I wonder what the person was waiting to happen- If they actually passed the auditions and then got into the group, what would they say when people realized they can’t dance like the person in the videos?..
Their is a Spanish RU-vidr who stole my artwork for their thumbnail to get more views. I try using Google Translator & none of their subscribers were able to understand me...
Say "hola este youtuber uso me arte y la puso como su photo de profile yo no hablo much ingles y me encantadia si le pueden decir a cambiar eso gracias" it means "hi this youtuber used my art as there profile picture i dont speak much spanish and i would be amazing if you told them to change it thx"
Stealing content for a shoutout is such a weird mentality, I understand the thought process but people will find out that it wasn’t yours just by comparing recent posts to the one you entered. If you’re not comfortable showing off what you’ve made yet, just don’t show it off. If you win with your own work it will be 1000 times more satisfying than with someone else’s (at least I’d assume)
I agree completely! Plus there's the fact that people are going to be giving you attention for a quality/type of work that isn't yours and therefore isn't something that you regularly deliver so like... Yeah, definitely a flawed plan. But hey, we all do dumb things when we're kids! The important thing is that we learn from our past antics.
I had my photo stolen once, but it was put on a cringe page and everyone was openly like bashing my work and stuff. And the page refused to take It down when I asked first. So you handled that situation better than I did lol. But the person didn’t react well to me asking them to take it down the first time like at all.
That was my worst fear when I started. I was young, it was a closet cosplay: no wig, no contacts, lucked out on a pair of shoes that didn't look super out of place, etc. I wore it to my first anime con, interacted with other fans, even was asked for few pictures; I had the best time. Days after, I was mortified with thoughts of where my pictures _might_ end up and the _hypothetical_ reception it'd receive. Comments and words I would *never* read or find. The following years, I'd mentally questioned why anyone would want a picture of my cosplay, I wasn't the only one nor the best of a given character. Ah, the irrational doubts of youth. (Sorry for the long tangent.)
I'm so sorry that happened to you. I've always hated how people will make cringe pages/videos with the intention of mocking people who aren't hurting anyone. They should be embarrassed for their hurtful actions.
isa WTF? You’re bashing people who are “ugly” and “fat” not to do cosplay? Cosplay can be done by anyone as far as I’m concerned, it’s just how much effort you put into it. No matter how pretty or skinny you are, if you put random cloths together and say that it’s cosplay, THEN I’ll think they don’t deserve to be in the cosplay community
I once had a photo stolen off my personal Facebook page (posted nowhere else) that I took of my friend and her friend doing a shipping cosplay photo. It was stolen by my friend's friend's ex-girlfriend who was jealous and posted it on her page to bully my friend. I actually found it on accident because she was suggested as a potential Facebook friend and I contacted her about it and basically she called me a stalker and harassed me about calling her out on the photo. I only asked her to remove the photo from her page, and I offered to remove it from my own page, but in the end I managed to get her account banned on Facebook for harassing my friend. Why do people feel the need to steal content and repost it, regardless of intent? People need to grow up.
This actually just happened to me a few months ago. Someone not only stole my cosplay photos of me as Yang but also some irl photos of me as well. They shared it to a private group of friends and said they were Yang for Halloween. One of these friends actually found my photos on RWBY Amino. This guy reached out to me asking if I was who I was and if I could take a selfie of myself with a sign with his name on it to make sure I wasn't lying. When he found out that I was being truthful he ended up cutting ties with that friend because they were lying about what they looked like. Mind you, this guy has never heard this persons voice or anything.... so I could easily see it being a bit dangerous tbh.
This is kinda the reason I'm thinking about shutting down my deviantart page, for one, the copyright-situation is really unclear and its easy for people to steal stuff, and also the customer servie is terrible, I have tried to report sexual harassment a hundred times and they dont do anything about it ...
Oh my goodness, I agree dA is so bad for sexual harassment, that's honestly the main reason I decided to leave the site altogether. I haven't had too much of an issue with art theft and copyright there myself, but I know those are huge issues for the site's artists. It's sad because dA used to be such a great platform and community back in the day. :(
I had someone steal pics of one of my cosplay and set up I think it was a twitter account where they claimed my pics were of them. My friend saw it and notified me, and I made a twitter account just so I could PM them... they completely ignored me and my request. I contacted Twitter, nothing was done. They are still there claiming my face. but at this point I just ignore it. I tried my best at settling it civilly, and only my one friend is aware of the account name other than myself, and she is mature enough to have left it up to me rather than harass the person on my behalf. I'm really not worried about it as it WAS my very first cosplay which is now retired. No new pics being posted for them to steal.
The thing is that anymore stolen media is a big issue and people are cracking down on it because of the world we live in where online media can be just as profitable as a real life business/exchange. I have friends who are rather popular in the scene who have had their work stolen and asked people to report it. No one was mean just like “yo, this is so-and-so; credit them or take it down”. The only time the conversations got “hostile” was when the original post author reacted negatively (ex: Chris Brown stealing the Spider-Man cosplay photo). That’s when a “witch hunt” mainly occurs. It’s when the offending party continues to offend and openly acknowledges it (and doesn’t care). Which I never understood that mentality either. And I don’t condone witch hunts but I will fight for fellow cosplayers if someone disrespects them and their work. I’ve always been stern with stolen art/media. Not mean, but stern. These young kids need to acknowledge how serious something like that is in a scene where online promotion and hobby sharing is a focus.
I used to do costume commissions and had a customer enter an entire group of my pieces into a cosplay competition with out my permission or knowledge. They ended up winning some awards and I only found this out because I was browsing through some convention galleries and found a picture of these people holding an award for techinical ability and a group cosplay award. I was very clear when talking to my clients that they should not enter my work or anyone elses work into a competition but that did not get me that far obviously. Unfortunatley, by the time I found out the con was a few months over so contacting the con staff itself would have been pointless. Ugh. People
That was definitely one of the best ways to handle that. Empathy and understanding really go a long way when dealing with situations like this. Another great video and awesome advice :)
I've had people take my art without my permission and claim it as theirs so I completely understand the feeling of having someone take your hard work without putting effort of their own as you've done. Mind you, my art isn't anything fantastic and I'm cool with people sharing it and keeping it for a desktop or something so long as no one is profitting from it or claiming it as theirs. I can understand people appreciating something to the point they want a copy to look at, but blatantly stealing it and claiming it's yours is wrong. Good on you AnyaPanda for being so mature and responsible about the problem without causing this new cosplayer to feel attacked and learn from it without having to abuse them to do so as so many seem to do these days if someone's art/photo is stolen. Hope this person had learnt from their mistake and others will learn from your example of how to handle a situation like this n_n
Ugh! I know this photo ended up getting stolen but all I can focus on was how awesome he cosplay was! All of your cosplay's are goals. Mine are always awful compared to yours, but I learned from you that I should only compare myself *to* myself, not to others. Love ya, girl!
At least it was just a photo. All my original cosplay as well as, $10,000 dollars of anime, collectables, cloths and, juggling equipment were stolen in the mail. My friend was mailing my stuff back to me after job corps and, someone I believe knew what was in the boxes and, took off with them.
This is kind of the reason I don't post much of my art on Instagram at least the pieces I like the most. I'm not famous so if a famous account posted my art without credit nobody would know it was my art.
still a piece of garbage I see where your coming from but I’ve been posting my art for about a year and I haven’t gotten it stolen yet and I don’t even have a water mark but watermarks are good if you really don’t want it stolen
Hey , well i post my art alot but I constantly have my one acc username on them (same as my RU-vid username) my followers know its me because they know that yandere_seabunny is my old account but i still worry about my art being stolen
I get you about the kid thing! I'm in that weird phase right now. I get that they were very insecure and it def wasn't okay. If I were them, I would wait a bit more if they felt uncomfortable. There's that huge struggle where you have to manage parentals at middle/high school, and I understand! I always feel bad wasting people's money just for my extremely expensive hobby. Also digging the wig as well.
You're so calm and collected; it's totally admirable! One of my biggest fears posting stuff online is content theft so this story is like one of my greatest fears come true. I don't think I'd manage it as coolly as you :P
Ah, I'm so sorry this happend to you! Well done on acting so mature, I'm sure a ton of people would of done the thing of call out culture. P.S loving the wig!
I had someone make a fake account in my name and catfish people with it and I know it’s not that same as what happened to you but I know what you were going through at the moment
Grace Grundahl that happened to my best friend. Our classmate used her name and a disturbing image as her pfp. Because of that, the police got involved because it’s a crime here in Ireland.
mimi shake I agree with you. When someone uses your work, you definately need to be credited. Anya is amazing at cosplay, I'm actually surprised this didn't happen sooner.
I'm so happy to finally find mature cosplayers! I have way too many cosplay friends who would just call the person out and let the witch hunt begin! It makes me furious tbh!
Am like a 10 yr old cosplayer but i dont think i would do that XDoh and my friends first cosplay was rins and mines was miku,but for convention i was asuna and she was yui
I haven't had my photos stolen yet at least. I'm very new to cosplay but I love it so much. The community seems so kind and I'm so happy to be able to share my love for characters. I do understand the stealing stuff, my old art like 2-3 years ago were stolen and I tried to be sensible and civil and thankfully they were understanding.
On point! I do wooden RC airplanes. I can spend a year building one. During a contest it was discovered two people entered commercially produced models. All the hard work everyone puts in to make things perfect only to be competing with people that hasn't embraced that experience. Thanks for leaving the photo up a couple of seconds, beats rewinding and trying to freeze the video. Keep up the great work!
That’s messed up honestly. I’ve had my cosplay photos taken in the past (mainly my tinkerbell stuff) and posted onto Instagram which I didn’t have until recently and I didn’t know until one of my close friends brought it to my attention. It sucks honestly but everything later was resolved.
Similar situation happened with one of my friends. The person had almost won before we caught it (by we, I mean me) and they were kicked and banned from entering again. I'm still, after ten years, scraping for my cosplays but it makes everyone look bad.
I've been cosplaying now for five years now and still feel fairly new to it, I'm hoping one day I'll feel better about my art, hopefully doing so in the years to come. Thank you for sharing your stories with us! :)
Ah that sucks so much, but good job on handling it so calmly! I've had friends who had other people make accounts stealing their photos and pretending to be them and it's always a bit weird and uncomfortable when it happens.
Impersonation is definitely an uncomfortable thing to have happen. I can imagine that being a really scary thing to have to deal with, so I hope everything worked out for your friends and that they were able to get those accounts taken down!
you handled it so well, I would not have been that calm... the only time I ever save cosplay photos is to show to my friends because they like the character too
I’m 14, and a male, I do crossdressing cosplays like Hatsune Miku, I haven’t had someone steal my photo but I’ve had one of my cosplays put onto a stock image website for £100+ pounds for the license, its a crap image so nobody has bought it but I spend a whole year working on this TV head cosplay inspired by the Vocaloid song ‘Echo’s character, it made me cry for weeks that someone could do that to me, I’m not pursuing a action because I have mental health issues and any more stress would break me.
Not having the necessary skills does not excuse stealing someone else's photo, effectively stealing their work. Stealing is stealing. It's lying. It doesn't matter why they did it, they shouldn't have done it and need to learn that there are consequences to being a liar and/or thief.
Good for you Anya. I would have totally handled that worse than you. But if I was in this situation I would think it as a compliment. I love your cosplays. ❤️
I just want to tell you how much I enjoy your videos!!! A lot of people feel scripted these days but you are very natural like it’s talking to a friend! I really love your channel thank you for posting!
I’ve entered a few local contest and have only one one time. Even though I have very rarely win it’s still lots of fun and you meet lots of people. There’s only been one time that I’ve been kind of mad about the results. There was this wizard character that made a light up staff it was very simple. He won best prop. No I’m not saying that I should’ve won with my hand stitched Fox squirrel, but there are plenty of other props that would’ve deserved it a lot more than his staff.
Hey, so I've really been wanting to cosplay for a few years now. I am now 13 years old and am not sure if I should start now. Should I wait until I'm older? Or should I start now? I want to buy some cosplay items I've been thinking about, but not sure if I should. I am totally into exploring others cosplays and really want to try myself. What do you think? Thanks so much! ❤️
I’ll add to the you’re never too young message and say you’re also never too old to start cosplaying. I was insecure about starting to cosplay for a while but now at 22 years I finally started to cosplay and I’m glad I have. :)
J G Wow! 22? I’m 52 & just started Cosplaying! I’ve wanted to do it for years, & finally got up the guts to do it this year. My husband & I are both doing Steampunk. It’s been so fun putting together these costumes. So, you are never too young or old to start! Good luck LPSfireworkTV!
Hi. You always seem so down to earth and really sweet! I really love your energy. You make me want to be a better person and a better cosplayer. Anyways, I hope you have a great day, and I always look forward to each video.
i love your vidoes i always watch them with my lil sister she isnt rlly into cosplay or any geeky thing but since we watch your vids together she slowly starts liking it so thanks for convincing my sister! :D
I've had my cosplay photo stolen before. It was for someone's cosplay page, and it wasn't them pretending to be me, but they just posted it without my permission. Of course, I appreciate that they liked it, but it could have been handled better than that. Well it was several, but you get my point.
Okay holy shit that Rin cosplay made me remember this girl who lived across from my friends house and now that I think about it, that girl looks exactly like AnyaPanda.... 0,0
For such an upsetting situation, you handled it amazingly. The stereotype is true, Canadians truly are the nicest people in the world. ❤️ (Except for Justin Bieber lol)
So rn I'm reading all of those comments and there is really a lot of people that has gotten their cosplay photo stolen etc and that is really sad in my opinion. It is sad how people can just do this without thinking about the person in the photo. Anyways for u that actually have been through this, I hope it went out ok in the end
I've never had photos stolen, but I've had other art taken. I used to write a lot of poetry in middle school, as it was something that kept me sane, and posted it on Quizilla (mistake number 1). One of the poems I wrote gained some traction, as it addressed bullying. Someone took my poem and posted it on their Gaia Online profile--something I discovered by browsing the website. I politely asked the person to take it down, and they did after a little bit of fussing. To my horror, they took a stanza of it, mangled it, and reposted it to the forums. Where it took off. In a big way. New tag lines threatening others if they didn't repost were added, causing this mangled mess to go viral. I desperately tried to get it under control, but was harassed to no end--even if I directed them to the Quizilla page. Facebook, RU-vid, Gaia--it was literally everywhere, and no one was listening to me. I never got it under control, but it did eventually die out--after years and years of plaguing me.
I started cosplay September of 2018 after my birthday. And just yesterday there was a con I went to a con yesterday with my friend. We went as Bill Cipher and Wendy. And we won the cosplay contest. Your story times are great so thank you.
at this point i actually get annoyed when people post other people's cosplays in facebook groups without credit. though alot of cosplayers need to watermark their pics
You are way too nice. I would have ripped that person a new one tbh. Someone in middle school age range should already understand that stealing and cheating is wrong. Thats preschool knowledge. Secondly, not only did this person disrespect your work, she did so with everybody who entered. And the motviation behind that is just ugly. Its greed and narcism. Thinking she deserves to win, no matter what.
Many many years ago I was accused of stealing a cosplayer's photo. The weird part is i actually met this cosplayer, asked if i could take her photo and she agreed. And just because i cropped the picture i took of her before i posted it on my FB page, her along with her friends people i did not know were writing mean messages and telling me to take down the photo. The Backlash was horrible. I tried to reply back telling them that I actually took this picture of the cosplayer at the con that i originally attended. Long story short i had to take down the picture to avoid any further backlash. My a lot has changed since back then. People have become a lot nicer contacting people who they think have stolen their photos off the internet?
I’ve seen people on Instagram who Roleplay as anime characters but they use cosplayers photos and don’t give credit and I’m pretty sure that they haven’t asked the Cosplayers. I don’t know how to approach them, since they tend to be rude to others. Any ideas?
I wrote a fanfic on Wattpad for my favorite show, and one day I went to show my friend on her phone and was too lazy to log in to Wattpad so I just googled the name of it and it popped up so I clicked on it, but it said that I didn’t post it even though I was the original author. Long story short someone reposted my story saying they wrote it and it got 12K view when mine got 1K
So it wasn't even for money or like cosplay supplies? I kind of feel bad for the person more because its more for validation and if they need someones else photo for validation......just imagine being in their shoes.
This stuff makes me mad... ppl stealing cosplay n stuff.... sighhhhhhhh.... this one girl, she deserve to be shouted out, her name is Merina Conway and she steals all my art/anime drawing from me all the time and takes full credit and saying was all her idea and stuff. I hate her to this day still. But im trying to not... any advice what to do to confront merina Or what to say? But im glad you took care of this situation so maturely and handle it really well!!! You gain a new subcriber🤗🤗🤗
something like that also happened to me.I was doing a mangle cosplay from fnaf and then i posted it on instagram.Then i saw that someone liked it but there was a problem beacouse they were using my picture as their profile foto.First i didn't knew what to do,but then i decided to ask them from where they got that foto.And then they told me that they saw that on google images.I asked them if they can remove it and they actually did.So it's solved now but i was so freaked out when i first saw this.I get you.By the way i love you so much and thank you for inspiring me a lot
I started cosplaying in casual cosplays this year and it was on the last wendsday of August, I was rosy the riveter, my friend Shelby saw me and we decided to casual cosplay every last Wednesday of the month, last Wednesday we were the Schueler sisters with our friend Emma, and this month we are going to be in our supernatural monster cosplays (she's a wendigo and I'm a scare crow)
"3 years ago, still during the relatively early days of instagram" my first post was July 4, 2012 and Instagram still wasn't new even then. It's understandable to not use newer features you're not used to using but, it's no big deal, you don't need to blame it on insta or whatever. I don't use dms or stories, but I use videos and multiposts to death, so it's like, there's no wrong way to use an app...
I understand what stage they are in Personally because that's where I am now, but neither of my parents want me to do something like that when I already draw, write, sing, etc ;-;
Funny story, a kid stole my face and catfished their online boyfriend with pictures of me, used my name, but he used like pictures of me in and out of cosplay??? He said my blog was his, and when I went to confront him I somehow was turned into the bad guy and now he hates me bc I told him to cut it the fuck out???????
Some people thrive on attention and will do anything get attention. Sometimes it can be psychological disorder. But probably not in this case , just another thought to put out there
Please don't take this the wrong way but your look today really reminds me of Angela from The Office. The wig is really cute but I think it's the shirt that's throwing me for a loop!
