/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I went to our annual, local con this weekend. Managed to get my cosplay done in time, and had fun.
It was cool because of the people there, even though the event itself was subpair.
In the end, I couldn't help but feel bittersweet as another year goes out, I get a bit older, and the new generation becomes majority. I've been going to cons since I was ~11 years old, and I'm early to mid twenties now.
When I was out to get food, me and my friend ended up befriending a couple that was there to get food as well. Turns out they weren't a couple anymore but were in good terms and just hanging out together. The guy was 17, the girl was 15. I was surprised - they both looked 20+ to me, both in appearance and in attitude (ie. they didn't act like dumb teenagers). I mentioned it to them (that they were so young) and it felt like a full cycle... people said the same things to me in the last decade. "You are so young! You don't look nor act like your age"... how many times did I hear those things at cons? I'm not going to hear them anymore.
I noticed that I'm looking to cosplay more and more older guys, and I'm less interested in cosplaying teenagers. I always looked older than I am anyway.
This year, there was a lot of new friends that I met there (as in, met them in a con for the first time), and also people that I met for the first time. I also saw a bunch of familiar faces that I get to see every year. It's always a joy to see what they come up with.
Seems like I'm succeeding in convincing people to adopt healthier lifestyles using cosplay as a motivation, which is nice.
Those are my feelings, /cgl/.

>>10302489
If you don't mind answering, could you tell your ex's opinions on privacy? Privacy conscious people are hard to find, but in the cosplay community, is almost impossible to come by someone who doesn't use social networks.

>>10072009