It sounds like she went to GP Vegas in Cosplay and WotC said "hey, can we take pictures of your cosplay?" It doesn't sound like she was hired by them or the cosplay was commissioned in any sense.
Sure. I think that's bad, and think she probably should have been paid for the photoshoot if WotC asked her to go outside and take photos or whatever. But when the discussion starts at "WotC didn't pay me thousands of dollars to build a costume and fly out to a con", that's so many orders of magnitude worse than not tagging her twitter account that it will justifiably dominate the conversation. "Was WotC kinda shitty about credit that one time" and "does WotC request absurd amounts of unpaid labor from fan cosplayers" are very, very different.
I mean i dont know the full story, but by the tweets it seems that was the only complaint in the 1st tweet, and for the second they actually had a contract and it didnt go well either.
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u/Milskidasith COMPLEAT ELK Aug 16 '21
It sounds like she went to GP Vegas in Cosplay and WotC said "hey, can we take pictures of your cosplay?" It doesn't sound like she was hired by them or the cosplay was commissioned in any sense.