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The rise of social media sunk whatever remains of the culture.
Look, not to say there aren't any goths left, but genuine, non conformist, f*ck the establishment goths are going. Bull about the subculture being purely music and nothing else- washing away the culture our elders built up for us- leaving us with a corporate fetishized view of something that was never about conventional beauty.
So what happened to the older goths? Most of them realized how unsustainable goth is. You can only say f*ck you to corporations for so long. Pretty soon Lockhead Martin needs a new gadget and you need to send your kids to a good school.
But the music? Yeah, music lives forever, that's the thing about digital media. Every generation there will be a new wave to pick up where the last left off- criticizing, poking, prodding, and changing it until it suits their new world.
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whoah
Goth got gentrified into being nothing more than a fashion style to most, it happens to almost every movement.
The OG's are all like 35 now and the current majority of "goth" ppl are basically just corporate drones that keep the wheels of scummy businesses turning, buying cheap clothes off temu, doomscrolling/doomposting on insta or whatever gets used these days, consuming the hip new show on one of the streaming services. Basically just doing basic white girl activities but with an Alibaba MCR shirt draped over it because "goth" is in RN
Exactly, there's little sense of self- anti fashion, rebelling against the machine, being "weird" (the same type of weird these nimrods make fun of others for)- in fact, they're just copy and pastes of whatever nu bull is born on tiktok. It's not anti-conformity if you're doing exactly what everyone else is doing. And forbid you mention their temu addiction to them or it's the same crap about how they're "too poor" to afford thrifting. They treat clothes as a need rather than a want.
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