nigga I don't fucking know, I read the whole thing and still fucking confused on what a "dinergoth" is

Is a "dinergoth" some sort of poser?

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what's with the handful of people trying to push this word so desperately? it doesn't even make sense for what you're trying to describe and that genre of person is literally just an evolution of a concept that already existed with the tumblr smol bean crowd.

>>10965385
what kind of diner are we talking about here?
t. lardass

>>10965395
It's just a downwardly mobile tumblr/fandom/geek/alt/septum piercing type

These things all go together these days

It's not a subculture but a very normal aspect of left-behind america now

anime-fication of the american lower-middle classes in the hinterlands

>>10965395
what would they be "poseurs" for? They are obviously the real deal, they believe all thjeir shit and are barely self aware about it

>>10965395
>Is a "dinergoth" some sort of poser?
Yes.

Subcultures don't exist anymore; this is just various trends on the ridiculous social media machine.

>>10965467
This makes post-subculturals MORE authentic though. It's just become "baseline fashion" rather than a statement or commitment to some scene or cause

>>10965428
being a weeb faggot gooner desnt make you a poser, but calling yourself a "dinergoth" because of it does

>>10965385
Dunno why they invented a new word for e-girls, I guess maybe "e-girl" is a slur now so they have to call themselves a more insulting version of "mall goth", or maybe "e-girl" became too associated with streamers. Or maybe the term "e-girl" didn't have enough emphasis on the goth part, since the goth look is currently making a comeback.

If there is a split between e-girls and dinergoths as this UD screenshot implies, I'd say cosplay is e-girls since cosplay is expensive and there's a heavy emphasis on being poor in this definition.

>>10965423
>left-behind america
Honestly a good way of describing the job market over the past two years, but that discussion might be too /biz/ for this board.

>>10965507
1. there are male dinergoths
2. there are dinergoths who don't ewhore online (most in fact do not)
3. plenty of poorfags cosplay

I don't get the conflation of weebism and piercings/tats. The latter have permeated every segment of society, including a vast horde of normies who care nothing for anime. OTH, anime/weeb-nerdom may have been normalized as a hobby but it's never hit majority status in any demographic.
I don't see the overlap. If weebs body-mod it's only because everyone is body-modding these days.

>>10965395
I think it means the transformation of the previously niche/edgy subculture into the mundane. Goths used to be rare while dinergoths are a dime a dozen.

how about cringegoth?

>>10965519
>1. there are male dinergoths
>2. there are dinergoths who don't ewhore online (most in fact do not)
that's not the zoomer definition of egirl. they use it to refer to a specific style.

>>10965558
Can you post an example of a boy wearing egirl style that isnt crossdressing?
I really dont know what that looks like

>>10965519
>there are male dinergoths
the term e-boy exists

>>10965549
>The latter have permeated every segment of society, including a vast horde of normies who care nothing for anime.
I feel like the same thing was happening with blue hair in the 2010's. I remember seeing people who look like they never touched anime (old people for example) suddenly having pink or green hair, presumably because they saw some young girl copying off of anime. Seems like that fad died during covid.

>>10965568
Look up Moe Shop

>>10965557
I'm all for Mc dinner goth, they only dine in Mc, they're very advanced though they combine multiple offers and coupons, they're all obese, they wear dark makeup, to express their grief for not being able to order more mc nuggets

>>10965395
Amazing how low iqs on this board are. Clearly says that everything goth is just a fact of life now.
And to answer OPs question, yes. Anime is basically mainstream now and "cosplay" is no different than a bunch of sluts dressing up for halloween or dressing fancy for a formal event. It just a thing everyone does now. And while we're at it most conventions and events aren't even full of nerds anymore, just normalfags doing what geeks did 20 years ago.

>>10965507
>I guess maybe "e-girl" is a slur now
>now
e-girl has always been a sexist slur moids threw at women doing anything quirky.

>>10965843
even though egirl subculture was a term alt women on tiktok used to refer to themselves back in 2018-2022

>>10965964
they were reclaiming it

>>10965507
>2 years
I graduated in 2007, just in time to watch all my friends' life trajectories get annihilated in the 2008 crash when suddenly nobody anywhere was hiring. The current situation (starting with covid and continuing to accelerate to this day) has merely been a long-delayed second shoe dropping.

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there's a magazine article on dinergoths
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/american-diner-gothic

>>10965385
Absolutely. Even a lot of the ones that become big deals have trashy roots.

>>10966398
non-paywalled version here: https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewatlantis.com%2Fpublications%2Famerican-diner-gothic

The most diner goth thing I can think of is
>Cosplaying
>as a nameless Ghoul from the band Ghost
>at ColossalCon
Could probably add on more like what beer they've got in hand but I don't know enough on that subject to make an authoritative brand namedrop

>>10967214
isn't colossalcon awesome?

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>>10967660
"Awesome" is measured by the standard of ColossalCon instead of the inverse. Dinergoth isn't an insult, it's just a stated fact here