Teen Gothic

Hi! I have been getting a lot into music that resembles Strawberry Switchblade and their sound, I don’t think of this genre as goth but always see Strawberry Switchblade in goth spaces and sometimes spoken of as a goth band, but I don’t regard 80s/ 90s indie music like that as goth, So my question is: is strawberry Switchblade a goth band (or is it just because they look awesome that they are in goth spaces) and if so; What makes them a goth band that does not make other similar bands of the 80s and 90s goth? Did they have a place in the evolution of goth?