The Herald sums up goth culture in a single sentence

By adamg on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 9:18am

Thanks to the Herald, we know today that that Southie girl waiting for some alleged West Virginia yokel to take her away wasn't just troubled. She was a goth. The Herald reports the two met online at GothChatCity.com. And as the Herald notes:

Gothchatcity.com, where Confere encountered the girl, is an online social networking group for people obsessed with gloom and doom.

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Don't they mean

By anon on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 9:47am.

Don't they mean HowieCarr.com?

You sure she was a goth and

By anon on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 10:01am.

You sure she was a goth and not a vampire?

Depends

By adamg on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 11:06am.

Is she a Boston Latin student?

From Wikipedia - which gets

By NotWhitey on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 10:23am.

From Wikipedia - which gets watched and edited constantly for this kind of thing:

The allure for goths of dark, mysterious, and morbid imagery and mood lies in the same tradition of Romanticism's gothic novel.

Dark, mysterious and morbid: Doom and gloom.

Not exactly synonymous, but not too far apart either.