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The costume was just that good. No, seriously all kidding aside this is absolutely hilarious. Poor guy was just trying to cheer up his buddy that was going through a tough break up, and ended up in the middle of a very uncomfortable moment of pure delirious confusion. 

Want to become your favorite character, but all you have is bananas, markers and a cat? Well have no fear, LowCostCosplay exists to sort out all of your low budget cosplaying desires. It takes true talent to design such stunning work with everyday items. For some extra low budget creativity, here's the time a museum asked people to recreate their favorite art.

If you live in a big enough city, you likely have someone you refer to as "mowhawk guy" or "piano lady" or "roller blading guy." In this case we have a guy straight out of a Def Leppard video. If anything, this guy inspires feelings of nostalgia for the 80s and 90s. Every city has its own cast of local eccentrics who dance to the beat of their own drum. In this guy's case, that drum playing hair metal.

This ridiculous video of dinosaurs crossing the street in NYC and causing a general ruckus is going viral. There's just something so wonderful about these beasts roaming the street. They look absurd and hilariously out of place, and we are all for it. 

Even through all of the tears, self doubt, and eventual skin staining, this couple still managed to do well in the costume contest. All in all, there are worse Halloween costumes. Plus, there are way worse reasons someone can get Shrek'd with green dye.

Twitter users are sharing the very worst of the Halloween costumes that they've ever seen. The resulting costumes are just our kind of fails, and just in time for Halloween. You might want to steer clear of trying out any of these costumes unless you're opting for the intentional disaster. 

With spooky season upon us, and Halloween looming ominously around the corner it's time to start thinking about a costume. In this case, Twitter users are sharing their hot takes on all those Halloween costumes that ended up looking sexy, even though they shouldn't have been on an objective level. 

People need costumes and they don't give a damn if they're legit. It takes a precise and creative mind to come up with a costume name that gets the point across without infringing on copyright law. That or, I guess you could just call it "Butt Surprise." Anyway, here are more off-brand costumes that are just legal enough.

Spooktober is just around the corner and our favorite bootleg crap is filling up store shelves. Costume makers will jump through some amazing hoops in order to not get dinged for intellectual property infringement and the results are pretty awesome. Can we interest you in dressing up as Blue Speed Mouse for halloween? Or how about you favorite Evil Midweek Cutie? For some actually spooky stuff to gear you up for haloween, check out these two-sentence horror stories.

We just can't seem to get enough of this mastermind's low cost cosplays. He does a beautiful job at representing some iconic costumes, while seemingly spending next to nothing on his getups. And that takes a true visionary. You can check out more of his work over here, if you loved these! 

In a creative and classy move, North Farmington High School in Michigan lets their seniors run wild with specific pop culture and meme references on picture day. It's like funny senior quotes, but you get to use your costuming skills. We wish our school let us do this. Oh, and extra points for the Tyrone Biggums.

Brazilian Maria Fernanda, is making bank off her cosplaying efforts on Instagram. She employed her cosplay skills on Instagram to rack up a sizable following, and eventually was able to monetize her account. Apparently Influencer Marketing Hub estimates that each of her posts on Instagram generates anywhere between $782 and $1,213. That ain't too shabby at all for a little work on Instagram posts. 

Yeah, you can't take your eyes off the wholesomeness. 5 stars. 5 Stars over and over. Can't bee-lieve how wholesome this is.

Lowcost_costplay is the delightful creativity you need in your life. Who knew you could perfectly capture the essence of your favorite characters using only spaghetti and underwear?