What drew you to the goth subculture?

[BrassFusion]

What if I changed my name to "Goth Guy"?

In any case I'm goth, therefore I can define goth.  I'm more "in the know" than most of the people who show up at CC or live in the Detroit area.  The only people who might know more than me live in L.A., N.Y.C., and London where much of what it originally was has been defined.

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You're missing the point entirely.

"Goth" was the opinion of one person, the first person who coined it. The only thing you're doing is speculating on what the elder goths (i wonder if any of them were named cthulhu) would have deemed "goth." You may be right most of the time. You could be wrong most of the time.

You're not "in the know." You're only "in the know" about things you label according to your own perspective. The Scary scale.

[Paper Hearts]

www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Goth

[Melova]

I was labeled 'goth' back in middle school. I wore black clothes, had black hair, listened to metal music. I was a transplant though. Being a military brat put me in so many different places while growing up. The black hair/black clothes/black music/black everything was the 'trend' where I was from. I did it because it worked. I didn't like colors and I didn't like this and didn't like that...typical angsty teenage girl with more issues than resolutions. The label stuck though, no matter how hard I tried to shake it to 'fit in' again after moving. I moved again, the label came with me. By this point, I somehow decided that it fit me and maintained the weirdo image. So much, in fact, that I was voted "Creepiest Girl Ever" my senior year in highschool. Why? Long, long story that involves band camp, football playing and being the all-time worst nemesis ever to the most popular girl in school.

I'm still 'goth', though I don't look the part so much as just be it. I still can't stand wearing colourful clothes most times, but hey, we all grow up a little. I even tried to make my hair a normal, not-so-dark black, but that fell through.

So, maybe we, the collective we, are just drawn to different aspects of life?

[n0Mad]

www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Goth

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That sums it up fairly accurately.

[Scary Guy]

So am I.... therefore I know more than you....  Goth Boy A

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No you know just as much, if that

I'm goth king of goth hill (or was that shit king of turd hill, I can never reember).

[phee]

I am the Crusified savoir of Gull Gotha

[BrassFusion]

OMG PWND