This is the first time I've heard the term "mall goth" since the mid-2000s. I thought malls were dead, and that mall goths (figuratively) died with them.
@@victorkreig6089I have like four around my local area and I don’t travel that far so not dead but just less popularized by people looking for actual things to buy but people who are bored and lost and need a place to spend their time while slowly dying.
Malls are dying in Canada. Their vestigial corpses of pre-2015 society being kept on life support from the never ending supply of young women that want to do all the same kind of shopping they could do at home on Amazon, except in a public place where they can show off their adherence to the latest makeup and outfit trends that they will consider to be cringe within a few shorts years time.
That’s a really nice message to hear. Thank you ❤️ Hope you get better soon and eventually write an autobiography about how influential I was to you namaste 🙏🏻
Their individual BMIs are a touch too high to be the Necromancer from Diablo 4. (This is more of a joke about how crackhead skinny the Necromancer I'm Diablo 4 is.)
Did you have to call me out about the self-serve machine at McDonalds? Also, scary goth girl being scary behind your back was scary, and I think she's awesome.
Aint none of them was scary, cute yes scary no. Only time a goth has ever been scary is when they have a hammer in their hand. If you ever see that run as fast as you can
The mall goth scene here in Asheville, NC is really the only reason I go to the mall anymore. I married one and gave her a baby. Best decision I ever made.
In my town the goths would hang around the bus station smoking hash. Never travelling anywhere just their chosen location to congregate for some reason.
Dont know why but all these vids reminds me of like the 70's/90's. 70's people / haircuts and 90's camera quality. Like a travel back in time.. Keep them comming!
Mall goths were around sence 1994 it started out with the fall of pagenisen & the collapse of wicca then after colinbie it started to slowly expand after curupeded polititions & city Mary's dustryed the skate parks & continued into the 200s
Aye coz nothing defines being a “rebellious, counter cultural EDGE LORD” more than being a walking billboard for the Monster energy drink corporation those pair of shorts are a pure state. honkin
cultural observations have reached their peak. this is no small feat. well done frankie. "here i am w/mallgoths, on public transport"🤘🏼🤣 also, i began a subculture of mallgoth some yrs ago; mall garage goth. i'm not aware of any others, but feel free to identify accordingly if you're a goth of some degree who finds peace of mind in chilling in the mall garage for the free hr parking away from the sun be it to wash your car or do work in your car and play gothy tunes, or go as far as to sample the reverb of the garage at 3am for your goth-ish recordings. bonus points if your car's a murdered out batmobile of any capacity, more bonus points if you do any of this with no intentions of entering the mall itself, for reasons pertaining to social anxiety and other culturally interchangeable gothisms. but i digress... or just die... wee! 🦇🌚💫
At this point they're completely identical to the millenial y2k era mall goths with how they dress and the music they like, the only difference is that zoomer mall goths have iphones instead of nokias and nu-metal technically isn't nu any more. Personally I think they're appropriating millenial culture and zoomer mall goths should be forced to refer to nu-metal as ol-metal.
There isn't. Depends on how much of a virgin u r. Emo is an aggressive and angry subgenre of hardcore. Goth is an offshoot of Post punk/ new wave and hard rock
This is me. Literally me. No other character can come close to relating to me like this. There is no way you can convince me this is not me. This character could not possibly be anymore me. It's me, and nobody can convince me otherwise. If anyone approached me on the topic of this not possibly being me, then I immediately shut them down with overwhelming evidence that this character is me. This character is me, it is indisputable. Why anyone would try to argue that this character is not me is beyond me. If you held two pictures of me and this character side by side, you'd see no difference. I can safely look at this character every day and say "Yup, that's me". I can practically see this character every time I look at myself in the mirror. I go outside and people stop me to comment how similar I look and act to this character. I chuckle softly as I'm assured everyday this character is me in every way. I can smile each time I get out of bed every morning knowing that I've found my identity with this character and I know my place in this world. It's really quite funny how similar this character is to me, it's almost like we're identical twins. When I first saw this character, I had an existential crisis. What if this character was the real me and I was the fictional being. What if this character actual became aware of my existence? Did this character have the ability to become self aware itself?
This is me. Literally me. No other character can come close to relating to me like this. There is no way you can convince me this is not me. This character could not possibly be anymore me. It's me, and nobody can convince me otherwise. If anyone approached me on the topic of this not possibly being me, then I immediately shut them down with overwhelming evidence that this character is me. This character is me, it is indisputable. Why anyone would try to argue that this character is not me is beyond me. If you held two pictures of me and this character side by side, you'd see no difference. I can safely look at this character every day and say "Yup, that's me". I can practically see this character every time I look at myself in the mirror. I go outside and people stop me to comment how similar I look and act to this character. I chuckle softly as I'm assured everyday this character is me in every way. I can smile each time I get out of bed every morning knowing that I've found my identity with this character and I know my place in this world. It's really quite funny how similar this character is to me, it's almost like we're identical twins. When I first saw this character, I had an existential crisis. What if this character was the real me and I was the fictional being. What if this character actual became aware of my existence? Did this character have the ability to become self aware itself?
Very good use of that tube's momentum to roll into the next scene Frankie, you're starting to ignore gravity just like that little girl at 1:20 lacked any spatial awareness at all and got into the shot
Difference between goths, scene kids, emos and punks. Goths will chase you ironically, punks will chase you to kill you,scene kids will be too zooted off the Molly to chase you, and emos will stand depressingly
I personally never had a goth/emo/scene phase, growing up. Too sickly to do much, in general. I *did* briefly go rap phase and Rastafarian-phase, though, when I got into better health. Each of those only lasted a couple months, back-to-back. But I found my true calling in praising the striking blows of the hammer of the gods smashing into the anvil of time, forging my heart into a better person than I really was expected to be, all things considered. I DID date a few goths, though. Not all at once, of course. Over time.
I think the biggest hit to Mall Goths was Hot Topic redirecting focus toward more nerd-core commercialism.
100%. Once the actual cds disappeared, it all went downhill. Then they started selling sports jerseys, what's when we knew for sure.
Disney, 1/4 of the store being anime, and Funko pop figures was the last straw.
I don’t even hate anime.
"-core"
The backing track needs to be in every cultural observation video. It makes the series more archival.
Yeah wut song is that, it slaps
@@Max-ri6zr dunno, but i'm keen to find out. Sounds like a casio cz-5000, rich and warm. Reminiscent of satoshi & makoto's music
Just leaving a comment here in case someone finds the name of the song
Replying to find out
We all know Frankie's watching this thread and refuses to share.
This is the first time I've heard the term "mall goth" since the mid-2000s. I thought malls were dead, and that mall goths (figuratively) died with them.
Malls are only dead in the US, mostly because of amazon
@@victorkreig6089I have like four around my local area and I don’t travel that far so not dead but just less popularized by people looking for actual things to buy but people who are bored and lost and need a place to spend their time while slowly dying.
The mall near me is pretty popular, they have a late night food court with restaurants etc. I despise the place though.
Malls are dying in Canada. Their vestigial corpses of pre-2015 society being kept on life support from the never ending supply of young women that want to do all the same kind of shopping they could do at home on Amazon, except in a public place where they can show off their adherence to the latest makeup and outfit trends that they will consider to be cringe within a few shorts years time.
@@victorkreig6089 UPS mostly.
I used to be a Mall Goth, but that's because I was on probation and had F all to do otherwise.
fair enough
@odasyti and what have you evolved into?
I am now bro Fml
@@stadtbekanntertunichtgut good question.
I was there for old mall goth. I'm glad this generation is keeping the eyeliner alive.
The Originals you imitated have already been doing so for decaded
@@layditms2who are the originals? Edgar Allan Poe?
i respect their confidence tho.
Ditto. And their individualism.
@@JesusFriedChrist Yes, even if it looks more like conformity to teenage social trends.
@@AlbertoGarcia-yb4ihsometimes teens figure out who they are by trying on different costumes
Just want to write, I have been struggling a lot and these videos have helped me get through my day. THANK YOU.
That’s a really nice message to hear. Thank you ❤️ Hope you get better soon and eventually write an autobiography about how influential I was to you namaste 🙏🏻
I love hate this so much. Whoever is keeping with my angsty 15 yr old fashion choice of being a goth. I support you.
"They think Bauhaus is the name of a place in Hawai'i." 💀💀💀
It's a place in Germany right?
@@stadtbekanntertunichtgutIt’s a school of architecture and a philosophy.
@@stadtbekanntertunichtgut AND... a sick band!!! Go give them a listen right meiw!!!
@@axelnils and a great DIY store
I used to sit in cafes for 5 hours at a time just drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes because I thought it was cool.
I never knew my Diablo 4 necromancer existed in real life.
Their individual BMIs are a touch too high to be the Necromancer from Diablo 4.
(This is more of a joke about how crackhead skinny the Necromancer I'm Diablo 4 is.)
The fucking band names being incorporated into the script are gold.
That naruto run was a really nice touch.
Ghoulishly tweaked too.
Good to see some Mall Goths still kicking it about the place. They're an endangered species, and should be protected.
I see them everytime I go into a mall.
obsessed with the girl doing a naruto run at the end
It must be really scary when people who look like vampires are mad at you! 😂
Theyre mad at themselves mostly
Goths almost never get mad at you, and if they are it's usually because you boke up with them and won't take them back
I read this as he said it.
Did you have to call me out about the self-serve machine at McDonalds? Also, scary goth girl being scary behind your back was scary, and I think she's awesome.
Aint none of them was scary, cute yes scary no. Only time a goth has ever been scary is when they have a hammer in their hand. If you ever see that run as fast as you can
And very aestheticly pleasing.
@@DeltaNovum - Very much so, yeah. 🖤
The mall goth doing Naruto running was cute tho
The mall goth scene here in Asheville, NC is really the only reason I go to the mall anymore. I married one and gave her a baby. Best decision I ever made.
I only hope my son can follow in my footsteps.
I'm on the way
The blonde on the right in the opening shot is Margot Robbie. Change my mind.
Yeah she pretty like her too
How do these people get the confidence to walk around like that , I cant even talk to people properly thinking they would judge me 😢
A lifetime of rejection
People will judge anyway, might as well look awesome while being judged
@@FlokiTheJackdawthat’s the thing though, they don’t look awesome
The fact that they don't look awesome to many people is what makes them look awesome
@@DR3ADNOUGHT no they look like boring clowns
The world needs more Goths!
In my town the goths would hang around the bus station smoking hash. Never travelling anywhere just their chosen location to congregate for some reason.
Lazy police officers 🐷👹
Dont know why but all these vids reminds me of like the 70's/90's.
70's people / haircuts and 90's camera quality.
Like a travel back in time..
Keep them comming!
Mall goths were around sence 1994 it started out with the fall of pagenisen & the collapse of wicca then after colinbie it started to slowly expand after curupeded polititions & city Mary's dustryed the skate parks & continued into the 200s
I was hears the tearm mall goth in March of 2006 after I got out of arm surgery while skate boarding & cross path with a consuriteve emo 😅
the small one i would put in my doll shelf for scary old lady things.
@@anabellarivolta are you like a creepy pedophile?
oh your a women, so that comment is ok i guess?
no its not! shame on you!
Can we appreciate how awesome they look?
These are great and the dead pan delivery really makes these special. Also, the Naruto run at the end is classic.Great work, sir.
🔥🔥🔥🔥😎👍👍
Aye coz nothing defines being a “rebellious, counter cultural EDGE LORD” more than being a walking billboard for the Monster energy drink corporation
those pair of shorts are a pure state. honkin
The naruto run at the end really makes this!
According to closed captions this lot are all called Margaret
Cultural Observations: Skateboarders when
It's quite fun to see some people still rocking a style that I was into in my teenage angst years so long ago.
The puns are some serious killing jokes.
its the spooky kids, They listened to industrial rock, nu metal, shock rock and neue deutsche harte
cultural observations have reached their peak. this is no small feat. well done frankie.
"here i am w/mallgoths, on public transport"🤘🏼🤣
also, i began a subculture of mallgoth some yrs ago; mall garage goth. i'm not aware of any others, but feel free to identify accordingly if you're a goth of some degree who finds peace of mind in chilling in the mall garage for the free hr parking away from the sun be it to wash your car or do work in your car and play gothy tunes, or go as far as to sample the reverb of the garage at 3am for your goth-ish recordings. bonus points if your car's a murdered out batmobile of any capacity, more bonus points if you do any of this with no intentions of entering the mall itself, for reasons pertaining to social anxiety and other culturally interchangeable gothisms. but i digress... or just die... wee!
🦇🌚💫
2:44; that transition is the funniest part of this video, thx for this.
All the mall goths I’ve known were really sweet kids. Just a bit misunderstood and cringey lol
Thanks YT for the video recommendation LOL...
You have a new subscriber mate!!!! Cheers
I laughed a lot at the part where he casually rides the escalator downwards 😅
I feel like he’s particularly fond of mall goths based off this vid, idk why
I love being a mall goth
Really loved the Motionless in White reference!
Dude for real these are so effing amazing!!!
"It's not about the destination. . ." That's too true.
The music makes this one feel so different
interesting. i thought this species had been killed in 2004 by the suffocating skinny jeans of the emos, but i guess not.
As soon as wider fit trousers/pants came back the return of these was inevitable
At this point they're completely identical to the millenial y2k era mall goths with how they dress and the music they like, the only difference is that zoomer mall goths have iphones instead of nokias and nu-metal technically isn't nu any more. Personally I think they're appropriating millenial culture and zoomer mall goths should be forced to refer to nu-metal as ol-metal.
True. Maybe there needs to me a nu nu metal. 🤔
This channel needs to blow up. IT NEEDS TO.
One of them runs like Naruto.
Mall goths have been around for a long time
im starting to think that i myself am one lol; also ur voice is really relaxing and nice to listen 2:)
Nice of Frankie to release the full deleted scenes of 'We are all going to the world's fair'
I miss goths
my mind is clean, thank you frankie
I can't get enough!
There must be a lot of overlap with emos. Do the two groups like each other? And yes, death is fucking sick man!
💀💀💀
There's an episode of South Park which answers that very question.
There isn't. Depends on how much of a virgin u r. Emo is an aggressive and angry subgenre of hardcore. Goth is an offshoot of Post punk/ new wave and hard rock
Remember when being goth was rebellious?
Remember when smoking was rebellious?
1:30 - that lass behind him like "for fuck sake, mate, can you stand on the right like a civilised human, please?"
This is me. Literally me. No other character can come close to relating to me like this. There is no way you can convince me this is not me. This character could not possibly be anymore me. It's me, and nobody can convince me otherwise. If anyone approached me on the topic of this not possibly being me, then I immediately shut them down with overwhelming evidence that this character is me. This character is me, it is indisputable. Why anyone would try to argue that this character is not me is beyond me. If you held two pictures of me and this character side by side, you'd see no difference. I can safely look at this character every day and say "Yup, that's me". I can practically see this character every time I look at myself in the mirror. I go outside and people stop me to comment how similar I look and act to this character. I chuckle softly as I'm assured everyday this character is me in every way. I can smile each time I get out of bed every morning knowing that I've found my identity with this character and I know my place in this world. It's really quite funny how similar this character is to me, it's almost like we're identical twins. When I first saw this character, I had an existential crisis. What if this character was the real me and I was the fictional being. What if this character actual became aware of my existence? Did this character have the ability to become self aware itself?
Can you have a parasocial relationship with yourself? Seems like we're about to find out
This is me. Literally me. No other character can come close to relating to me like this. There is no way you can convince me this is not me. This character could not possibly be anymore me. It's me, and nobody can convince me otherwise. If anyone approached me on the topic of this not possibly being me, then I immediately shut them down with overwhelming evidence that this character is me. This character is me, it is indisputable. Why anyone would try to argue that this character is not me is beyond me. If you held two pictures of me and this character side by side, you'd see no difference. I can safely look at this character every day and say "Yup, that's me". I can practically see this character every time I look at myself in the mirror. I go outside and people stop me to comment how similar I look and act to this character. I chuckle softly as I'm assured everyday this character is me in every way. I can smile each time I get out of bed every morning knowing that I've found my identity with this character and I know my place in this world. It's really quite funny how similar this character is to me, it's almost like we're identical twins. When I first saw this character, I had an existential crisis. What if this character was the real me and I was the fictional being. What if this character actual became aware of my existence? Did this character have the ability to become self aware itself?
So much (me) i drank myself to death!
Perfect copypasta response; says absolutely nothing specific, it could be posted on any of this guy's videos. Any video at all, even.
Omg, I forgot that MM rumour! 😂
Very good use of that tube's momentum to roll into the next scene Frankie, you're starting to ignore gravity just like that little girl at 1:20 lacked any spatial awareness at all and got into the shot
i love these vids
do 2 of them have one bad eye or is it now a trend to pretend to be blind in one eye?
1 could of been bad eye 2 its a trend
Waiting for high viz mall goths to be a trend.
Visigoths
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind💀💀💀💀
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmindIsn't that more of a resurgence. . ?
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind I mean, Cybergoths had a lot of reflectors on their clothes if i recall correctly x)
Mall goths apeared after colinbine & the fall of certen skate boarding grups it branced off from wicca
Difference between goths, scene kids, emos and punks. Goths will chase you ironically, punks will chase you to kill you,scene kids will be too zooted off the Molly to chase you, and emos will stand depressingly
Monster pants girl Is super cute .... .... ....
Lord knows I need a mall goth gf
Pretty sure beggars aren't ever choosers but keep LARPing like you're after something specific :')
@@r0br33r Now THAT is the teenage angst im looking for! Wanna go on a date? Perhaps in a mall?
best one yet, even better than the darndale one
Mall goths originated in Darndale
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmindAnd Serendipity was her name 😊
Do skateboarders please!
I'm all about the Gall Moths
ill bet Gall Moth thinks Bauhaus was a school in germany that got shut down by the nazis for being too cool
Rare Commodity.
does anyone know the track playing in the background? it's really pretty
Yeah it’s a track I made one FL studio! Not released . I just use it for my vids
some yoke fein
Second guys eye is so cool
Gall moth lmao
nataro run XD
Nice
Shopping centre*
Can you do gabbers sometime please.
What is the name of the public transport system at 2:10?
Where are you man ?? 😂 is that London
Yeah! This was in a shopping centre behind Victoria station
I personally never had a goth/emo/scene phase, growing up. Too sickly to do much, in general. I *did* briefly go rap phase and Rastafarian-phase, though, when I got into better health. Each of those only lasted a couple months, back-to-back. But I found my true calling in praising the striking blows of the hammer of the gods smashing into the anvil of time, forging my heart into a better person than I really was expected to be, all things considered. I DID date a few goths, though. Not all at once, of course. Over time.
Do Bitcoiners next!!!!
It seems impossible that there was no mention of Hot Topic in this video.
There was , I said “Hot Topic collectors edition”
Is he on the road, or is this Ireland?
lol
Do doomers next
Did that first goth speak Gaelic?
the girl at 0:12 is kinda cute
This is hilarious even though it's recycling content from punk and finding emo
Just juicing the algorithm
What mall is this
Maybe Stephen's green shopping centre...or Jervis shipping centre? A little bit hard to tell mate.
Is the fist girl wiggling as an exaggerated personality trait?
haha thas me. ngl I was kinda creeped when I watched the vid.. I think it’s a mix of adhd/nerves and lack of sleep -.-‘
first girl is cute.
2:00 is a goth?
keep in mind the term mall goth was basically a derogatory term in the 2000's, as if to say they're not 'real' goths, so yea the term works
I need a goth girl so bad
same
Cringe
You need the holy spirit
Who's the blonde goth? 💀👀
Hi that's me
no sound
Should be sound?
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind no sound
Sound for me
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind Sound is fine.
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind sound yes