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Thanks. The safe space thing is why I only post on reddit once in awhile with throwaways, and don't have a dedicated account there anymore. My opinions were not well received.

Well I still haven't found my hat. And it can also be well preserved with salt water.

Yeah, I just do supplements since it's better than the skin cancer.

What is dead may never die.

You do alright man, no worries. At least this still exists. Rackula is back in its original spot (I got to use a circular saw!) and filled with all the best amps (the ones we bought and some of the older ones that we cleaned out). The EAW subs had a bad re-cone job so the good ones were glued and the bad ones will have to be sent in for a better re-coning. Anyway I'm going back tonight to fix the rest of the sound issues.

I am still hoping to make it to the gathering this week. I will be there early, around 7ish, if I am able to make it. I am heading to PA for a bit on Monday so I am hoping to see everyone before my trip. I will miss you guys while I am gone but should be back mid July.

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.