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You definitely cooked with this video

I IMMEDIATELY CLICKED WHEN I SAW YGOTAS!!!!

I actually really liked old conventions. The ones in my city are now just 99% people promoting their instagram and spending all their time on their phone.

yaoi paddles literally gave my friend a black eye, and glomping made me feel like I had scoliosis lmao

...are you just reading off of wikipedia?

you deserve SO much more recognition I'm such a sucker when it comes to early to mid 2000's weeb culture god what a beautiful yet strange time lol please keep it up with the videos i love these so much

I am a cosplayer since 2008 and I really felt that 😂 and I am still amazed that even back then some wigs were really good! Considering which materials we had at our disposal. And OMG yes, I spend so many hours looking through uploaded gallerys on the official convention pages to maaaaybe get a glimpse of my costume being photographed. I can’t remember masquerades though? The way you explained it it sounded like normal cosplay performance skits, just without the judging part? Because the normal performance competitions we have at every convention in my country, even the very little ones

Today´s Cons: Smartphones over all.. And everyone look on them.

this feels like i have a friend yapping (positive) to me about their interests (i am paying complete attention and genuinely interested)

I started going to conventions and cosplaying in 2004, met my now husband at a con, and now we take our kids to cons lol. It's soo different nowadays and while there's a lot I'm thankful for, i definitely miss the old days!!

This show was fire

Otakuthon in Montreal still holds a masquerade & has held a panel dedicated to Caramel Dansen in the past few years! The crowds have definitely changed tho. I remember the straight caps with like metal "hentai" or "yaoi" letters on them and i have to say i absolutely do not miss them, they were horrendous ahahah

Did they remove the school now?

omg the glomping 😩I remember going to a anime panel where con goers shared their con horror stories and this one person said they joined a "glomp circle" where people take turns to hug each other. This person put on a clear poncho before hand and by the end of the glomp circle the poncho turned a yellow hue from what I assume was the amount of sweat that was being transferred to them. Needless to say when I saw a glomp circle later the same day I chose not to participate

i have mixed feelings about the loss of stuff like free hug signs glomping and yaoi paddles like yes its definitely for the best in the big picture but man those weird little things were so out of pocket and really gave the anime community more of a unique identity

I remember my first time going to a con. It was 2012, and I was 16. It was a total blast, and there were so many booths.

i went to my second ever ctcon this year

The way i got so nostaglic watching this video. I started going to conventions in 2010, NYCC was my first con. Seeing all of that talk about it just made me want to reminisce with others.

I think I did my first con in 2011 and it definitely is different than it is today. WAYYYY different lmfao.

13:00 No!

That being said if we get Yu-gi-oh! Duel terminal I’m gonna make an abridged out of that.

I always hate the fact that we can’t watch the anime legally easily but you can find an abridged series on UA-cam.

This boomer will never forget the one time I got glomped... In front of my wife. In public. OUTSIDE the convention hall. Cosplaying as Commander Ikari. Glomper was a teenage girl cosplaying as Kyo (cat form) from Fruits Basket. After she ran off, my wife and I looked at each other, chalked it up to immaturity, and went about our day. [This was about 20 years ago.]

I do Miss when Cons didn't have 8 diffrent booths full of Funko Pops

Great video!

10:45 ITS FOSENT SAY RAINBOW MAGICLAND BUT IS IT A T SHIRT WITH THE GIRLS ON IT

2010’s is when geek culture changed to mainstream. By the time Anime cons got the attention of Hollywood they already had taken over Comic Con. I also blame the Free Hugs thing on Sick Puppies for making it go viral.

Back in the days where you got bullied for Liking anime or ( and god forbid) bringing a manga to school These Conventions were a holy Place to me. People yelled jutsu names over the place, danced and hugged and idk it was just so lovely. Sharing umbrellas when it Rained with people that you never met before and never saw again after, Battling out 6v6 pokemon fights on Nintendo DSes everybody brought along, low budget cosplays... now where anime is kinda Popular a lot has changed, i still love the anime community, but the old one felt more like home. But thats just nostalgia

honestly, my favorite sign I ever saw someone holding at a convention recently, was a "free shrugs" sign. I thought the concept was hilarious, and wish I could see more of them in the future.

As someone who was into anime in the early 2010s but didn't start going to cons until 2016, it's so fascinating to hear about the earlier days of cons! Especially things that seemed to influence anime fan culture as a whole online during those eras!

I don't miss the horrible stuff like glomping which was creepy. Nothing is more disturbing than a random adult glomping a teenager. But I miss random dancing, talking to your fellow nerds and just having fun. Now it's so over saturated that it's impossible to make friends anymore.

would love to hear more anime con stories !! <3

I helped start Otakon. I got hooked by anime in the early 80s at Trek conventions. A small club would take over a hotel room, get filled with VCRs copying copies and we all watched untranslated anime on tiny tvs. In the late 90s my wife and I had a Vash count because there were so many Vash the Stampede cosplayers everywhere. I remember there were free Pocky people. The vibe changed to a more corporate feel in the 2000s so we stopped going.

Why are u talking like an episode of Nick Jr

Just got recommended this by the algorithm. I attended my first convention when I was 17, in 2002. I really do miss the feeling of scrappiness and excitement around the old con scene. It's cool that anime is more accessible, but it feels a lot more commercial now - of course there were always opportunists making money off of crazed otaku, but with the big companies involved and AI art in the artists alleys, I do feel like the idea of identity as consumption has reached an all time high in nerd culture for about the last decade or so. Still, I have a ton of good memories, and even as I approach middle age I love going to my local con every year and always wish I had more friends with more free time so I could attend more.

Banning free hugs signs must be an exclusive american thing. They are everywhere at german anime conventions.

And dont you think current anime cons are not cringe either? Is just basically a lot of loopholes that we keep making patch after patch

Oh my sweet Summer child.... Old is 1991 gathered round the black monolith of AnimeDay. 🤣

these new kids just don't know lol man faye, clomping, the yaoi paddles, those hug signs oh the dancing and over done groups of death note, fml, hetalia, cosplay

tf2 spy: hehehe they dont know im here

Honestly for years I thought sao, mirai nikki, and the two Highschool of the deads were my favorite abridged series but now I think the Goblin Slayer abridged is just my absolute #1 favorite, it takes such a dark show and still keeps some of the plot but makes it so hilarious, especially episode 2 and onwards just has so much work put into them, I would highly recommend it

I’ve only recently just started getting into anime, I’ve only gone to a few anime conventions, my favorite anime are sailor moon, black butler, kamisama kiss, OuranHighSchoolHostClub, steins gate and spice and wolf, I’ve gotten to meet a few voice actors, j Michael Tatum, Tara Strong and in April Jack de sena from avatar the last airbender 😊

YAOI VS YURI!!!!!!

the first con I ever went to was Fanime back when it was at the Santa Clara Covention center next to great america. "The game" was basically "ANDY'S COMING" for weebs.

man i wish ppl were still cringe now.. everyone's so embarrassed of being themselves nowadays it js sucks :P

Oneyplays used to reference these guys pretty often, but if i remember correctly the LSBs struck their video and got it removed. I went down the rabbit hole from that

Kung Pow was actually the film that inspired Anime Abridged parody series

Many abridged series where now lost, deleted by youtube or any of the intellectual properties that are own to their copyright IPs and some quit making abridge series and abandons it. Some still continue on but youtube kept on striking down most videos due to copyright

6:11 WHAT?????????? every and I eman EVERY anime convention in Europe has a masquerade. Almost all have MULTIPLE. Animecon, the biggest one here in the Netherlands, has like SEVEN per con!