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Cosplayer has a panic attack at Comiket, sleazeballs start taking inappropriate photos of her instead of helping
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So are these hordes of photographers at these cons all working for someone or just filling out their own personal collection of creepshots?
I had something on my mind when I saw the picture and you are right on the money.
Socially crippled fools who view life through a camera lens and have no earthly connection to it.
Some sort of protest needs to happen. Like if I was a cosplayer that gets harassed all the time I'll ask my friends who aren't cosplaying that day to bring cardboard or huge placards to shield me away for when I don't want to get photographed. Double points if it's plastered with a witty protest slogan of some sort.
Or something like the angels like at trial for Matthew Sheppard's murderers to block anti-gay protesters.
Or something like the angels like at trial for Matthew Sheppard's murderers to block anti-gay protesters.
The context makes the photo bad but that scene itself is normal comiket kimoi trash
But why?
The context makes the photo bad but that scene itself is normal comiket kimoi trash
Yeah. Of course those girls choose to be put on the spotlight, but this sort of objectifying setup really enables stories like in the OP. To those photographers, these cosplayers are little more than figurines to snap and ogle. I hope she will be able to move on from the experience in time, and that the incident can perhaps spark some changes or at least awareness on side of the photographers. I am not so sure of that however.
The context makes the photo bad but that scene itself is normal comiket kimoi trash
This is really weird, but in these photos it seems like at least everyone involved is into it, even if it kind of seems insane from the outside.
But if someone is having a panic attack then move away, Jesus.
I like anime, I like women, and I like lewd trash, but this is something on a whole level I wasn't even aware of. And I've purchased things from comiket before.The context makes the photo bad but that scene itself is normal comiket kimoi trash
That the woman keep posing doesn't mean they would rather these photographers go the fuck away and take photos like regular humans instead of animals. These Comiket events should regulate this and not allow it at this degree, allowing it normalizes it and makes stuff like what's in the OP happen.
This is like a horrifically depressing political cartoon. Except those motherfucking creeps are real.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Jesus Christ that's horrifying
Fucking sickos for taking advantage of her while she was having a panic attack.
Fucking sickos for taking advantage of her while she was having a panic attack.
I had something on my mind when I saw the picture and you are right on the money.
I would watch the fuck out of the anime this post implies
Because depending on the person they'll be selling these picture packs to people on their websites.
Reading some of the responses, it's heartening to see the number of people taking this seriously, some repeating a line that's something like "cosplay yes, touch no", similar to the "cosplay is not consent" saying around here. It seems some have also suggested that photographers should have to sign up for special armbands or lanyards at Comiket so that if they do something skeevy they can be identified. That does seem useful, especially given the number of congoers that seem to wear facemasks to conceal their identity (which can absolutely be done for legitimate reasons and I don't think is a bad thing inherently, but can just as easily be to, well, avoid being caught doing skeevy shit).
As an American congoer, who is used to just saying "hey, can I get a pic?" if I see someone in a cool costume and if they say yes I do so, and if no, go on my way, that seems really odd. But the whole idea of cosplayers gathering in a square with the intention of letting a literal wall of photographers take pictures of them with little to no real communication is completely foreign to me. If that sort of thing was the norm here, I'd absolutely be for it.
As is, I'd personally suggest Japanese cosplayers begin to ask photographers for individual photo sessions and outside of that ask people to individually ask them, rather than throngs of people encroaching upon them. But maybe that's me being culturally insensitive and they can figure out methods like the aforementioned armband one themselves.
Sidenote, fuck the guy in the responses who posted a gif of a baby panda rolling around. It seems the cosplayer in question was a Chinese person, so you know that was just a mixed misogynist-xenophobic response to a serious event.
As an American congoer, who is used to just saying "hey, can I get a pic?" if I see someone in a cool costume and if they say yes I do so, and if no, go on my way, that seems really odd. But the whole idea of cosplayers gathering in a square with the intention of letting a literal wall of photographers take pictures of them with little to no real communication is completely foreign to me. If that sort of thing was the norm here, I'd absolutely be for it.
As is, I'd personally suggest Japanese cosplayers begin to ask photographers for individual photo sessions and outside of that ask people to individually ask them, rather than throngs of people encroaching upon them. But maybe that's me being culturally insensitive and they can figure out methods like the aforementioned armband one themselves.
Sidenote, fuck the guy in the responses who posted a gif of a baby panda rolling around. It seems the cosplayer in question was a Chinese person, so you know that was just a mixed misogynist-xenophobic response to a serious event.
I mean as someone who dealing with sort of stuff on daily basis, this is probably the single worst photo, I have ever seen on the internet and now I am so fucking angry, that I stop writing.....
Sounds like groups of cosplayers should hire a person or two to do crowd control for them. These camera fucks might be a little more respectful if the cosplayers have a thug willing to knock their teeth down their throats if they don't give them space.
Fucking disgusting and unfair to the woman that like to cosplay. Between people who don't get cosplay thinking their freaks, unwanted attention both physical and non, and shit like this it's ridiculous. God forbid some women would like to express themselves in a creative and cool way while participating in fandom and enjoying themselves while looking cool without harassment and unwanted attention from creeps and sex pests ,what the fuck is wrong with people? Enjoy their effort from a distance with respect it's what they deserve, they are creative women bringing beloved characters to life not meat bags for your sexual gratification and this actually really angers me.
Have some damn respect.
Have some damn respect.
I don't know how experiences differ, my own panic attacks have always felt like I was dying. Like I was having a heart attack. No matter how much I try to convince myself outside of episodes that should it happen again, don't worry, it's just a panic attack, that goes away when it comes because it really does feel like you're dying. It's a horrifying experience. To imagine myself in that situation, going through that, in my most scared and desperate moment when I feel I need help, I will die if I do not get help, and they surround her like a horde not to help but to take pictures of her underwear.
It is blood boiling. I can't even imagine what that kind of experience would do to me. These people are sociopaths, there is no other explanation.
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