Cosplayers need to grow up. You’re adults—men and women with real lives, real obligations, and real responsibilities—yet you’re spending your time pretending to be fictional characters as if they’re real people. Instead of putting that energy into careers, education, or meaningful projects, you’re pouring it into costumes, makeup, and roleplay. At some point, it stops looking like harmless fun and starts looking like avoidance of adulthood.

And before you respond with, “So we’re not allowed to have fun?” that’s not the point. There’s a difference between having a hobby and building your entire personality and social life around fictional universes. Look at someone like StanleyMov. He literally has a thumbnail where he’s staring at Noelle’s breasts, and that’s presented as normal, acceptable content. How is that supposed to be entertaining or remotely respectable? It’s pandering at best and outright creepy at worst.

This kind of behaviour doesn’t just stay on the screen either. It bleeds into conventions, events, and online spaces where people treat these characters with an obsessive seriousness that’s hard to justify. It’s even worse when people cosplay as Deltarune characters, acting as if these digital figures deserve more emotional investment than actual people in their lives. At that point, it starts to feel less like a hobby and more like escapism gone too far.

If adults put even a fraction of the time, money, and emotional energy they spend on cosplay into building skills, careers, or genuine relationships, they’d probably see real progress in their lives. Instead, a lot of that effort gets funnelled into chasing likes, views, and fleeting attention for dressing up as someone who doesn’t even exist. That’s the core of the problem: prioritizing fantasy over reality and then getting defensive when anyone dares to question it.

And… we just hit 20! Thanks for actually reading my issues. I’ll be continuing it.

03/17/2026]

-- Rayja Makurt T. Morta