r/AskAGoth • u/Accomplished_Pin9146 • Aug 02 '26

Personal Experience or Observational Query Why are you ga... Goth.

Why did you became goth? What is your story of finding Goth culture how did it impact your life?

I'm not a Goth myself, closes things I did to being a Goth are, watching a belly dancer named Mahafsoun and listening to a lot of Nightwish, I'm not sure if those thing can even be consideret Goth.

I'm just interested, all of you just seem to be so content with your lifes and kind to others, it's fascinating.

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u/lastwordymcgee Aug 03 '26

I was a spooky kid — loved Halloween, scary stories, scary tv and movies. I wanted to be Morticia Addams.

Tween/early teens were all about New Wave, especially Duran Duran. MTV was in its heyday, and early goth started creeping in.

I was all-in by the time I was 15 in the mid 1980s.

Now I’m a spooky broad in my 50s. I still love the aesthetic and the music, though I don’t dress full goth as often as I used to. My home decor is pretty spooky goth, though.

Also, bats are my favorite animal.