuous.

>but she is definitely in large part responsible for attracting more of these types into the hobby and for attracting more dudebros/neckbeards who think that is all cosplay is. So she is responsible for a part of its deterioration. Being the most popular "cosplayer" doesn't help when she is mostly in titty cosplay/lingerie, or rubbing her tits/ and ass on Youtube.


You girls are responsible for that. Not her. Why are Yoko and Ryuko cosplays still so popular, even today? Hell, it surprised even me how popular nudist beach Nonon was.

No. 65861

>>65854
>From everything I've heard about Jess Nigri, she's the opposite of promiscuous.
She supposedly cheated on both her ex-fiance multiple times, and later her ex-boyfriend who she had originally cheated on her fiance with. I was referring to her image though, not her promiscuity.

From what I have heard from long-time con goers, cosplays have gotten more revealing today than in the past, and more competitive. People like her and Yaya have set a platform for using cosplay for fame, which is in large part why it is in its current state today.

No. 65865

>>65861
It's a shame, I'd love to see stuff like elaborate Atelier cosplays.

Also stuff like >>65854 is rape bait, plain and simple.

No. 65868

Does anyone know all the current trips/what they look like?
Atm, I know there's Tim (the Tim who has a thread in /snow/), Iris, MrFreedman, Ukraine, TemjinBTW, and Pineberry. Tim is ugly, don't remember what Iris looks like, Freedman is ugly, Ukraine is adorable and really great at costume making, Temjin makes AMAZING Gundam suits, and Pineberry is another boring shooped to death gook.

No. 65870

>>65817
I got banned for telling Momokun to stop self posting and to stop giving out her Patreon link. Apparently that counts as a vendetta post.

No. 65873

>>65817
>>65823
Janitors are the reason cgl goes to shit. They allow 3 different fap threads at once, they allow every single newbie thread that opens with a question that could have easily been answered in the Help thread, and obvious bait threads stay up faaaar too long.

Banning is often random and clearly there is a pattern to who is allowed to be shittalked and who's friends with the janitors. Even vendettas only partitially get deleted; sometimes posts or even threads stay up for days, even until auto sage, sometimes Janitors bawwwwlet fucking everything.
Remember how long it took until cgl FINALLY got rid of that fucking Sieg tripfag?! He trolled and cluttered up threads for months, and everyone just begged to have him removed, yet he shat up the board for far too long (and seems to be still around even if not under his trip). While ChineseGossip got permabanned twice within a few weeks.

No. 65876

>>65873
ChineseGossip is literally every negative female East Asian stereotype rolled into a single person though.

No. 65881

>>65873
I still can't believe Sieg lasted so long. Holy shit was he annoying.

>>65876
But she'd actually contribute and people wanted to hear her ontopic gossip?

No. 65882

>>65881
She was irritating.

No. 65884

>>65873
That tripfag God is definitely friends with a janitor. He made a thinly veiled shitpost thread about "blackface in cosplay" which was clearly made just to start shit and didn't get banned for it. The thread was up for days as well.
Those Momokun thirst threads had her nudes posted in them but they weren't taken down for hours either. It takes janitors FOREVER to take down thirst/fap threads which really makes me wonder if all the janitors are thirsty guys who take their sweet time to jack off multiple times first before even thinking about deleting the thread.

No. 65886

>>65823
>Cosplay is getting so ridiculously commercialized and sexualized it's just sucking the fun out of it.

I remember seeing a thread on Reddit (this was when I was still a legbeard. gomen.) about expensive hobbies and everyone was talking about how all cosplayers are just sluts who are in it for attention, money, and kinky costumed sex. They're actually not really wrong…

No. 65888

>>65815
PT is the only cutie out of the bunch.
She always has been.

No. 65889

/cgl/ is a haven for edgy-desu tumblrtards now. i didn't really think that before but in the past couple of months it's beyond obvious.

No. 65899

>>65886
There are still tons of legit cosplayers who do it for fun and it's just a hobby like it should be, but then there are people like Yaya and Jnig and a lot of porn star cunts who ruined it for everyone. I've been cosplaying since 2004 and it's changed so much in the last 6 years or so.

No. 65916

i go on here and still /cgl/ sometimes, but i'm on now, is anyone else seeing that cringemaster? they seem like that have serious mental issues. it's starting to creep me out.

No. 65920

>>65876
She's such a bitch idk why people look up to her. I posted a small wishlist in the dream dress thread and she was like "mfw I own all these dresses" and contributed nothing else. I hope she stays banned, because she turns productive threads into pointless speculation/bitchfests, while contributing very little of actual value.

No. 65930

>>65873
They finally kicked Sieg out? They sure took their sweet time doing so. I was banned multiple times for stupid petty reasons such as "offtopic" (while there's fucking 5 different /fit/ threads up) but he got to stay and shitpost all he wanted to. I hear people talking and posting proof here that he's a friend of the mods which gives him a free pass so I guess maybe he broke ties with them.

>>65884
I remember hearing that most /cgl/ janitors aren't even cosplayers or lolitas. They just don't care.

No. 65950

>>65920
Honestly I think gulls just like her because she's their only window into well, Chinese gossip. We all love drama and gossip and Chinesegossip is a way for them to get more drama and gossip than what's already on the board. It's the same reason why gulls love GirlsChan threads so much.

>>65930
That… actually makes so much sense. I hope 4ch opens janitor applications soon so I can try to apply and be a (hopefully) good janitor if I get accepted.

No. 65951

I barely browse the board. I picture it as being full of tumblr-tier tripfags and people hating on eachother. It sounds awful and when most cosplays aren't even that interesting, what's the point?

No. 65963

>>65950
Nobody apart from other overseas Chinese care.

ChineseGossip is a caricature of the worst sort of overseas Chinese: Arrogant, disdainful towards her host country, constantly bragging about how her rich husband means she doesn't have to work, presenting chinese communities as impenetrable and hostile to outsiders because she likes the concept of exclusivity etc.

t. fluent chinese speaker.

No. 65964

>>65963
But that's exactly why most people liked her? She was like a little lolcow who also happened to gave access to other lolcows and dramas. The best combination of salt and drama. I'm still a bit sad her /b/ thread is kill.
And since she was pretty much the only one who made lots of posts and threads about the Chinese comm, there was no way but to interact with her or her thread if you wanted more info. But I'll be honest and say that I really enjoyed the drama ride. And don't pretend cgl isn't full of made up posts from the Western communities as well.

No. 65966

>>65964
They're both shit, western and chinese - but ChineseGossip rubs me up the wrong way since she reminds me of some really fucking obnoxious overseas Chinese I've met.

Don't get me wrong, they're not all bad. I actually remember showing a Chinese ex one of her threads and the ex was upset she was making Chinese look shitty/bitchy.

No. 66015

There's almost nothing good on there when it comes to cosplay, now it's just a bunch of threads for convention Y or X and people asking if anyone wants to meet up for drinks or sex.

Lately I kind of just peruse for any big image dumping threads to see nice costumes and dresses.

No. 66045

>>66015
I feel like not a lot of people want to contribute actual content like sewing tips and tutorials because everyone's hush hush about their techniques. most of cgl is padded out by lolita/jfash fluff

No. 66254

>>65817
I just had a concrit post deleted yesterday for no reason, I wonder if the girl I commented on is a janny or something lol.

There's a new g+ community that is trying to fill the void of LJ slowly dying, called EGL. I hope more people move there so they can discuss things freely. And bonus, it's not run by WF like a certain FB group

No. 66265

>>66254
With all the anons I've seen talk about LJ I seriously wonder why they haven't pushed for a revitalization of the LJ comms instead of trying to carve out groups elsewhere.

No. 66271

Not a cosplayer so one of the only glimpses I caught of /cgl/ was you posters relentlessly calling each other ugly and using other people's pictures to prove you're not. jfc

No. 66303

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>>65781
I think I die a little inside every time I see my photo posted in that picture. Why did I have to be a cringey fuck?

No. 66311

>>66303
Which one are you?

Claudie I would definitely fug but she's a loon.

No. 66312

>>66303
ew.
Are you alleechan?

No. 66317

Whatever happened to MaryJane?

No. 66357

There just was a thread on /cgl/ concerning people who cosplay characters they don't know and it got fucking deleted the moment people disagreed with the bitches who whined about getting called out for doing this. It didn't even break any rules, it didn't single anyone out and it was related to cosplay. At the same time you have horrible cosplay and bad makeup threads up which are meant for singling people out to laugh at them. Fuck /cgl/ jannys.

No. 66383

>>66303
I think this when I see a recent normal picture of myself.

No. 66407

>>66303

spoony?

No. 66576

>>66311
>>66312
Nope and nope, though I dont think saying who I am is wise anyways.

No. 66580

The janitors did nothing wrong!!!!

>>66303
I'm just really happy that I stopped selfposting nonstop on /cgl/ before all of the collages we see today were made. Makes it easier to ignore how awful I used to be.

No. 66590

>>66576
Shut up Elsie.

No. 66630

>>66576
>denies those two
>doesn't deny being spoony

just saying.

No. 66658


No. 67016

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>>66658
wew lad

No. 67038

>>66303
Likewise. Everytime I think this image has finally been lost, it pops up again. I don't even cosplay in the same style I did in that image any more.

No. 67039

>>67038
Which one are you

No. 67041

>>67039
Admitting who I am means admitting I visit lolcow and while I'm fine with people knowing I go on /cgl/, I like to keep the fact I come here quieter.

No. 67042

>>67041
Why did you used to wear such skimpy slutty cosplays then?

Did your parents know what you were doing?

No. 67043

>>67041

Cosplay is a whores hobby.

No. 67044

>>67042
I still make them on occasion if I love a character enough but at the time (I'm 17 in my image), I was young and silly. They did, they weren't so fond of the skimpier stuff.

No. 67045

>>67044
It always struck me as trashy. Maybe I'm being unfair but it's like you were inviting negative perverted attention. So much of cosplay just seems trashy to me. Packing five people to a room. All the hookups. The rave and all the drugs. The promiscuity.

I can understand why your parents didn't want you becoming a part of that. Can you?

No. 67046

>>67045
It was really trashy, I go through pictures of my old cosplays and I cringe. I guess I was, at the time I didn't even consider that that's what I was doing, I just knew skimpy costumes got me more likes than when I crossplayed. That side of cosplay I'm really not into and think is kinda gross, it's also not a culture (aside from some of the cosplaygirls being promiscuous) that exists in my country. Cosplayers have a bad rep for a good reason but I only know a few that fall into the stereotypes.

No. 67047

>>67046
At least you realise it was wrong and don't do that sort of thing anymore.

No. 67727

>>66590
>>66630
Even if I was any of the 4 people I would still say no. I'm not completely retarded.

No. 67730

I swear one of the janitors hates me because this is the second time I've been temp banned for "doxxing" when I posted recommendations of who to follow in social media threads.

No. 68005

Dear anon that posted on /cgl/,

You sound very salty and you could've totally kept that shit contained here. Take some aspirin and take a nap.

No. 68034

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So can anyone tell me about each of these people from this closed Facebook /cgl/ group?

No. 68192

Why do almost all of the gulls who self post and or namefag look so punchable? Does anyone else feel this way?

No. 68214

>>68034
i think it's highlighting laura cause she's one of the janis. she outted herself during the 8chan thing a while ago.

No. 68341

>>68034
It's not this Laura, it's Miyu.

No. 68348

>>68341
Doesn't she go by "Laura Phillips"? Or did she get married or something?

No. 68642

>>68348
Yes and yes

No. 68996

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Why do tumblrinas visit cgl if they always complaint about what a sexist, racist shithole 4chan is anyways?

Pic is from the "buff men dressed as anime girls" thread.

No. 69270

>>68996
To have something to complain about. The kind of people running the blogs that complain about this shit have to go looking for stuff to post. In the end it results in everyone being unhappy but at least the tumblrina got note for her tears.

No. 69294

>>68996
These sound like the same idiots who lost their damn mind during the previews of Fall Out 4 during E3 when they showed the main character in a dress and sjws were screaming "HOW DARE YOU MOCK A MAN IN A DRESS. HE COULD BE TRANS!! yOU'RE TRANSPHOBIC"

Fuck everything.

No. 69295

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>>68996
Buff and hairy men in dresses ARE jokes though. Nothing will ever change that. It's like Ladybeard who seems like a chill dude and doesn't take himself seriously. I wonder how many sjws he triggers?

No. 181131

>>68996
They come to gossip and bitch about people they don't like and while they stay they can't help but practice the SJW religion.

No. 181133

>>181131
i cannot believe you necro'd a year old post to say that worthless shit.

No. 188009

>>65781
I may or may not have accidently stopped derpqueens underage nudes from surfacing. I didn't have them, someone else did.

They were cp anyways. soz, no milk.(necromancy)

No. 226979

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Sorry for necroing but I need someone to hold me for a while. Lately there's been an influx of cosplay thots "speaking out" over how they're being ~bullied~. They made multiple hashtags to "support" their way of "cosplaying", i.e. doing shit tier lazy bikini boudoir shoots with commissioned, sloppy armor pieces to make money. And it's not only the thots, but also people who are afraid of losing their spotlight are starting to defend them in the worst ways possible to get some of that fame pie they're having.

Case in point, Alyson's dumbass tweet. It's impossible to discuss this on /cgl/ because the thots are religiously stalking that board to jump in to defend with their age-old "waahhhhh sexy cosplay ALWAYS existed! Shut up ugly fatties!" bullshit and shitting up any thread concerning the issue. People sexualizing cosplay are definitely ruining the whole hobby for everyone and they're refusing to even acknowledge the issue and address it in a mature way that isn't a catty, uneducated tweet that makes no sense.

No. 226984

>>226979
Yeah, anon it's not safe here either >>226980 we get some shit posters too but luckily lolcow is better at getting rid of them :^)

No. 226989

>>226986
>>226986


spoiler that shit you degenerate

No. 226998

>>226979
I hate this. Why are other cosplayers defending these people like they're all doing the same thing? Sexy cosplay isn't the same thing as what these patreon girls are doing. There's a massive difference between dressing up like a sexy character and taking bikini/lingerie sexual photoshoots.

It's just frustrating because if you don't support these hyper sexual patreon girl shit then you get attacked. I don't care that they're doing that shit. I don't really associate it with actual cosplay and I don't really want any part in it.

I liked her shit so much too until she made this post. She's incredibly talented but it just shows she's trying to suck up to these girls for the fame rub off.

No. 227004

>>226998
i noticed a trend with this actually. most of the cosplayers who push this 'bikini cos is cos too and not just lewd gravure shit like it should be' end up doing it themselves.

No. 227009

>>227004
Yeah that's a good point. I mean if you want to make money from cosplay, you're not going to get money unless you're doing lewd photoshoots. Horny people are paying for, anyone interested in craftsmanship is putting money into their own hobby.

No. 227011

>>226998
Exactly this. There are sexy characters and their attire is skimpy, but then there are characters these girls just slut up for attention and money. /cgl/ used to talk mad shit on Verababy, Yaya, Nigri, Doomkitty, etc for doing this back in the day before they banned vendetta threads.

No. 227012

>>227009
exactly. and people who want money for their craft skills tend to do commissions instead of setting up patreons and shit.

i wish people would distinguish the hobby aspect vs the profit aspect. sure, many cosplayers do make profit some how, but most of it isn't simply for photos of them, those people aren't in the same group as you or me just doing it for fun or for love of the character. and yea, nothing wrong with it, but it's not the same, just like if i draw or paint for fun, even if i sell sometimes, i'm not the same as AA artists or youtubers who draw for money.

No. 227013

>>227011
Memories. Back when Nigri was first self posting herself.

>>227012
At this point it just feels like these patreon girls are just taking advantage. They use the "COSPLAY IS FOR EVERYONE" banner to market themselves. People generally hate the product they put out, and when you're selling yourself as a cosplay model, it's a product at that point.

No. 227014

>>227013
Ye, and Maguma and even /r9k/ would stan the fuck out of her just to piss everybody off. Remember when Yaya would blatantly white knight herself in threads where it was mentioned that she used to be a cage dancer and an escort and that there "was totally never a photo of her on some dude's lap while her cuck boyfriend watched and a phone was up her skirt?" lol my ass and then it got dropped everywhere. >>>/pt/24725

None of them give a fuck about the hobby itself and when something else comes along they'll run over to that, find a way to make it sexual, and their fans will follow.

No. 227015

>>227014
That was absolutely irritating. But thanks to all of that Nigiri is well established.

No. 227037

There is quite a lot of problem in cgl now, I only visit clg since 2 years. But finding people who love the same thing as you and help them, even if it's a tiny thread full of shit post warm my heart

I love the indie craft thread, it's very help full and have a lot of passionate peoples.

No. 227041

this shit is just tumblr effect tbh. once the tumblr population grabs something they have to force everyone to be nice and be ~inoffensive~ and create hugboxes. this happened with the lolita community in the same way.

>everyone can be lolita!!111

>even fat girls who can't fit brand, they're entitled to replicas!!
>even girls who don't actually wear lolita, fuck your "rules" lolitas are lovelies it's in your heart!!!

only, lolitas don't really get paid.

the real problem is that people are too insecure and always care more about what others think about what they're doing, than actually just doing what they like.

No. 227045

>>227041
I remember when that first began happening as well. These people made discussion impossible and any little criticism over there is termed as a 'vendetta' even if the cosplay/coord is legitimately shit.

No. 227046

>>65823
Don't forget how jannys had their little 'serkit' FB group where screenies were leaked and they were found to be talking shit on the entire board.

No. 227048

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>>65930
>I remember hearing that most /cgl/ janitors aren't even cosplayers or lolitas. They just don't care.

They aren't. There was drama years ago where moot and chan staff were seen at cons with rando girls and there were photos taken. The following year you'd see those same girls on panel as janitors. Shit has been happening for ages.

No. 227050

>>227048
i hung out with moot at a con but he was super lame.

also i remember that shit in pic related.

No. 227055

>>226998
It's the in thing right now so everyone's jumping on the ~body positive~ bandwagon for exposure. These costhots are whining about "bullies" and people begin whiteknighting them in hopes of having the senpai notice them to become a costhot themselves. Too bad most of the top thots are manipulative, narcissist cunts that will not support you other than maybe liking your tweet. Unless you have a decent following yourself and they could make their fanbase overlap with yours, you're nothing to them. They don't care about the hobby, they don't care about ANYONE else than their own behinds so all that "inclusivity" bullshit is relevant to them only when their own position is being threatened. Just look at Momo, she's tweeting all these speeches about love and peace, then turns around to clap back at people, block them and pick up fights every chance she gets. And she's definitely not one of a kind.

No. 227196

>>227048
Ugh, Moot. He was just a beta cuck that stole 2ch’s idea and made it English for an American audience and it got him popularity with losers and nerds.

We should have a golden age of /cgl/ drama thread, I miss all the old tripfag drama. Maguma, Moose and Spoony were the ones I always saw posting the most.

No. 227216

>>227196
Spoony, that you?

No. 227254

>>227216
Not Spoony, but I lost all respect for Moot after he made that girl he fucked a mod of /b/ ~for the lols~, shit was cringe. I stayed on /cgl/ until the 2012 drama purge but haven’t been back there since. I remember a few other tripfags but I don’t remember their actual names.

No. 227481

>>227254
Another ex of his is the reason he brought back /r9k/ btw. He dated some fembot tripfag (pre-cesspool that it is today when it was still entertaining and not just >tfw no gf threads) and she convinced him to bring it back after he deleted it.

No. 227526

I occasionally go to their drawfriends threads, they are awful as of late, the amount of bitching is amazing



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