Teen Gothic

just wanted to see if anyone else noticed this
feel free to correct me if im wrong throughout this post cuz I'm a baby bat lawl (also this isn't me calling anyone a poseur, its simply an observation!) also I've included links for examples of what I am talking about.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but modern "trad" goths that u see on social media are really actually dressed more like goths from the late 90's to early 00's. If you look up trad goth on tiktok and pinterest u see people in all black makeup and all black clothes that u would find in an early 2000s lip service mag. I don't hate this look at all, I love it actually! Though, I wonder where all the 80's magic of tradgoth disappeared for people. Maybe an elder goth can back me up on this but when I look at pictures of goths in the 80's they typically had a lot more color in their makeup, hair, and clothes than you would see if you looked up pictures of modern tradgoths. There's also a lot of sweaters, huge belts, huge earrings, and things that typically gear toward more general 80's fashion. Maybe I'm wrong and tradgoths did dress like that (because I'm a teenager so I was nowhere near the original scene haha), but this is my observation. And before anyone says "who cares", I'm not pressed or upset about it lol