Attack of the virtual clones.
Date Friday, March 29, 2024 - 05:31 AM PST
Topic Rant


I'm going to scream. I swear I am. I'm sitting at my computer randomly drifting through self-titled 'gothic' pages and just feeling bored out of my skull. There seems to be so little online now that's new or different. I'm sitting here thinking "I've read this all before and I was unimpressed the first time". Maybe my site isn't any different. Perhaps I'm just contributing to the growing pile of bullshit that's cluttering up the net. For every genuinely interesting site I find I'll have to trawl through a hundred pointless, Mansonitic, mind-numbing, crowd-following, illiterate, boring, unoriginal, and just generally crappy 'gothik' or, dare I say it 'vampyre' ::shudders:: sites.
Haven't you people heard of a spell checker? Don't even talk to me about your kEwLiEz 5ty1e of writing. It pisses me off. Okay, so perhaps I'm guilty of a few sins, aren't we all? I'll admit to having used the words 'boi' and 'kewl' at some point in my dark, mysterious past ::cue goth-as-fuck music:: but I'd like to understand what I'm reading, Please, for the sake of my sanity!

Then, of course, you get pages such as the Reality
Check or Goth Wanker of the Week which are just designed to criticize all the sites which they think are no good. Okay, so the sites featured really, really deserve to get the piss taken out of them. They suck, and in no small sense of the word. It just gets to me a bit, sometimes their criticism just comes off as pretension. "I'm so much gother than thou." I recognize that this makes this whole rant I'm now writing sound like nothing more than hypocritical, pretentious drivel. Maybe that's all this is - a conceited farce.

Am I really any better than all the other people whose sites I've been surfing? I speak from my heart. I write what I think. I like to think that I'm fair - that I don't act like I know better or *am* better than anyone else. But I *am* better Godamnit. When I've just spent a goodly amount of time reading 'Mystryss of the Nyght's site where she pours out her 'heart and sole' (sic) then I sincerely hope that I am better than that. That I don't seem shallow and vapid. That I act for me, do what I want and don't just follow a pre-conceived notion of 'cool' or the stereotypical perception of 'goth'. That I'm not a fake or a poseur. If you think I am then fine, just think for a minute, are you really so much better than me?

I'm just sick of it all. I'm thoroughly disillusioned with the 'gothic' and 'pagan' sites that the net has to offer. Do you really expect me to load up your site and go 'Oh, wow! Look at that cool spinning ankh.gif that I've only seen on every other bloody site in existence.'? Another major gripe - 'meet me' pages. I like them. I like knowing about whose site I'm reading. I know they're somewhat of an exercise in virtual egotism but I can't help it. I like finding out about people. Just the pages which read along the lines of "My name is Mystress of all things Dark and sp00ky and I am a 213 year old vampyre" irk me somewhat. You aren't a vampire. Get it through your head, into that vacuous space that your brain ought to occupy (had you not killed it through excessive bleaching in your 'trendy' phase). If I read a 'Meet Me' page it's going to be because I want to learn about the author of the site, not because I want to help the author indulge in their own little fantasy of 'I am vampyre, hear me roar.'. While I'm pissed off and bitching I suppose I ought to include this as well; I don't give a damn how good your content is if I can't read the bloody writing. If it's written like this or is dark brown on a black background (insert other difficult to view combination here) then I'm not going to want to know.

So, am I the most hypocritical moron you have had the misfortune to happen across, or do you think I actually have a valid point?

*At least I don't write bad poetry.*

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