Anonymous submitted this photo with the comment “Net goth picnic late 90’s”. Ahh the 90s net goths. I sooo wanted to be one but my early attempts at joining the local community were futile as I clearly WASN’T GOTH ENOUGH and they could tell by my 3 posts to a message-board and my (admittedly extremely silly) username. It was back in the day when goths liked to surround themselves with extremely ornate wrought iron gates patrolled by a very sad old goth dude who proudly announced that NONE SHALL PASS unless you could recite the words to a very dull and obscure song by a dull and obscure local goth band who played once in an underground bunker before you were born. GOD FORBID that you were into something like industrial electro because that wasn’t goth, you imbecile! Yes, I’m still bitter and it’s 20-something years on. I know baby-goths younger than my bitterness.
Moving on to the photo, I have to give bonus points for the age of this one. It has the unmistakably shocking quality of the 90s shit point-and-click film camera. We have 8(?) goths up the tree, which is an excellent feat, and ~40 on-ground supporting cast members. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of smiling going on but we have to assume they’re drunk. They’re out in the daylight and we have to assume that they’re only wearing SPF 15, if anything at all, although 90s foundation was very thick and did provide some UV coverage.
4.7 out 5 - Hold onto your bitterness from the 90s if it’s keeping you going
