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Black Cosplayer Receives Racist Criticism for Anime Cosplay

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22-year old cosplayer Shirleen, based out of Liverpool, said that an image she tweeted back on June 29th showing her dressed as the Japanese character Rin Tohsaka from the ‘Fate/stay night’ anime received messages of racial slurs and racial comments, according to the Daily Dot.

The cosplay post quickly gained traction, amassing over 600,000 likes and over 50,000 re-tweets not long after going live, but with it came racist comments towards the Black cosplayer.

“As I got a bigger audience, people that don’t know me, never really knew me, the racist ones —they’re the ones who started the attacks,” Shirleen said, according to Insider.

Shirleen had been hesitant to dress in cosplay, despite her being a longtime anime fan, as she has seen the racist feedback that her black friends received when posting cosplay pictures online.

“I always see the kind of reception they get for cosplaying, and it’s never been that good,” she told Insider. “I knew kind of what to expect, but at the same time, it’s never really expected.”

Despite sad and terrible experience, Shirleen vows not to stop with cosplay saying that racism is “not going to stop me — definitely not.”

“It’s something that I enjoy doing, and I’m going to keep doing it regardless,” she said. “Especially if it inspires little Black girls that like anime like me, and they want to try, too, then I’m going to keep doing it for them as well.”

 

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Jarod “The South Park Guy” Nandin Passes Away

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Jarod Nandin aka “The South Park Guy”, a popular cosplayer which tied in both World of Warcraft and South Park, has died due to contracting COVID-19, according to Wowhead.

Nandin gained popularity back at BlizzCon 2013, in which he portrayed a WOW games Which Has No Life and would go to great lengths, such as shaving his head in a specific way, which appealed to fans.

Nandin’s family shared his illness back in December on Twitter, a few days prior to his passing after a length battle with the coronavirus.

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Twitch Streamer Sues Cosplayer/Streamer Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment

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A Twitch streamer from Fresno, California has filed a civil lawsuit against a fellow streamer who claims that he sexually harassed her.

Travis Mellon, 35, goes by the name of ‘HJTenchi’ on Twitch, is suing cosplayer and streamer Danica Rockwood who accused Mellon of sexual abuse, harassment and sending inappropriate photos of himself, according to the Fresno Bee.

Rockwood, 28, posted on her Twitter page that Mellon took advantage of their friendship by asking for “lewd pictures” and “sexting texts”, and also created a Google document to compile complaints of other women that Mellon allegedly harassed.

Furthermore Rockwood called Mellon a “sexual abuser” during one of her live streams.

Mellon’s attorney Mark Coleman, of Nuttall & Coleman, said that the messaging between the two was consensual, when commenting on the matter in the article.

“In the context of their relationship the text messages were appropriate and reciprocated,” Coleman said, per the article.

Coleman wrote in the lawsuit that “She (Rockwood) urged women to turn on Mr. Mellon in an attempt to ruin his livelihood.” Coleman said that Rockwood’s supporters harassed Melon while he was streaming.

“Mr. Mellon was attacked multiple times in his Twitch broadcast’s chat for hours by people calling him a sexual assaulter, predator, etc.” according to the lawsuit filed by Mellon’s legal representation.

Mellon alleges that he and Rockwood were in an “online and in-person intimate relationship between the years of 2016-2018.”

Rockwood’s allegations were mentioned in an article on Wired detailing sexual harassment in the gaming industry.

A case management hearing is scheduled for November 19, 2020 in Fresno County Superior Court.

Source: Fresno Bee

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Lottery Winner Picks Up Check in Darth Vader Cosplay

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What better way to celebrate winning the lottery than by picking up your fat check, in Jamaican dollars, in full Darth Vader cosplay fashion?

That’s exactly what W. Brown did when he went to pick up his $95 million Jamaican dollar winnings, which breaks down to $650,000 US dollars.

“May the Millions be with you! Congrats to our #Lotto winner, W. Brown!!! Brown aka Darth Vader,” Supreme Ventures wrote.

“I don’t regularly buy from that place, I usually purchase my ticket in Old Harbour or Spanish Town, but I was on the road so I just stopped there,” he said, according to the Jamaica Gleaner.

“Life has always been very rough. I come from a poor family, sometimes I couldn’t attend school because my parents didn’t have it, but I told myself that God will help me one day so I can help my family,” he said.

“I wrote down the numbers and saw that I won! I was excited and said mi finally hol’ him now! I then had a shower and went to sleep.”

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