• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I wish whatever people call “goth” today had a different name, because “goth” to me is people like this-

    Now it’s people like this-

    I think both looks are fine, but it’s weird to me how substantially different goths today look from goths of my youth compared to, for example modern punks, who still basically look like punks have always looked.

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        5 months ago

        The color has nothing to do with it. You really can’t see a complete difference in look?

        But if you want color-

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          5 months ago

          The clothing is actually quite similar, I think the big difference is the hair is smaller these days. Which kind of tracks- most hair today is smaller than 80s hair.

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            5 months ago

            Don’t underestimate Robert Smith. He’s only in love on Fridays. He spends the rest of the week training for combat.

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          5 months ago

          On the one hand, I was going for the cheap joke.
          On the other hand, it is not obvious to me which group is supposed to be superior to the other.