These types of conventions are common for all kinds of bizzarre followers of each and every silly movie or TV series, line of comics, manga, anime, games, etc. It represents the extreme splintering of culture in the decaying empire we find ourselves in. No following is too obscure or bizzare, in fact obscureness and bizzarre-ness is the whole intent.
It's an attempt to connect oneselves with a common group which has become difficult for amerikan Whites. This is felt accutely amongst young White males who do not have the once valuable, now dead, institutions that older gents like ourselves can still pretend some loyalty to.
I feel terrible pity for these young men who are brought up in a culture that demeans them and mistreats them. They are allowed no traditional male outlet except for sports which is almost wholly dominated by non-whites, so even when they go that route they end up in an place where they are attacked and devalued once again.
And for the boys who are not athletically gifted or inclined? If they are high testosterone types and don't do sports they can look forward to a life of harrassment from the female establishment which usually will result in some level of incarceration or drug/alchol abuse to cope with being an obsolete organism in obama's amerika.
Typically boys who are not high achievers in athletics or academics and not especially motivated (who is anymore?) find solice in trivial pursuits and many just surrender to the
FEM-F@G axis of evil and become as feminine as possible which at least brings them plenty of cheers from marxyculty society. Any protestation that they might be gay or homo's is of no consequence since those are actually compliments now. They even make light of more serious perversions such as stuff involving young kids. When there are no boundaries then it is impossible to know when you have gone too far.
Yes, to you and me this kind of thing seems sick and twisted. Or at least sorry and pathetic. But we come from an environment that established the proper boundaries and have learned it so well it's all we know. For those millions of boys raised by women in a seriously brain damaged feminist cultural marxist society they don't know the boundaries, no one cares to show them, and they only know they have gone too far when they bump up against one and are arrested or pay dearly for having done so.