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Heh. Hell it was "dead" before I ever even heard of it. (Literally , if you go back to like pre- 93 era stuff, you'll see "goth is dead" (no pun intended). hah.

You did a great job, thanks for all the efforts. Honestly it's appreciated, even if I can't help as much as I would have been able to in years past.

That video has over a million views. And some other gothic dressed youtubers have videos with over a million views. I remember when that community was a lot smaller. Its weird how its taking off, which I suppose is good for normalizing goth. But one thing that remains is that even with the increase in goth youtubers, most goth videos on youtube are boring content, in my opinion. One of my mottos in life is "pretty = nothing". I can understand how politeness means bigger, better community, and is also a huge deal for business that people owning bars and nightclubs need to get through their giant, female-centric heads. But the punk aspect of gothic culture, or the willingness to explore fringe ideas or create new ones that can go along with it, seems like its been consumed by the political left, as opposed to a more individual or anti-establishment position aligning with punk. In goth at present, there's either too much politeness to the point that individual thought is stamped out, like the political left, or impoliteness without any substance behind it. The Necto crowd has a lot of edgy young people that fall the latter category, which is to also say they are probably edgy-dressed proponents of the present leftist establishment, rather than contrarians who oppose the problems of established societal power like original punks and all of their similar offshoots of people, or more ideally, evidence-based, fallacy avoiding thinkers, who are intellectual punks; and I think this leads to both a musical drought and intellectual drought, both being connected to each other. I'm not trying to argue for either side of the coin because I'm not sure I can, but just lay out cause and effect. I am often bored with gothic culture. But the majority of goth youtubers are women, which goes along with the focus online and offline in goth being so heavily geared towards fashion, and women have more in-group preference than men. So it is what it is, you can't convince an unreasonable group with reason, and the majority of human beings are, due to more focus on short term survival than long term survival, unreasonable. However, you'd probably get this place more traffic by appealing to women more, if the youtube data mirrors real life.

I'm not saying this to look super goth, but I recently stabilized the Vitamin D levels in my blood from prolonged lack of sunlight. The gap of available energy between those two states is pretty insane. I was looking around my room and bathroom and messes everywhere, wondering why it was so hard to clean them up, like I had been living in a dream for weeks or months at a time.

Things only get better for me it seems and it's been that way for a while. Seeing a new girl, DJ'ing out more, doing more with some other groups, new boots, car runs okay, etc... Of course life has had its downs as well but for the most part I'm happy. I know eventually that will be ripped away but for now I'm going to enjoy it while I can.