Teen Gothic

I haven’t been in the subculture for the longest time although I grew up with parts of it due to my mom being involved. When I got into online communities I used to be really easily annoyed at people categorizing things as goth that aren’t the music. Someone told me trap rap was goth and since I was also probably just a stupid kid I had to think about that for months. I got into online arguments, and all that kind of stuff.

I haven’t thought about it for a while but recently I’ve realized I stopped caring about things being mislabeled, me being insulted based of my music taste and appearance, the stereotypes (the goth girl thing still annoys me thought, if you know what I mean). I just feel like I kinda got more chill after being involved for a while. Does anyone relate?

One thing I do think is that no matter how many rap songs get labeled as goth, we always have the scene and all of those things like the goth e girls are just online and not really actually affecting me/us. Although I do live in a specific part of Germany where there’s about 0,1 e girls lol, so maybe that changes things.

I laugh about a lot of things I used to get mad over and don’t start arguments anymore. Sometimes I correct people in a friendly way if it’s appropriate but that’s it.

hi guys so I have a friend who has goth friends and he told me that they really like the “nazi aesthetic” relating to the death, style, and symbolism of nazis? He is a person of color and says they aren’t racist they just “like the aesthetics and symbolism”, but couldn’t explain to me how nazism and goth culture were connected? Is this a thing? Can someone explain? They are also metal heads.

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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?