i loved the first skirt you wore, its so pretty !

I’m an amalgamation of metalhead, rivethead, goth, steampunk and grunge. I have many interests

Pro tip: Stock up on spooky jewelry and tights and even makeup at the Halloween store. Cannibalize the ugly stuff they sell to make unique items for yourself.

Do thits also work for boys or masc presenting individuals?

I don’t think my parents would get mad, because my mom said she doesn’t have to like what I wear. I mean she has to like it to an extent but as long as I’m not wearing anything too revealing I won’t have any problem with my parents. My problem is testing the waters. Seeing how alt I can go before they tell me to change or take something off. Like I’m worried that they might tell me to take off my eyeliner if I try to wear it in front of them.

Currently i live with my strict ahh grandparents (due to family issues) and they're really strict christians, they dislike when i wear anything even slightly alternative or not "normal." I might be able to move in with my mom at some point, my mom had an emo or alt phase so I know she wouldn't care (plus we both are kinda emo), but i want to be able to at least have some form of alt fashion to express myself in my current home. thank you so much, Rayne! I'm gonna try these and hopefully my grandparents won't mind

Dang it, I guess I like watching style videos now

I like A lot of music including goth, punk and emo. I think I should identify as alternative because even with fashion I'm eclectic. Coz I see it as an umbrella term, one that could be used to describe someone like me who doesn't really fit into one subculture.

Watching in 2024 <3

I see so many “alt kids” nowadays that are legitimate bullies almost dressing like the ones they would have bullied had they been born several decades prior like wearing their victims skin. There are no subcultures anymore bc the internet killed all of them. Nothing is new and we’ve been stuck in a feedback loop since 2012

Have you steampunk fashion style?

Are you single gorgeous doll🤘💀😎😉🤘

That moment when all alt kids have strict parents

Do you have to take the pins out when washing the shirt?

The gate keep is crazy but I feel yiu

Damn like wtf are you hot rocker chicks at! Cant stand these normie harlots 😘 swear i got the worst luck with chicks😒😒😂

Lollol it's just MUSIC just so you idiots know it's funny people think this is all political I despise people like that not just me though everyone despises that. You are who you are carry yourself lik that and it speaks it doesn't matter what your into its not IMPORTANT. What's important is the values people have incomin you both could like the same music DRESS the same but still HATE one another if the core values aren't met , punk metal rock alt.... It really doesn't matter because you could have different genres talking about the same THING just in a different vibe and vice versa . Idgaf who or what you look like if you don't have my values I DESPISE YOU

Interesting , like listening to you talk🥰

if anybodys interested in piercings but cant afford it, too young, or not sure abt the pain u can fake a handful of them with piercing beads that u can buy offline OR cut off of a silverbeaded bracelet + lash glue !!

" I'm a fifty six year old virgin "

Where’s the green dress from?

My koi footwear boots the screw came out I just need a new screw I just need the screw size but I can’t find it

Wow I haven't seen safety pins in a long while.

Somehow this video popped up into my feed and i love it. I always appreciate and respect alternative music and communities 😮😊

wrong. 90s alt was mainstream.

What do i do if my style is too cutesy for regular ppl but not truly alt either? How can i push the alternative aesthetic?

I too gained (a bunch) of weight the last couple years (a lot due to medical probs), so next to nothing in my closet fits. I've picked up some stuff, but unfortunately am on a limited budget because I'm disabled. I think the biggest thing that's been a huge bummer is because of the amount of edema I have in my feet and ankles, NONE of my old shoes fit (okay a cheap pair of "winter" boots still fit, but it's not like I can wear them all year). I have a bunch of shoes and loved coordinating them to my outfits and it really bums me out that I can't do that anymore. I at least picked up a decent pair of boots from Hot Topic (the main store I shopped at way back in high school a couple decades ago lol, and the only place I could find that actually does decent returns online) so I'm able to inject some goth in my outfits. I found your channel a couple days ago while looking for ways to alter clothes and whatnot so I can pick up stuff from thrift stores. I'm glad you're in a better mental health state, and keep up the awesome work helping others!

UR SO EPIC

Very off topic but i love your brows

Good video. I'd like to add that alternative culture has its roots long before the 1950's Mod era. The Romantics and Bohemians of the 1800s were seen as the counter-culture of the Victorian period, questioning social norms and influencing avant garde styles in later decades. The "trendification" of alt styles tends to come and go, but there always have been (and will always be) social outcasts, who seek refuge in a lifestyle that is separate from the mainstream.

Is borin for girls??

I’m a proud emo and I hate when people call me goth 🙄🙄🙄

When I was a teenager, in the late 2000s and early 2010s, the situation was quite problematic... I think the old punks and metalheads are no longer relevant today as they were then. The young alternative urban tribes such as the Emos, the Pop Punks or the Mall Goths were despised by the underground subcultures of the 20th century. Honestly, I started to be interested in dark underground subcultures when I was a teenager because... I was a bit weird... and I thought that edgy look was cool and I preferred rock misic to pop and EDM... and later I understood the rest of the philosophy I lived in a small place and didn't fully identify with punk, but the only alternative people in my town were a group of punks who became my friends. This situation influenced me because I couldn't choose friends with similar tendencies to mine and I had to get closer to punks so as not to be socially marginalized. Slowly and unconsciously I adapted my musical influences, my lifestyle, my clothes and my ideals to punk. Finally in 2010 I went to university and with the explosion of alternative internet cultures I was able to form my own identity. The problem with gatekeeping is that until the 2000s there were only 3 or 4 subcultures from which you could choose with a very specific aesthetic and way of living. Today there are infinite possibilities and the old punks and metalheads don't understand the young people who don't fit in their traditional patterns. There is a generational gap between boomers and genx that separates them from millennials and genz in the way they understand alternative subcultures. Great video, greetings from Spain

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"Alt was never mainstream" *takes pills for mental issues*

What poster is that behind you? it looks so good

i came here to try and style a hot pink crop top the my friend made me how i’m gonna do it Pink crop top black mesh top over top jean cargos heart chain belt black boots with hot pink laces hot pink jean chain skull hands hoodie jewellery: my black snake bites rose quartz necklace+skull necklace only 1 nose ring Skull earring in lower lobe 2 pink star earrings silver cartilage ring ear chain 2 random silver rings

i'm so in love these these looks. That red plaid dress + the all the multi necklace looks are iconic 😍

just gonna type out some thoughts that popped up for me watching this 😱i'm 25 now and i related to going up to alternative people and hoping to have similar interests and make friends, but then having nothing in common. It's pretty isolating and harder to make alternative friends than before, especially since leaving school/uni circles. I get very nostalgic for school friends, going to concerts together, sharing music and just sitting around outside in a park or whatever hanging out and having fun, being in a little school band with my friends where we covered alternative rock songs!! Lotta nostalgia aha but I lost contact due to distance and people going off to uni. It seems like a lot of the culture is now online, on tik tok, twitter or discord groups with mostly younger people. But I just don't vibe with these online places D: I've found it really hard to find people for literal years with all these factors!

Thank you, I really appreciate this video 💚✨. Learning my fashion ND this helps cause I suck 🤣😭☠️