Teen Gothic

I've tried Shazam and some other apps and also searched in many playlists.

As a gothic rock artist, it's nice for me in terms of networking if people do, but I don't see it as particularly negative if they don't. Especially here in Finland, which is quite dominated by metal music, it's common for people to associate the gothic adjective with metal bands like HIM and certain American bands, etc., without even having heard bands that I consider self-explanatory, like Sisters of Mercy.

I usually try to gently enlighten them by saying, "Did you know that goth music originated long before those bands, and they actually turned it into something else, something of their own?" However, I don't see the point in forcing the issue. We all have our individual music tastes and viewpoints about these movements. On the contrary, it's kind of cool when people outside the goth scene fall in love with my music and are amazed by it because they've never heard anything like it before, since they are unaware of my biggest influences.

Let me know what you think about the matter!

Whenever I go on a website like Omegle or discord or something like that and I try to talk to other goth dudes, 99% of the time their not goth but their always in the goth tags and stuff like that (and I’m not just assuming their not goth the’ll explicitly say their not ) I get like 1 or 2 ppl but why so many? Also why is it always dudes?