Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
✨I’ve never watched more TikTok in my life for this✨
Join me as I delve into the history, rise, and peculiar evolution of the “alt girl” – what she stands for, her TikTok-ification, and the (both empowering and unfortunate) implications of being “alternative”.
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🕦TIMESTAMPS:🕝
0:00 - Intro
1:30 - The “alt” subculture: a quick history
5:39 - The American “Goth Panic”
8:04 - From alt to mainstream: rise of the internet’s “alt girl”
10:24 - The “alt trad” oxymoron / why do some alts romanticize traditionalism?
14:02 - The role of memes and music stars
16:23 - Alternative gatekeeping: are alt trends even “alt” anymore?
26:08 - “Not Like The Other Girls”
34:59 - The limitations of “alternative” fashion
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🖤 FOLLOW ME ON IG: instagram.com/anaisabelcosplays 🖤
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copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html
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📚Main Sources Used:📚
“Alternative Fashion” – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_fashion
What Did the Gothic Counterculture Have to Do With the Columbine High School Shootings? – StepByStep
stepbystep.com/What-Did-the-Gothic-Counterculture-Have-to-Do-With-the-Columbine-High-School-Shootings-141806
"EVERYBODY IS THEIR ENEMY": GOTHS, SPOOKY KIDS, AND THE AMERICAN SCHOOL SHOOTING PANIC – Allen Berres
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cfr/article/download/25139/31011/59364
How Catholicism became alt-fashion's saviour – Biz Sherbert, i-D Vice
i-d.vice.com/en/article/g5b4d9/catholicism-alt-fashion-trend-think-piece
Gothic Crosses: Their Origin, Significance, and Religious Underlying – Skeptic Mag
skepticmag.com/2022/01/14/gothic-crosses-their-origin-significance-and-religious-underlying
“Im Not Like Other Girls” – Lauren Luna, The Bottom Line (UCSB)
https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2019/10/im-not-like-other-girls
Beer Girls, Sad Indie Alt Girls, and Why Women Can Never Win – Anna Hochman, 34st
34st.com/article/2022/04/just-like-other-girls-indie-alt-beer-girl-tiktok-sad
Am I Too Brown To Be Emo? How Alternative Beauty Favours Whiteness – Yasmine Summan, Refinery29
refinery29.com/en-gb/alternative-culture-emo-racism
tiktok is kind of bad for fashion – Mina Le
youtu.be/JR3z8lq2cNM
Why No One Wins the Fast Fashion Debate – Broey Deschanel
youtu.be/XT6Hwx20m5M
The Horrible Aftermath of the SHEIN-pocalypse – Salem Tovar
youtu.be/lcXth8KQCqE
#altgirl #tiktok #alttiktok #altfashion
✨I’ve never watched more TikTok in my life for this✨
Join me as I delve into the history, rise, and peculiar evolution of the “alt girl” – what she stands for, her TikTok-ification, and the (both empowering and unfortunate) implications of being “alternative”.
-
🕦TIMESTAMPS:🕝
0:00 - Intro
1:30 - The “alt” subculture: a quick history
5:39 - The American “Goth Panic”
8:04 - From alt to mainstream: rise of the internet’s “alt girl”
10:24 - The “alt trad” oxymoron / why do some alts romanticize traditionalism?
14:02 - The role of memes and music stars
16:23 - Alternative gatekeeping: are alt trends even “alt” anymore?
26:08 - “Not Like The Other Girls”
34:59 - The limitations of “alternative” fashion
-
🖤 FOLLOW ME ON IG: instagram.com/anaisabelcosplays 🖤
-
All third-party clips and images are Fair Use/Fair Dealing under copyright law (transformative under criticism/review/commentary/news reporting).
Australian copyright law on “Fair Dealing”: https://www.copyright.org.au/acc_prod/acc/Information_Sheets/Fair_Dealing__What_Can_I_Use_Without_Permission.aspx
US copyright law on "Fair Use":
copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html
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📚Main Sources Used:📚
“Alternative Fashion” – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_fashion
What Did the Gothic Counterculture Have to Do With the Columbine High School Shootings? – StepByStep
stepbystep.com/What-Did-the-Gothic-Counterculture-Have-to-Do-With-the-Columbine-High-School-Shootings-141806
"EVERYBODY IS THEIR ENEMY": GOTHS, SPOOKY KIDS, AND THE AMERICAN SCHOOL SHOOTING PANIC – Allen Berres
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cfr/article/download/25139/31011/59364
How Catholicism became alt-fashion's saviour – Biz Sherbert, i-D Vice
i-d.vice.com/en/article/g5b4d9/catholicism-alt-fashion-trend-think-piece
Gothic Crosses: Their Origin, Significance, and Religious Underlying – Skeptic Mag
skepticmag.com/2022/01/14/gothic-crosses-their-origin-significance-and-religious-underlying
“Im Not Like Other Girls” – Lauren Luna, The Bottom Line (UCSB)
https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2019/10/im-not-like-other-girls
Beer Girls, Sad Indie Alt Girls, and Why Women Can Never Win – Anna Hochman, 34st
34st.com/article/2022/04/just-like-other-girls-indie-alt-beer-girl-tiktok-sad
Am I Too Brown To Be Emo? How Alternative Beauty Favours Whiteness – Yasmine Summan, Refinery29
refinery29.com/en-gb/alternative-culture-emo-racism
tiktok is kind of bad for fashion – Mina Le
youtu.be/JR3z8lq2cNM
Why No One Wins the Fast Fashion Debate – Broey Deschanel
youtu.be/XT6Hwx20m5M
The Horrible Aftermath of the SHEIN-pocalypse – Salem Tovar
youtu.be/lcXth8KQCqE
#altgirl #tiktok #alttiktok #altfashion
