/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9237153

>>9126669
here's a starter
believe me when I say this, you're gonna use this a lot.

>>9120416
Why though?

Not so much a story as shared advice, but I imagine some people here have dealt with similar friends.
There's a girl I know who's trying to become cosfamous in the cringiest way possible. She's super narcissistic about it and always fishes for compliments. She used to message me constantly bragging about what a great cosplayer she was and how famous she was going to be. It got to be pretty overwhelming; I had to come up with 2-3 compliments for every single picture she sent me (and she sent probably hundreds) or else she'd get upset and throw a little dramatic fit.
The way I deal with her and similarly egotistical people is to kind of detach myself from the situation. It's clear that she wants me to fall all over myself praising her, so I'll say something like "well done!" instead. She can't complain that I'm being mean, but it's not the sort of grandiose validation she wants. Stuff like "nice work!", "looks good!" and "enjoy yourself!" would typically work as compliments for normal people, but when someone's got a huge ego, it drives them crazy. She's gotten to be less obnoxious about that stuff, because she knows she can't rely on me as an endless praise machine anymore.
This also works really well for avoiding getting dragged into drama.

>reminded of those cancerous ebola-chan cosplays