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Yes, as believe it or not it is not my job to sit down with and educate every person on the internet who doesn't understand what Goth is. The internet is a great real search tool, that you can and should use to educate yourself. I am not putting people down by defending my sub culture from people who dont understand it and make no effort to try and understand it from appropriating it.
The sub culture as a whole is already having to deal with the rampant fetishization of """goth girls""" people using it as a costume to appeal to those fetishizers and them coming in to our spaces to try and hit on them and thus making those spaces no longer safe.
And if people want to take Hanfu style and make it dark, that's cool, I actually think the outfit looks incredible, but it's not Goth.