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Originally Posted by Anarasha

The roots of the gothic subculture has been misunderstood and forgotten by the general public as a result of the rising amounts of young people dressing in a band shirt, "weird" hair, a few piercings, maybe a tatto yet they are wearing blue "vinyl wear"(how the fuck did that even get that name?) pants.

Since when did a goth ever seek the approval or understanding of the general public?

This is fine, they are allowed to do as they please. But when they go around introducing themselves as Goth and promoting Evanescense and Nightwish as true Goth bands, they are just pathetic and sad.

...and when these pathetic and sad little baby bats finally discover bands such as Christian Death or Alien Sex Fiend, lo and behold they make posts such as this on gothic.net.

The media tends to focus a lot on these said young people, sometimes even interviewing them.

The media is such a broad, generalised term. What aspect of the media specifically?

This adds to the growing confusion around the real roots of the goth scene.

Were you even at the Batcave in 1983?

Most of these people classify better as emo/scenekids or metalheads, but these rapings of facts misquoted in said interviews fuck up potential "new goths" from the very beginning.

English motherfucker, do you speak it?

When potential newcomers decide to look into these "kewl g0thz" and go on the blessed intarwebz to do research, whether they learn their roots or not all comes down to whether or not they actually land on a legit site or one of those crap "Marilyn Manson iz teh gawthzu0r!" sites.

What on earth are you babbling about?

It really saddens me.

You should get out more.

It doesn't even push every one of my buttons, it smashes them down several fucking times with a pizzashovel.
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