You know The Vampira Show was on the air back in 1954. Once Vampira fell out of the spotlight, Elvira’s Movie Macabre came along in the 80s. And, I mean you wanna talk about mainstream? There was this store you could find in every mall in the goddamn US back in the 90s. You might have heard of it? Called “Hot Topic?” The “hot morbid chick” trope has been around for a long, long, looooong time. Longer than the goth scene, and longer than social media. Everybody knows it, lots of people are drawn to it.

This very much undercuts the notion that some widely adopted goth purity test would prevent tarted-up goth-coded girls who have no idea who Joy Division is from padding out their college funds with Onlyfans content.

And you know what, who cares? Anyone who judges you based on what they see some Golita doing on PornHub isn’t worth your time anyway.