Teen Gothic

Sort of like Collide. I’m a fan of Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky and all that 90s-2000s shit. If you know of any lmk thanks

I (22F) LOVE watching 70s-80s horror movies. A common trope I've noticed in these older movies is that its always the punk kids bullying the "nerdy" kids. This never made sense to me bc in my personal experience, it was always those kids who were bullied. I cannot count the amount of times people picked on me and called me a "future school shooter". And besides that, Alt subcultures and fandom culture seem to pretty much go hand in hand as most of us alt kids were also the nerdy ones(and ofc we were bullied for that too lol). To any elder goths on here I have a question: Was it common for alt kids to be bullies in the older generations or is this just some bullshit the movies made up?

These people at my school keep calling me “emo” and it fucking pisses me of but isn’t that just cultural discrimination? Someone please tell if I’m right on this one so that I can do something about it.

Hey there!

I’m new to goth music and I’m looking for recommendations for bands to support 🙂 preferably European so I can have an easier time going to shows.

Acts I’m listening to rn;

• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Cocteau twins
• Rendez Vous
• The witches (small Israeli band, their soloist was an awesome woman- definitely recommend listening to them!)
• Christian Death
• HIM

Thanks 🦇🥀✌️

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i live in Southern USA (i'm 23) & have been dying all my life to actually go to a goth club or even just an alternative themed night at a club.

is anyone goth actually in the South? lol please respond, i'm so lonely. 🤣

is the goth subculture still around in this way or has a lot of it died out?