Honestly, I’ve always loved that you see people from different generations showing up to the club and doing their own things. Not Old Guy Coming To Hit On Women Half His Age–people coming to see their own friends, with their own stuff going on. Seems good for everybody.
I was explaining to my mom once about a monthly benefit night and a separate monthly craft bazaar and she started cracking up, saying it was like a church. My suspicion is that healthy community centers of any community develop similar appendages.
Well you will always have those who fetishize the look associated etc. But when it comes down to people who are actually into and enjoy the music. Yes I have to agree. All my closest friends are all what would be considered goth or Goth adjacent. Well that and older like myself lol. The OG original Goths as it were. Not that anyone’s gatekeeping lol. It’s also part of the reason why I went ahead and started up my own little similar theme sub on Lemmy here for post punk to talk tunes etc.