/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Real talk now guys.

How does one reach the masses of thirsty guys willing to shed some dosh into this shit? Where to start out? How to build this kind of following?
If an unnatractive potato like Envy makes 3k+ a month, I don't see why someone average/decent looking couldn't. I've began to give it a though when I noticed the amount of likes on a (canon) swimsuit cosplay photo I posted got at least 3 times the amount of likes my other cosplays get.

I've hypotetically spoken about the idea to my gf and she'd willing to do something together, which means any girl on girl wouldn't look fake af like most of the examples in this thread.
We both detest the random cheap wig/cheap lingerie crap and the general "seduce the neckbeard" look. We both have been cosplaying for a few years and enjoy taking our time with wig+makeup and doing canon costumes. We were thinking something along the lines of what >>9332213 mentioned. Canon outfits, IC, nothing too blatantly exposed as we'd like to keep somewhat of an "innocence" to the photos, pic related (unless it's a dominant/sexy type of character, of course).
I assume we'd have to bend a bit and do more mainstream characters in order to reach a bigger audience too.
What sort of photos would you like to see? Anything in particular, suggestions, etc, all is very welcome.
This is really just very hypothetical but desu, we're both students, got college to pay and some extra cash would be a dream.