Originally Posted by Billy the Kidd

No the goth that is being ripped off for todays teens was originally ripped off by morons in the 80s from the 1800s Romantic literary period of which gothic writing was a sub-genre. Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker etc.

The True goths were barbarians who had been invading the Romans for 100s of years about 2000 years before the gothic writing genre was even born.