And that's what they're reducing cosplay as a hobby to - a cheap trick to turn everyone's eyes on them. Before there wasn't much of a supply for skimpily clad cosplay girls so it's still a good, open market for people to use as a stepping stone towards fame. Girls that are not good-looking, disciplined or charismatic enough to be real models are hopping on the cosplay bandwagon because it's popular, putting on a bra+skirt combo and making sexified versions of characters that are not known for their trashy sex appeal (like JNig's "feminine Link" cosplay) and then receiving tons of glory and attention with practically no effort. Everyone knows she doesn't do her costumes herself, but for more and more people it doesn't even matter because apparently cosplay is only about dressing up in eye-catching clothes like it's some kind of an alt fashion. She's reducing the hobby to a sexual fetish of sorts, dressing up as "nerdy" characters showing skin to appeal to the sex-hungry crowd. For her, it's all about the T&A, attention and money and therefore it's the example she's setting up for the normies and other cosplayers. She doesn't even want to become more familiar with the source material. >It's the fact that she tries to tap into people's personal interests and claim that she enjoys it as much as the fans, when clearly she doesn't know anything and wants to remain ignorant about it. A lot of cosplayers I know have started emulating her style of self-promotion as in cosplaying popular, scantily clad characters without knowing the source material because JNig shows them it's the thing to do to reach the appreciated cosplayer status. >60536 She has a bigger impact than people give her credit for. It's not about a personal style, it's about the fact she's promoting an agenda that's bringing people into cosplay who are looking for nothing more than recognition at any cost. I love cosplay and there is very little that has knocked my enjoyment of it, but anyone who tries and say that someone like JNig isn't causing detriment to the hobby is seriously deluded. The very fact I can't even express this opinion calmly to someone without being called "jealous" also speaks for itself. The only obvious exception to this rule is if it's already a "sexed-up" character, that's free reign. I don't want normies to see her cosplaying a character from a series I like and reducing it to some tit-and-ass costume, then that person receiving a false impression of the character or series, because it is incredibly demeaning. It's the fact that she tries to tap into people's personal interests and claim that she enjoys it as much as the fans, when clearly she doesn't know anything and wants to remain ignorant about it. If she was just upfront about the fact she was just a booth-babe who wants to make money from people effectively selling sex appeal, I wouldn't really give a shit about her and leave her on her way. Literally the only reason I have such a great dislike of her is her chronic dishonesty when it comes to every single aspect of what she's "selling" (in this case, herself, as a "brand"). Heck, I don't even care about the fact she's extorting desperate neckbeards for money. I couldn't give a shit if she hasn't watched/played/read any of the series or not. I don't care about how her costumes are entirely inaccurate or slutted up. And because she's lowered the bar so low, we're getting plenty more of people like her and now the hobby is about T&A, Facebook likes and who manages to make the popular character first. She's basically confirming peoples' beliefs that cosplay is some kind of sexual deviation because she sluttifies every costume she ever makes. She's basically telling people that the idolized cosplayer is a money-grubbing whore who doesn't make their own costumes or give two shits about the source material. People who don't know (or care) that she doesn't make her own costumes and is just a booth babe chock full of drama are including her on all the top cosplayers list and presenting her as an idol worth worshipping. Because you know why? JNig is starting to be the definement for Cosplay. Even the feminist publications that in all seriousness and without any reserach claim that the only problem people have with JNig is her tits and it's ~so sexist and literally the reason why womyn are opress'd~. >59154 I really, really hate it when my friends, especially non-cosplaying ones, share articles on their Facebook feed glorifying JNig's tits and how she's one of the most influential/talented cosplayers that ever lived.
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