Jenn

You're gonna have to take so many nitpicky screen caps for me lmaooo

$800 CAD for the machine and 1 game, I’m just going to lay face down on the concrete and let my dreams carry me to Fire Emblem land

You're not a failed human. You have areas of expertise that would give you the ability to notice "uncanniness" in AI –– things that look close to being real but obviously aren't –– that a lot of people would miss, while I notice clothing because that's what I have expertise in! You're good :)

But like, check this out: what is that attached to? It's supposedly a gather like the part of the sleeve above it, but it's just hanging out like a vestigial tail. That would never happen in garment construction. The random gold beads are otherwise on the seam but then that one has a weird bulge.

A car expert might see problems with an AI car the rest of us miss, a chef might see problems with AI food. People who own cats notice unrealistic cat body language/behaviour, painters notice confusing brushstrokes. We are all really reliant on each other to catch these things.

Dude, it's really hard, I totally understand. I can peg it as uncanny because I'm an experienced seamstress in costume construction and fabrication, so if a garment looks like nonsense, I can see it! But there's probably things you're an expert in that you would notice in a photo, too.

The Mario look has this really thick, gathered waistband attached to super sleek leggings. That's just not how clothes work. There's no sense of space/fabric weight between the shirt sleeve and the gloves. The hat's band disappears into her head.

The costume details are wrong, but the uncanniness is in the lack of reality to it. How are those seams on Peach's sleeves working? Why are the cuffs on the gloves different arm to arm? What are her earrings doing? How was the front gem on her crown constructed?

Truthfully I don't think most people realize it's AI at all. Like, the pictures above are pretty awful looking, but they're also "just" styled photos, the actual listing photos are a lot more believable :(

It's such a huge disappointment!! At first I thought it might just be some copy and newer product pictures (the headless/faceless contortionists are a lil odd) but the cosplay page just made my heart sink.

Yeah. I wonder if they know? A bunch of them would have joined the marketing a couple years ago at least when the body stockings launched, but this AI usage is newer.

All good, it's good to verify everything on the internet these days especially. It's such a fucking bummer though –– and a kick in the teeth, too.

Unfortunately their co-founder and creative director is the one helming it; she posts her AI "art" to instagram and she deliberately trained a model on WLC's photoshoots for it. It is, unfortunately, an art tool to her. But hope springs eternal!

IT SURE DOESSSS

Yeah, because their creative director loves AI. Her instagram is full of it and she posted about feeding everything We Love Colors had from previous photoshoots into it and then adding prompts to build a whole campaign around it.

All Costume Needs Explore and be Inspired By the interesting ways We Love Colors can be expressed.

The images above are on their "Cosplay" page, by the way, just so everyone knows the company is not only willing to take cosplayers' money, but also willing to put real cosplayers next to AI slop.

I'm sending an email in the morning :)
www.welovecolors.com/splashcolors...

AI image generated by the bodystocking company We Love Colors of a Princess Peach cosplayer; the details look nothing like Princess Peach and don't even reflect a We Love Colors product.

AI image generated by the bodystocking company We Love Colors of a Mario cosplayer; it's a woman in a red turtleneck, white gloves and blue sweatpants. It looks uncanny.

so cool that for about 10 seconds We Love Colors marketed to cosplayers and now they're AI generating cosplay slop to use in marketing. Super. Awesome. So cool. I fucking hate this shit.

What exactly does a company making tights in a billion different colours need AI for? They can't type a "hey here are our new products" newsletter? Exhausting.

My boy… needs a wood texture but that’s next week’s problem.

But I would love to meet the mythological toxic person destroying the community by bullying people who didn’t custom sew a white dress shirt and black dress pants for their Chainsaw Man cosplay, I think they would be fascinating to talk to.

And the few times I DO see someone say “x isn’t real cosplay” with their whole stupid ass, they’re almost always a non-cosplayer specifically targeting a woman doing cosplay sex work, NOT some random buying a costume.

If I had a nickel for every time someone was like “[type of cosplay] isn’t REAL cosplay” I would buy myself a soda pop.

If I had a nickel for every time someone was like “This community is FULL of BULLIES who will KILL YOU if you buy ANYTHING for your costume!” I would be retired on a beach.

Of 100L, so it's $5 lol

Omfg I’m dying he’s so fucking funny looking

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lmao this fuckin shirt

Christine and Gabi of Dangerous Ladies absolutely covered in temporary tattoos for cosplay.

Christine and Gabi of Dangerous Ladies absolutely covered in temporary tattoos for cosplay.

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being into square enix is basically exactly the same as being a fan of your awful hometown sports team that still gloats about its division 1 victories in the ninties but like. what you gonna do support someone else? thats not how it works

Hopefully! I get the utility of a show that is less likely to trigger its queer audience but it’s cold comfort when it then feels like marketing for a sport that doesn’t exist.

(But lol I confess confusion at anyone finding those misogynistic mulleted demons hot 😭Girls please! You can do better!)