SHANGHAI, China — During her final years of high school, Chinese teenager Xu Yunting found an unusual way to make some pocket money — transforming herself into male video game characters and taking their female devotees on dates.
The trend, called 'cos commissioning', has gained traction in China recently, with social media posts garnering millions of views as an increasing number of young women use their purchasing power to engineer a meeting with their dream man in real life.One early morning in Shanghai last month, Xu carefully inserted contacts to enlarge her irises and adjusted a tangerine wig to transform into 'Jesse,' a character from the romance quest mobile game 'Light and Night.
At both a doll-painting workshop and cake-decorating class they attended, they were one of many cos commission pairs. Staff at the latter business told AFP they had noticed more and more couples coming in over the past year — sometimes dozens on busy days. Part of the appeal, experts studying the phenomenon say, is that it gives young women a way to perform an idealized heteronormative relationship.
Chinese Women Hire Female Cosplayers To Play Dream Men
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