Teen Gothic

This is probably not worth a discussion thread, but I find it interesting how the reverse is usually true for most people trying to get into goth (ie loving the look but not the music).

For me, it's very, very easy to like the many branches of goth music (death rock and ethereal wave being my favourite genres under the umbrella). As it's understood, you can't call yourself a goth if you don't like the music. But are you a goth if you ONLY like the music?

I'm not a spooky person, but I can't get enough of the reverberating guitars and dreary melodies. The style can look very beautiful, but I'd feel suffocated if I dressed in the same style everyday.

I'm not looking to categorize myself in anything, but I was curious to see who else was in the same boat.

Been a part of the scene for years, but constantly find myself taking a step back from "dressing goth" due to the over-sexualization I keep experiencing! Went from being bullied and considered a freak/ugly to suddenly being fetishized out of nowhere. I ended up getting selling all of my gothic clothing and toning down my style after high school. Im in my 20's now and have really missed dressing up and outwardly presenting myself the way I actually love. But holy fuck I cannot leave my house without being sexualized. I am followed, catcalled, ogled at, etc and it driving me crazy. I've taken a step back from social media, because of gross comments and dm's. I don't date because I'm not treated as a human being, it honestly hurts. I am already an extremely anxious and shy, so this doesn't help at all. On a similar note, when it comes to dating, it is extremely frustrating to have people assume things about me just because of the way I dress, when in reality I am the complete opposite. I'm not only sexualized for being goth, but also for being a latina, it's like I can't win! Anyways, if you're also someone who experiences this, how do you deal with this? Looking for any sort of advice, and just needed to get this off of my chest.

Every day I saw you I found you Or someone else…

i wasn't born during the 80s nor the 90s and i wasn't exposed to any goth music when i was growing up, yet when i hear it, i feel the most inexplicably otherworldly comforting feeling– this vague feeling of home–but i don't even know if i could call it that because it seems to feel for experiences that were never mine in the first place.

i like it nonetheless. does anyone feel the same?

When I started being a goth when I was about 17 years old, it made me feel very comfortable and confident in my own body. However, once I fully embraced the lifestyle I noticed that I was getting stared at everywhere I went and just would like walk into a store and people were acting like they got an authentic picture of an alien or something. Is this a common thing? Or am I just unlucky? Because I don’t think I should be ashamed of how I choose to express myself and my style.

totally harmless and pretty kind message, but i found this really strange. i hadn't followed them but i think i'd liked a post of theirs saying that they were gonna be playing at this restaurant near boston, massachusetts because i found it weird. pretty daunting but also hilarious. anyways do they just do this to people??

I've considered a lot of aspects of my personality to be in the niche, macabre and creepy side of things. Goth and Post- Punk rule music playlists. I'm obsessed with horror. Does a goth have to dress goth to be goth? I don't think so. What do y'all think?

So pretty much everyone in the scene has heard of She Past Away, they're rather popular and I do love them myself. However, they're not the only Turkish goth band. As I'm learning Turkish, over the last year or so I've discovered so many others that I love! I believe quite a few of them formed in the wake of She Past Away's success. I just wondered if anyone else is into any other bands from the Turkish scene?

Some of my favourite band discoveries are Altan, Kana Kana, Kargalar, Kumadam, Affet Robot and Merry's Funeral.

I made a playlist a while back of Turkish goth rock, darkwave and post-punk etc, my general criteria being the umbrella of music that fits into a goth setlist in a club. I've been adding to it as I make new discoveries.