[ SECRET POST #3308 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3308 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

okay, anon, 20 years ago was 1996. As someone who was in college at that time, when the internet was still mostly usenet newsgroups, AOL, and Prodigy boards, I doubt there were cosplay hate forums then.

please to clarify whether you're being hyperbolic.

(that said, I find it astonishing that everyone forgets that up until about 5 years ago, anyone and everyone was still mocking nerds wearing costumes to conventions. and now it's cool? I want it to be lame and nerdy again.)

[kallanda_lee]

There were internet forums in 1996. I have no idea if they existed for cosplay, but it's not the weirdest thing to imagine.

[(Anonymous)]

OP - I was bullying before I started high school, which was in 1998. There were AOL rooms and geocities sites for sure and geocities started in 1994. It's possibly it was only 19 years instead of 20.

[(Anonymous)]

Bulletin boards and email lists were a definite thing then too.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who used newsgroups, there was plenty of bullying going around back then. So it's not unheard of.

[(Anonymous)]

It was creative abuse back then, and strangely impersonal too. There wasn't the truly sadistic personal element that the GGers specialize in.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been cosplaying since before it was even called cosplay in the U.S. I was once given an award for cosplay by the man who literally invented cosplay, though it wasn't called that then either. (Forrest J. Ackerman. Look it up.)

And we've always been mocked. I grew up knowing I was a punchline on Night Court, on Roseanne, on SNL, on everything. It was NORMAL back then, you accepted it before you even assembled your outfit.

Yes, targeted cyberbullying within the community is worse now, and I don't pretend it feels the same. But fucking hell, at least you kids HAVE a community outside of conventions now.

[cloudtrader]

Yup, this.

My mom started cosplaying for conventions back in the 60's, and got shit for it then, too.