Cosplayer checking in. It does suck seeing the hams dressing up as a fit character, but when I do my cosplays, I intentionally look for other guys in the same outfit as me so I can have the satisfaction that I pulled off the character so much better than they did. For example here's the one I did last year of me as Little Mac. I'm the one on the left. But sometimes this pays off and I end up in a group like this.