What are your views on goth culture

I hate the word goth, I never use that to describ myself, because it is so poser and cleche, I mean I have white face/black lips/ and generaly wear black clothing, but goth is such a horrible word and Just Sarah^^^ is right they don’t know what it means, but they dress like that to ‘rebel’ I mean the goths where a German tribe, it was a litriture style in the romance movement in the 1600’s and arcutecture of buildings Try hards make me sick… they make people like me who loves dark theatrics and extravagant costume, and lots of over the top makeup look like what people call ‘goth’ when I’m just a passionate writter who has indugled herself in the world of theatre, makeup, costume and darkness, although people have never recognised me as an absent minded try hard and have seen me for who I am due to my cryptic personality they usualy understand, but for people who don’t know me I’m just some person trying to dress scary for attention when they don’t understand I have deep obsessions with theatrical, non natralistic things

Darling, that’s basically what the true blue Goth is dear. Now a days the title has been perverted to nothing more than scene people, or people seeking attention, or to rebel, ect, but they’re nothing more than mall-Goths -posers. It’s hard now a days to find a genuine Goth.

So many posers now a days. Seem more like a fashion trend more than a subculture now. I’ve been contemplating on dropping the title of Goth, it’s not what it use to be back in the 80’s. It’s not even what it use to be back in the 90’s.

thank you, I like your response, I actually just got done having a conversation with sumone who wanted to know the answer to that… thats what I should have asked for the people who are true goths…

I think that most people aren’t truly goth. Yeah, they dress in all black, but do they know where it originated. Usually not.

Most are just poseurs.

to red_rose_mafia…:) Keep it true and real, you are one of the real ones, not a poser.