I was goth. Original goth. Early 1980s goth/postpunk.
This ain't goth.
Goths are not pretty preppies wearing makeup from The Crow. Goth was a movement and it was basely largely on the era in which we lived. Modern goths are more like vampire kids or neo-emos. You don't get goth style from the mall.
We originals didn't do the white face crap (we did wear pale concealer, but not this fucking clown-white pancake crap). We got our clothes from vintage thriftshops (specifically NOT the mall) and we altered them, because goth was about showing your originality and creative talents in what you wore and did, and our style was inspired by 1920s fashion and old horror movies. Our makeup was not harlequin-like nor did it look like ICP's dumb "evil clown" makeup. The Crow was late to the game and not representative of how we appeared (though it was a great comic book).
More to the point, we weren't shitty people. We were the underdogs, and we banded together because the preps were terrible and the nerds of that era had no style and the punk scene needed a branch of creative, thoughtful, non-violent sorts who weren't so into moshpits and chains and red mohawks (though we counted them as our friends, and a lot of us were punks before we were "goth punks" that were eventually just called postpunk or goth or "new romantic" by others.)
And I'm sorry, but "glowup" is up there with "thirst trap" for stupid newspeak that is about as non-goth as it can possibly be.
Yes, I guess I am gatekeeping a bit. Because my generation built the fucking gate, and you know what? It's really damned annoying to watch your own subculture that was based in your experiences and ideals in a completely different decade-- your generational reaction TO that decade-- get co-opted by snotty, shallow, mainstream people who have entirely missed the point of it all and turned it into something commercial and hollow.
Goth is not a fashion statement you adopt on a whim and order online. It's not just a style of music. It was a way of life; A comment on the generations before us who fucked up the world, and a statement to the mainstream preppy elite who insisted that everything that wasn't dayglo designer fashion was for the weirdos and outcasts.
As far as I'm concerned, the actual goth subculture died in 1994. Whatever is shambling around now is mall goth at best, and it's not a social movement at all; It's just empty and recycled posing for Instagram.