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Subcultures

I wanted to talk about something I've seen on Reddit and Tumblr. Now, yes I have a Tumblr, but I only started it a couple years ago, so Im late as hell to its peak years. Any, somethimes I look up goth/emo/scene "astetic" shit on ther, and one time I found a subreddit with memes about goth posers, but I cant find it right now, because its only when I want to mention it that i cant find the damm thing. Probably somethine like r/gothmemes or some shit. Any way, but usully I have posts or art someone posted saying shit like "you don't have to listen to the music or dress this way to be part of the subculture". Best I can do is paraphrase this one post I found on Tumbler.

• You don't need to wear black studded belts to be emo
• You dont need to be depressed to be emo
• you dont need to like every emo band
• you dont need black hari to be emo
• you dont need to drink Monster energy to be emo
• You dont need to be skinny as a twig
• You just need to be a good person

But honestly to me stuff like this is such bullshit. It's about like when people say you can't be punk if you're Fashist. Like Im sorry, but the definition of "punk" is rebelling aganst evrything that is the norm, and when the norm is opposing Fashism, then opposing Fashism isnt fucking punk, bitch.

And look, Im not saying you have to be a walking stereotype to qualifie as a member of whatever subcult, but it helps to try. Because if all it takes to be a member is that your a nice person and you identifie as a member, and all the unique traits of that group are optional, then the group's label has no unique definition, so it might as well not exist. There's nothing to make it diffrent from other groops so why even bother wanting to indentifie with it?

By this logic, someone who dosnt vibe to gothic music, but has no "goth" atire, just likes the look, but maybe prefers post-grunge (me, basicly), could identify as Goth. Exept Im not goth, I try to dive into the music but since I don't lissen to it or dress like Edgar Poe at leest I don't try to say Im goth. Whenever I hear peple talking about posers at leest I have some self awarness to say "yep" and go along with it. And if I were ever confronted with "name some of their songs" when wearing a shirt from a band who, if i know any other their songs, its onl ther better known songs, and Im gonna be honest and say "you know what, I haven't listened to them much, I just saw a cool shirt and figured I'd try them out sometime" or some shit like that.