>>92020144Sage for moderately off-topic but even when I was a semi-popular track kid, I only dated goths who were beginning to transition into emos because they were absurdists. This is the suburban DFW portion of Texas if it means anything.
The only high school stereotypes in cartoons are band nerds, regular nerds, sporty chicks, tomboys, goths, and cheerleaders. There's no others that stick out to male viewers. And despite the male lead oftentimes being attracted to the cheerleader type or popular mean girl, the goth or tomboyish friend ends up being right for them in the end.
Cheerleaders took school pretty seriously and legitimately knew that high school was where they were going to peak. Secondly, they were into drinking alcohol and dancing to T-Pain while the goth side of school was more into smoking weed and only just getting out of the Queens of the Stoneage phase. The overlap of drug preference and tastes in music meant that I was totally down with the goth sector and still am. I'm depressed as fuck, overqualified with an two degrees in retail and have a
wicked sense of humor; I never really stopped being goth once high school ended despite being middle management.
