What Is The Scariest Thing That Happened To You While In Cosplay? AUSA 2016 Cosplay 

To the people who thought it was okay to grope the men: The whole "cosplay is not consent" thing GOES 👏 BOTH 👏 WAYS 👏 Edit: Consent shouldn't be a foreign concept. When you're in elementary school, they teach you to be respectful of your classmates' personal space and to not touch or hurt people without their consent. Teaching your children about consent also stops fights! First grader: "Mom, I got in a fight with Sarah and hit her today at school." Mom: "Well, did Sarah SAY you could touch her?" First grader: **silence**

*STOP TOUCHING COSPLAYERS WITHOUT OUR CONSENT!* Do NOT pet, hug, kiss, grope or molest us unless we have given you a clear "Yes, you may!". It´s not charming, playful, cute, sexy, appropriate, polite, acceptable, or anything positive in any way, no matter what you are telling yourselves to justify your behavior.

Your right, this is scary, it's scary how many people get sexually harrassed at a con.

“I ran into Han Solo.” *god this is great.*

“Feet don’t want to be feet sometimes” Mood.

The weirdest thing to happen to me while cosplaying, I was dressed as Tenya Iida, this guy runs passed me and yells “SpEed”

i love how so many people in this comment section are talking about their weird cosplay moments but specifically danganronpa

See you guys in 5 years when youtube recomends this again

"I was dressed as a child" *UH OH THAT'S NEVER A GOOD THING TO START OFF WITH IN THIS VIDEO*

Why is no one talking about "I ran into Han Solo. He said he'd get me first, and he did. So I destroyed him." 😂

Ok I know this video is about the “scariest” things that happened to people when they cosplayed but like, when you’re cosplaying and then a little kid runs up to you and compliments your outfit and wants to take a picture with you is the best thing ever 🥺

i feel so sorry for the people who got sexually assaulted/harassed it makes me mad

Male cosplayers cosplaying female characters gives me life.

I ran into Han Solo. He said he’d get me first, and he did. *So I destroyed him...*

when i was younger i cosplayed simba because my aunties a huge cosplay fan and then some random guy picked me up and help me simba style

1:44 when your tokoyami cosplay is too real

i feel so bad for these cosplayers. these people basically model for free. you won't go up to a model on a runway and start touching them or kissing them, so don't freaking do the same to cosplayers.

I love cosplaying as male characters so it makes me happy seeing boys as female characters

I was cosplaying Maki Harukawa and Kokichi Ouma cosplayer just...punched me...when i asked why, she said "Cause i hate Maki" and she just walked back...

Being grabbed from behind by some rando and having him call me a "sweet little loli"

Chased down by a slender man in a sombrero...

Chased by a person who was in a T-Rex costume *Totally normal*

once at a con, I cosplayed Hatsune Miku, I was 16 at the time. I had a friend cosplay with me because I can not go cosplay at a con without being intimidated. a guy asked me for a picture and I’m like, “yeah sure!” I wanna say he was around his mid 20’s, automatically, he touched my ass, then turned towards my face, and smirked. as a 16 year old going through this, I was terrified. my friend was the one taking the photo and she ran full speed towards him, to slap him. worst experience ever, I will never try to cosplay a character with a short skirt. 😃

1:54 “Gaylord is right next to the water” Me, someone who lives right next to a town called Gaylord which is by a lake: *Visible fear*

No means no. Whether they're a guy, a girl or anything in between.

That's sad people don't know how to keep their hands to them selves at cons. Have a little more respect for the all the cosplayers. It's scary to be stocked and man handled.

My scariest: Cosplayed, realized nothing there was from my fandom. Cried. Homie had to hide my ass in a subway

The scariest thing I've experienced while in cosplay,a middle aged guy grabbed my ass 'cause I was dressed as Chika Fujiwara so I looked at him deepen my voice to make it more manlier than my regular voice then said "Wat'cha doin man!!??" And the look on his face was priceless. P.S I'm a straight dude but I like cosplaying as female characters sometimes. Edit: Scratch that,I'm Bi now.

I was at comicon (as todoroki) and a load of bnha characters ran up to me and circled me and started to scream, “SOMBODY ONCE TOLD ME ITS YOUR POWER TODOROKI” *Total strangers*

My scariest moment was when I was just walking around in my cosplay and I suddenly realised that it was all a dream and I'm too poor to afford cosplay

I cosplayed as Sans from Undertale on one Halloween, and I almost got mugged, it was kinda funny because the guy was short and skinny as hell, I just laughed at him, made a pun in the spirit of Sans, and just walked away, the guy tried following me but my friends managed to scare him off

Todoroki cosplayers be like: pEoPlE cOmİnG uP lİkE: somebody once told me its ur power tOdO- nO.

Scariest things that happened to me at cons... 1.) When I was 16 I went as Yuno Gasai from “Future Diary” and I was walking up to the second floor. As a man behind me kept holding his phone down. Luckily I was just far enough from him that he didn’t actually get a picture. When I reached the top of the stairs another man dressed as Chef from “South Park” asked me if I knew the perv. Obviously I didn’t, and after he and I confronted the perv, security came and kicked the perv out. Other girls later came up to me and said they had seen that man constantly walking up and down the stairs, trying to take pictures of girls butts/upskirts. 2.) last year I went as Daenerys from “Game of Thrones” (her white dress) and while walking through the “artist alley”, my group and I got separated. While trying to find them these group of guys dressed as “L.o.t.r” characters came up asking for selfies. After taking the selfies though they started talking to me. At first small talk, but then they very quickly got into stuff like “how old are?”, “are you wearing a padded bra.”, “are you free after the con.”, and “d*mn you’re thick.” An to make things more uncomfortable they were in front of me like a semi-circle. It’s always super crowded in the shop areas, so with them standing there like that I couldn’t really move without bumping into them. Luckily a woman dressed as the new “Wonder Woman”. Saw me and wanted a picture, she had one of the guys take a picture with her phone. As were trying to pose she whispered “are you okay”. I just told her no and I got separated from my group and these guys surrounded me. We took the picture and after that she said loudly “Wow I’m hungry, us strong women have an appetite ya’ know.” It took me a second to realize what she was doing; but this complete stranger was helping me in character in order get away from those men. Sorry for how long this is but, please be safe at cons.

Cons should have more “cosplay is not consent” posters and warnings

My scariest moment was actually at my first con a couple years back, where i was cosplaying chica from fnaf. I was about 13 at the time, and puberty decided to old off on me, so i looked really young. Some guy dressed as slenderman grabbed me and started moving for an exit. I panicked and screamed, and basically everyone near us turned to see what was happening. Now i have a memory of deadpool kicking slenderman in the balls as im grabbed and lead to security by draco malfoy.

“Because feet don’t wanna be feet sometimes” Why did I feel that on a personal level 👁💧👄💧👁

I once was at kami-con and I saw a papyrus cosplayer, I walked past and I said "want some spaghetti?" He gave me the meanest glare ever and to this day I have a fear of talking to other cosplayers

I myself do not cosplay, but I do attend conventions. Here are a few little stories: 1). At Katsucon 2016, an absolutely stunning cosplayer was dressed as Aurora from Sleeping Beauty and her beautiful dress got snagged at the bottom of an escalator. The emergency shutoff worked, but that poor girl was stuck there with a crowd gathering. She could have handled it poorly, but instead she forced a smile and remained calm. While I called hotel security to send someone to help, a very nice young male cosplayer came and eventually got her dress unstuck. It was very nice to see people come together and help each other. 2). at MagFest 2016, I saw a cosplayer dressed as some COD/Army dude, but was carrying an actual air rifle (high powered "BB"gun). Security got to him quickly, but still I do not know why someone would do something like that. 3). at AwesomeCon (D.C. area), a cosplayer was dressed as V from V for Vendetta and was handing out roses to female cosplayers. Now, the women took at as a compliment and said "Thank You" but if you actually know the comic book/movie, V gives roses to people he is about to kill. So, while these women were all flattered, in actuality that dude was telling them he was going to kill them. The women had no clue. Yep, creepy.

Oof, I’ve had a con stalker. He was following me and my friends around when I was in my semi-mecha Starscream cosplay. Slightly terrifying.

When a furry follows you while cosplaying is not a fun thing.

I was once Pikachu for Halloween and I found an Ash Ketchum... *AWKWARD ENOUGH*

2:15 "There was a giant pedo bear standing behind me!" Behind her, a tall af red ranger "HI SPIDER MAN!"

One time, I was a character called Akko from Little Witch Academia, and my mom said we were going to Walmart. I was like, “Oh, hey. It’d be funny to go out in Walmart in my cosplay.” Wrong choice. *The stares of disgust from those children will forever haunt me.*

Oh- So I just remembered a story of when I first started cosplaying. So Like maybe three, four years ago, I was doing my first cosplay (yayy- it was Toga from mha) and I had also went to my first cosplay event, and somebody walked up to me, grabbed my knife prop, and pretended to stab themselves with it. It was very disturbing at the time, mainly because I didn't realize that they were cosplaying a suicidal character- I just finished watching the anime that they were cosplaying a character from, so now I see why they did that, but it was still unnecessary- I was only twelve at the time so it was- It was a bad experience for my first cosplay event-

COSPLAY IS NOT CONSENT!

4:25 *p l e a s e let this be a normal field trip*

The scariest thing that has happen to me was while I was cosplaying Todoroki Shouto from Boku no Hero Academia. (I was with my girlfriend, she was cosplaying Izuku Midoryia) There was this Deku cosplayer following us around, and I wen to the bathroom to touch up my makeup. I saw them it the mirror, my friend was in a stall. After that we left the bathroom, and we both went to the Artist Alley. I took out my phone because we both wanted to make a TIKTOK together. Yet again, I saw the same Deku cosplayer. I was just wondering what they want, like a picture or something. So I just went up to them, I just said “Hello, I like your Izuku cosplay, do you want to take a picture with me and my friend?” and the cosplayer looked at my girlfriend, and said “Could I just take a picture with you, It would look weird with two Deku’s.”. I just said sure. So I asked my girlfriend if she could take a picture of the two of us, I wanted to hurry up I bit because we had a panel to go to. So we took a few pictures. But on maybe the second to last picture, the cosplayer just hugged me, and then kissed me on the cheek. My girlfriend said, “Hey dude, could you respect his personal space. That’s my boyfriend you just kissed.” The cosplayer gave my girlfriend a “look”, rolled their eyes, and just walk away with their phone. A little later we decided to change our cosplay to our Over Watch Junkrat and Dva. I just wanted to wash my face, so I had to get rid of the make up anyway. It scared me a bunch, I’ve never had that happen to me before.

this is the reason i want to cosplay with a group instead of going by yourself .-.

Never go as a bhna character unless you wanna get jumped or yelled at

My shoelace got stuck in a escalator once I had a heart attack

One time while in cosplay I was talking with some other cosplayers and then just randomly one of them yells at someone behind me to back up before he calls security. I turned around only to find this guy quickly walking away from me. I asked what he had done and they said that he was trying to take a photo up my skirt. So yeah, that was probably the scariest moment for me

"whats up nerds" Well you didnt have to call me out like that

The scariest thing that happened to me in cosplay: I’m ten, three years ago I dressed up as Young Sakura and I bumped into a future sasuke and he admitted I was adorable. He asked if I would be okay if he held me with ONE HAND! The people around us cheered for me to accept it. So I did. And I felt like I could fall any second. Many people took photo of us. I felt his hand shaking. We stood there in silence while people started to take photos. Then when we were finished, his friends in different Naruto outfits came to us. I took photos again. When I saw the photos I could see his hand veins POPPING I could literally see him and me struggling and being nervous. We both were uncomfortable.

The scariest thing to happen to me while in cosplay was at Saikoucon 2015. I was dressed as a pin up girl and had a group of at least 5 men walk up to me, tell me I was the most beautiful woman at the con and ask for pictures. Normal, right? Well after the pictures the biggest one in the group (like a huge dude both height and weight) felt the need to pick me up, bear hug me, and swing me around which in turn made me flash everyone my underwear. After that I bolted out of there, but for the next day of the con every time they saw me they chased after me, asking for selfies, and being generally creepy. When I say chased I literally mean they would seek me out quickly and physically pulled me aside. After the fourth time that day I had to literally bolt down the hallway and get out of there. Something similar happened at Zenkaicon 2016 while I was dressed ask Nikki Ann-Marie from Huniepop. Which, as everyone knows is a NSFW game. Well, this man decided to tell me his fantasies about Nikki and how my boyfriend (who was dressed as Markiplier) that he was a lucky man and that he would steal me from him.

hello often some scary experiences can be really nasty and let me tell some people this- *COSPLAY IS NOT CONSENT* Please don't harass people in cosplay (i'm looking at u bnha fandom)

When i was cosplaying mina from mha, i was with my boyfriend who was dressed as kirishima. And a man groped me for no reason and my boyfriend flat out was like "thats wasent very manly of you" then he slapped him. DONT grop cosplayers people say "well they are cosplaying as people of age so its ok" NO ITS NOT! YOU SHOULD NEVER GROP ANYONE DONT GROP A MAN DON'T GROP A WOMEN, DONT GROP ANYONE REGARDLESS. ITS NOT OK.

RU-vid: *Wanna see a cosplay video from 3 years ago?* Me: *sUrE*

All the RWBY cosplay gives me life.

The scariest thing that has ever happened to me is when I saw someone from my school walk by me while I was in a Grelle Sutcliff cosplay

I'm actually planning to start doing cosplay and seeing some of the comments (I'm on the younger end of the scale) I'm rather alarmed. But watching this stuff and reading the comments is good because I know what kind of stuff to be aware of.

I was at my first con and I yelled without thinking “ITS NAGITO!” then they turned around and smiled at me. I was so embarrassed

I tripped over my feet cuz ya know *feet dont wanna be feet sometimes*

I was cosplaying Izuku Midoriya (Deku) and someone came up to me and called me quirkless. The same person went up to my friend (Shoto Todoroki) and said,” your mom burned your face cause you ate bugs” and it wasn’t really scary but I was a little shook after 😂😂

I just said to my friend "oh, since I'm not a thin or attractive cosplayer, I'm very lucky to have never been hit on or touched while in cosplay, and the worst I've dealt with is some nasty comments about my weight" And then I realised how disturbing that sentence is. I CONSIDER MYSELF LUCKY that I haven't been assaulted. Like that is just something that I come to expect. Being groped should never be the expected result of your day, ANY day, in ANY clothes.

1:23 *_that's a actual horror story like that's some demon shit_*

I was at my first con and a Junko Enoshima cosplayer came up to me (I was cosplaying Makoto) and yelled, “DESPAIR” and I yelled, “HOPE” and we just had this hope vs despair battle lmao

The scariest thing that ever happened to me in cosplay was when I was dressed up as mikasa from attack on Titan, cape and everything, anyway somebody put slime on the hood of my cape and I cried... That was the worst Halloween ever, except for when I was like 4 and I went up to this one house and I rang the doorbell and something jumped out and scared the bejesus out of me 🤣🤣 2 stories for you

Last year I was cosplaying Deku and a 6 foot furry, fully decked out with armour and guns, sneaks up behind me and whispers in the thickest Scottish accent ive ever heard (I live in Scotland btw) and says "You're a good little Deku, arent you?" And I was legit frozen in place lmao (My older sister was the one that took me there and she took it as a laugh so I did too lol)

People need to stop harassing coplayers. I genuinely thought this would be a nice little dumb video but I ended up horrified because it has happened to me in the past and it's really terrifying

Scariest thing that happen to me: My grandma walking in on me in Naruto cosplay and saying “why are you wearing a wig? U look ridiculous..” ;-;

Having a straight guy hit on me while I was cosplaying as guy while also being a certified guy

I'm fangirling so hard right now because in 5:19 there's a group of Doki Doki literature club cosplayers that look like their in middle school and I forgot that children cosplay too.

I only pressed this because I thought it said what was the scariest thing that happened to you in Costco

When the one cosplayer was impersonating that Japanese man and said “kiss kiss!” All I thought of was “KISS KIS FALL IN LOVE!!” 😂

The scariest shit was when I turned into a pickle and then everyone started laughing at me

The scariest thing that happened to me in cosplay was that I woke up and realized that I don't have money for cosplay nor the talent to make some makeshift cosplay.

The scariest thing that happened to me in cosplay was my mom finding me and saying "honey are you a gay it’s okay if you are just tell me” So turns out I'm bi 😂

“There was a Pedobear standing right behind me MENACINGLY”

2:50 instantly earns my respect for cosplaying Johnny

The scariest thing that happened to me was when I was in London at a meet and me and my friends were doing a photo shoot. I was in my Angel dust cosplay, which was a button up shirt and very short shorts. So we were just doing whatever and there’s were these two guys who barely spoke any English. They wanted a picture of me and one of my friends who was also in a revealing outift. We said sure and as his friend was taking the pic this guy touched my butt, the moment he did that I pushed him away, and started telling him that, that wasn’t okay, but because my friend was wearing a dress, this dudes friend goes over and takes a pic from under her skirt then when we noticed that he did we started telling him to delete it but he “didn’t know what we were saying” and he walked off. A lot of stuff happened on that day but that was one of the worst things.

The scariest thing that happened to me was a 10 year old asking for ship pictures, yes indeed it included kissing.

mine was when i was cosplaying as junko enoshima and i walked face first into the door and almost cried (this was at my house)

“Feet dont wanna be feet sometimes” I felt that.

my scariest moment so far was when my friend and I were walking around the convention, and this guy with a plush snake was following us, and asking us very morbid questions whenever we stopped to tell him to back off. he was also hitting us with that snake;;;

I was cosplaying someone from Hetalia at Momocon 2013 and as I was leaving the hotel to get food, someone dressed as a rival character entered and threatened me with a knife. While it was a fake knife and they didn't mean any harm, I nearly had a panic attack from the experience, and every time I see anything related to the show, I think of that.

Ok- I was cosplaying Hajime Hinata and I was just walkin around and this person dressed up as a O R A N G E (yes a orange) came up to me and said “Hey you wanna drink me (;” and I just- freaked out and said “No-“. Then I ran away and now the orange kid is haunting me and I can’t get rid of the orange kid.

I was cosplaying as Catra the girl in my pfp and she has a little bit of tight clothing and I never usually wear tight things I wear baggy clothing. My brother MY BROTHER touched my rear! I had long nails so I scratched him and sprinted back to my room and immediately took it off and now I never wear it around him 😭

“I ran into Han Solo” I love how they’re in character

the scariest thing that happened to me in cosplay was during my first cosplay four years ago i was cosplaying as wonder women and it had corset top which did show off my cleavage and a skirt which was a little short i was lining up to get something to eat at the food court of the event i was attending and this old dude next to me was staring at me the entire time and every so often his eyes would drift down to my chest what made me even more uncomfortable was when he leaned closer to me and said to me "you can save me any day sweetheart" i took a step back and he started laughing what was even more creepy was his children were with him and one of his daughter kept telling him to leave me alone

The scariest thing to happen to me at a con was when I was in Karkat Vantas cosplay from homestuck. I was walking around the vendors when someone in a Dave Strider cosplay came up, wrapped an arm around me and whispered, "play along." We walked around like that for a while, until we reached a panel and they let go of me. I asked why they had grabbed me, and their response was the creepiest thing ever. Apparently, someone dressed as Gamzee had been following me around and wouldn't let me out of their sight, and the Dave noticed and started watching them. They saw the gamzee point me out to some of their friends, and had started getting closer to me and that's why they slid in. I have never been more grateful for anyone in my entire life. My friends were all in another room watching anime and my parents had left the convention.

When I dressed as Toga Himiko and my girlfriend was Yao-Momo and I had to pepper spray a guy to get him to stop trying to inappropriately touch my girlfriend and then he proceeded to try and touch me inappropriately

0:33 omg penny ❤️ 0:57 and pyrrha lol HOLY HECC AND THE ONE AFTER HER IM SORRY IM STILL ONE MIN IN I NEVER KNEW SOMEONE WOULD COSPLAY AS A RWBY CHARACTER JANSNSBSNSJD rwby is so underrated :(

And one of them goes "what was that thing that was following us?" Me: *SAY* *SIKE* *RIGHT* *NOW*

I was dressed in sweet lolita and a drunk guy thought I was a prostitute and tried to get me to go home with him. I got away from him but then he came back with 5 drunk friends. I ran away in 5 inch heels with a 1 inch platform. They were too drunk to chase me. After a few blocks a limo pulled up in front of me and the passenger door opened and the guy said "come on in sweet heart" I ran away again. It was not a good night. I was just 18.

The scariest thing that has ever happened to me at a con was when I was walking down a row of seats and I tripped over my own two feet in front of Ryan Gage... luckily I had face paint on so I was a bit unrecognizable. But the fear I felt when he asked if I was ok and helped me up and he offered his hand to me. 🤣

Once I was was cosplaying Alice from Alice madness returns and when I was leaving the con (I was running) two guys bumped into me and the one guy asked me to take a quit photo and I said sure why not. I got my backpack and wanted to look for a little plush bunny as a prop but he said "no no, no props please, could you please stand over there and choke me"...

once i was gamzee and someone thought i was satan

This is incredibly late but hey- So I was at a convention dressed as Toga Himiko from MHA, and a person dressed as Tomura Shigaraki asked me if the buns on my wig were de-attachable and I replied with yes because they were. Suddenly they just grabbed my buns in an attempt to but them on their wig. I quickly grabbed their hand and pushed it away. Since my dad was with me he had a talk with the cosplayers about why they shouldn't just do that without my approval.

"Feet don't wanna be feet sometimes" -Random cosplayer girl

i got scared every time people bumped into me while i was in my toga cosplay because i thought my needles were gonna fall off :') i guess it tested the strength of them though which was amazing omg