Frequently asked questions
What to know before you join
Answers about accounts, sharing, messaging, support, safety, privacy, and ownership.
Getting started
What is Co-Splay?
Co-Splay is an online cosplay community for cosplayers and fans. Fans can discover and follow creators, like and comment on posts, and message creators. Creators can publish photos and reels and use optional subscriptions, tips, and photo or video bundles.
Is Co-Splay free to join?
Yes. Account creation and public browsing are free. Subscriptions, tips, and paid photo or video bundles from creators are optional.
Where do I find cosplayers?
Use Explore to browse or search for cosplayer profiles, then open their public photos and reels.
Sharing and connecting
What can cosplayers share?
Cosplayers can post photos and short-form video reels. Selected posts can be limited to subscribers.
Can I use Co-Splay as a cosplay portfolio?
Yes. After creator onboarding, you can post cosplay photos and reels to a public, shareable profile that fans can follow and revisit.
Can fans message creators?
Yes. Co-Splay supports direct fan-to-creator messaging.
Can fans message other fans?
No. Messaging is between fans and creators.
How do follows work?
Following makes it easier to keep up with a cosplayer's work. Home and Reels also include new discoveries. You can like and comment on posts.
Supporting cosplayers
How can I support a cosplayer?
You can subscribe for subscriber-only posts, send a tip, or unlock a photo or video bundle a creator sends inside a message.
What does Co-Splay charge creators?
Co-Splay charges creators a flat 20% platform fee on subscriptions, tips, and photo or video unlocks.
Content, privacy, and ownership
Does Co-Splay allow NSFW content?
No. Community Guidelines require content to remain safe for work.
Do creators keep ownership of uploads?
You retain ownership of content you upload. Co-Splay's Terms of Service grant Co-Splay a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, display, distribute, promote, and syndicate that content.
Does creator onboarding include identity verification?
Creator onboarding includes identity verification and is currently available in the United States and Canada.
Read the full policies
These answers summarize the product. Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy contain the complete rules.
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