Cosplay As A Nonviolent: An Analysis

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The reclarification of Cosplay as nonviolent has a lot to do with the interactions of these players and how social media views their hobbies. Chairiyani, Herawati, &, Widayanti, (2017) suggests that Cosplayers community is ‘’The world is surrounded by fantasies, different values, and different norms’’. However, Cosplay reality is interpreted by mass media as a consumption of theoretical ideas. To change the social idealistic of Cosplay as a nonviolent deviant act, society must view them as a portrayal of fictional or fantasy of characters that they enjoy and idolize. This, however, can be clarified the psychological implication Cosplay and according to Geczy, (2016), gives an insight into the long history of masquerade. It also gives

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