Remember goth kids from high school?

[Jesda]

They all dressed kind of like juggalo vampires with pasty white facial makeup and wore nothing but black. They roamed around looking depressed and spent all day skipping class and hanging out in the smoking section of the high school parking lot.

Anyone know if any of these clowns (lol, literally) turned into normal people?

[darens13]

i graduated in '07 and it seems like those scumbags still hang out with high schoolers and take the bus to the mall.

[darens13]

not goth, but actual scumbag that i went to high school with, is like 22, still hangs out with high schoolers, and rides the bus to the mall

[Encryptshun]

Most of the goth kids I knew (college and post-college for me, not HS) weren't scumbags at all. No fun at parties, but generally not abrasive or harmful to anyone other than themselves....

Goth became Emo.

[flohtingPoint]

Goth wasn't big in my crappy HS. We just had a bunch of swing dance douchebags listening to Brian Stetzer and also a bunch of ridiculous mainstream punks jamming to sellouts like Blink182 and such.

[alms24sebring]

Agreed that goth did become emo. I had a couple in my high school. There was this one chick that was actually pretty hot.

And for the record goths are not vampires. Vampires are teh ghey.

[Dattebayo]

It's tough remembering, but I think I remember a lot of those folks, but emo hadn't really taken off yet, so they were just quiet and maybe scary looking.

The two chicks I knew were damn hot tho, in a foreboding and totally wrong sort of way.

[S13_love]

Anyone know if any of these clowns (lol, literally) turned into normal people?

For me, I have no idea. I really haven't seen any of the goth/emo kids since the day high school was over.

I just assume they're all dead. Or hanging out at Gamestop or something.

[hitbychance]

they all play WoW and hide in dark basements and work in call centers.

[Gold Digger]

I was fortunate enough to not have any of those types in my school. I graduated in 94.

[Xdisaster240sX]

I hate goth kids. I was the hacky sack playing skateboarder.

[Dattebayo]

they all play WoW and hide in dark basements and work in call centers.

The jigs up pal, we know you were one of them now!

[skydragoness]

Agreed that goth did become emo. I had a couple in my high school. There was this one chick that was actually pretty hot.

And for the record goths are not vampires. Vampires are teh ghey.

"per se"

My high school was mostly gangsta wannabes, preppies/DMB-Phish-Grateful Dead listening types.
I hung out with the nerd/foreign exchange student/goth kids in high school (96-00) , they were the only ones I could have an intelligent conversation with. Come to think of it, there were only a few goths in my HS. They didn't paint their faces white, but wore black most of the time and did crazy stuff with their hair. One of the girls now has bleached blonde hair and does something in human resources; and the other girl moved to Canada but does some kind of health/psych clinical work. The latter I bumped into a few times at my job before she moved and she still seemed 'goth' to me (but in a good way IMO).

[driverdriver]

I know a couple of 80's goth kids who teach at the university level. They gave up the pasty make-up but not the black clothing. At some point something clicked they finished highschool and went to university and stayed there.

[danshaz82]

the goth kids from my high school, i know havnt changed. most of them are just juggalos now. and i graduated in 08.
unfortunately, i got lumped into the "goth/emo" scene. punk isnt goth damnit! haha

[OutToWinPAHC]

I used to be a long haired metal head kid... now engineer but still creepy as hell

[orangeNblue]

Isn't that the way it usually works...most of the metal heads from my school went into the engineering program with me too. I like metal, never did the make-up and all black thing, but it seems that once they graduated they kinda grew out of it...didn't see very much of it in college

[MinisterofDOOM]

A good number of my...er...acquaintances...were goths in high school. I never was one, but I got on well enough with them. Better than with "normal" folks. I don't know what happened to any of them since then. Haven't seen any of them in years. I'm pretty sure most of them still work at McDonald's. None of them ever seemed to be particularly good at anything aside from angst.

[C-Kwik]

There were two girls that were gothish in my school. No white make-up like the first pic. They were pretty naturally pale. One was damned cute. The other was a total b*tch. I felt bad for her that people tended to make fun of her, but she talked so much crap, she kinda had it coming.

And speaking of the first pic, anyone else think if you put long black hair and that make-up on Greg, they would look the same?

[Ozzie]

I was fortunate enough to not have any of those types in my school. I graduated in 94.

Same here....... on both counts.

[themadscientist]

For some reason goth chicks followed me a lot in High School. I'm not sure what that was all about.

[hitbychance]

they all play WoW and hide in dark basements and work in call centers.

The jigs up pal, we know you were one of them now!

negative, i was a prep, ashamed to admit it but w/e

[themadscientist]

[frapjap]

I was a skateboarder/punk dress type during highschool and by association, hung out with a number of the goth kids because- face it- most skateboarders are pretty stupid (academically speaking). Thanks for FB, I've seen where some of them have ended up. Most went to college and have since become lawyers (or just finishing law school) a couple are electrical engineers for Boeing, a few teachers, and one playwright/director for quiet, never heard of indie films. Most of them were pretty successful in the long run. I attribute it to drive and ambition, not to what they looked like. Though, being singled out probably helped to mold them.

I don't think the overall success rate of success to failure was dependent on the click or how they dressed or were labeled, but more that when one (or more) of "these types" become a success others immediately remember them because they stuck out back in the informative years. Back home, there are equal amounts people of each "genre" who are fcukups that are still living highschool days at 26+ who have never been to college or had a real job or have 2+ kids from different parents, and are in debt up to their eyeballs because they bought a house, car, and furniture on credit with a crappy job VS. those who got out and have education, a real sense of the world, and disposable income.

Perhaps what I find most amusing is that, the successful people get the "I can't believe thats what you do now! You were such a nerd/fag/queer/loser/insert offensive name calling/jealousy here back in highschool," during the reunions. Really then? So I'm the loser who never left town, had kids, and still work as a server at the Outback who still resorts to petty name calling to try and bring you down? Suuuuuuuuuure thing buddy. Its one thing if you're trying to turn life around, but if you're not even trying; get bent.

[Jesda]

My name-calling was never petty -- I watched for people's weaknesses and brutalized them for sport. You could call it bullying, but it was smarter than that.

Its a natural consequence of being forced into an institution not of your choosing and having to share space and interact with people you mostly don't like.

[Crazyirish]

I did the hair-dye, make-up and all black clothes in high school. I turned out fairly normal(I suppose). I can still count the number of non-black articles of clothing I own on one hand though.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I can still count the number of non-black articles of clothing I own on one hand though.

It actually wasn't until a while after high school that I started wearing black. Still do. But I do it for exactly the opposite reason goths do. Goths do it to make a statement, and I do it because I don't care to make one. Like Ian Malcolm said in The Lost World, when all your clothes are black, you don't have to worry about what to wear every day. I'm not looking to impress anyone with my clothing choices, so keeping them as simple as possible is ideal. It's generally only when I'm dressing up for something deserving of my time that I DON'T wear black.

Most of my goth friends all wore lots of pentacles, Baphomet heads, pewter, spikes, etc. on top of all the black, and I'd actually say THAT was what defined their look more than the color black.

[frapjap]

My name-calling was never petty -- I watched for people's weaknesses and brutalized them for sport. You could call it bullying, but it was smarter than that.

Its a natural consequence of being forced into an institution not of your choosing and having to share space and interact with people you mostly don't like.

You're right, definitely differences between silly words and actual intelligent hazing. But that is what sets you apart, you understand how to get to someone intelligently. Its not bulling in the "kiss my shoe or I'll beat you up" sense, but more that you're using a method that requires tact that most typical bullies don't have.

[Fenris]

I was sorta a goth kid...
Wore all black [X]
Listen to metal [X]
With similar people [X]
but...
No makeup [X]
Honor roll [X]
Defensive tackle on HS team [X] (wtf?)

Goth =/= Emo =/= Vampire-fagpire-twilightBS
Emos were in a diff section of the cafeteria, crying, cutting fools...

But rave did become scene.. which is also sad, because rave chicks were hot too.
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Argue all you like, goth chicks can be REALLY hot. Was gonna say are... but there were some whales...

[TroubleBound]

Lots of 'goths' in my hs, but i don't know what happened to most of them, or anyone from hs really. One that sat next to me in english class always brought his 'satan bible' and sharpened his black painted fingernails to pointy claw dealios in class. I found him entertaining. He told me he was a 10,000 year old reincarnated vampire lol. (This was long before twilight) Last i checked(2 years ago), he was a cart pusher at walmart.

Cant say im much more successful tho. I guess i was part of the smaller skater clique if i was anything. Im just now starting to save for community college. (i graduated 05) Spent the last few years just wasting my time away drinking and smoking herb all day then skating. Also just received my first(and only) felony charge so that will make success a little harder. I'm a server at a sports bar. Woohoo .