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.

I would consider myself goth- not elder goth, or all that knowledgeable about the deeper roots or history, but I'm not a normie. I do think it's worth dividing between like 90s Goths and current goths, both groups take pretty different approaches... and then there's stuff like Cybergoth of course but that all really just goes over my head. Point being, I am proud to call myself a Goth, and I think anyone should be, theres nothing really embarrassing about it. It should be embraced, and whenever someone asks me to introduce them to the culture I'm all too happy to point the way.