Media, I hate you.
I'm a little late with this but... I just hate the way media works. Apparently media also hates cosplayers.
Today I found out that a picture (of me wearing my Yoko cosplay) that a reporter took at Animecon 2011 had made it into Turun sanomat, a Finnish newspaper. But that was nothing to be glad about. The article that they had made was made ONLY to make cosplayers bad. All of the pictures were of cosplayers who had a short skirt, a small top or otherwise revealing costumes. They had cut my head off from the photo. The gun that I made myself and was so proud about - well, of course you can't see that very well in the picture either. ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3476289/cosplayuliuu1.jpg )
The only line that they had picked from when they interviewed me was practically "Her mother didn't like her costume", which was only a small fraction of what I actually said.
I agreed to be interviewed because I thought the questions would be like "Are you having fun here at Animecon?" or "Did you make that gun yourself?". It was very confusing when they asked "Why did you choose such a revealing cosplay?", "What did your parents say about your costume?" and "Have you got any "negative" attention about your costume?".
I answered things like "I haven't gotten any troubles because of my costume", "People are nice at conventions, I feel safe", and "I've only gotten positive attention about my cosplay", but OF COURSE they had to pick the line "My mom didn't like this cosplay very much", which I said, but I also said that after explaining things to her she agreed that I could wear it.
As I said, the whole article was made for making cosplay and anime look bad. They had dug out bad stuff that happened ages ago, the only few cases of bad things happening that they could find. For example, they write "At the start of 21st century a 13-year-old girl was raped at a anime club's costume event". But actually, from what I have heard, the thing had NOTHING to do with cosplay. And it happened ten years ago. And still it was in the article. Yeah.
Some more pictures from the article:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3476289/cosplayuliuu3.jpg
I hate this kind of reporters who make articles only because they want attention. Aren't they supposed to write their articles from a neutral point of view?
Today I found out that a picture (of me wearing my Yoko cosplay) that a reporter took at Animecon 2011 had made it into Turun sanomat, a Finnish newspaper. But that was nothing to be glad about. The article that they had made was made ONLY to make cosplayers bad. All of the pictures were of cosplayers who had a short skirt, a small top or otherwise revealing costumes. They had cut my head off from the photo. The gun that I made myself and was so proud about - well, of course you can't see that very well in the picture either. ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3476289/cosplayuliuu1.jpg )
The only line that they had picked from when they interviewed me was practically "Her mother didn't like her costume", which was only a small fraction of what I actually said.
I agreed to be interviewed because I thought the questions would be like "Are you having fun here at Animecon?" or "Did you make that gun yourself?". It was very confusing when they asked "Why did you choose such a revealing cosplay?", "What did your parents say about your costume?" and "Have you got any "negative" attention about your costume?".
I answered things like "I haven't gotten any troubles because of my costume", "People are nice at conventions, I feel safe", and "I've only gotten positive attention about my cosplay", but OF COURSE they had to pick the line "My mom didn't like this cosplay very much", which I said, but I also said that after explaining things to her she agreed that I could wear it.
As I said, the whole article was made for making cosplay and anime look bad. They had dug out bad stuff that happened ages ago, the only few cases of bad things happening that they could find. For example, they write "At the start of 21st century a 13-year-old girl was raped at a anime club's costume event". But actually, from what I have heard, the thing had NOTHING to do with cosplay. And it happened ten years ago. And still it was in the article. Yeah.
Some more pictures from the article:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3476289/cosplayuliuu3.jpg
I hate this kind of reporters who make articles only because they want attention. Aren't they supposed to write their articles from a neutral point of view?