I dont, but I take inspiration from the subculture. Mainly, in the way I dress and the music I listen to.

I do, but it can be a struggle sometimes. I feel pretty isolated.

To be honest, how does one define "goth" anymore? Is it the way someone dresses? The music associated itself? The attitude?
I listen to a lot of goth-esque music.

VoidCat wrote:

To be honest, how does one define "goth" anymore? Is it the way someone dresses? The music associated itself? The attitude? I listen to a lot of goth-esque music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_subculture

RavenOrlock wrote:

I do, but it can be a struggle sometimes. I feel pretty isolated.

Ive felt othered all my life. Not sure how much of that is just me(because sometimes we are wrong about other people) or how much is correct.

A subculture has to take place in real life. The Internet has whittled it down to an aesthetic and a fetish for non-goths, as in the "big tiddy goth girlfriend" meme.

I didn't consider myself Goth. I thought that I was intrigued by certain aspects of darkness. Then I was watching Gothically Yours, Professor M on YouTube where he has a video asking are you goth? He made a test and if you score 8/10 or higher you are Goth. I scored 6/10 but he gave me extra points based on two things that I said: that I am fascinated by the various stages of decomposition of dead human bodies and that I did naughty things in graveyard with my boyfriend at the time. According to Professor M those two things are only something that a true Goth would say. So he put my score at 8/10, maybe even 9/10. I do like Goth music and am intrigued by the fashion.

SerenityNight wrote:

I didn't consider myself Goth. I thought that I was intrigued by certain aspects of darkness. Then I was watching Gothically Yours, Professor M on YouTube where he has a video asking are you goth? He made a test and if you score 8/10 or higher you are Goth. I scored 6/10 but he gave me extra points based on two things that I said: that I am fascinated by the various stages of decomposition of dead human bodies and that I did naughty things in graveyard with my boyfriend at the time. According to Professor M those two things are only something that a true Goth would say. So he put my score at 8/10, maybe even 9/10. I do like Goth music and am intrigued by the fashion.

I've seen Professor M. in my recommendations recently, but I haven't checked out his channel yet. I think I may have saved one of his videos to my Watch Later list.

It's Black Friday is a good channel to watch for goth fashion. She won't accept sponsorships or recommend clothes to her viewers that she wouldn't wear herself.

I don't set much store by gatekeepers who say you have to check a bunch of boxes to be considered a "real" goth. People in our age group have eclectic tastes, and we don't automatically like everything that someone else may deem a requisite social proof.