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rivetgoth · 10 months ago

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The r/goth subreddit kinda swinging to the opposite side of the Goth Gatekeeping Discourse pendulum and like getting into incredibly nitpicky detached arguments that don’t really mean anything within the context of like. Going outside and actually engaging with the irl scene about, like, whether Disintegration by The Cure is “actually goth” or not will never not be funny. Someone asked recently if The Birthday Massacre is goth and some guy replied super condescendingly with a comment like “I’ve never heard of them before but listening to them now, they have to be the least goth band I’ve LITERALLY ever heard.” Like…. Come on now. 😭

#like TBM is not trad goth we all know this but you’re being so purposely obnoxiously obtuse to act like #it’s some absurd question to ask if one of the biggest dark alt bands that has extremely major footing in the wider dark community is goth.#(ppl on there can be cool I just think it gets goofy about nitpicking genres to the point that there’s like. no room for evolution at all)#like it’s obviously one thing to completely divorce goth of its meaning as a music based subculture but imo it’s equally goofy to like #post nothing but TSOM Joy Division & early Cure and then get weirdly rude and uppity over fellow goths using the term like #MARGINALLY more liberally than you do within the context of the modern real life goth scene. ykwim.

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