How many 30-40 year old goths do you see these days? That is right, because it was just a phase and they grew out of it.
But, while you can grow out of a phase you can never grow-back titties that have been cut off.
Plus you actually have some good memories from then.
Some old band teeshirts that you might restyle with some other stuff or wear as a pajama top or even just keep because they warm your heart.
CDs and shit for in the car if you're feeling nostalgic. Concert tickets and photos and good memories of being young and dumb and sociable and all the music and parties and fashion and bands and lore and books you were so interested in.
What the fuck will be left to reflect on, of the big cultural movement that these kids dedicated so much time to?
Big night on the Discord?
Instead of getting tagged in a picture by your old mate of you all at Ozzfest in 2001 or some shit, you'll get an anonymous text blackmailing you of pictures with a giant dildo shoved up your arse and pedo role play chat logs.
The "woman clothe" zero quality amazon dresses you've bust the seams out aren't worth having now, let keeping or treasuring or making any memories in. You don't have a good memory of buying it on this specific day out with your friends where you then did this, and went here..
It's all just click click on amazon. Everything mass produced and delivered.
There is no music, no events,
Best they got? Maybe they'll look back on an anime series fondly and the Blahaj will go the distance, if it doesn't get a hole fucked in it and thrown out in shame (because it stinks)
Every "hero" they have gets outed as a fucking child groomer in a constantly repeating cycle that gets quicker every time it happens, now we're at less than a year.
Everything gets deleted when people either DFE or their precious accounts get banned because they can't help themsleves be disgusting, so no keeping even "digital memories" for those who care for them (and they do, as we saw from the freak out about the pedo guy getting banned on tumblr for death threatening the CEO.)
Everything they associate with is stolen from others then utterly poisoned to everyone else and then themselevs, and like locusts they move on, leaving everything utterly destroyed both physically and irl.
No varsity jacket or cool retro skateboard or equipment, or skills to pass down to your own kids.
There will be no nice memories of this utterly, utterly misspent youth-
Something which even the most misguided and risk-taking of us have, despite all else, of our teenage years.
There won't even be the handful of teenage pregnancies.
I can tell you now, that even though my earlobe which i expanded has by the majority gone back to where it is, the ever so slight stretch on it that makes wearing heavy dangly earrings a tiny bit shit, in that one ear hole - though faint-is a regular irritation.
I regret smoking so much cannabis and wasting away energy and good health and focus over a portion of my teens. The time it wasted mainly.
I can't even
begin to
imagine the level of self resentment that will come along with the surgeries and drugs these fuckers are on.