#4 My bleeding thoughts
Blog Entry: #4 My bleeding thoughts
Blog Entry: #4 My bleeding thoughts
I don't know where should I put this, but I guess this 'anonymous' place is pretty oK.
I've been thinking totally getting retired from Finnish japanese culture (except from the game culture, I totally love jp-games..).
I found out how people, who has gotten really into the hobby, has changed themselves so much and how the new beginners instead have to suffer for the ignorance of older participates.
More worse, being bullied and made feel they don't belong anywhere.
I hate the word 'elitists'. For me, elitist means a person who thinks really high of him/herself and competives with everyone in everything. A person with a lack of humble lifestyle nor having any emphaty for the beginners, everyone must be ONLY ONE lvl behind her/him.
That's my diagnose for elitists.
Now.
These elitists are making japanese fashion/lifestyle underground and also cosplay underground groups really messy and very highly disagreeable. For beginners they are insulting and giving offencive comments, instead of trying to understand the lack of skills or imagination of using different kind of materials. No creative comments, no symphaty.
In J-rock culture it's common, that there's these elitists and asslickers. I'm nothing, though I know ppl in those groups know me somehow (not my fault). I actually get sometimes really annoyed feelings if I notice these 'elitists' have been visiting my site, just been wondering who I am and what I do.
These jrock elitists don't want to be part of any random group, they want to know everyone who's worth of knowing and with who can she/he make 'amateurs' think they are the highest class of this society. So they don't give a chance to the 'admirers' to rise to the highest class, they just dislike and laughs at the thought.
I hear a lot of stuff in my position, and I have clear image of people I really don't want to have anything to do with. And I make it clear immediatelly they try to get near me. Be passive, I'm on the beginners side.
In cosplay culture the situation is almost the same, though these 'elitist groups' are 'regional'. South elitists belong to South, East to East, North to North etc.
In this scene, people try to cover the mistakes made by beginners and try to give great image to the foreign countries. They stomp beginners down, and no wonder that beginners that have started their 'cosplay career' with Naruto/Bleach cosplay, might not want to continue this kind of hobby anymore.
Surely cosplay is one of the most surficial hobbies I know - because it's about imitating the fictional character.
But is the definition 'how much do you have to look like' in the eye of beholder? It might be, but I guess the certain definition has got stuck inside of the elitists heads.
Basic thoughts.
After Jin Kisaragi and Edgar cosplays, I'm going to give a notice I'm fading away and try to find something that has no such strange 'high class' possibilities.
Is there any, I don't know. But surely I'll try :)
I've been thinking totally getting retired from Finnish japanese culture (except from the game culture, I totally love jp-games..).
I found out how people, who has gotten really into the hobby, has changed themselves so much and how the new beginners instead have to suffer for the ignorance of older participates.
More worse, being bullied and made feel they don't belong anywhere.
I hate the word 'elitists'. For me, elitist means a person who thinks really high of him/herself and competives with everyone in everything. A person with a lack of humble lifestyle nor having any emphaty for the beginners, everyone must be ONLY ONE lvl behind her/him.
That's my diagnose for elitists.
Now.
These elitists are making japanese fashion/lifestyle underground and also cosplay underground groups really messy and very highly disagreeable. For beginners they are insulting and giving offencive comments, instead of trying to understand the lack of skills or imagination of using different kind of materials. No creative comments, no symphaty.
In J-rock culture it's common, that there's these elitists and asslickers. I'm nothing, though I know ppl in those groups know me somehow (not my fault). I actually get sometimes really annoyed feelings if I notice these 'elitists' have been visiting my site, just been wondering who I am and what I do.
These jrock elitists don't want to be part of any random group, they want to know everyone who's worth of knowing and with who can she/he make 'amateurs' think they are the highest class of this society. So they don't give a chance to the 'admirers' to rise to the highest class, they just dislike and laughs at the thought.
I hear a lot of stuff in my position, and I have clear image of people I really don't want to have anything to do with. And I make it clear immediatelly they try to get near me. Be passive, I'm on the beginners side.
In cosplay culture the situation is almost the same, though these 'elitist groups' are 'regional'. South elitists belong to South, East to East, North to North etc.
In this scene, people try to cover the mistakes made by beginners and try to give great image to the foreign countries. They stomp beginners down, and no wonder that beginners that have started their 'cosplay career' with Naruto/Bleach cosplay, might not want to continue this kind of hobby anymore.
Surely cosplay is one of the most surficial hobbies I know - because it's about imitating the fictional character.
But is the definition 'how much do you have to look like' in the eye of beholder? It might be, but I guess the certain definition has got stuck inside of the elitists heads.
Basic thoughts.
After Jin Kisaragi and Edgar cosplays, I'm going to give a notice I'm fading away and try to find something that has no such strange 'high class' possibilities.
Is there any, I don't know. But surely I'll try :)