Teen Gothic

Such as Robert Smith, Siouxsie, Andrew Eldritch… etc

When I went to the county fair with two of my other alt friends, most of the people there were middle and early high school kids. At least a dozen times we had boys come up to us laughing and asking for our snap. They also did that thing where they compliment you then walk away laughing. I even had one group of boys (maybe around 15) run up to me, take a selfie next to me, then run away laughing. I feel like ten years down the line they’ll be lying in their beds thinking about how cringe they were.

I noticed nostalgia is moving toward the early 2000s lately, and while it's good to explore and discuss a lot of really good goth music and positive aspects of the subculture and scene memories from this time, on the other hand, I have to say if you into the music and subculture then while it was happening, it wasn't always an easy time for everyone for the following reasons especially when compared to a certain periods in 90s and 2010s-present.

-Loads of increasing misinformation from every corner; tv shows, questionable books, and overwhelming amount of poor or mediocre internet articles. For some reason it seemed more than other periods.

-There was much more of a limit on what you could find online, in terms of music and band info and music via filesharing and video content.

-Very conservative time and lots of homophobic and vulgar language was extremely normalized and could be frequently used towards anyone that was goth.

-Lots of people conflated industrial bands with goth. Too many people appropriating goth at the same time (cybergoth, mall goths etc)

-Right after Columbine and few years after, dressing goth, depending where you lived, increased your chance of getting physically assaulted compared to other periods, labeled as a potential shooter, sent to a school therapist, totally harassed non-stop etc

-Also less easy to find DIY guides compared to today and other periods.

What do you remember?

There are tons of positive things about this period. The point here is just to have honest discussion about how things were for some people into goth.

I'm currently a junior in high school with a very eccentric batty style and I've noticed much more recently how many people are laughing at me and making fun of me. It makes me want to quit being goth, almost.

How do you deal with being weird and being made fun of?

This person was insulting people and calling them Trolls. I replied to their comment which had nothing to do with anything goth.

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They decided to try and insult me for being goth 😑 It was such a ridiculous comment. I Didn't even know how I should reply. I replied anyway.

Honestly their tolling was so stupid it made me laugh, bit if I were a younger goth I might have been actually offended. I shared this with a friend because recently talking about situations like this, but I figured I would share it on here because it seemed relevant to recent posts.

Here are the screen shots

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Maybe I shouldn't have said anything but I don't even state I am goth on my personal Instagram, I also don't state my age. The only thing on it was 1 picture where a friend and I found a sticker outside a gay bar that said Texas Goth and we had to take a picture by it.

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Here is a link to the comments on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CTeuTtijB_B/

I’m doing a project for school and I wanted some real people’s experiences on being treated in public as a goth person. For example, I have been called a freak in public and have had nasty comments like “it’s not Halloween yet!” shouted at me. I want to spread knowledge about the gothic subculture and part of it is sharing the experiences we go through by just expressing ourselves. Please feel free to share if you’re comfortable!

Edit: if you do dress gothic

I’ll go first, mine is the back/dark colors in my outfits and the sexy leather outfits I wear. I look killer hot 😉 lol