If you want to be a content creator as a cosplayer, you might be struggling to decide which platforms are best for you. Choosing platforms can often be difficult. The decision depends on your target audience and the type of content you plan to create. This could have you wondering is TikTok good for cosplay? This ultimately depends on what you plan to do as the algorithm can often be fickle and the type of content they will suppress isn’t always totally clear.
Cosplay Content for TikTok
While these are in no way your only options, these are common types of content cosplayers create for TikTok or other short form video platforms.
Thirst Traps
For people looking to be more of a lewd creator, thirst traps will definitely fit your niche. There’s plenty of audio options to choose from that fits this type of content. Many OnlyFans or Fansly creators use these as opportunities to promote their platforms via short form videos.
Tips & Tutorials
Cosplayers who like to craft costumes or modify store bought ones can capture footage of the process. These are great to share on TikTok since quick tips will fit the timeframes of a short form video. For full length tutorials, TikTok is considered a search engine so those videos can be found as evergreen content.
Skits
With the vast library of audios to choose from, you’re sure to find some that are monologues or full dialogues involving the character you’re cosplaying. These are great to utilize for performing skits while in cosplay and also create opportunities to duet with other cosplayers on the platform.
Transitions
There’s plenty of trending audios being used for transition videos. With the help of existing editing apps, you can make clean and unique effects to wow viewers and stand out.
What Parts of Cosplay Does TikTok Suppress
If you want to know what stuff TikTok doesn’t allow or hinders that impacts cosplayers , you aren’t going to get a clear answer. The following is a generalized list based off my own and other’s experience and TikTok’s community guidelines.
- Props weapons – Showing weapons in a video can often have it labeled as “Sensitive Content.” You’ll want to make sure you’re careful not to include prop weapons in videos to label in the caption or on screen for the video that it’s a fake prop.
- SFX makeup – SFX makeup for cosplays that incorporate graphic wounds or blood will get hindered if not removed.
- Lewd or sexual implications – Sexually explicit content isn’t allowed on TikTok. However more implied or lewd content isn’t all treated the same. This type of content could be at risk for being removed or hindered often depending on viewer reports.
- Cosplay lingerie, bikinis or revealing costumes – Similar to lewd or sexual implications, revealing or lewd cosplays can also be negatively impacted too.
- Graphic skits – Violence and gore are often marked as “Sensitive Content” if not completely removed from the platform. Be careful when choosing skits as those with graphic content.
- Use the terms like suicide, death, murder, etc. – The listed terms among others shouldn’t be used on TikTok. It’s why you see other creates use words like “unalive” as to not get their videos supressed.