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as an almost 20 year old that considers myself to be goth… it’s not difficult to do your research. I’m still trying to find stuff from thrifting, but I’d rather just not dress goth than wear stuff from fast fashion and Amazon. the subculture’s more about the lifestyle than the aesthetic anyway
5d ago
@RAVEN87 I hate to be gatekeepy but like goth is as much if not more about the music as it is the aesthetics and if you like $uicideboy$ and want to be goth more power to you but throw some bauhaus in there too at least! This is obv not directed at you but to the nebulous type of people i was speaking about in the rec.
The most goth person I ever knew was a 40 year old gay guy named Sean who only wore black t shirts and was the most morose motherfucker I’ve ever met. He was in the subculture as a kid and had much wilder looks when he was younger but tamed it down in old age but everything about the media he consumed, his attitude, his community was goth. Looking at him on the street his clothes didn’t scream goth but the moment you spoke to him you Got It. I wear a lot of black but tend to be more twee and am not a club person (didn’t ever go to the goth club in town, sorry too freaky for me) but have a very wide variety in music and media taste so we had a lot to talk about and felt he was a kindred spirit despite me not being goth aesthetically.
We were polar opposites personality-wise when we worked together when I was 23 and I was one of the only people he actually enjoyed talking to and I miss him and hope he’s happy and dour wherever he is. Shoutout to the Sean’s in the world for holding it down and I hope the baby goths one day blossom into the Sean’s they’re meant to be, outwardly goth or not.
5d ago
@RAVEN87 I love that, baby bats should listen to the people who have been in the goth scene for years. a lot of the goth people on social media seem to be a good influence as well, but maybe that’s because I know what to look out for. I definitely agree about the music part as well, and if you don’t like the music, but want to dress with the aesthetic, at least call yourself gothic instead of goth
5d ago
Nooot a hot take at all.. I think posers and “tourists“ are a plague and the increased acceptance of those types has really accelerated the death of subculture. It’s fake and lame and disrespectful to the people who really live whatever scene it is they’re into.. even the whole “name three songs” thing has some merit to it.
6d ago
I agree wholeheartedly and believe this can be applied to just about every style out there today. I saw this as someone who grew up a die hard skateboarder and remember the times where if someone wore a thrasher hoodie or specific pair of skate shoes and couldnt answer questions about skating or showcase their abilitt to skate, we would press them/bully them and make them feel bad about it. Not to say that is the right thing to do, but there was genuine ownership and a feeling that you needed to invest into a culture and be apart of it fully, rather than enter in and out of cultures via every fad/trend/style you see fit.
6d ago
