Example on How to Not Attract Customers
I wanted to share this amusing gem of a bad commissioner. In this case, he ruined things before anything was set up. I'm planning to do a cosplay of American McGee's Alice. The company makes an official replica of the blade she uses in the game. Problem is that it's made of steel so it wouldn't be allowed inside a con. So I make a short gripe about it in a thread titled "Cosplay Pet Peeves" on Cosplay.com. I later receive a PM from a user saying he is willing to make the blade for me. I decide to think about this for a little while before replying.
Meanwhile in the same thread someone tells a story of a Vocaloid cosplayer getting tackled by an excited fan or GLOMPed as it's called in con lingo. This guy was apparently quite scared about the incident. Then the commissioner, Jordy_the_Jew, saying he should have expected it because Vocaloid cosplays are "skanky" and therefore are asking for it. I personally never really understood what Vocaloids was but of all the cosplays I've seen of it, none are "skanky" also Jordy seemed to have gotten confused on the person's gender but I'll put that aside for now. Other people called him out on his victim blaming.
So he erupts on one person with this:
Yeah, great way to attract customers. Anime/manga makes up a large part of cosplay and insulting all those who do them will scare off those people and really hurt your business. Granted this cosplay is of a video game but most of my cosplays are anime. He was aware of this as my avatar on the site is a photo of me in a Pikachu costume. Now this comment wasn't directed at me but I did also call out his victim blaming and he made purpose not to reply to my message there. I can only assume he did so because he wanted my business so was trying not to insult me directly. He was banned from the site a few hours later as you can see in the screenshot.
While on the topic of cosplay commissioners. I recently had someone make Alois's kimono from Black Butler. I was just notified that it has been shipped. I'll be doing a review of this commissioner when it arrives.
Meanwhile in the same thread someone tells a story of a Vocaloid cosplayer getting tackled by an excited fan or GLOMPed as it's called in con lingo. This guy was apparently quite scared about the incident. Then the commissioner, Jordy_the_Jew, saying he should have expected it because Vocaloid cosplays are "skanky" and therefore are asking for it. I personally never really understood what Vocaloids was but of all the cosplays I've seen of it, none are "skanky" also Jordy seemed to have gotten confused on the person's gender but I'll put that aside for now. Other people called him out on his victim blaming.
So he erupts on one person with this:
Yeah, great way to attract customers. Anime/manga makes up a large part of cosplay and insulting all those who do them will scare off those people and really hurt your business. Granted this cosplay is of a video game but most of my cosplays are anime. He was aware of this as my avatar on the site is a photo of me in a Pikachu costume. Now this comment wasn't directed at me but I did also call out his victim blaming and he made purpose not to reply to my message there. I can only assume he did so because he wanted my business so was trying not to insult me directly. He was banned from the site a few hours later as you can see in the screenshot.
While on the topic of cosplay commissioners. I recently had someone make Alois's kimono from Black Butler. I was just notified that it has been shipped. I'll be doing a review of this commissioner when it arrives.