I am a goth since adolescence, i'll sound older than I am by saying this but back in my days, what I most desired was that goth, and other subcultures would begin to be more popular, because in my innocent mind I thought the more popularized something gets, the more respect it gains, I was deeply wrong and I regret this yearn. Since the chronic 2000's anemoia my generation has been suffering from due to the emo revival in mid 2022, the more every mainstream subculture (Keep that up) gets distorted by individuals who only want to look unique and different, chase trends.

Now, I am not a filthy gatekeeper, I despise any kind of this, I always tried to inform other people with politeness about such topics I am interested in and learn about it more and more as i'm still not informed enough, but some of these people do not want to learn, they think they know everything about goth and others just by watching short, brief Tik Tok videos. If you disagree with the so called "Vampire of the night" or any shit like that, you get bullied, mocked, treated like shit. Thats not what a so called anti-conformist should do, now should they? I am not perfect either, I am a moderate Tik Tok user like most teenagers of our lord 2026, but it has become impossible to interact with such people of my age inside the community.

Notice how they always base their entire personality in being alt, nuffin elz. But wait! Only mainstream shit like i mentioned before, there's not rude boys, no skinheads, no flappers, no ravers... And the answer for this is pretty obvious, because they dont take research on anywhere else that isnt Tik Tok. Their knowledge about alt ends when their phone battery ends too. If they think the same, talk the same, write the same, dress the same, and only listen to the same 3 popular songs of The Cure and Bauhaus and still have the sicking balls to mock and exclude, dont feel inferior to them. As one of the mods of this subreddit said some posts ago, do not listen to Tik Tok kids.

Darkwave acts French Police (Post Punk, Chicago) & Social Order (Synthpop, Las Vegas) played live at Charlotte, NC’s Neighborhood Theater in September 2026. Ash Reminisce took photos and reviewed the show for Charlotte Dark Scene.

I'm relatively new to goth music I mainly joined because I discovered what is now one of my favorite bands called euroshima l, and I've been listening to many different bands of the genre,which I really enjoy, but I haven't found any that sound simmilar to euroshima,if you have any recommendations pls do tell me, preferably in Spanish, no worries if it isn't. Hope this doesn't count as low effort posting if it does sorry

Thx for reading :D