This is for the older con goers. How does it feel to go to cons? Do you feel out of place? What is the average age at cons do you feel, and when do you feel like you've aged out of the con scene? I'm early 30s myself and I'm starting to notice the age difference, and have been interacting with people a lot less at cons
>>10959877I feel like I've seen this same thread about 10 times
>>10959878I've just been to this place before
>>10959878No that's just you
>This shit again
I just- im finally in a decent grown up place finacially where i can afford to cosplay and buy shit without going broke- its just apparently i look way younger than i am ? I was at a con thisweekend ,had the time of my life met some chill people who all gave me thousand yard stares as they all seemed to be in the early to mid 20s and im 38. Its the first time ive felt too old for this shit.
>>10959878It's a topic that comes up a lot, and things move slowly on this board. You've seen the previous thread 10 times where this was one of the things mentioned.>>10959877I'm the same age range as you, but contrary to what you've seen I'm instead noticing the average age of con goers going up because millennials never ended up filing out of the scene due to having kids like what usually happened with scenes back in the day. You're seeing cons posting record attendance numbers because new blood through zoomers and genalphaers is coming in but the old charge of millennials isn't leaving.>have been interacting with people a lot less at consThis is another topic that's been discussed on this board a lot lately. My take is that anime cons are no longer the place to meet weebs because everyone everywhere is now a weeb with how popular anime has gotten, so cons have changed from being a place to meet weebs to being a place for you to go to to hang out with weebs you met outside the con somewhere. There's simply less reason for people to interact at cons now unless you're at a meetup or some panel where you have to interact with people (speed "friending", some game panel, etc.).
>>10959898>My take is that anime cons are no longer the place to meet weebs because everyone everywhere is now a weeb with how popular anime has gotten, so cons have changed from being a place to meet weebs to being a place for you to go to to hang out with weebs you met outside the con somewhere.you hit the nail on the head, it's for your existing group to hangout for a weekend. also a lot of people are asocial nowadays so trying to befriend strangers is considered kind of weird nowadays
>>10959940I disagree about meeting people. Simply by wearing my cosplay and socializing with others of the same fandom and getting instas swapped, in the last year I've met so many new people. Its always interesting and fun to see the process going from strangers who met at 10pm with nothing to do, to discord chats, to rooming together at cons like AX, to being close enough that I'm happy to have them in my life.Cons are genuinely SO good for that and just meeting like minded autists who share your passions
>>10959942I genuinely have no clue how to text people, like I'll vibe perfectly fine with people irl, people approach me, I get invited to room parties and all that jazz, except that when it comes to texts, I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall, literally nobody reciprocates my effort and I inevitably end up left on read or delivered, my messages not even read at all
>>10959945The thing is everyone texts different, and people don't realize this, so everyone expects people to text like them. And if they don't they think something is offSome people just text like they talk, so they do short statements and answers for the most part. That might be the issue you're encountering, where there's a lot of people like us who see talking online like it's a separate thing, and develop a unique way of speaking
How to know when you are too old;>When the 2 inches of hotel space for free isn't worth it anymore, because you actually can afford a room for yourself.This is the kiss of death; once you can actually afford it comfortably then you only have a few years left of enjoyment.>Free Hotel AND Free Pass in exchange for being an unpaid con gopher no longer sounds like a great trade-offThe day you WANT to pay, when you know it can all be covered, marks the fatigue setting in; in less then ten years you will stop going all together.>You are over 25, but you haven't made an impression with your cosplays yetIf people have recognized your talent by now, you are safe but if you still haven't started yet then it's too late (not about physicality; just saying by now it should have amounted to some small notoriety)>You hit 30 and you're not a professional with a product to market at the con.You're at an age now where the question becomes "what are you adding to the con experience?" for everyone else. If you aren't somehow involved by now in the showrunning process, or aren't selling a product then likely your time is drying up simply because you have better things to put your time into.
>>10959978Hmm, according to your logic rich kids never get to enjoy cons, and Im pretty sure they actually can
>>10959978I don't think this person is very fun at cons
>>10959978Dude you just legit sound like a brokefag who weasels any kind of BS that "paid for the con" just to say they attended them.>f you aren't somehow involved by now in the showrunning process, or aren't selling a product then likely your time is drying up simply because you have better things to put your time into.Anon, I work my ass for 40hrs a week and sometimes I want to plop my ass down to a con in the area or a city over and forget all that. You must be the life of a party
>>10959979>>10959984>>10959986>You CANNOT do X unless it's done with very specific criteria that I decidedCan we agree this type of poster is the biggest faggot of all, and unworthy of a (You) unless it's to call them the biggest faggot of all?>>10959978t. biggest faggot of all
You will feel old and out of place when you see less of what you grew up with and dont connect with the current anime landscape. it is bad with mid to small sized cons where mostly teenagers to giggle wearing their aliexpress MHA, Chainsaw man cosplay.
>>10959889when you're old enough to buy all the candy and nobody can tell you not to eat it but you don't want to any more...
I read about senior con goers experience that they have arrived to the point where they don’t even go inside the convention hall and just go out for drinks at a bar outside.
>>10960327You only have to connect with one recent thing to fit in at a con. You don't need to wear more than one cosplay at a time.
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>>1095987742 here, I mostly do joke cosplays, like this Bondrewd one. (with a high-end commissioned helmet, althoughbeit)
I regularly see older folks at my (admittedly large) older conventions. No one cares. People care a lot less about you and what you're doing when you're in a public space than you might think. Remember that one day you'll die, so you need to stop sacrificing things that you enjoy for some arbitrary standard only you are holding yourself to.
>>10959976or don't have universal participation on all the socials.or some don't use any beyond this and email.>>10959986>Dude you just legit sound like a brokefag who weasels any kind of BS that "paid for the con" just to say they attended them.just to be fair to them if thats the case: most cons are not cheap anymore. Especially ones scraping 5 digit attendance.
>>10959978Guys like this anon will have thebiggest crisis once they hit 30
>>10959878At this point just do what /fit/ does and have a 30+ general
>>10959877I'm 38 and I don't ever plan to set foot on a con again unless it's to buy merch or stuff like that. For a guy at my age, interacting with female cosplayers always irks me the fuck out as creepy as hell, more so given that even chicks in their mid 20s have the mental age of literal 16 yr old teenagers.
>>10959878We're getting increasingly more efficient at making it.
>>10965950>hes not sleezemaxxing and fucking said mid 20s girls
>>10965950soi post
>>1095987718. don't be a pedophile.
>>10965988I hope this is bait
>>10965988Lose weight, hole!
>>10965989>>109659901. I'm a man.2. if you attend anime conventions in your adulthood, you're a stunted adult, a pedophile, or both. anime conventions are for children and there's literally no good reason for children to be around adults unsupervised.3. check the other thread regarding Comic-con.
>>10965992Why are you even on this board? lmao
>>10966001>t. pedophileto out terrible people like you.
>>10966003Holy projection...
>>10965988God damn it I am gonna take the bait. What do you think should happen to 18+ events with bars?
>>10966003Zoomershits cannot be noosed fast enough
>>10966090they obviously should be removed. there's no justification for them aside from luring pedophiles to the convention. you literally have no idea what happens at anime conventions do you? people don't actually go to the 18+ events. they leave the convention grounds to party in hotels. what do you imagine happens?
>>10966093I'm retarded can you please explain what happens?
>>10966094>feigning ignorancegrooming.
>>10966097I don't get it
>>10966093>luring pedophiles to the conventionwhy do con organizers want to do this?
>>10964739There was that old guy doing BarbenHeimer at Katsucon a few years ago. Maybe one day i'll be cool enough to be that guy. Probably not.
>>10966093I think you're a pedophile
>>10966108NTA Impossible, zoomers don't socialize IRL thus it is nearly impossible there will be underage b& at the con.This is an irrefutable fact.
