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Cosplayer: The Public still feeling abit weird..cosplay is a hobby, like how you spend money on other hobbies
Cosplayer: Definitely it’s more accepting than like it first started 10 years ago.
But, I think that there is still this entire idea that this is a kid’s thing.
Children, what are they doing? Bunch of kids, stupid kids, doing crazy things.
I would admit that yes, it is true in that some people are doing this cause they’re crazy and all that.
But, there are some people who does it cause they love it as passion.
I don’t see any difference between this hobby and others.
Cosplayer: Or mayb we’re just weird kids who want attention. Actually we wear it for fun.
Jian: But do you believe these stereotypes still exist?
Cosplayer: Oh yeah a lot.
Cosplayer They think Cosplay is a nonexistent thing that we teenagers self created it just because
we want to be more outstanding than the rest of the public which is like so normal, when we feel that we are cosplaying, we are in the characters themselves.
Cosplayer: But the public do not understand, oh this is cosplaying, this is bad for the public. We do not like this.
Jian: Do u think the general impression from the public has improved compared to a few years ago?
Cosplayer: Urm..abit upgraded, quite degraded at a point
Jian: How, how so?
Cosplayer: Because some of the newbies in the cosplay scene, they will be like anyhow,
and our reputation for cosplay would go down which recently happen and I think you guys saw it in the news.