@TheFeralFarmgirl
Only 3 months to complete? I bet it took closer to a year to complete by the original creator.
@plumbum9688
I feel bad for Lina, she talks on her page how not a day passes by that she wouldn't regret selling this costume, that she only sold (for about half what it cost to produce) because of the desperation and uncertainty about the political events in russia. And her hard work was used to lie and cheat, like rubbing the salt into the wound
@F1rstWorldNomaD
How the hell is Lina a "small" creator when THATS her work? That cosplay is absolutely amazing, Lina should be on the world stage.
@misalisa256
You know what makes me mad about this whole situation.....the fact that she glued rhinestones onto the chest and arm plates. Like that right there......that was a sin against the world.
@Relkond
Note to self - when designing cosplay for-sale, ALWAYS include creative embellishments that will serve as a unique fingerprint that can identify the work as my own.
@TinniestBore
As someone who buys their cosplays from artisans and tailors, why would you ever enter a contest? Even if I made the prop or styled the wig, whatever...most of the stuff, I bought. I used money (which is fine!) not skill. That's okay, but cosplay contests aren't about who has the most money so you can cheat. This is so wild to me.
@wafflesthearttoad6916
I’ve never heard of contests allowing a model to wear the costume but it’s such a nice idea for creators who may be shy or get stage fright!
@1Bennett1
Cheating in multiple cosplay contests with a bought cosplay is absolutely wild 😨
@cephalonaural6854
The fit was a dead giveaway for me, if YOU made a cosplay, why not make it to fit yourself? I’m a much larger person and when I make my cosplays I measure my patterns to myself and test fit EVERYTHING..
@SunshineCo225
This scandal is wild but also I just have to respect the original costume designer for making that. You aren't kidding about the "what the fuck is he even wearing" step, as a regular artist having to figure that out on that design makes me sick already. Shame that intense amount of work got used in a malicious manner
@Rickerov
The rhinestones she added just made it look cheap…so her “work” made it worse not better.
@Rekkohane
The fact that cheater thought she could get away with it is genuinely embarrassing 😭😭
@ryluigi
what makes it funnier to me is that i think the rhinestones are UGLY
@uni3026
When you said 'the people don't understand' I truly felt that. Last year I was talking with a cosplayer who was in front of me in the catwalk line and I told them that I was preparing for an upcoming coscompo. They said 'I would love to compete one day but then I would have to commission someone to make it for me but that feels a bit unfair'. They were dead serious and I just replied with 'umm yeah that's not allowed'. Edit: just want to clarify that I’m from the Netherlands Aka a small country. We do not have a lot of coscompos and these are also not split into master or novice. There aren’t a lot of prices or con opportunities to compete. Maybe it’s different in other countries but here they do not allow you to model someone elses work
@neema.420
Such a beautiful costume being destroyed with rhinestones and the real creator not getting credit makes me so sad
@thablackbobross
I'm the Black Panther, one of the judges in the Anime NYC Cosplay Masquerade. I can assure you, she did not mention that she bought this cosplay and altered it. One thing we found suspicious was when she took off her hat, and it was stuffed with newspaper. We actually saw the backplate and nearly chose someone else because of the unfinished back. The one thing I have a problem with, is the fact that I brought this up to AnimeNYC before it went viral and proposed that we chose a new winner, but they never got back to me despite my efforts.
@SmikimimiCosplay
okay but, am I the only stuck at the photographer putting egg yolks in camera bases!?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@a-cygnus
She knew full well what she was doing. She has done this multiple times with at least two cosplays. She probably has done it even more that no one ever noticed. She blocked the original creator. That alone screams she did this all on purpose. She should be blacklisted from any major cosplay competitions going forward.
@Gravewhisper
This is like entering a writing contest with a book someone else wrote.
@raviolialamode